080 - Why Believe with Neil Shenvi

06/27/22 • 60 min

In this episode Brian Auten & Chad Gross interview Neil Shenvi about his new book Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity. We love this book and it was a great conversation unpacking his approach and some of the arguments from the book.
0:43 - Impressions of the book
3:36 - Neil’s crazy bio that we didn’t understand
5:19 - Welcoming Neil
7:07 - Neil’s background
9:58 - How Neil became a Christian
14:00 - Isn’t apologetics just an exercise in confirmation bias?
20:18 - Discussing the structure of the book
24:30 - Unpacking the trilemma argument
27:25 - Addressing the best atheistic arguments
30:08 - The argument for Christianity from the Gospel
37:43 - Objections to the argument?
41:51 - Addressing hiddenness objections
51:16 - The truth-seeking argument https://a315.co/TruthArgument
57:43 - Neil’s present work and focus
Neil Shenvi’s bio:
https://a315.co/NeilShenvi
About the book:
https://a315.co/AboutWhyBelieve
Get is on Amazon here:
https://a315.co/WhyBelieveBook
Audiobook here:
https://a315.co/WhyBelieveAudiobook
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079 - Livestream Interview with Brian Auten

In this episode Brian Auten is interviewed by Eli Ayala of the Revealed Apologetics YouTube channel.
From one interviewer to another, we touch on the many things we have learned from our conversations with various scholars, apologists, theologians, and philosophers.
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081 - Presuppositionalism or Evidentialism with Jonathan McLatchie

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross interview Jonathan McLatchie. www.jonathanmclatchie.com. Jonathan discusses and critiques presuppositional apologetics, while advocating for an evidential approach to apologetics.
1:33 - Resources for Discussing Your Pro-Life Convictions:
https://a315.co/3yDTgzl
2:35 - Intro to the topic and Jonathan McLatchie
5:08 - An outline of various apologetic methodologies
14:43 - Has Jonathan always been an evidentialist?
15:28 - A helpful debate on apologetic methodology:
https://a315.co/3ygEKw0
16:17 - Cumulative case apologetics / Five views on apologetics
https://a315.co/3NEIRrw
17:16 - Defining presuppositionalism
19:07 - How does it differ from inference to the best explanation?
20:42 - How does presuppositionalism look different in practice?
22:39 - Were people “doing it incorrectly” before Van Til?
25:47 - Does presuppositionalism require the triune God of Scripture?
26:21 - Ontology and espistemology
28:07 - Would this be the method of first-century fisherman?
30:18 - Is the method demonstrated in Scripture?
32:28 - Arguing in a circle
35:07 - What methodology do we see in Acts 17?
37:15 - What value can we take away from the presuppositional approach?
37:53 - Talking about neutrality
40:16 - Jonathan’s case for evidentialism
43:58 - In summary...
46:06 - www.talkaboutdoubts.com
Check out Jonathan’s resources:
www.jonathanmclatchie.com
www.talkaboutdoubts.com
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