This movement is a reaction to the lack of preparation many pastors and evangelists received at bible college and seminaries for this urban context. He went on to tell me that he felt compelled to call me because in our past conversations I included details of talks I had with people who had different types of beliefs that I encountered while out street witnessing after outreaches I rapped at. My friend, who was working towards a degree in Biblical studies at the time, was frustrated by the fact that he has never been informed about this movement while in Bible College. He told me he had just left the barber shop where a group of men who were affiliated with the Moorish Science Temple dominated the conversation. When the conversation slowed down I asked my dude what his motivation was for asking these questions. I answered the call opening with the hood-recognized salutation “ what up fam?” and was greeted in return with a barrage of questions about Church history, slavery in America, and Roman Catholicism’s European roots.
Horton recounts a story illustrating this need for Urban Apologetics when he was telephoned late at night from a friend: An urban context for those in poverty and ethnic minorities was needed in apologetics. A Horton, and Eric Mason begin to notice challenges that weren’t being addressed in seminaries. As churches are being planted in urban areas such as Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia, church planters such as Christopher Brooks, D. Urban Apologetics can be defined as dialoguing and answering new questions of the gospel that ethnic minorities are fielding that traditional evangelical apologists have not engaged. Horton and Christopher Brooks have been spear heading this movement that seems to be gaining steam.
Urban Apologetics has just recently come on the scene. This will be a multi-part series covering each trend beginning with Urban Apologetics and then covering Cultural Apologetics, Women in Apologetics, and Children’s Apologetics in subsequent editions. I believe it shows the vitality and versatility of the discipline.
I have been noticing some trends in contemporary apologetics that are exciting and interesting.
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