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HIST/REL 492
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS
LECTURE TRANCRIPTS



Part One: Early Christian Apolgetics (Dulles, pp. 1-89)

Introduction: quo vadis?
Gospel truth (selections from Matthew, Luke, John, and Acts)
Though its portion be the scaffold (Socrates, Justin Martyr)
Athens and Jerusalem (Tatian, Theophilus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Minucius Felix)
Teach your children well (Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Eusebius)/Getting it write (paper advice)

Part Two: Medieval and Reformation Apologetics (Dulles, pp. 91-144)

A tale of two cities (Augustine and the problems of the earthly church)
Smart as an ox (Anselm, Abelard, and Aquinas)
Back to the very beginning  (Wycliffe, Huss, Calvin, and Luther )
The heart has its reasons  (Pascal and Locke)
Getting it write again

Part Three: Modern Apologetics (Dulles, pp. 209-269)


Who gets it? Naturally! (Butler, Paley, and the victory of reason in England, America and France)
One ugly ditch (From Lessing to Sartre)
I have an inkling (Chesterton, Lewis, Tolkien)