Oliphint offers a solid introduction to presuppositional apologetics. I like his attempted re-name, "Covenantal Apologetics" but I honestly don't see it sticking. I appreciate the clearer (different) focus it presents. All of creation (all of humanity) is in a covenantal relation to God, the creator. This covenantal relation has requirements and stipulations. This is the bedrock of all apologetics. Those in unbelief are covenant breakers. This changes things for apologetics and evangelism.

Oliphint offers Ten Tenets as sort of foundational declaration of what Covenantal Apologetics stands for. These tenets are helpful. I do wish that he would have spent more time actually working through the tenets offering a more robust biblical support for each one, but that may have been outside the scope of the book. Overall, his work is one of the best presuppositional works that offers good/solid biblical support, but we still lack the standard biblical/exegetical work arguing for the presuppositional/covenantal system of apologetics.

I appreciated the focus on the trivium of rhetoric/persuasion (pathos, ethos, logos). Our focus in the apologetic task is not to win arguments per se, but to persuade hearts and minds through the help and power of the Holy Spirit. The discussion could have been a bit clearer and more pointed, but any focus on our personal holiness and our understanding of the unbeliever is an important addition.

The final three chapters containing the dialogue sections were okay. All three offered a few helpful approaches, but he really got bogged down here and these dialogues, actually their introductions, could have been a lot shorter. I personally found the dialogue with the Muslim as the most helpful. Seeing how within the belief system of Islam when brought to its logical conclusions the religion is self-refuting.

At the end this is a solid contribution to the field of apologetics.