Mobile Ed: AP101 Introducing Apologetics (5 hour course)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Presenting a defense for faith in Jesus is central to the ministry and mission of all Christians. Dr. Bobby Conway leads viewers through his own personal story, biblical examples of effective witness, and clear reasoning that points to God’s activity in our world today. View descriptions of the Bible’s reliability and the implications of Christian claims about the resurrection. In this winsome presentation, Christians will find effective means to point unbelievers toward Jesus in a way that speaks to the heart as well as the mind.
For more of Dr. Conway’s insightful instruction, see Mobile Ed: ED121 Introducing Evangelism
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- Explain why it is important that all believers have some understanding of apologetics
- Describe the main approaches to apologetics used throughout history
- Define truth and discuss the consequences of rejecting it
- Defend the existence of God using the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments
- Articulate why miracles are possible and how they are seen from God’s perspective
- Use historical and juridical arguments to defend Scripture’s claim that Christ was resurrected from the dead
- Discuss the reliability of the NT documents and what they say about the deity of Jesus
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
- Personal Journey into Apologetics
Unit 1: Introducing Apologetics
- A Rational Defense
- A Commandment
- Christian Character
- The Human Problem of Doubt
- Navigating Doubt
- Three Approaches to Apologetics
- DEFENSE Overview
Unit 2: D—Demonstrate the Reality of Truth
- Consequences of Rejecting Truth
- Defining Truth
- Truth Is Discovered
Unit 3: E—Exemplify How the Opposite of True Is False
- Law of Noncontradiction
Unit 4: F—Frame Arguments That Reveal God’s Existence
- Various Worldviews
- The Cosmological Argument, Part 1
- The Cosmological Argument, Part 2
- The Teleological Argument, Part 1
- The Teleological Argument, Part 2
- The Moral Argument
- Three Moral Observations
Unit 5: E—Elucidate How God’s Existence Makes Miracles Possible
- Miracles
- Objections to Miracles
Unit 6: N—Nail Down Claims about the Reliability of the New Testament
- Tests of Reliability: The Bibliographical Test
- Tests of Reliability: The Internal Test
- Tests of Reliability: The External Test
Unit 7: S—State How the Scriptures Confirm Christ’s Deity
- Who Is Jesus?
- The Disciples and God on Jesus
- Responding to Objections That Jesus Is God
- Messianic Prophecies
- A Sinless and Miraculous Life
Unit 8: E—Explain How the Empty Tomb Confirms Christ’s Work
- Resurrection Hoax Theories
- Prophecy and the Resurrection
- Confirming the Resurrection
- Changed by the Resurrection
Conclusion
- Course Summary
Bobby Conway is the founder and host of The One Minute Apologist—a YouTube ministry that provides credible answers to curious questions. He earned his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and his DMin in apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and he is a PhD candidate at the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham in England. He is also the author of several books, including Hell, Rob Bell, and What Happens When People Die, The Fifth Gospel, and Doubting Toward Faith. He and his wife Heather have two kids, Haley and Dawson.
Getting the most out of Mobile Ed
Logos Mobile Education is a highly effective cross-platform learning environment that integrates world class teaching with the powerful study tools and theological libraries available in Logos Bible Software. Every course provides links to additional resources and suggested readings that supplement the lecture material at the end of every transcript segment.
This course comes with an Activities resource that functions as a type of “workbook” for the course. This resource includes learning activities such as: places for you to respond to reflection questions, exercises that will challenge and show you how deepen your understanding of this course by using specific Logos tools and resources, tutorial videos on different features of Logos Bible Software, and links to relevant Logos guides and tools. A link to open the Activities resource is conveniently placed at the end of every segment.
Reviews
5 ratings
Robert Gore
3/19/2021
This is a great course to introduce Apologetics. Given the nature of what is on social media, the news, and PG rated movies and television; any and all content is comparatively mild. If your audience is saved people who already know the Lord and have a regenerated heart and mind, then of course there is one example that would be iffy. However, the audience is not the saved, it is for those that have questions.
Robert Neely
4/21/2019
This course is quite good, and as Terrence points out below, contains real world examples of the consequences of rejecting truth that afflicts our culture today.
Bobby McCain
2/18/2019
Daniel Kingsford Esso
4/24/2018
I want to enroll. How do I go about it, and is it at a cost? Give me feed backJD
7/27/2017
Terence Gillespie
6/20/2017
The example @Allan Paul is referring to is given when discussing man's inherent knowledge of good and evil. Bobby cites Ann Lander's response to a man who wrote to her asking what was wrong with sleeping with his sister (since it didn't seem to hurt anyone). Ann's response is an appropriate "Sick, sick, sick". To describe this example as "offensive" does nothing more than prove Bobby's point. If this example earns AP101 an X-rating then, by the same reasoning, don't let your kids read the Bible (which would earn a XXX-rating under such a rating system).allan paul
12/1/2016
Buyer warning ! Mr Conway uses an example to support his point in Segment 8 'Consequences of Rejecting the Truth' from a old newspaper column of Ann Landers that is truly vulgar, repugnant and offensive. Mr. Conway, could you find no other example to support your point that you would have to reach into the sewer for this example? It certainly detracts from your teaching and in my opinion earns that segment an "X-rating". It is truly a distracting and offensive example and buyers should be alerted to it being present in the presentation. I did not finish the course because I find it difficult to sit under the teaching of someone who can so easily exercise such poor judgment in choosing support examples. Kind of like treading thru a field of land mines! I found this a waste of money and time but a good teaching lesson for me to vet the teacher before buying the course. Allan L Paul, MD
