Apologetics, Summer (full credit)

SUMMER CLASS 2023

Instructor:  George Luke

Dates: July 3-August 25 (8 weeks)

Mtg. Days:  M, T, W, Th (4 days/week)

Mtg. Time (Pacific Time):  12:00-1:50 PM (approx. 2 hours)

Credits: 1 credit (honors)

Minimum Students needed for the class to make: 5

Class Description: The purpose of this course is to give you a pathway to understand how to defend your faith, and synthesize a way to do so. We'll overview different historic approaches, look at the strengths and weaknesses of those approaches, and give you resources for further exploration in terms of canon development and text criticism, alongside approaching creation and evolution as Christians. You'll have 3 major writing assignments, and a fair amount of reading and discussion in class of the material read. The payoff will be a secure understanding of how to articulate your faith using various approaches, depending on who you're persuading, and with an understanding of how that approach can glorify God.

Required Materials:

We will read selections from these books, but these are all great to have:

• Counterpoints: 5 Approaches To Apologetics
• Always Ready by Greg Bahnsen
• On Guard by William Lane Craig
• Classical Apologetics by John Gerstner
• Canon Revisited by Michael Kruger
• Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch by John Webster
• The Case For The Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona
• Counterpoints: Creation and Evolution
• Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical Introduction by Ellis Brotzman and Eric Tully
• New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide by David Black