The post­mod­ern par­a­digm has spawned many new philo­soph­i­cal and the­o­log­i­cal trends that affect ortho­dox, evan­gel­i­cal the­ol­o­gy. The pur­pose of this brief­ing out­line is twofold: For read­ers to be aware of these trends, and to be able to dis­cern if any of these changes…

There are 215 mil­lion peo­ple in the world who align them­selves with one of the branch­es of Ortho­dox Chris­tian­i­ty some­times known as The East­ern Church. Beyond some stereo­types, West­ern­ers (Protes­tants) know very lit­tle about the dis­tinc­tive beliefs of this large branch of Chris­tian­i­ty. There are an esti­mat­ed 5.6 mil­lion Ortho­dox Chris­tians in the U.S.

As you are no doubt aware, every year around East­er time the major net­works, cable chan­nels, and news mag­a­zines com­pete with spe­cials seek­ing to dis­cred­it Chris­tian­i­ty. Recent­ly the Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel tried to shock Chris­ten­dom with the news that Christ?s tomb had not only been found , but his wife and son?s as well. It was not a hoax, but nei­ther was it seri­ous schol­ar­ship. It?s pro­duc­ers had seem­ing­ly high hopes of deal­ing a fatal blow to the Chris­t­ian faith by under­min­ing the phys­i­cal res­ur­rec­tion of Christ.

One of the claims we make as Chris­t­ian apol­o­gists is that only the Chris­t­ian world­view ful­ly explains what is. In oth­er words, it con­tains with­in itself the abil­i­ty to answer all the major philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions. In this brief­ing out­line it is my pur­pose to demon­strate the vital impor­tance of the Bib­li­cal doc­trine of the Trin­i­ty as the nec­es­sary foun­da­tion to that world­view. It should, and must be, our pri­ma­ry dog­ma (start­ing assump­tion).