The Church As Its Own Apologetic

"This narrative persuasion, as a ‘new apologetic,’ begins by pointing to the mythical status of competing ontologies and narratives and offers a counter-narrative from the Christian story that is embodied in practice (TST, 388, 398). The church does not have an apologetic; it is an apologetic."

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, P.181