IDC16 Apologetics

  In writing the Introduction to the Five Views on Apologetics , Stephen B. Cowan, the General Editor of the book focused on what he thought to be the best way to classify various schools of apologetic methodology. He acknowledged that contributors to this book would not agree with him using “argumentative strategy” as the way to answer the question on taxonomy. After sharing his brief journey in apologetics from being an evidentialist to classical and giving a concise definition of apologetics and description of its twofold tasks, he then proceeded to discuss his “tentative taxonomy of apologetic methods” (p. 14).     Personal Journey, Definition and Description of Apologetic Tasks His journey in apologetics started with “Paul Little’s little book, Know Why You Believe , and Josh McDowell’s Evidence That Demands a Verdict ” (p. 8). From these two books, he jumped “into Sproul, Gerstner, and Lindsley’s Classical Apologetics” (ibid.). He said that this latter boo...

This coming week, the IDC16 Apologetics class of PTS College & Advanced Studies will officially start. Online learning in the new normal is very challenging. The instructor has to model creativity to his students. And so in preparing for my class syllabus, I revised my previous syllabus for this course for that was designed prior to the pandemic.  One major struggles that we encountered in online learning is the way to assess learning outcomes. After the last semester concluded, the administration conducted a survey among the faculty and the student body. Unfortunately, the number of those who responded to that survey was so small, and therefore in terms of reliability, we could not really get the actual picture of what is going on in the mind of our stakeholders. It's very difficult to proceed in online learning without precisely identifying the obstacles. Someone said that it is only now that people have begun to realize the impact of both the pandemic and the lockdown. And s...