Abstract: Gschwandtner begins by warning that the two "loaded" terms found in the title (postmodernism and apologetics) are, for many, incompatible.If apologetics is, as she contends, a "militant defense" of Christian beliefs (or at least of the existence of a monotheistic God), and postmodernism a "militant rejection" of any such worldview, how then can the two be reconciled?What's more, of the twelve twentieth-century philosophers covered in the book's thirteen chapters, how many could rightly be characterized as either postmodernists or apologists, let alone both?These are the questions that Gschwandtner opens with.If the reader maintains a second-century view of apologetics and a 1960s view of postmodernism, these questions will remain unanswered.If, however, we stretch our understanding of apologetics to the exploration and justification of faith within contemporary thought, and limit our understanding of postmodernism to skepticism towards metanarratives (and of objective, distantiated truth claims), we see how the two may relate.And, on these terms, they do.Postmodern Apologetics? is a compelling study of how twentieth-century philosophy stemming from the phenomenological tradition has impacted on, and enabled, contemporary trends within philosophy of religion.The book is in three parts: "Preparations," "Expositions" and "Appropriations."Part 1 ("Preparations") outlines the foundational contributions of three major thinkers: Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida.While often characterized by their ambivalence towards theological questions and concerns within their oeuvres, these three philosophers are seen by Gschwandtner to have set the groundwork for contemporary debates on both religious experience and religious language.Part 2 ("Expositions") considers how