Given the popes' recent statements of their desires to implement the New Evangelization, it is imperative that Catholic theologians and other intellectually engaged laypersons retrieve the vital discipline of apologetics. For, the New Evangelization places particular emphasis on «reproposing the Gospel to those who have experienced a crisis of faith . . . due to secularization.» One salient method of Catholic apologetics used to be characterized by three demonstrations, each of which...
