ABSTRACT
My title includes the old-fashioned word “apologetics”—a word that, for a time, nearly disappeared from polite circles of theological discussion. It may, however, be making a come-back. 1 I teach an apologetics course at Fuller Seminary—not because I had to adopt one that was already in the catalogue when I came, but rather because the intellectual world has changed in recent years, and it has now become an intriguing problem to rethink the entire enterprise. Modern apologetics has, rightly, I think, been judged hopeless or misguided. But what about a postmodern apologetic? Relating theology to science just might be the single most important apologetic task in our postmodern era.
