Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Summarize how the Bible portrays God’s revelation as a defense of Himself

• Discuss the role of covenant in apologetics

• Explain the significance of 1 Peter 3:15 and 2 Cor 10:1–5 for understanding apologetics

• Describe the roles of exegesis, theology, and philosophy with respect to apologetics

• Summarize the Reformed doctrines of Scripture, God, man, and salvation

• Explain the importance of these doctrines for apologetics

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: An Old Testament Defense

• God’s Relationship with His Creation

• Covenant and Creation

• An Adversarial Relationship

• The Lord in Battle: Preparation and Presence

• The Lord in Battle: Praise in Victory

Unit 2: A New Testament Defense

• Holy War in the Wilderness

• The New Testament and the Wilderness

• Christ’s Footstool

• The Coming of the Kingdom

• A Spiritual Battle

• The Death of Death

• Christ as Victor

Unit 3: The Apologetics Locus Classicus

• Introduction to 1 Peter 3:15

• God Is Our Shield

• The Role of Suffering

• A Christian Response to Suffering

• Suffering as Blessing

• Performing a Morphology Search for Kakoō

• Setting Apart Christ as Lord

• Finding Old Testament Allusions with the Passage Guide and Explorer Tool

• Christ as Lord in Apologetics

• All Christians Are Apologists

• Researching Exegetical Issues in 1 Peter 3:15

• The 3-Step Approach to Apologetics

Unit 4: Apologetics and 2 Corinthians 10:1–5

• Biblical and Theological Foundations

• The Sophists

• Researching the Idea that Paul’s Opponents in 2 Corinthians Were Sophists

• Paul’s Message to the Corinthians

• Paul’s Personal Apologetic

• Paul’s Life “In the Flesh”

• Weapons of Christian Warfare

• Searching for the Power of God in the New Testament

• Destroying Strongholds

• Taking Thoughts Captive

• Summary of Paul’s Teaching in 2 Corinthians 10:1–5

Unit 5: A Theological Basis for Apologetics

• Apologetics Rooted in the Bible and Theology

• The Effect of Preunderstandings

• The Hermeneutical Circle

• Apologetics and Philosophy, Part 1

• Apologetics and Philosophy, Part 2

• Scripture as the Foundation of Apologetics

• Explicit Presuppositions

• Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics

• Systematic Theology, Biblical Theology, and Exegesis

Unit 6: The Doctrine of Scripture

• The Foundations of Existence and Knowledge

• Revelation as the External Source of Knowledge

• Knowledge and the Unregenerate

• Knowledge and the Regenerate

• Scripture’s Essence: A Divine Document

• Scripture’s Essence: Its Self-Witness

• Scripture’s Essence: Its Authority

• Special Revelation: Necessary for Salvation

• Exploring the Catholic and Protestant Canons

• Special Revelation: Its Relationship to General Revelation

• Scripture’s Sufficiency: Implications

• Scripture’s Sufficiency: Glorifying God

• The Sufficiency of Natural Revelation

• Scripture’s Authority: Its Self-Attestation

• Scripture’s Authority: The Word of God

• Scripture’s Authority: Calvin’s Perspective

• Scripture’s Authority: The Proper Order

• Scripture’s Authority: The Church and the Text

• Scripture’s Authority: An Illustration

• The Authority of Natural Revelation

• The Perspicuity of Special Revelation

• The Perspicuity of General Revelation

• The Implications of Revelation’s Perspicuity

Unit 7: The Doctrine of God

• God’s Aseity

• God’s Aseity: Simplicity

• God’s Aseity: Sovereignty

• God’s Condescension

• God’s Condescension: Moses

• God’s Condescension: The Burning Bush

• God’s Condescension: Jesus

• Studying Jealousy with the Bible Word Study Guide

• God’s Condescension: Psalm 50

• Examining Names for God in Psalm 50:1

• Aseity and Condescension: Jesus

• God’s Eternal Decree

• God’s Eternal Decree: Mystery

• God’s Triunity

• God’s Triunity: Unity and Diversity

• God’s Triunity: Equal Ultimacy

• God’s Triunity: Categories for Interpretation

• Studying the Trinity with the Sermon Starter Guide

Unit 8: The Doctrine of Man

• The Image of God

• The Image of God after the Fall

• Image of God in Romans 1

• Suppression of the Truth

• The Image of God and Worship

• Breath of God

Unit 9: The Doctrine of Salvation

• Introduction to the Doctrine of Salvation

• An Overview of Arminianism

• Total Depravity, Part 1

• Total Depravity, Part 2

• Unconditional Election, Part 1

• Unconditional Election, Part 2

• Unconditional Election, Part 3

• Limited Atonement, Part 1

• Limited Atonement, Part 2

• Limited Atonement, Part 3

• Irresistible Grace

• Perseverance of the Saints, Part 1

• Perseverance of the Saints, Part 2

Conclusion

• Course Summary

Details

• Title: AP120 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics I: Foundations

• Instructor: K. Scott Oliphint

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2014

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 10