Prideful Prejudice: The Effects of Worldview, Warrants, and Authority in Apologetics

Abstract

Christians and atheists both write apologetic books.Obviously, those books differ as the Christian attempts to win a hearing of the gospel, while the atheist attempts to prove that the existence of God is ridiculous.As I read these books, it was clear that the arguments were not formulated in the same manner. In this paper, I explore the possibility that the reason these arguments are different is due to differences in worldview leading to fundamentally different approaches.These differing worldviews lead to separate views of authority and affect the arguments Christians and atheists make.