Apologetic Strategies

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Apologetic Strategies

• John Oakes
• ARS
• Apologetic Certificate Program

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Apologetic Strategies John Oakes

• 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

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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

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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

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Schools of Christian Apologetics

• Presuppositional Apologetics (World View
  Apologetics)
• Reformed Epistemological Apologetics
• It is rational to believe without experience
  (induction)
• Fideism