One of the challenges facing the apologist today is that demonstrating the rationality of the Christian faith does not always lead people to embrace Christianity. Unless people can see that Christianity is practically relevant to their lived experience, as well as morally attractive, they are unlikely to give a fair hearing to the strong arguments for the truth of Christianity. In this talk, we therefore consider the apologetic importance of not only appealing to people’s intellects with arguments and evidence to show that the Christian faith is true; but also of appealing to people’s imaginations with the beauty and relevance of the Christian faith so that they actually want it to be true.

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Simon Edwards is a speaker and writer. He worked as a lawyer in Australia before moving to the UK to study at OCCA and later Oxford University. Simon has spoken on university campuses, including Oxford, Cambridge, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Queensland; in banks, businesses, and government institutions, as well as in debates and at churches and conferences. He has undergraduate degrees in law and economics, and post-graduate qualifications in law, education, and theology. He is the author of The Sanity of Belief: Why Faith Makes Sense (2021). His research interests relate to the relationship between faith, evidence, reason, and the imagination in the context of the big questions of life, culture, business and society. Simon lives in England with his wife, Natasha, who is the Chaplain for Christians in Government, and their three young children.

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