AE503‒ Defending The Faith With Confidence: Description
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course extensively and thoroughly prepares students to give concrete reasons for their faith. Whether called to evangelism or desiring to avoid being caught off-guard, students taking this course are enabled to confidently discuss their faith with others.
The orderly, comprehensive and down-to-earth style makes the study both highly informative and easily-understood.
Topics covered include: answering life’s big questions, fallacies and logic, cosmic issues, intelligent design, the origin of life, evolution, relativism, miracles, the historic reliability of Jesus, eyewitness testimony of Jesus, the reliability of the New Testament, the resurrection, the divinity of Jesus, Jesus’ perspective on the Old Testament, the issue of evil and more.
REQUIREMENT DESIGNATION:
Bridge Requirement
MDiv Requirement
✓ MDiv Elective
DMin Requirement
✓ DMin Elective
PREREQUISITE DESIGNATION:
✓ No Prerequisite
Prerequisite:
CREDIT HOUR DESIGNATION:
✓ 3 Credits
E‒ Easy
C‒ Comfortable
✓ S‒ Sizable
R‒ Rigorous
F‒ Formidable
INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENTS:
✓ Textbook or Books
✓ Video or PowerPoint Lessons
Video Intro or Commentary
Online Text Lessons
RETENTION & ASSESSMENT:
Study Guides
Quizzes
✓ Workbook
Forum Posting
Written or Media Submission
EXPECTED
EXPENDITURES:
✓ Tuition
✓ Educational Materials
Admin or Instructional Support Fee
✓ Optional Mailing Cost
Frank Turek
Norman L. Geisler
DEPARTMENT: Apologetics & Evangelism
Frank Turek
Dr. Turek is a dynamic speaker and award-winning author or coauthor of four books. As the President of Cross Examined, Frank presents powerful and entertaining evidence for Christianity at churches, high schools and at secular college campuses that often begin hostile to his message. He hosts a weekly TV program, and a radio program which airs on 186 stations each week, and has debated several prominent atheists including David Silverman, president of American Atheists. Turek was an aviator in the U.S. Navy, has a master’s degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and a doctorate in Philosophy of Religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and has taught Leadership and Management at George Washington University.
SSS COURSES
AE503‒ Defending The Faith With Confidence
TEXTBOOK: • I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
DEPARTMENTS: Theology & Church History
Apologetics & Evangelism • Leadership, Ethics & Citizenship
Norman L. Geisler
Dr. Norman Geisler has taught theology, philosophy, and classical Christian apologetics on the graduate and undergraduate level for over 50 years and authored or co-authored over 100 books. He has served as a professor at Trinity Evangelical Seminary and Dallas Theological Seminary. Education: William Tyndale College, Wheaton College, Northwestern University, Loyola University.
SSS COURSES
TCH504‒ God’s Sovereignty and Man’s Free Will
TEXTBOOK: • Chosen But Free: A Balanced View of God’s Sovereignty and Free Will
AE502‒ Introduction to Christian Apologetics
TEXTBOOK CO-AUTHOR: • Reasons For Belief
AE503‒ Defending The Faith With Confidence
TEXTBOOK CO-AUTHOR: • I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
• The Official Study Guide to I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
LEC601‒ Contemporary Social Issues & Ethics
TEXTBOOK: • Christian Ethics: Contemporary Issues and Options