Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Define “common grace” and discuss its three key elements

• Summarize the development of scholarship on worldview

• Discuss the speaker’s definition of “worldview”

• Compare and contrast covenantal apologetics and traditional apologetics

• Explain how various approaches to apologetics deal with the problem of evil

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

• Additional Writings by the Speaker

Unit 1: Common Grace and Apologetics

• Common Grace Defined

• God’s Good Gifts to the Unregenerate, Part 1

• God’s Good Gifts to the Unregenerate, Part 2

• God’s Restraint of Evil, Part 1

• God’s Restraint of Evil, Part 2

• Using Calvin’s Institutesin Logos

• Religious Righteousness of the Unregenerate

• Common Grace and Apologetics

Unit 2: Worldview and Apologetics

• Defining “Worldview”

• The History of the Concept of Worldview

• James Orr

• Surveying James Orr’s Impact on Apologetics

• James Orr on Worldview

• Abraham Kuyper

• Abraham Kuyper’s Notion of Antithesis

• Abraham Kuyper and Apologetics

• Herman Dooyeweerd

• Postmodernism and Worldview

• The Demise of Postmodernism

• A Definition of Worldview, Part 1

• A Definition of Worldview, Part 2

• A Definition of Worldview, Part 3

• A Changed Heart

Unit 3: A Covenantal Apologetic

• Defining Covenantal Apologetics

• Brute Facts

• Covenant Apologetics and Traditional Apologetics

• Natural and Special Revelation

• The Apologist’s Task

• The Starting Point for Apologetics

• The Starting Point for Rationalistic Apologists

• The Starting Point for Covenantal Apologists

• Creating a Clippings File to Record Quotes by Calvin on Apologetics

• Reason, Logic, and God

• Studying Logic in Apologetics by Creating and Searching a Custom Collection

• Logic in the Christian Context

• The Background of the Transcendental Approach

• Kant’s Transcendental Approach

• Transcendental Argumentation

Unit 4: Apologetics Applied to the Problem of Evil

• Stating the Problem

• A History of the Problem of Evil

• Contrasting Two Hebrew Words for Knowledge in Genesis 2–3

• The Free Will Defense, Part 1

• The Free Will Defense, Part 2

• A Response to the Free Will Defense

• The Evidential Problem of Evil

• A Christian Context for the Problem of Evil

Conclusion

• Course Review

Details

• Title: AP121 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics II: Applications

• 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: 5