The American whose influence over American Evangelical apologetics, credited with an enormous difference between such examinations of a generation ago and today was Dr. Francis Schaeffer. I recommend The God Who is There and the attendant volumes. His influence over the teachings of pastors is remarkable, which is almost certainly a argument recently popular is a book entitled The God Who Is Not There.
Like Jack Lewis, Francis Schaeffer wasn't perfect, but he was profoundly affected by and wrote convincingly of the decline of what he called Orthodox Christianity in Europe. Pope Benedict's writings are of a similar kind. Schaeffer was well acquainted with Augustine and with Hagel.
"Honest answers for honest questions."
As a Christian, as a Human, I think you can agree with my common and unoriginal "presupposition" that the louder one defends his or her beliefs, the weaker, in fact, their confidence. People confident in their beliefs don't presume to defend the God of Abraham's reputation. If the God of Abraham, if even Jesus of Nazareth is who He is reliably reported to have said He was, then He isn't sweating out his standing in the polls, if you know what I mean.
May I recommend an examination of the Humanist writer, hardly a Christian, Eric Hoffer, as well.
“People confident in their beliefs don’t presume to defend the God of Abraham’s reputation. If the God of Abraham, if even Jesus of Nazareth is who He is reliably reported to have said He was, then He isn’t sweating out his standing in the polls, if you know what I mean.”
I don’t quite buy that argument. The Great Commission calls us to spread the word — or more specifically, the Word. For that reason, if there’s misinformation out there or if some people aren’t getting the message, we need to work in the other direction.