Apologetics PE220
ACT Name: Christian Apologetics
1. To assist you to begin the task of thinking through some of the issues raised by critics of Christian belief;
2. To introduce you to the knowledge and skills to develop intelligent defences of the truth claims of the Christian faith;
3. To help you form a coherent Christian world view in response to currents in Western thought.
Content
A study of issues raised for Christian faith by the wider sphere of secular knowledge, especially those aspects which seek to discredit religious belief.
Section A The Christian Faith and its Bearing Upon
1. History: divine control of history, teleology, human nature and destiny, uniqueness of the Christian revelation
2. Nature: creation, providence, the concept of the ordered universe, human attitudes to nature
3. Society: the Biblical structure of human relationships, family, sex, marriage, human life, mutual service; the principle of an eternal relationship with God as the goal of human life; the concept of accountability to God as the basis of human society
Section B Attacks on the Christian Faith
4. Behavioural: Freudianism, Anthropological, Psychological, Sociological
5. Philosophical: in relation to creation, miracles, scientific method, suffering
6. Historical: the Enlightenment: the examination of attacks upon the historicity of Christ, the Resurrection, and the emergence of the church
Section C Alternatives to the Christian Faith
7. Non-supernatural alternatives: Agnostic Humanism, Atheistic Existentialism, Marxism, Moralism, Scientism
8. Supernatural alternatives: Occultism, Religious Relativism, Syncretism, Religious pluralism, New Age movements
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