Paul at Athens

(The following is an edited email correspondence.)

About your exposition of Acts 17 [Presuppositional Confrontations, chapter 2] — Mr. Cheung, it is the best I have ever read. Many of the brothers that I know are stuck on Bahnsen’s exposition (which is a good exposition), but I persuade them to give you a read. In my opinion your exposition is far more scholarly. Nothing quite compares to it.

Thanks for your comments.

Of course, I am not in competition with Bahnsen, and there is no reason why Christians should not read both and try to get as much out of them as they can. In any case, I do consider mine an accurate expression of the biblical approach to evangelism and apologetics, so I recommend it.

I am glad that I wrote this exposition on Acts 17. At first, I intended it to be only about 5 pages (instead of more than 60 pages), but then, as I noticed how much there is to say about the passage, and since I did not know when I will write about it again, I decided to do a more thorough job.

It is perhaps true that compared to what some of the other theologians and commentators have done, my exposition more clearly shows that Paul’s approach was entirely hostile to non-Christian thinking, and that Paul was confronting presuppositions instead of seeking common ground. In addition, it seems that I was able to fill in some of the gaps in others’ arguments on Acts 17 and made a number of additional applications.

Recommended:

Vincent Cheung, Presuppositional Confrontations