081 - Presuppositionalism or Evidentialism with Jonathan McLatchie

Apologetics 315 Podcast

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross interview Jonathan McLatchie. www.jonathanmclatchie.com. Jonathan discusses and critiques presuppositional apologetics, while advocating for an evidential approach to apologetics.
1:33 - Resources for Discussing Your Pro-Life Convictions:
https://a315.co/3yDTgzl
2:35 - Intro to the topic and Jonathan McLatchie
5:08 - An outline of various apologetic methodologies
14:43 - Has Jonathan always been an evidentialist?
15:28 - A helpful debate on apologetic methodology:
https://a315.co/3ygEKw0
16:17 - Cumulative case apologetics / Five views on apologetics
https://a315.co/3NEIRrw
17:16 - Defining presuppositionalism
19:07 - How does it differ from inference to the best explanation?
20:42 - How does presuppositionalism look different in practice?
22:39 - Were people “doing it incorrectly” before Van Til?
25:47 - Does presuppositionalism require the triune God of Scripture?
26:21 - Ontology and espistemology
28:07 - Would this be the method of first-century fisherman?
30:18 - Is the method demonstrated in Scripture?
32:28 - Arguing in a circle
35:07 - What methodology do we see in Acts 17?
37:15 - What value can we take away from the presuppositional approach?
37:53 - Talking about neutrality
40:16 - Jonathan’s case for evidentialism
43:58 - In summary…
46:06 - www.talkaboutdoubts.com
Check out Jonathan’s resources:
www.jonathanmclatchie.com
www.talkaboutdoubts.com
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