Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Describe key approaches to theology and apologetics

• Describe the succession of worldviews from classical theism to contemporary postmodernism

• Explain how the mindset of “ghetto nihilism” developed in African-American society

• List core concerns common to surban African-American communities

• Describe a holistic approach to apologetics, evangelism, and discipleship

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Theology and Knowledge

• Theology: Modes and Models

• Using Logos Notes to Track Themes

• Theology: Apologetics and Ethics

• Exploring the Psalms with the Psalms Explorer Tool

• Theology: Context and Approaches

• Theology: Precedential

• Using the Factbook and Searching Cultural Concepts

• Knowledge: Its Nature and Importance

• Knowledge: Faith, Reason, and Obedience

• Knowledge: Revelation

Unit 2: Issues in Apologetics

• Apologetics: Justifying Knowledge

• Apologetics: Models

• Discovering Ancient Inscriptions from the Biblical World

• Apologetics: Addressing the Eclipse of the Christian Voice

• Apologetics: Defining a Christian Approach (Part 1)

• Apologetics: Defining a Christian Approach (Part 2)

• Apologetics: A Critical Need Today

• Apologetics: Core Concerns

• Apologetics: Righteousness and Justice

• Identifying and Searching for the Greek Term for “Righteousness”

Unit 3: Worldviews

• Examples of Worldviews at Work

• Worldview: Not Just Abstract or Theoretical

• Using the Timeline to Explore Worldviews throughout History

• Rational Worldviews: Theism

• Rational Worldviews: Deism

• Rational Worldviews: Naturalism and Nihilism

• Irrational Worldviews: Existentialism

• Looking Up Unfamiliar Terms in Logos

• Irrational Worldviews: Postmodernism

• Worldviews: A General Shift

• Worldviews: A Culture Clash or a Christian Encounter?

• Creating and Sharing Inspirational Quotes with Visual Copy

Unit 4: Shifting Socioeconomic Paradigms

• Adam Smith versus William Godwin

• Human Nature: Constrained versus Unconstrained

• A Seismic Shift in Public Policy

• Shifting Paradigms in Social Outlook

• Contemporary Scene: Sociopolitical Ideologies

• Contemporary Scene: The Political Matrix

• Contemporary Christian Perspectives: African-American versus Anglo-American

• Contemporary Scene: Feeding Addiction versus Holistic Correction

• Contemporary Scene: Left versus Right

• Contemporary Scene: Degenerate Movements

• Looking to the Future

Unit 5: African-American Theological Vacuum and Ghetto Nihilism

• African-American Theological Vacuum: Antebellum Developments

• African-American Theological Vacuum: Effects of Emancipation

• Theological Vacuum: Late 19th-Century Traumas

• Theological Vacuum: 20th-Century Developments

• Ghetto Nihilism: Introduction

• Ghetto Nihilism: Black Migration to the North

• Ghetto Nihilism: Stages of Development

• Ghetto Nihilism: Characteristics

• Ghetto Nihilism: Present Situation

• Before Black Consciousness: “Black Is Ugly”

• Phases of Blackness: “Black Is Beautiful”

• Phases of Blackness: “Black Is Absolute”

• Phases of Blackness: “Black Is Ghetto”

• Ghetto Culture: Redneck Origins

• Ghetto Culture: Redneck Characteristics

• Ghetto Culture: Redneck Blacks

• Challenges of Ministry in the ’Hood

Unit 6: Old and New Paradigms

• Old Paradigms: Dignity

• Old Paradigms: Identity

• Old Paradigms: Significance

• Old Paradigms: Socioeconomic Outlook

• New Paradigms: What the System Delivers

• New Paradigms: Addressing African-American Core Concerns

Conclusion

• Holistic Great Commission

Details

• Title: AP221 Apologetics in an Urban Context

• Instructor: Carl F. Ellis Jr.

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2014

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 6