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For training in Christian doctrine and apologetics, check out Christian philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig's Defenders 3 curriculum. It covers the below topics and much more. The curriculum is available via video, audio or transcripts on his website.

I downloaded the PDF files of the transcripts for each series and created spiral bound booklets by using an online service called printMe1.com

You simply upload the PDF file for each section of the curriculum to the printMe1.com website and they will mail you a spiral bound booklet. I use these booklets to study the material and also teach it to my family every night. If you would like copies of the PDF files I've created then feel free to contact me through this website.

 

FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

Foundations of Christian Doctrine (Part 1): Why Study Christian Doctrine?

Foundations of Christian Doctrine (Part 2): Why Study Christian Apologetics?

 

DOCTRINE OF REVELATION

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 1): Introduction to General Revelation

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 2): Can General Revelation Lead to Salvation?

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 3): Relationship of General Revelation to Natural Theology

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 4): The Inspiration of Scripture

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 5): The Properties of Inspiration

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 6): How Can Inspiration Be Plenary, Verbal, and Confluent?

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 7): The Authority of Scripture & Defining Inerrancy

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 8): The Difficulties of Biblical Inerrancy

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 9): Responding to the Difficulties of Biblical Inerrancy

Doctrine of Revelation (Part 10): Canonicity

 

DOCTRINE OF GOD: ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

Doctrine of God (Part 1): An Introduction

Doctrine of God (Part 2): Divine Aseity

Doctrine of God (Part 3): Platonism

Doctrine of God (Part 4): Anti-Realism Views

Doctrine of God (Part 5): God’s Eternity

Doctrine of God (Part 6): God’s Relationship to Time

Doctrine of God (Part 7): Practical Application of God’s Eternity

Doctrine of God (Part 8): God’s Omnipresence

Doctrine of God (Part 9): God’s Immutability

Doctrine of God (Part 10): God’s Immutability and Incorporeality

Doctrine of God (Part 11): Anthropomorphic Language and Theophanies

Doctrine of God (Part 12): Practical Application of God’s Incorporeality | God’s Omniscience

Doctrine of God (Part 13): Systematic Study of God’s Omniscience

Doctrine of God (Part 14): Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

Doctrine of God (Part 15): God’s Middle Knowledge

Doctrine of God (Part 16): Practical Application of Divine Omniscience / God’s Omnipotence

Doctrine of God (Part 17): Practical Application of Divine Omnipotence

Doctrine of God (Part 18): God’s Holiness

Doctrine of God (Part 19): Application of God’s Holiness

Doctrine of God (Part 20): God’s Love

Doctrine of God (Part 21): Application of God’s Love

 

EXCURSUS ON NATURAL THEOLOGY

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 1): Belief In God As Properly Basic

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 2): The Inner Witness of the Holy Spirit

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 3): The Role of Arguments and Evidence

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 4): Defeaters of Properly Basic Beliefs

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 5): The Argument from Contingency

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 6): The Argument from Contingency Part 2

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 7): The Argument from Contingency Part 3

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 8): The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 9): 1st Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 10): 2nd Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 11): Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 12): Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe Part 2

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 13): 2nd Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 14): The Teleological Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 15): The Teleological Argument Part 2

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 16): The Teleological Argument Part 3

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 17): The Teleological Argument Part 4

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 18): The Moral Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 19): Questions About the Moral Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 20): The Moral Argument Part 3

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 21): The Moral Argument Part 4

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 22): The Moral Argument Part 5

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 23): The Ontological Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 24): The Ontological Argument Part 2

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 25): Q&A on the Ontological Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 26): The Ontological Argument

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 27): Arguments Against God’s Existence

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 28): The Presumption of Atheism

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 29): The Hiddenness of God

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 30): The Problem of Evil and Suffering (1)

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 31): The Problem of Evil and Suffering (2)

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 32): The Problem of Evil and Suffering (3)

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 33): The Problem of Evil and Suffering (4)

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 34): The Emotional Version of the Problem of Evil

 

DOCTRINE OF GOD: TRINITY

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 1): There Is One God

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 2): Three Distinct Persons in the Godhead

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 3): The Deity of Christ

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 4): The Holy Spirit

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 5): The Historical Survey

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 6): Historical Survey (2) | Modalism

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 7): Historical Survey (3) | Arianism

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 8): Historical Survey (4) | Coherence of the Doctrine

