Why Christian apologists give such bad advice
They’ve severely underestimated the extent to which moral failures can be attributed to failures of imagination.
In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, Alasdair MacIntyre distinguishes between two types of reasoning: theoretical reasoning and practical reasoning. These types of reasoning have differing structures that often go unacknowledged. Theoretical reasoning functions within the rules of logic. MacIntyre says that theoretical reasoning functions, such that…