The Shield & Sword Of Apologetics – Ep.392 – Covenantal Apologetics – We Destroy Arguments – Part 2
The Shield & Sword Of Apologetics What two horns of apologetics does Oliphint want Christians to consider – the shield & sword of apologetics. That is one that is negative apologetics and the other of apologetics. Obviously, we are not viewing these types as good and bad, but in regard as to what they do. […]
The Two Horns Of Apologetics – Ep.391 – Covenantal Apologetics – We Destroy Arguments – Part 1
The Two Horns Of Apologetics We briefly introduce the two horns of apologetics in which Oliphint says that Christians can engage in. The idea is that we don’t have to wait for objections but our apologetic system can be in place to confront them when they arise. However, one must remember that we don’t pull […]
The Pathos & Logic Of Persuasion – Ep.390 – Covenantal Apologetics – The Art Of Persuasion – Part 4
The Pathos & Logic Of Persuasion We finish up this chapter taking the second and third trivium road of persuasion with that of the pathos and the logic of persuasion. We ascend to Mars Hill again and see how Paul used arguments of the heart as well as logic to do his apologetics. This becomes […]
The Ethos Of Persuasion – Ep.389 – Covenantal Apologetics – The Art Of Persuasion – Part 3
The Ethos Of Persuasion Now that we have introduced the Trivium of classical learning, we walk down the path and come to another trivium – one of persuasion. Here we cover the ethos of persuasion and turn once again to Paul on Mars Hill to see that we must remember there is another Person in […]
The Theology Of Persuasion – Ep.388 – Covenantal Apologetics – The Art Of Persuasion – Part 2
The Theology Of Persuasion The cry for evidence, evidence, evidence is the usual driving factor of apologetic conversations. However, people are more than complex machines that take in just brute facts and out spits the right answer. Here, Oliphint argues for Christians to embrace the theology of persuasion and uses the classical model trivium as […]
The Trivium Path – Ep.387 – Covenantal Apologetics – The Art Of Persuasion – Part 1
The Trivium Path At the start of this chapter Oliphint takes us down the trivium path as he lays the foundation to talk about persuasion. Classical education has seen a resurgence in homeschool communities and private schools alike. The molding students for a career is finally using up all the investment that classical education made […]
Proving God – Ep.386 – Covenantal Apologetics – Proof To All Men – Part 2
Proving God We conclude our chapter by talking about proving God by looking at how Christians can have the theological grounding to present proof to all people and how that’s possible if we are corrupted by sin. We also look at the issues with the idea that one needs to provide proof for every aspect […]
The Imago Dei Reflected – Ep.385 – Covenantal Apologetics – Proof To All Men – Part 1
The Imago Dei Reflected Now that the terms are defined and we understand what covenantal apologetics means, we turn to understanding what offering proof entails. Oliphint centers his giving of proofs on top of Mars Hill in Acts 17 and point to two areas of how all people can be given proof. In this episode, […]
Which Side Can Survive Critique? – Ep.384 – Covenantal Apologetics – Set Christ Apart As Lord – Part 2
Which Side Can Survive Critique? How that Oliphint has made his case for why we need to hang our apologetic entirely on Christ as Lord, we apply that to two different critiques. An internal one levied at Dawkins and rationality alone and an internal one made by an atheist against Christianity. Which side is about […]
Confused Kant & Christ’s Condescension – Ep.383 – Covenantal Apologetics – Set Christ Apart As Lord – Part 1
Confused Kant & Christ’s Condescension Now that we’ve got a proper understanding of the term covenant apologetics, Oliphint looks at the necessity of seeing Christ as Lord in order to do apologetics as prescribed in The Bible. Without that understanding, we’d be a confused Kant! And we impact that here as well. TIMELINE: 00:00 – […]
The Christian Covenant Of Apologetics – Ep.381 – Covenantal Apologetics – Always Ready – Part 2
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 02:07 – The Command For All Christians To Be Apologists Theologically 03:47 – A New Term To Clarify An Old Apologetic 06:25 – The Greaterness Of God To Man So That We Can Understand 08:34 – The Covenant All Humans Have To […]
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God – Ep.380 – Covenantal Apologetics – Always Ready – Part 1
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God Starting out with chapter one, Oliphint does what we love around here – defining his terms. Here he covers what is apologetics and that all humanity has a covenantal duty to believe in God and follow Him. The Christian apologist, then, is to always be ready […]
Reorienting Presuppositional Apologetics – Ep.379 – Intro – Covenantal Apologetics
Reorienting Presuppositional Apologetics We dive into Oliphint’s intro where he wants to get into reorienting presuppositional apologetics. This is a focus less on the philosophical but more on the practical, Christian aspect of it. He wishes to “translate” Van Til for the common man and breaks down how his book will do that. TIMELINE: 00:00 […]
Apologetics – From Athens To Indiana – Ep.378 – Preface – Covenantal Apologetics
How Must Christians Respond To Atheists In the preface for the new book, William Edgar walks through a short history of 20th century apologetics and takes us from Athens to Indiana. We see the shaky ground that the 20th century landscape had Christianity in and the much needed resurgence that people like Kuyper, Van Til, […]
Book 15 Announcement – Cave To The Cross Apologetics
Book 15 Announcement Wow, book number 15! It only feels like yesterday we were on book 5! Well, after The Great Debate that put presuppositionalism on the map – what’s to be done after that? Well, you actually have to talk to people. Scary, yes, but how does one actually do that? Well, this book […]