Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 3
For our next quarterly apologetics forum, we’ll be reading and discussing C. S. Lewis and the Uses of Apologetics by Donal T. Williams and an article by Lewis called On Obstinacy in Belief. We’ll probably focus a little more on the Lewis article. Be sure to come with questions of your own from the readings!
For our first quarterly discussion for 2024 we will be reading two essays by the Christian thinker and apologist C. S. Lewis. The first one is Meditations in a Toolshed, and the second one is entitled Is Theism Important? Discussion questions will come soon!
For our time together, LaVerne will be conducting this discussion. We’ll be exploring Wokism. Here are our readings:
Presenter: Christie Trolinger
Topic: Book talk on The History of Apologetics: A Biographical and Methodological Introduction, Forrest, Benjamin K., Josh Chatraw and Alister E. McGrath, eds.
Focus: Part One – Patristic Apologists
Prep Item #1 – Episode 3142 of Issues, Etc. “A Lutheran Approach to the Church Fathers” This episode is 36 minutes. It provides a brief but useful introduction to the Church Fathers and a rationale for our study of them.
Prep Item #2 – 12/18/21 Episode of Concord Matters “Gnosticism in America Today” This episode is 58 minutes. Much of the apologetics work of the early Church Fathers was directed at heretical groups, Gnostics in particular. This episode is very helpful for understanding the historical roots and key ideas of gnosticism, as well as the influence of gnosticism today.
This forum will be hosted by our very own Boyd Trolinger!
Our readings for this session:
Here are the readings for our forum together on Nov. 4: Tactics chapters 11 and 12. Enjoy!
Here are the Koukl readings: Chapters nine and ten of Tactics. Grab some coffee and enjoy!
Our next forum will be a kind of “debrief” of our previous forum and highlight some of the important things we learned together from Pr. Dare. Using that as our foundation, we will also discuss and analyze the following:
10 Reasons Socialism Fails (Audio podcast by Dr. Frank Turek)
The Three Fatal Flaws of Equity (An article by Jason Jimenez of Cross Examined)
From Amy Hall of Stand to Reason:
