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Saturday, Feb 14, 2009

I have planned an ultimate defense of Christianity. It will consist of roughly 60 blogs. I plan on making a series of youtube videos and facebook vids in which I will read the scripts for a more widespread audience

Jake's Ultimate Defense

Of Christianity

I: Christian Philosophy

A: Epistemology

1: What is knowledge?

2: Foundationalism

3: Skepticism

4: Evolutionary Argument against naturalism

5: Religious Epistemology/warrant without evidence

B: Metaphysics

1: Defense of the existence of properties

2: Arguments for mind/body dualism

3: Alternatives to Mind/body dualism

4: Free will, determinism, and compatibilism

5: Personal Identity

F: Philosophy of science

1: What is science?

2: Scientific realism vs. Antirealism

3: Science and Theology

4: Philosophy of time

D: Ethics

1: Moral objectivity vs. moral subjectivity

2: Defense of Deontological and Virtue ethics

E: Philosophy of Religion

1: Arguments for the existence of God

a: Cosmological arguments

b: Teleological argument

c: Moral argument

d: Ontological arguments

2: Coherence of Theism

a: Necessity

b: Aseity

c: Incorporeality

d: Omnipresense

e: Eternity

f: Omniscience

g: Simplicity

h: Immutability

i: Omnipotence

k: Goodness

3: The Problem of Evil

4: Providence

II: The Historical Reliability of the Old Testament

A: The Hebrew Kings

B: Exile

C: Saul, David, and Solomon

D: Canaanite Conquest and the Exodus

E: The Patriachs

F: The Prophets

III: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

A: Textual Criticism and the Gospels

B: Authorship of the Gospels

1: Matthew

2:Mark

3: Luke

4: John

C: Dating the Gospels

D: The Transmission of the Gospel Traditions

1: Papias' testimony

2: Palestinian Jewish names and Names in the Gospel traditions

3: The Twelve disciples and Inclusio

4: Formal transmission of the Gospel traditions

E: Gospel Communities

F: The Relationship between Paul and Jesus

IV: The Resurrection of Jesus

A: Regarding miracles

B: Historical knowledge

C: Pagan and Jewish beliefs about the Resurrection

D: The nature of the Resurrection in early Christian literature

E: The Resurrection and Pauline Theology

1: The Resurrection outside of Corinth

2: The Resurrection in Corinthians 15

F: The Empty tomb of Jesus

1: The Actual evidence

2: Explaining the empty tomb

G: The Appearances of Christ

1: The appearances

2: Explaining the appearances

H: The Necessity of explaining the origin of the Christian faith

Category: Religion
Posted by danwallacefan, 5:18pm
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Sounds great Jake, I'd better start following your blogs a little more closely from now on.
Posted Feb 21, 2009 3:30 am PT
I can't wait to see you battle it out on Youtube.

BTW, how come you decided to leave The Atheism Union?
Posted Feb 21, 2009 5:11 am PT
Hmm, I'm interested to see his "defense" of body-mind dualism...
Posted May 2, 2009 9:04 pm PT
Yeah. Lets see how it goes, shall we?
Posted Jun 10, 2009 7:44 am PT
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