Thursday, March 15, 2012

Want to Study Apologetics With Me This Spring?

My Apologetics class at Redeemer Ministry School for our Spring Trimester begins next week.
  • Tuesday mornings, 9:30-1 (with a half hour break)
  • Begins Tuesday, March 20; last class is Tuesday, May 22.
  • Cost: $150 - covers all materials + an occasional cup of coffee.

I'm expecting to teach on some or all of the following subjects, from the POV of Christian theism.

  1. Biblical Foundation for Apologetics
    • 1 Peter 3:15
    • Acts 17:16-32
  2. Introduction – the Ontological Argument for God’s Existence and the Nature of God
  3. The Failure of Atheism as Philosophical Naturalism; The Logic of Atheism
  4. The Fine-Tuning Argument for the Existence of God
  5. The Moral Argument for the Existence of God
  6. The Problem of Evil (how can evil exist if God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving?)
  7. Is the God of the Old Testament a Moral Monster?: On the Nature of God as Presented In the Old Testament (Paul Copan)
  8. A Historical (Extrabiblical) Case for the Resurrection of Christ
  9. How Can Jesus Be the Only Way to God When There Are Other World Religions? The Nature of Religious Exclusivism (With special emphasis on Islam - we may take a trip to the Islamic Center of America to learn about Islam from one of their teachers, as we did last year.)
  10. How Can the Bible Be From God, and Therefore Authoritative? N.T. Wright On the Judeao-Christian Scriptures as Grand Narrative
  11. Why Religion and Science Are Not Incompatible: From Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies