Division 4 of 5
Apologetics, Philosophy, and Defense of the Faith
Learn to reason about Christian claims: how arguments work, the classical arguments for God, the problem of evil, the historical case for Christianity, the reliability of Scripture, other religions, and modern challenges. Apologetics is central to this program.
Courses in this division
- 13Foundations of Apologetics
What apologetics is and is not, the main methods, and the basics of logic and argument.
- 14Arguments for God
The ontological, cosmological, kalam, teleological and moral arguments, and the strongest objections to each.
- 15Evil and Suffering
The logical and evidential problems of evil, the main Christian responses, Job, the cross and living with grief.
- 16Historical Defense
Historical method, non-Christian sources, the reliability of the Gospels and the evidence about the resurrection.
- 17Defending Scripture
Inspiration, canon, textual criticism, apparent contradictions, difficult passages and the Bible and science.
- 18World Religions
Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, deism, atheism and new movements, described fairly and compared with Christianity.
- 19Modern Challenges
Secularism, naturalism, evolution, postmodernism, the critics of religion and questions of meaning.