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 9): Three Divine Persons, One God

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 10): The Relationship Between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Doctrine of God: Trinity (Part 11): A Plausibility Argument for the Trinity

 

DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (part 1): Third Person of the Trinity

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (part 2): Ministries of the Holy Spirit

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (part 3): The Holy Spirit In the Old Covenant

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Part 4): The Holy Spirit In the New Covenant

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Part 5): The Baptism In the Holy Spirit

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Part 6): The Filling of the Holy Spirit

 

DOCTRINE OF CHRIST

Doctrine of Christ (Part 1): The Incarnation

Doctrine of Christ (Part 2): The Incarnation (2)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 3): The Incarnation (3)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 4): The Incarnation (4)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 5): The Incarnation (5)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 6): The Incarnation (6)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 7): The Incarnation (7)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 8): The Work of Christ (1) - Christ’s Death and Atonement

Doctrine of Christ (Part 9): The Work of Christ (2) - Propitiatory Sacrifices

Doctrine of Christ (Part 10): The Work of Christ (3) - Christ as Sacrifice

Doctrine of Christ (Part 11): The Work of Christ (4) - Divine Justice

Doctrine of Christ (Part 12): The Work of Christ (5) - Divine Justice (2)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 13): The Work of Christ (6) - Redemption

Doctrine of Christ (Part 14): The Ransom Theory (7)

Doctrine of Christ (Part 15): The Work of Christ (8) - Satisfaction Theory

Doctrine of Christ (Part 16): The Work of Christ (9) - Moral Influence Theory

Doctrine of Christ (Part 17): The Work of Christ (10) - Penal Substitution Theory

Doctrine of Christ (Part 18): The Work of Christ (11) - Atonement, Doctrinal Reflection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 19): The Work of Christ (12) - Atonement, Doctrinal Reflection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 20): The Work of Christ (13) - Atonement, Doctrinal Reflection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 21): The Work of Christ (14) - Atonement, Doctrinal Reflection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 22): The Work of Christ (15) - Atonement, Satisfaction of Divine Justice

Doctrine of Christ (Part 23): The Work of Christ (16) - Atonement, Satisfaction of Divine Justice

Doctrine of Christ (Part 24): The Work of Christ (17) - Atonement, Redemption

Doctrine of Christ (Part 25): The Work of Christ (18) - The Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 26): The Work of Christ (19) - The Resurrection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 27): The Work of Christ (20) - The Resurrection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 28): The Work of Christ (21) - The Resurrection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 29): The Work of Christ (22) - The Resurrection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 30): The Work of Christ (23) - The Resurrection Continued

Doctrine of Christ (Part 31): The Work of Christ (24) - The Post-Mortem Appearances

Doctrine of Christ (Part 32): The Work of Christ (25) - The Post-Mortem Appearances

Doctrine of Christ (Part 33): The Work of Christ (26) - Resurrection Theories

Doctrine of Christ (Part 34): The Work of Christ (27) - Resurrection Theories

Doctrine of Christ (Part 35): The Work of Christ (28) - Resurrection Theories

Doctrine of Christ (Part 36): The Work of Christ (29) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 37): The Work of Christ (30) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 38): The Work of Christ (31) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 39): The Work of Christ (32) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 40): The Work of Christ (33) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 41): The Work of Christ (34) - Facts of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Christ (Part 42): The Work of Christ (35) - Resurrection Hypotheses

Doctrine of Christ (Part 43): The Work of Christ (36) - Resurrection Hypotheses

Doctrine of Christ (Part 44): The Work of Christ (37) - Resurrection Hypotheses

Doctrine of Christ (Part 45): The Work of Christ (38) - The Resurrection Hypothesis

Doctrine of Christ (Part 46): The Work of Christ (39) - The Resurrection Conclusion

Doctrine of Christ (Part 47): The Work of Christ (40) - Christian Particularism

Doctrine of Christ (Part 48): The Work of Christ (41) - Christian Particularism

Doctrine of Christ (Part 49): The Work of Christ (42) - Christian Particularism

Doctrine of Christ (Part 50): The Work of Christ (43) - Christian Particularism

Doctrine of Christ (Part 51): The Work of Christ (44) - Christian Particularism, Conclusion

 

DOCTRINE OF CREATION

Doctrine of Creation (Part 1): Creatio Ex Nihilo

Doctrine of Creation (Part 2): Does Genesis 1 Teach Creatio Ex Nihilo?

