Introduction to Apologetics

Introduction to Apologetics

AP 101E

Westminster Theological Seminary

Professor Scott Oliphint

Fall 2010

AP 101E INTRODUCTION TO APOLOGETICS

Westminster Theological Seminary

Professor Scott Oliphint

Required Reading for AP 101 (listed in suggested order)

Fisher, Alec. Critical Thinking. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Palmer, Donald. Looking at Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made

Lighter. 3rd ed: WCB\McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Martin, Michael, ed. The Impossibility of God. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

Oliphint, K. Scott. The Battle Belongs to the Lord. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 2003.

Oliphint, K. Scott. "Cornelius Van Til and the Reformation of Christian Apologetics." In K. Scott Oliphint and Lane G. Tipton. Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 2007: 279-303.

Van Til, Cornelius. Why I Believe in God.

Van Til, Cornelius. The Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel. American ed. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1977.

Van Til, Cornelius. The Defense of the Faith. 4th Edition. Edited by K. Scott Oliphint.

Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 2008.

Clowney, Edmund P. "Preaching the Word of the Lord: Cornelius Van Til, V.D.M." Westminster Theological Journal XLVI, no. 2 (1984): 233-53.

Warfield, Benjamin B. "Spiritual Culture in the Theological Seminary." In Selected Shorter Writings - Vol. 2, edited by John E. Meeter, 468-96. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973.

Silva, Moisés, "The Case for Calvinistic Hermeneutics," 251-69. In K. Scott Oliphint and Lane G. Tipton. Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics. Phillipsburg, NJ: Prexbyteriand Reformed Publishing Co., 2007: 74-94.

Recommended Reading

Bedau, Hugo Adam, and St. Martin`s Press. Thinking and Writing About Philosophy. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin`s, 2002.

Cowan, Stephen B., ed. Five Views on Apologetics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan

Publishing House, 2000.

Edgar, William. Reasons of the Heart. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1996.

Packer, J. I. "Introductory Essay." In The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, by John Owen, 1-25. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1967.

Kelly, Stewart E. Thinking Well: An Introduction to Critical Thinking. Boston, et al.: McGraw Hill, 2001.

Mackie, J. L. The Miracle of Theism : Arguments for and against the Existence of God. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1982.

Naugle, David K. Worldview: The History of a Concept. Grand Rapids, Michigan\Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Jason, Gary. Critical Thinking: Developing an Effective Worldview. Australia, et al.: Wadsworth/ Thomson Learning, 2001.

Seech, Zachary. Writing Philosophy Papers. Third ed. Belmont, et al.: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000.

Smith, George H. Why Atheism? Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000.

Van Til, Cornelius. A Christian Theory of Knowledge. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969.

Christianity and Barthianism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1962.

The Defense of the Faith. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1955.

A Survey of Christian Epistemology. Vol. II, In Defense of the Faith. Phillipsburg, New

Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969.