Apologetics as Politics (Philosophy, not so much)

It is no doubt of significance that the apostle Paul appeared before kings, magistrates, presumably Caesar, and that he preached in Jewish synagogues, in stadia and in the temple. Only once, to our knowledge, did he preach to philosophers, and that was a distinctly unsuccessful venture (Acts 17). There is a message in that, both about the proper deployment of the Church’s energies and about the hopes for success in deal with the cultured despisers.

-Peter Leithart, Against Christianity, 48.