Books like Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity

This book takes the classical approach to apologetics, as a result, there is no scripture index at the back of the book, demonsrating the author's dependence on general revelation, science & philosophy, rather than God's Word for his apologetic methodology, and the Gospel isn't even fully given in the conclusion since the imputed righteousness of Christ is left out, also Moreland says in the conclusion, "If we follow the New Testament example, we are to present the Gospel as a rational message to be believed and we are to defend it against objections" (pg. 249), but this contradicts the New Testament methodology for apologetics especially 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, and Paul's apologetic methodology outline in Romans 1:18-32, there are no true atheists, they are actively suppressing the truth of the God that they know exists, so we cannot approach them on neutral ground, thereby reducing the Gospel to an intellectual problem of ignorance, it is better to read books by apologists who are good exegetes and actually know Biblical Greek and Hebrew such as James White, rather than "good" philosophers such as Moreland and William Lane Craig.