The morals of the story: good news about a good God

The players

The playbill: our focus and intended audience

Spotlight: Socrates and Paul in Athens

Act I: setting the stage

The comeback of moral apologetics

Stubborn moral facts

Moral apologetics before the twentieth century

Moral arguments in the twentieth century and beyond

Intermission: answering Euthyphro

Act II: the main characters

Moral goodness

Moral obligations

Moral knowledge

Moral transformation

Moral providence

Act III: enacting the comedy

A gala performance

Encore: a play at Mars Hill

Curtain call.