Here are the readings for our forum together on Nov. 4: Tactics chapters 11 and 12. Enjoy!
Forum Readings for 11/4
Apologetics Forum 10/7
Here are the Koukl readings: Chapters nine and ten of Tactics. Grab some coffee and enjoy!
Reading for 9/9/2022
Reading for 8/5
Here is the reading for our 8/5 meeting. Koukl 5 and 6.
Reading for 6/3
Reading for 5/6/22
For the next couple of meetings the forum will be reading and discussing Gregory Koukl’s book Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions. If you don’t have the book, you can read the first two chapters here.
Reading For 4/1
Our reading for this forum will be a chapter titled Worldview Thinking by the Christian Philosopher Ronald Nash. It comes from his book, Life’s Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy.
We will discuss the chapter focusing on what a worldview is, why everyone has one, and how worldview thinking is a helpful tool for analyzing alternative views of reality.
Here are some helpful resources if you want to dig deeper:
Philosophy as Comprehensive Vision by philosopher Lewis Hahn (written for an audience of psychologists but has helpful insights on worldview thinking).
In Defense of Metaphysics by philosopher Brand Blanshard. A presentation and defense of metaphysics and worldview thinking.
From Gender Feminism to Catholicism by Kimberley Manning. Referenced by Nash as a change in worldview. Posted simply as an example.
Resources For 3/18
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:
Readings and Resources for Friday 12/3
Here’s the resources for the Friday forum. We’ll discuss the first three articles.
Readings For Friday 11/5
This forum will focus on the role of logic in our lives and apologetic argumentation.
We will read and discuss the following chapters:
Ed L. Miller’s chapter titled A Little Logic
Ron Nash: The Law of Noncontradiction
Just an additional reading. Since many apologists use what is called the “argument to best explanation,” here is a great chapter by Dr. Burbidge called Argument to Explanation.