Apologetics 1
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This document discusses apologetics, which it defines as explaining, clarifying, validating, and defending Christian truths and experiences while countering heresies and misunderstandings. It provides examples of apologetics in the New Testament and among early Church fathers. The document then traces the history of apologetics from the New Testament era through developments in the Reformation, Enlightenment, modern, and postmodern eras, noting how apologetics addressed various theological issues and challenges posed by science and new technologies.
Apologetics 1
- 1. George Tan, follower of Christ at a distance
- 2. Story 1: Facebook post/ JC experience What is apologetics? Name and Meaning Examples in NT 1Pet 3:15, Phil 1:7,16, Acts 18:4, 2Cor 10:3-6
- 4. Explaining Christian truths Clarifying Christian misunderstandings Validating Christian experiences Against heresies
- 5. To defend the faith It helps Christians know their faith To heighten interest in Christianity To counter the bad image Constant threat of apostasy Many false teachings out there To be thinking Christians
- 6. Need from Truth Need from Experience Biblical Teaching 1Cor 1:27, 8:1, 2Tim 2:14 Jude 3, Rom 12:2, Acts 18:24-28 2Pet3:15
- 7. NT times Towards Jesus Jesus’s resurrection Towards miracles Book of Hebrew Church Fathers Towards the Jews and Romans Thomas Aquinas – Summa Contra
- 8. Reformation 19th Century Enlightenment Age Evolution, Industrial Revolution, Comparative Religion 20th Century Experiment Age New theological branches Neo Orthodox Theology Liberal Theology Existential Theology Advance of Science
- 9. Postmodernism Nothing is Absolute Networked People We are not alone……. Midnight Tribes Light bulbs, computer/tablet and internet….