Apologetics has been a big thing for the modern-worldview steeped church -- particularly in evangelical circles. The goal has been to prove why christianity works. The value of this of course relies on a modern worldview -- where one believes in human-knowable objective truths.

In the post-modern world, we're going to have to rethink apologetics significantly.

This is because, first, post-modernism doesn't buy into human-knowable objective truth. So proving things fails to be meaningful to a post-modern.

Second, because the very premise of christianity is faith. Faith is at odds with proof. This actually has been a failure of much of apologetics all along, but the transition to post-modernism makes it a more obvious failure than before.

So maybe efforts should instead be spent on helping people understand that all belief systems are based somewhat on faith and setting foundations that allow for christian beliefs -- we can't prove anybody into christianity anyway.