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.
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