Apologetics

This course provides a fairly detailed introduction to apologetics as a Christian discipline and the various models of presentation and context. The modern contexts of apologetics (Post-modernism and the New Atheism) are also carefully considered. By the end of this course you should be able to:

• comprehend the context of Christian apologetics
• identify and describe various models of doing apologetics
• apply Jesus’ method of doing apologetics to your current ministerial context, including children
• analyse various arguments for the existence of God, Jesus Christ, and the integrity of the Bible
• deconstruct and refute two New Age philosophies in light of Christian Theism
• defend against a number of contextual apologetic issues in both the western and African context.