Apologetics 1: Introducing Christian Apologetics 

Super! Thank you so much for making these more widely available.

Outstanding! Thank you for sharing this series, and I look forward to the next sessions.

Thank you, I’m so grateful for these resources as I’m just starting what will hopefully be a deep dive into apologetics.

Love this lecture. On the ending point about justification where the professor confuses justifying with making excuses. In criminal law and legal theory, the two are distinct and conceptually I find it helpful when thinking about how I’ve been justified by Christ. In legal thought, I am justified even if I do what is illegal if the court accepts the argument that what I did is not morally blameworthy (ie killing in self defense). If I have an excuse, the action is morally blameworthy, but I should not be held to blame because I do not have the capacity to appreciate that I have made a decision that is moral in nature, let alone morally blameworthy. When Paul articulates to us that we are justified by faith, it does not excuse (as in, we still sinned because we were capable of appreciating that we were making a moral choice), but rather, Christ renders our actions functionally morally unblameworthy (because the punishment for them was taken on by Christ- if we had an excuse, no one would have needed to be punished) and therefore us (in that order), because he takes the punishment for our sin now and forever. This also describes how with repentance we can sin and remain forgiven.

Appreciate your lecture. Very useful. Provoking thoughts and guidance towards answers to ultimate questions. Just what we who are created in God's image need.

I often feel I don't find the right words and now I know why! I will study apologetics and looking forward to follow all your lectures. Thank you so much!💐

Thank you so much for teaching and sharing. It was very detailed and apt.

This is super cool! Subscribed and can't wait for the following lectures :) thank you!

Thank you useful for my study of Christian apologetic

super excited for this series, thanks so much

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Thank you so much for make this material in this form. Is there a script available? Thank you for your answer 🙏

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Obrigado por suas obras, doutor Mcgrath ! Um abraço do Brasil 🇧🇷

Thank you for guiding me.

Can you activate the captions in your videos? Your deaf followers would appreciate it! :)

Thank you very much for making apologetic more interesting.

Who engineered the basic process that allows for thought and that allows for instinct. And decision making

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Great video

Thank you so much, this was an excellent start to the course.

Let's be clear Alister. Apologetics doesn't remove barriers to faith. It builds them very efficiently indeed. But you have a job hinging on this, so it's a win win from your perspective isn't it? Quoting Pascal and Popper does nothing to distract from the dishonesty of your mission, by the way.

Did God not commit genocide on more than one occasion? Is there anything that exists in reality that one has to have a field of apologetics for?

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They need a new name. Apologetics comes from the word apologies or apology. Jesus Christ does not need us to apologies on his behalf for his actions. It seems rather defensive.

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I came looking to understand what apologetics is, but all he does is keep using the word without defining it. Pretty useless introduction…

Also called Propagandanists, right?

FYI Christians: The purpose of apologetics is not to convince rational people of the truth of your beliefs, but to postpone you from questioning yours. If you actually try any of this on an informed atheist, you will simply embarrass yourself.