Readings for Upcoming Course on Apologetics
October 4, 2014
In response to several inquiries about the upcoming course on Apologetics, planned
for the Free Seminary program at Cornerstone
Baptist Church starting in January 2015, I am posting this Schedule
of Reading Assignments. This is not the entire syllabus, but
it does include all of the reading assignments that participants
will read prior to each class. You can start reading now if you
like!
Required Textbook and Readings: Doug Powell, Holman
QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics (Nashville,
TN: Holman Reference, 2006). ISBN: 080549460X; ISBN-13: 9780805494600 / 978-0-8054-9460-0 (Referred to as the Holman text).
Can be ordered from the Book Rack bookstore at Cornerstone Baptist Church for less than is often found online.
- Other readings, in the form of weekly assigned readings from online scholarly journals and from apologetics websites are also
required for this course (fourth column, below). - The Bible will also be used extensively in this course, so please plan to bring your Bible to class.
- Plan to come to class prepared by: having read the assigned readings, having made notes of questions or concerns (with page
numbers referencing the specific material about which you have a question), and having absorbed carefully the overall content of
the readings (i.e., read with pencil/pen in hand).
| Schedule of Reading Assignments |
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| Class Date | Question on the Table | Holman Text Reading Prior to Class |
Other Reading(s) Prior to Class (Click on Link) |
| 01/13/2015 | Why NOT do Apologetics? | None. | None. |
| 01/20/2015 | What (Good) is Apologetics? | Chapter 1, What is Apologetics? | Edgar, “No News Is Good News,” http://tinyurl.com/om9ncam |
| 01/27/2015 | How do I Learn to Give a Defense of the Faith? | Chapter 14, Methodology | Coulter, “Introduction” http://tinyurl.com/lbduqz3 |
| 02/03/2015 | Does the Universe “Prove” God’s Existence? | Chapter 2, The Cosmological Argument | SEP, “Cosmological Argument” http://tinyurl.com/8xkm72n |
| 02/10/2015 | Does Intelligent Design “Prove” God’s Existence? | Chapter 3, The Design Argument | Gebhard, “Intelligent Design” http://tinyurl.com/n3lv2rf |
| 02/17/2015 | Does Morality “Prove” God’s Existence? | Chapter 4, The Moral Argument | Copan, “Moral Argument” http://tinyurl.com/ph2m7mr |
| 02/24/2015 | Aren’t All Religions Essentially the Same? | Chapter 5, Which God Exists? | Farinaccio (Through page 54) http://tinyurl.com/kgkg2e2 |
| 03/03/2015 | Isn’t the New Testament a corrupted, unreliable text? | Chapters 6 & 7: Origin and Reliability of the N.T. | Butt, “That Which We’ve Seen” http://tinyurl.com/o3gfm28 |
| 03/10/2015 | Isn’t the Old Testament a corrupted, unreliable text? | Chapter 8: Origin and Reliability of the O.T. | Brantley, “Dead Sea Scrolls” http://tinyurl.com/ogddb94 |
| 03/17/2015 | Doesn’t Science Disprove Miracles? | Chapter 9: Do Miracles Happen? | Montgomery, “Science …” http://tinyurl.com/pv4he9m |
| 03/24/2015 | Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? | Chapters 11 & 12: Jesus’ Resurrection & Deity | Habermas, “Case for Resurrection” http://tinyurl.com/nyycu7g |
| 03/31/2015 | Doesn’t the Existence of Evil Disprove God? | Chapter 13: How could God Allow Evil? | Howard-Snyder, “Evil/Suffering” http://tinyurl.com/mjzcfco |
| 04/07/2015 | How Do You Actually Do Apologetics? | Farinaccio (Page 57 to End) http://tinyurl.com/kgkg2e2 |
Koukl, “Common Objections” http://tinyurl.com/l99r7gd |
| 04/14/2015 | Make-up date if a previous meeting date is canceled for any reason. | ||
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I’m excited to take this course!