Doctrine of Creation (Part 3): Creatio ex Nihilo in the New Testament

Doctrine of Creation (Part 4): The Notion of “Bringing Something Into Being”

Doctrine of Creation (Part 5): Arguments for creatio ex nihilo

Doctrine of Creation (Part 6): Objections to creatio ex nihilo

Doctrine of Creation (Part 7): More Objections to creatio ex nihilo

Doctrine of Creation (Part 8): Continuing Conservation

Doctrine of Creation (Part 9): Divine Concurrence

Doctrine of Creation (Part 10): Different Views of Divine Providence

Doctrine of Creation (Part 11): A Critical Assessment of Three Views of Divine Providence

Doctrine of Creation (Part 12): Arminian And Molinist Accounts of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom

Doctrine of Creation (Part 13): The Collapse of the Belief in Miracles

Doctrine of Creation (Part 14): Arguments Against Miracles

Doctrine of Creation (Part 15): The Definition of “Miracle”

Doctrine of Creation (Part 16): Rebutting Spinoza’s Objections to Miracles

Doctrine of Creation (Part 17): Hume’s Abject Failure

Doctrine of Creation (Part 18): Determining the Intrinsic Probability of the Resurrection

Doctrine of Creation (Part 19): Angels and Demons

Doctrine of Creation (Part 20): The Work of Angels

Doctrine of Creation (Part 21): The Names of Satan

Doctrine of Creation (Part 22): The Origin of Satan

Doctrine of Creation (Part 23): The Nature of Demons

Doctrine of Creation (Part 24): The Work of Demons

 

EXCURSUS ON CREATION OF LIFE AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 1): Hermeneutical Principles and Concordism

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 2): The Literal Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 3): A Critique of the Literal Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 4): The Gap and Day-Gap Interpretations

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 5): The Day-Age Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 6): The Days of Divine Proclamation Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 7): The Literary Framework and the Functional Creation Interpretations

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 8): A Critique of John Walton’s Functional Creation Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 9): A Critique of John Walton’s Functional Creation Interpretation, Part 2

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 10): The Monotheistic Hebrew Myth Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 11): An Assessment of the Monotheistic Hebrew Myth Interpretation

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 12): Examining the Supposed Parallels Between Genesis and Egyptian Myths

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 13): Did Genesis Borrow From Babylonian Myths?

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 14): Etiological Motifs in Genesis 2

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 15): Genealogies in Genesis 1-11

Excursusion Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 16): Genealogies in Genesis 1-11 (continued)

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 17): The Genre of Mytho-History

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 18): Is the Biblical Primeval History To Be Understood as Literally True?

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 19): The Plasticity and Flexibility of ANE Myths

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 20): Why Think Genesis 1-11 is Mytho-History?

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 21): Why Read Genesis 1-3 Figuratively?

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 22): The Central Truths Expressed in Genesis 1-11

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 23): Adam in the New Testament

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 24): New Testament Authors’ Use of the Literary Adam

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 25): Paul’s Use of Adam in 1 Corinthians 15

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 26): Paul’s Use of Adam in Romans 5

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 27): Scientific Evidence Pertinent to the Origin and Evolution of Biological Complexity

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 28): Is Genesis 1 in Conflict With the Theory of Evolution?

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 29): Methodological Naturalism

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 30): Three Aspects of the Evolutionary Paradigm

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 31): Examining the Thesis of Common Ancestry

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 32): Evidence for the Neo-Darwinian Mechanisms

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 33): Inadequacies of the Neo-Darwinian Mechanisms

Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 34): Progressive Creationism – Integrating the Scientific Evidence with the Genesis Narrative

 

DOCTRINE OF MAN

Doctrine of Man (Part 1): Different Approaches to Anthropology: Different Approaches to Anthropology

Doctrine of Man (Part 2): Biblical Data Concerning Man as the Image of God

Doctrine of Man (Part 3): Systematizing the Biblical Data

Doctrine of Man (Part 4): Evaluating Construals of the Image of God

Doctrine of Man (Part 5): Man as a Personal Being

Doctrine of Man (Part 6): The Nature of Man – Biblical Data

Doctrine of Man (Part 7): Paul’s Use of the Anthropological Terms Sarks and Psyche

Doctrine of Man (Part 8): Systematizing the Biblical Data Concerning the Nature of Man

Doctrine of Man (Part 9): Refuting Materialism / Monism

Doctrine of Man (Part 10): Refuting Reductive and Non-Reductive Physicalism

Doctrine of Man (Part 11): A Challenge to Dualism-Interactionism – The Libet Experiments

Doctrine of Man (Part 12): The Origin of the Soul

Doctrine of Man (Part 13): The Question of the Historicity of Adam and Eve

Doctrine of Man (Part 14): When Did Adam Live?

