Cave To The Cross Apologetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL9jLGc0iNc Integrating Answering Evil, Miracles, & Jesus Concluding with our look at the Integrative Approach we look at integrating answering evil, miracles, and Jesus. What have you thought about this approach? Does it allow each approach to shine or does it falter by including non-working relationships? Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 02:18 – Inte...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpiVVyish34 Helping Everyone Now the Integrative approach will show how it is helping everyone to know God & make Him known. While not it’s own apologetic approach, our authors show how it can help the four other major approaches answer in different ways when it comes to showing Scripture as truth, combating polytheism, and know that God exists. Timeline:...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKrlKyWT090 Integrative Apologetics – The Ultimate Approach? We look at the meta-apologetics of the Integrative apologetics approach. While not its own, separate apologetics, our authors believe this type maybe the key to the ultimate approach in apologetics. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:12 – Test Case – Integrative Approach Vs. Post-Mod...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vYv5XCcTo Apologetics & Human Knowledge With the Integrative Approach to apologetics, the goal isn’t to form a new coalition movement of apologetics but to show that Christians can work best when apologetics & human knowledge are used for defending the truth. What do you think? Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:14 – The Integrative Approa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnXSFUsPa8 Clark, Evans, & Frame Want Us All To Get Along Finishing up our historical look at the Integrative approach to apologetics we look at David K. Clark, C. Stephan Evans, & John Frame. Their approaches might seem rooted in majorly one camp more than the others but they do encourage all apologists to get along and by combining efforts we may have the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLY5ENjQos Augustine, Aquinas, Carnell, & Schaeffer – Oh My! We come to our final apologetic method, the Integrative Approach. Looking at people from history who held to this type of model we see Augustin, Aquinas, Carnell, & Schaeffer – Oh my! What a line up! Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:54 – Precursor Integration Apologists 04...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlmHCOcWcIc Fideist Strengths & Weaknesses The conclusion of our look at Fideism ends with a look at Fideist strengths and weaknesses. Our authors have made a good case for why Fideism is an apologetic method but what do they think it brings to the table and where it falters? Next time – a SURPRISE method! Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 00:38 –...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qych8mTYsA Fideist Apologetics Summarized Here is the Fideist apologetics summarized to show it as an apologetic model and one to be considered. Covering both the meta-apologetics & questions it answers, here’s the overview before the next episode where we see the strengths and weaknesses of the model. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 02:30 – Th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DjRREeSDHk Your Own Personal Jesus For the final three apologetic questions answers, the Fideist point to the fact that one has your own personal Jesus. In that when it comes to the problem of evil or miracles or who Jesus is, it should always lead to answers in the personal nature of God and one in which a personal relationship must be sought. Timeline: 00:00 &#82...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIs_eHLhWE Fideist Split Scripture & Christianity In looking at how Fideists approach our 6 apologetics questions, we’ll see oddly that Fidiests split Scripture & Christianity as separate from the Word of God & The Christian religion. Also, proof of God comes from knowing God personally. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:40 – Fideist S...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPFDfXORjQ Fideist Faith Is Experience The final three parts of the apologetic approach of rational Fideists. Here we see for Fideist faith is experience and they don’t look fondly at “the Science(TM)” and even less at history as a set of facts. They aren’t anti-science or anti-history, they just believe in proper avenues and spheres not mix...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ImhrgGgdU Fideist Issues With Theology & Philosophy Discussing now the meta-apologetics of Fidesim we focus on three areas of truth, theology, and philosophy. We see that Fideists do engage in apologetics but have big issues with theology and philosophy in the way they are used in the other methods of apologetics. While you might not agree with Fideism outrigh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142iGee69wo Historical Fideism We now move to the historical Fideism of those who would subscribe to the title of Fidist. Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, and Donald Bloesch are the main proponents of the apologetic method that is more to them than “just believe”. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:38 – Søren Kierkegaard – The Father Of Es...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRihc2EvpSU Rational Fideism We open our discussion on the 4th apologetic method with not “just believe” but Rational Fideism. This is one where apologists emphasize faith and we go into what value that adds to the conversation. We also discuss three historical proto-Fideists Tertullian, Martin Luther, and Blaise Pascal. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduct...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agsn8bwqcZI Cave To The Cross Apologetics Ad Before we get into our last apologetic method, this week we’re featuring an “ad” for our show from our friends at The Anarchist Bible Study . Check them out, but check us out first. We’ll see ya, next week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbA9AWNbj-M Pros & Cons Of Presuppositionalism Reformed Apologetics We conclude our section on the third apologetic method by looking at the pros & cons of presuppositionalism Reformed Apologetics. But here’s the real question, are the negatives stated really negatives? Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 02:24 – Strengths Of Reformed Apologetic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTo5uS8c0Oc Summary Of Presuppositional Reformed Apologetics We begin our wrap-up of this apologetic method with a summary of presuppositional Reformed Apologetics. We summarize the six meta-apologetics questions that build the method and then we look at the six apologetic questions all methods should have an answer for. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:24 &#...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXRcUbqDjvM The Centrality Of Scripture For Life’s Big Questions With the final four apologetic questions for the presuppositional Reformed apologetic method we see these apologists keep going back to the centrality of Scripture for life’s big questions. Is there a God? What about evil in the world? Are miracles possible? Who is this Jesus person in hist...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBKmgrIN3Fs Scripture Is The Foundation For Everything Now we cover the apologetic questions that Reformed apologetics (presuppositionalism) would answer. Here we look at what presuppositionalists say about Scripture and religious pluralism. To Reformed apologists, Scripture is the foundation for everything. So, of course, we don’t make it too far through all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_jSg4wa0A Biblical Standards For Science, History, & Experience Finishing up our chapter on the meta apologetics of Presuppositional Reformed Apologetics we look at their call for biblical standards for science, history, & experience. We see that Reformed apologetics want to push the antithesis between the Christian and the non-Christian. From this push, t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxBv4Bcsvo Biblical Standards For Theology & Philosophy We start out looking at presuppositional Reformed apologetics meta-apologetics by covering probably two of the biggest areas of disagreement with the previously covered methods. For Reformed apologetics, there is the call for biblical standards for theology and philosophy and for them to enact themselves o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyTrTQYDx_Q The Founders Of Reformed Apologetics We complete our journey of the giants of presuppositionalism and the roots by looking at the biggest founders of Reformed apologetics that are known today. Abraham Kyper establishes the possibility of certainty of faith. Herman Dooyeweerd develops transcendental apologetics. Cornelius Van Til cements presuppositionali...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKbZIEAVxA Apologists Who Emphasize Revelation After covering a couple of apologetic methods that are very similar, are there any that are really that different? Well, entering into the ring is Reformed Apologetics aka Presuppositionalism. Over the next four episodes, we’ll cover this one pretty extensively. First of all, well because we like it and are propo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfHhjbQ64to Strengths & Weakness Of Evidentialism We conclude our look at the second model of apologetics by looking at the strengths & weaknesses of evidentialism. And like good trinitarians, there are three of each. Some of the weaknesses, also, seem to add credibility to one of our upcoming methods. Hmmmm. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:39 &#8211...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JauompslLmc The Meta & The Apologetics Of Evidentialism Today we fly through the meta & the apologetics of evidentialism as it shares a number of qualities with classical apologetics we’ve discussed before. Here we tend to highlight the differences between the two or where the evidentialist tends to focus more of their arguments. Timeline: 00:00 &#8211...