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Apologetic Strategies

Apologetic Strategies. John Oakes ARS Apologetic Certificate Program. Defending the Faith History and Archaeology How We Got the Bible (including response to form criticism, etc.) Science Contradictions in the Bible. Creating Faith World View Prophecy Miracles/Resurrection

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Apologetic Strategies

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  1. Apologetic Strategies John Oakes ARS Apologetic Certificate Program

  2. Defending the Faith History and Archaeology How We Got the Bible (including response to form criticism, etc.) Science Contradictions in the Bible Creating Faith World View Prophecy Miracles/Resurrection Claims of Jesus Apologetic Strategies: John Oakes

  3. Apologetic Strategies: Bernard Ramm • Personal Experience • Pascal, Kierkegaard, Brunner • Natural theology • Thomas Aquinas, Tenant, William Lane Craig • Inspiration of the Bible • Augustine, C. S. Lewis, McDowell

  4. Schools of Christian Apologetics • Classical Apologetics • Emphasizes arguments for theism • Miracles make no sense unless prove God exists. • Thomas Aquinas, William Lane Craig, Norman Geisler • Evidential Apologetics • Emphasizes history, prophecy, like a legal argument. • Cumulative Case Apologetics • Like Evidential but makes legal-type arguments

  5. Schools of Christian Apologetics • Presuppositional Apologetics (World View Apologetics) • Reformed Epistemological Apologetics • It is rational to believe without experience (induction) • Fideism

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