Apologetics for Dummies
Bridging Christian Apologetics and the World's Wisdom
by John Ensworth
For the Norman House Church of
Bridgway Fellowship, OKC
A Bible Study
March, April, May 2000
Last
updated May 9, 2000
The
following is a rough draft that will be added to continually as well as cleaned
up as I go.
If you have any questions or objections, please email
me!
The outline and much of the flow of this lesson is dictated by the format of "Philosophy for Dummies" IDG Books (see bibliography below).
1. What are Apologetics?
What
is Philosophy? A
primer in thought and thinking.
2. How do we know anything? Man thoughts vs. God's view.
3.
What is Good? Happiness, Excellence, Ethics and Morals.
4.
Are we ever really free?
Fate
Destiny and You.
5.
What makes you - YOU? Are you a Soul Man?
6.
What's the Deal with Death? From fear of the void to the presence of God.
7.
Is there a God? What the world thinks- how do we know Him?
8. The meaning of life. Pascal's Wager and a Trip from Wall Street
to the Streets.
Bibliography:
"Systematic Theology", Wayne Grudem, IVP, Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.
"Philosophy
for Dummies", Tom Morris, Ph.D. , IDG Books, 1999.
4.
Are we ever really free? Fate
Destiny and You.
5.
What makes you - YOU? Are you a Soul Man?
6.
What's the Deal with Death? From fear of the void to the presence of God.
7.
Is there a God? What the world thinks- how do we know Him?
8. The meaning of life. Pascal's Wager and a Trip from Wall Street to the Streets.