Advanced Apologetics: depth on the Christian case
Best done after Core Apologetics
Six deeper apologetics lessons for users who want to engage at the level of working scholarship. Habermas's minimal-facts resurrection case; NT manuscript transmission with the actual textual-critical literature; the hardest Old Testament texts; philosophical defenses of the Trinity; the moral argument; and comparative monotheism on the question 'Was God always loving?' Best done after Core Apologetics.
What you will be able to do
By the end of this track, you will be able to: defend the resurrection at the level of Habermas's minimal-facts case, walk the New Testament manuscript record, engage the hardest Old Testament texts, defend the Trinity philosophically, present the moral argument, and compare Trinitarian and unitarian monotheism on the question of divine love.
Lessons are ordered for the best build-up, but you can open any of them. We'll mark the recommended next lesson so you always know where to pick back up.
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The minimal-facts case for the resurrection
22 minBuild the Habermas-style historical case in depth — five facts virtually all critical scholars accept, and why bodily resurrection best explains them.
3 readingsIncludes practice - 2
NT manuscript transmission deep dive
22 minWalk the NT manuscript record — variant types, P52, early dating, the Editio Critica Maior, and what it actually shows about the text.
3 readingsIncludes practice - 3
OT hard texts: slavery, conquest, and divine character
22 minEngage the hardest Old Testament texts — slavery laws, ḥerem warfare, imprecatory psalms — without surrendering the Christian doctrine of God.
3 readings - 4
Philosophical Trinity defenses
20 minSurvey Latin and Social Trinitarianism, classical theism, and the relative-identity model — answer 'this is logically incoherent' rigorously.
4 readingsIncludes practice - 5
The moral argument
20 minWalk the case from objective moral values to a personal moral lawgiver — and answer the standard naturalist responses.
3 readings - 6
Comparative monotheism
20 minCompare the Trinity with Tawhid, Jewish unitarianism, and deism — show that the Trinity uniquely answers the question of divine love.
3 readingsIncludes practice