1. Apologetic Strategies
John Oakes
ARS
Apologetic Certificate Program

2. Apologetic Strategies: John Oakes
Defending the Faith
History and Archaeology
How We Got the Bible (including response to form criticism, etc.)
Science
Contradictions in the Bible
Creating Faith
World View
Prophecy
Miracles/Resurrection
Claims of Jesus

3. Apologetic Strategies: Bernard Ramm
Personal Experience
Pascal, Kierkegaard, Brunner
Natural theology
Thomas Aquinas, Tenant, William Lane Craig
Inspiration of the Bible
Augustine, C. S. Lewis, McDowell

4. Schools of Christian Apologetics
Classical Apologetics
Emphasizes arguments for theism
Miracles make no sense unless prove God exists.
Thomas Aquinas, William Lane Craig, Norman Geisler
Evidential Apologetics
Emphasizes history, prophecy, like a legal argument.
Cumulative Case Apologetics
Like Evidential but makes legal-type arguments

5. Schools of Christian Apologetics
Presuppositional Apologetics (World View Apologetics)
Reformed Epistemological Apologetics
It is rational to believe without experience (induction)
Fideism