Christian Thought
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- apologetics
- to make a defense
- purpose of apologetics
- persuade those who don't believe; defend the faith against attacks; strengthen the faith of believers
- negative side of apologetics
- radical unmasking; pointing out fallacies of other worldviews
- positive side of apologetics
- presenting evidences
- cultural side of apologetics
- integrating into life how it effects us
- bibliological apologetics
- establishes truth-is the bible trustworthy?
- revelation apologetics
- are humans dependant on God to reveal himself
- philosophical apologetics
- does God exist
- historical apologetics
- did Christ rise from the dead?
- psychological apologetics
- are people religious beings?
- Naturalism
- universe is a machine
- secular humanism
- humans are highest form of existance
- new age thinking
- believes in the spiritual realm
- theism
- monotheists; Muslim, zoroastrians, jews
- atheism
- there is no God
- agnosticism
- we cannot konw if there's a god
- deism
- functional/practical atheism
- pantheism
- God and the world are identical
- panentheism
- process theology; God is finite, changing, and dependant on the World; the world is God's body
- open theism
- freewill theism; God does not know all the future; motivated by problem of evil and frere-will of man
- henotheism
- one god si over the other gods
- mormonism
- people can become gods; polytheism
- epistemology
- the study of truth