sophers value critical, logical thinking, and the systematization of knowledge. Christians share the same concerns, with the added burden of defending their faith.
In defending their faith, Christians must deal with skepticism on a daily basis. The five groups of skepticism are: thoroughgoing or complete skepticism; mitigated skepticism; limited skepticism; methodological skepticism; and irrationalism. Thoroughgoing skeptics claim either that Christians have no knowledge or that Christians have knowledge based on personal experience which is not applicable to the world at large. Mitigated skeptics acknowledge personal knowledge as well as a limited knowledge of other areas. An example is Immanuel Kant: "He combined a complete skepticism about metaphysical knowledge with an optimism that universal, necessary (a priori) knowledge about the conditions of possible experience exists" (Geisler and Feinberg 88). Likewise, limited skepticism questions certain, but not all, knowledge types. Methodological skepticism is characterized by the philosophy of
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