Avery Dulles Was For Apologetics When Apologetics Wasn't Cool

Over the weekend and since Cardinal Dulles's death was announced I have enjoyed spending some time reading his various works. Thankfully a good many are available on the net.

It appears he wrote a book on Apologetics that both the Catholic and non Catholic apologist would enjoy and find valuable. In fact the foreword to the book is by a Baptist Theologian Timothy George .

Timothy George by the way wrote a piece after that I still look at today because it comforts me See Theology for an Age of Terror-Augustine's words after the 'barbarian' destruction of Rome have a remarkably contemporary ring.

The Cardinal's book does have a Catholic focus at time (Amazon reviews state the treatment of some important Protestant Apologists as well as Eastern Orthodox is a tad light in places) but from the reviews it looks like it would be still be handy for the Evangelical or Protestant Apologist. Dulles basically looks at Christian Apologetics from the very beginning to the modern day.

The book is A History of Apologetics [Revised Edition]

There are two very good reviews that give you a sense if wish to buy this book. I am planning on using the last of my Christmas money to get it.

GO see Thomas Aquinas—A; Chesterton—A+" Reviewed by David Paul Deavel. Gilbert! Magazine (2006).

The above mention Forward by Timothy George can be located here

and

Apologetics, Unapologetically, by Thomas Guarino. First Things 161 (March 2006): 53-55.