BIB 363 Christian Worldview, Apologetics, and Evangelism, Professor Jay Wegter
COURSE SCHEDULE:
______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE ONE – Escaping the sacred/secular trap; developing a Christian worldview; humanism
Sunday (video available to view Sunday)
Video: course description with 3 or 4 course objectives explained. Due dates and a description of the David Naugle assignment and the Evangelism project. Video lecture with PowerPoint slides on topics: healing the sacred/secular split; the four major worldview questions (ultimate Q’s); how Kant split the Western mind.
Wednesday
Reading report due in Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth, pp. 31-121 and in David Naugle’s article (appendix).
Friday
David Naugle Questions due on the “Clashing Civilizations” article.
_________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE TWO – Living out our created purpose; the Trinity and social relations; Darwinism
Sunday
Video: 3 more learning objectives described . Explanation of the writing assignment due Friday, the “Right from Wrong” paper. Video then transitions into the following topics with PowerPoint: the divine ‘blueprint’ for mankind; the implications of the Trinity to worldview; Darwinism vs. Biblical Creation.
Wednesday
Reading report due in Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth, pp. 123-178.
Friday
“Right from Wrong” paper due.
______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE THREE – Battling for origins; the poverty of determinism; Logos doctrine; pre-evangelism
Sunday
Video: Description of Worldview Paper assignment. Lecture on topics: the cognitive battle for origins; the absurdity of determinism; subjective morality; Logos doctrine; Christian apologetics—‘Taking the Roof off’.
Wednesday
Reading report due on Total Truth, pp. 207-247; 295-323.
Friday
Worldview paper due.
_______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE FOUR – Being precedes knowing; epistemological certainty; the lie in Eden
Sunday
Video: description of Portfolio item, “Support for the Existence of God” paper, and description of oral assignment questions from The Book that made your World. Video lecture on: Presuppositionalism; epistemological certainty; why being precedes knowing, the Edenic Lie.
Wednesday
Reading report due on Mangalwadi’s The Book that made your World, pp. xiii-xxxi; pp. 3-76.
Friday
Questions from The Book that made your World due in the form of participation orally (answering assigned questions) in web conferencing session.
______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE FIVE – Our apologetic methodology; ‘big picture’ unifiers of Christian worldview
Sunday
Video: lecture on topics: apologetic methodology—press the antithesis (truth vs. error); point of contact with the unbeliever; the cross of Christ—the wisdom of God; big picture unifiers of Christian worldview.
Wednesday
Reading report due from The Book that made your World, pp. 77-136 and Always Ready, pp. 3-85.
Friday
Rough draft of portfolio research paper due, “Support for the Existence of God.”
______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE SIX – The sufficiency of Scripture for Christian apologetics; point of contact in evangelism
Sunday
Video: description of Friday’s Evangelism Report web conferencing session. Lecture topics: the myth of neutrality; circular reasoning; the impossibility of autonomy; internally critiquing false worldviews; review of point of contact in evangelism.
Wednesday
Reading report due from The Book that made your World, pp. 137-219, Always Ready, pp. 86-149.
Friday
Evangelism Report with oral participation in web conferencing session due.
_______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE SEVEN – The essentials of the Biblical gospel; exposing current compromises in evangelism
Sunday
Video: description of assignment, ‘Worldview Questionnaire’, due Friday. Lecture on topics: the biblical gospel; regeneration by the Spirit vs. decisional regeneration; recovering gospel essentials.
Wednesday
Reading report due from The Book that made your World, pp. 220-273, Always Ready, pp. 151-191.
Friday
Worldview Questionnaire due.
______________________________________________________________________________________ MODULE EIGHT – Employing Christian worldview in evangelism; deconstructing the new tolerance
Sunday Video: final reminder of portfolio item due Friday with assigned questions from, “Support for the Existence of God.” Lecture on topics: the power of Christian worldview in evangelism; how to dialog with postmoderns; answering the new tolerance and moral relativism.
Wednesday
Reading report due from Always Ready, pp. 193-220; 235-274.
Friday
“Support for Existence of God” paper due. Web conferencing with oral participation in answering assigned questions on the existence of God.