Doctrine of Man (Part 15): Were Neanderthals Humans?

Doctrine of Man (Part 16): Locating the Historical Adam

Doctrine of Man (Part 17): Genetic Challenges to Adam and Eve

Doctrine of Man (Part 18): Putting It All Together

Doctrine of Man (Part 19): Man as Sinner

Doctrine of Man (Part 20): The Fall of Man and the Nature of Sin

Doctrine of Man (Part 21): Evaluating the Nature of Sin

Doctrine of Man (Part 22): Original Sin

Doctrine of Man (Part 23): Original Sin: Semi-Pelagianism, Reformation, Enlightenment, Modern Era

Doctrine of Man (Part 24): Evaluating the Doctrine of Original Sin

Doctrine of Man (Part 25): A Continued Evaluation of Original Sin

Doctrine of Man (Part 26): Freedom of the Will

Doctrine of Man (Part 27): The Catholic View of Freedom of the Will

Doctrine of Man (Part 28): Freedom of the Will and Romans 10

 

DOCTRINE OF SALVATION

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 1): The Doctrine of Election

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 2): Election and Calvinism Continued

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 3): Regeneration and Arminianism

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 4): Arminianism Continued

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 5): Evaluation of Calvinism and Arminianism

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 6): The Mystical Union of the Believer with Christ

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 7): The Mystical Union with Christ - Continued

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 8): Metaphors for Mystical Union

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 9): Application of Mystical Union to Our Lives

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 10): Regeneration / New Birth

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 11): How Regeneration Occurs

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 12): Different Views of Justification

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 13): Assessment of Competing Views of Justification

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 14): The New Perspective on Paul

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 15): New Perspective on Paul Continued

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 16): Imputed Righteousness

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 17): The Grounds, Means, and Results of Justification

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 18): Perseverance of the Saints - Calvinism

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 19): Perseverance of the Saints - Arminianism

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 20): Warnings Against Apostasy

Doctrine of Salvation (Part 21): Assessment of the Competing Views on Perseverance

 

DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH

Doctrine of the Church (Part 1): Introduction

Doctrine of the Church (Part 2): Baptism

Doctrine of the Church (Part 3): Baptism as a Sacrament

Doctrine of the Church (Part 4): Baptism as an Ordinance

Doctrine of the Church (Part 5): Baptism as an Ordinance - Continued

Doctrine of the Church (Part 6): Infant Baptism

Doctrine of the Church (Part 7): Believer’s Baptism

Doctrine of the Church (Part 8): The Lord’s Supper

Doctrine of the Church (Part 9): Transubstantiation

Doctrine of the Church (Part 10): The Lord’s Supper - Roman Catholic Interpretation cont’d

Doctrine of the Church (Part 11): Consubstantiation and Other Views

Doctrine of the Church (Part 12): Assessment of Competing Views on the Lord’s Supper

 

DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 1): The Second Coming of Christ

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 2): The Rapture Interpretation

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 3): The Rapture Interpretation Continued

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 4): The Rapture Interpretation Concluded

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 5): The Preterist Interpretation

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 6): The Preterist Interpretation Continued

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 7): The Nature of the Second Coming

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 8): The Purpose of the Second Coming

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 9): The Time of the Second Coming

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 10): Delay of the Parousia

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 11): Delay of the Parousia Continued

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 12): Parables of the Delay of the Parousia

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 13): Final Thoughts on the Time of the Second Coming

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 14): Practical Application of the Second Coming of Christ

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 15): The Millenium

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 16): Postmillennialism & Premillennialism

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 17): State of the Soul after Death

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 18): State of the Soul after Death: Jesus’ Argument with the Sadducees

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 19): Immortality in the New Testament

Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 20): The Souls of the Unrighteous Dead

 

FINAL THOUGHTS

Final Thoughts (Part 1): The Purpose of Defenders

Final Thoughts (Part 2): The Diligence of a Disciple

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