This course provides a framework for Apologetics by addressing some of the major questions and issues that are commonly raised today. It will strengthen your knowledge and clarify your understanding of a wide variety of cultural questions and stress the importance of presenting a winsome, loving response to objections raised. This course will also strengthen your own faith. It will meet the third Saturday of each month, September to June, from 9:00 a.m. till 12 noon.
Instructor: Art Lindsley, PhD. Senior Fellow, C.S. Lewis Institute
Tuition is $300; 25 students minimum in order to have the class. First class to be held September 19, 2009.
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Summer 2009
Optional summer reading:
- What's So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D'Sousa
- Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, by Art Lindsley
| September 2009
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| Theme: |
(1) Reason and Imagination; (2) Faith and Reason |
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| Reading: |
C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, by Art Lindsley |
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October 2009
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| Theme: |
Wish Fulfillment: (1) If there is no God, why is there religion? (2) If there is a God, why are there atheists? |
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| Reading: |
If There Is A God, Why Are There Atheists? by R.C. Sproul. |
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November 2009
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| Theme: |
Relativism: (1) Is Religion Evil? (2) Abolition of Man |
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| Reading: |
True Truth, by Art Lindsley |
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December 2009
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| Theme: |
New Age Movement: (1) Responding to the New Age (2) Neopaganism (Wicca) |
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| Reading: |
Wicca's Charm, by Catherine Sanders |
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January 2010
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| Theme: |
Cults: (1) What is a Cult? (2) Dealing with Cults |
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| Reading: |
Kingdom of the Cults, by Walter Martin |
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February 2010
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| Theme: |
Does God Exist? (1) The Cosmological Argument (2) Argument from Desire |
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| Reading: |
The Reason for God, by Tim Keller |
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March 2010
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| Theme: |
Authority of Scripture: (1) Are the Gospels Reliable? - I (2) Are the Gospels Reliable? - II |
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| Reading: |
The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell |
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April 2010
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| Theme: |
The Problem of Evil: (1) The Intellectual Problem (2) the Emotional Problem |
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| Reading: |
The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis |
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May 2010
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| Theme: |
Religions: (1) Other Religions (2) Is Christ the Only Way? |
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| Reading: |
Is Jesus the Only Way? by Ronald Nash |
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June 2010
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| Theme: |
Death and Immortality: (1) The Case for the Resurrection (2) Love: The Ultimate Apologetic |
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| Reading: |
The Case for Christ, by Lee Stroebel |
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