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11. PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS

Author: Bassam Khoury
How to Uncover Basic Flaws and Hidden Lies in Attacks against the Christian Faith

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION TO APOLOGETICS
1. Apologetics: What is it and what is it not?
2. Common terms
3. What is the aim of apologetics?
4. What do we mean by presuppositional apologetics?
5. Why should we choose presuppositional apologetics over other systems of apologetics?
PART 2 - THE BASIC APPROACH OF PRESUPPOSOTIONAL APOLOGETICS
6. Who is the target of apologetics?
7. How to carry out apologetics
8. Biblical examples of presuppositional apologetics
a) Jesus' use of apologetics
b) Paul's use of apologetics
9. How to approach apologetics
10. Know your audience
11. The importance of presuppositions
12. What is the Christian presupposition?
PART 3 - THE METHOD OF PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS
13. Worldviews in collision
14. How then can we argue?
15. Common misconceptions about presuppositional apologetics
a) Presuppositional apologetics leads to the conclusion that unbelievers don't know anything
b) "Presuppositional apologetics commits the informal fallacy of begging the question, for it advocates presupposing the truth of Christian theism in order to prove Christian theism" (William Lane Craig)
c) Presuppositional apologetics discounts the use of evidence
d) "A Muslim could equally presuppose the truth of the Quran. Unless something outside of the Quran could be used to falsify the Quran, then there would be no way to disprove it. The Christian and the Muslim could only state their beliefs against the other." (Jürgen Habermas)
16. The myth of neutrality and the nature of the conflict
17. The outcome of those things is death (Romans 6:21) = The irreconcilable antithesis between the unbeliever and believer
18. Nowhere to hide (Job 34:22) = The impossibility of being neutral in discussions with unbelievers > Tables (60), which show that there is almost no area of agreement between believers and unbelievers
19. Fools despise wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:7)
20. Intellectual sins
a) Arbitrariness
b) Inconsistency
c) Preconditions of Intelligibility
21. Summary of the method of apologetics
22. The requirements of the apologist
23. The procedure of defending the faith
24. Dealing with false religions = Answering the accusation that presuppositional apologetics is too rational
PART 4 - PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS IN ACTION
25. Worldview apologetics
26. Where is the wise? (1 Corinthians 1:20)
27. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes (Proverbs 21:2) (Types of Worldviews: Materialistic Monism / Dualism / World Religions)
28. Answering the non-religious worldview of materialistic atheism -- SECULARISM
29. Answering the religious worldview of transcendent mysticism -- HINDUISM
30. Answering the religious worldview of immanent moralism -- BUDDHISM
31. Answering the worldview of unitarian biblical counterfeits -- ISLAM
a) The impossibility of the revelation of the Quran
b) The fickleness of Allah
c) Allah sent whom to whom with what?
d) Says Who?
e) A fool by any other name
f) Further examples
32. Answering the worldview of polytheistic biblical counterfeits -- MORMONISM
33. Answering the worldview of pseudo-messianic bibl. counterfeits -- MOONIES
34. Conclusion

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