“Presuppositional Confrontations” challenges the common approaches to defending Christianity and advocating for the Christian worldview. Christians err in attempting to engage with non-Christian philosophies and religions by seeking common ground or by conceding the validity of their principles. The Bible teaches a radical exclusivity of Christian thought, declaring that the Christian worldview stands in absolute opposition to all non-Christian worldviews. The foundation of Christian philosophy is divine revelation. It is the self-authenticating and ultimate source of knowledge.

Because God has made himself evident through creation and innate knowledge, there is no such thing as an intellectually neutral position. Individuals are either for Christ or against him. Non-Christians suppress the truth about God and distort the Christian message due to their rebellion against God. Therefore, a presuppositional approach to apologetics and evangelism is necessary, where Christians begin and end with the authority of Scripture, exposing the flaws in opposing arguments by revealing their dependence on flawed, non-Christian presuppositions. Paul’s interaction with the Athenian philosophers in Acts 17 serves as a model for this approach, where he dismantles the foundations of Epicureanism and Stoicism while proclaiming the absolute authority of the Christian worldview.

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