- Tuesday mornings, 9:30-1 (with a half hour break)
- Begins Tuesday, March 20; last class is Tuesday, May 22.
- Cost: $150 - covers all materials + an occasional cup of coffee.
I'm expecting to teach on some or all of the following subjects, from the POV of Christian theism.
- Biblical Foundation for Apologetics
- 1 Peter 3:15
- Acts 17:16-32
- Introduction – the Ontological Argument for God’s Existence and the Nature of God
- The Failure of Atheism as Philosophical Naturalism; The Logic of Atheism
- The Fine-Tuning Argument for the Existence of God
- The Moral Argument for the Existence of God
- The Problem of Evil (how can evil exist if God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving?)
- Is the God of the Old Testament a Moral Monster?: On the Nature of God as Presented In the Old Testament (Paul Copan)
- A Historical (Extrabiblical) Case for the Resurrection of Christ
- How Can Jesus Be the Only Way to God When There Are Other World Religions? The Nature of Religious Exclusivism (With special emphasis on Islam - we may take a trip to the Islamic Center of America to learn about Islam from one of their teachers, as we did last year.)
- How Can the Bible Be From God, and Therefore Authoritative? N.T. Wright On the Judeao-Christian Scriptures as Grand Narrative
- Why Religion and Science Are Not Incompatible: From Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies