Mobile Ed: AP120 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics I: Foundations (10 hour course - audio)

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: An Old Testament Defense

• God’s Relationship with His Creation
• Covenant and Creation
• An Adversarial Relationship
• The Lord in Battle: Preparation and Presence
• The Lord in Battle: Praise in Victory

Unit 2: A New Testament Defense

• Holy War in the Wilderness
• The New Testament and the Wilderness
• Christ’s Footstool
• The Coming of the Kingdom
• A Spiritual Battle
• The Death of Death
• Christ as Victor

Unit 3: The Apologetics Locus Classicus

• Introduction to 1 Peter 3:15
• God Is Our Shield
• The Role of Suffering
• A Christian Response to Suffering
• Suffering as Blessing
• Performing a Morphology Search for Kakoō
• Setting Apart Christ as Lord
• Finding Old Testament Allusions with the Passage Guide and Explorer Tool
• Christ as Lord in Apologetics
• All Christians Are Apologists
• Researching Exegetical Issues in 1 Peter 3:15
• The 3-Step Approach to Apologetics

Unit 4: Apologetics and 2 Corinthians 10:1–5

• Biblical and Theological Foundations
• The Sophists
• Researching the Idea that Paul’s Opponents in 2 Corinthians Were Sophists
• Paul’s Message to the Corinthians
• Paul’s Personal Apologetic
• Paul’s Life “In the Flesh”
• Weapons of Christian Warfare
• Searching for the Power of God in the New Testament
• Destroying Strongholds
• Taking Thoughts Captive
• Summary of Paul’s Teaching in 2 Corinthians 10:1–5

Unit 5: A Theological Basis for Apologetics

• Apologetics Rooted in the Bible and Theology
• The Effect of Preunderstandings
• The Hermeneutical Circle
• Apologetics and Philosophy, Part 1
• Apologetics and Philosophy, Part 2
• Scripture as the Foundation of Apologetics
• Explicit Presuppositions
• Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics
• Systematic Theology, Biblical Theology, and Exegesis

Unit 6: The Doctrine of Scripture

• The Foundations of Existence and Knowledge
• Revelation as the External Source of Knowledge
• Knowledge and the Unregenerate
• Knowledge and the Regenerate
• Scripture’s Essence: A Divine Document
• Scripture’s Essence: Its Self-Witness
• Scripture’s Essence: Its Authority
• Special Revelation: Necessary for Salvation
• Exploring the Catholic and Protestant Canons
• Special Revelation: Its Relationship to General Revelation
• Scripture’s Sufficiency: Implications
• Scripture’s Sufficiency: Glorifying God
• The Sufficiency of Natural Revelation
• Scripture’s Authority: Its Self-Attestation
• Scripture’s Authority: The Word of God
• Scripture’s Authority: Calvin’s Perspective
• Scripture’s Authority: The Proper Order
• Scripture’s Authority: The Church and the Text
• Scripture’s Authority: An Illustration
• The Authority of Natural Revelation
• The Perspicuity of Special Revelation
• The Perspicuity of General Revelation
• The Implications of Revelation’s Perspicuity

Unit 7: The Doctrine of God

• God’s Aseity
• God’s Aseity: Simplicity
• God’s Aseity: Sovereignty
• God’s Condescension
• God’s Condescension: Moses
• God’s Condescension: The Burning Bush
• God’s Condescension: Jesus
• Studying Jealousy with the Bible Word Study Guide
• God’s Condescension: Psalm 50
• Examining Names for God in Psalm 50:1
• Aseity and Condescension: Jesus
• God’s Eternal Decree
• God’s Eternal Decree: Mystery
• God’s Triunity
• God’s Triunity: Unity and Diversity
• God’s Triunity: Equal Ultimacy
• God’s Triunity: Categories for Interpretation
• Studying the Trinity with the Sermon Starter Guide

Unit 8: The Doctrine of Man

• The Image of God
• The Image of God after the Fall
• Image of God in Romans 1
• Suppression of the Truth
• The Image of God and Worship
• Breath of God

Unit 9: The Doctrine of Salvation

• Introduction to the Doctrine of Salvation
• An Overview of Arminianism
• Total Depravity, Part 1
• Total Depravity, Part 2
• Unconditional Election, Part 1
• Unconditional Election, Part 2
• Unconditional Election, Part 3
• Limited Atonement, Part 1
• Limited Atonement, Part 2
• Limited Atonement, Part 3
• Irresistible Grace
• Perseverance of the Saints, Part 1
• Perseverance of the Saints, Part 2

Conclusion

• Course Summary