Mobile Ed: AP121 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics II: Applications (5 hour course)
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Overview
In this follow-up to AP120, Dr. Oliphint turns to the applications of covenantal apologetics for today’s world. He begins with the elements of common grace and God’s mercy, describes the covenantal view of sin and human nature, and offers responses to the most common apologetics issue—the problem of evil. Dr. Oliphint provides ample biblical and theological support throughout.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- Define “common grace” and discuss its three key elements
- Summarize the development of scholarship on worldview
- Discuss the speaker’s definition of “worldview”
- Compare and contrast covenantal apologetics and traditional apologetics
- Explain how various approaches to apologetics deal with the problem of evil
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
- Additional Writings by the Speaker
Unit 1: Common Grace and Apologetics
- Common Grace Defined
- God’s Good Gifts to the Unregenerate, Part 1
- God’s Good Gifts to the Unregenerate, Part 2
- God’s Restraint of Evil, Part 1
- God’s Restraint of Evil, Part 2
- Using Calvin’s Institutesin Logos
- Religious Righteousness of the Unregenerate
- Common Grace and Apologetics
Unit 2: Worldview and Apologetics
- Defining “Worldview”
- The History of the Concept of Worldview
- James Orr
- Surveying James Orr’s Impact on Apologetics
- James Orr on Worldview
- Abraham Kuyper
- Abraham Kuyper’s Notion of Antithesis
- Abraham Kuyper and Apologetics
- Herman Dooyeweerd
- Postmodernism and Worldview
- The Demise of Postmodernism
- A Definition of Worldview, Part 1
- A Definition of Worldview, Part 2
- A Definition of Worldview, Part 3
- A Changed Heart
Unit 3: A Covenantal Apologetic
- Defining Covenantal Apologetics
- Brute Facts
- Covenant Apologetics and Traditional Apologetics
- Natural and Special Revelation
- The Apologist’s Task
- The Starting Point for Apologetics
- The Starting Point for Rationalistic Apologists
- The Starting Point for Covenantal Apologists
- Creating a Clippings File to Record Quotes by Calvin on Apologetics
- Reason, Logic, and God
- Studying Logic in Apologetics by Creating and Searching a Custom Collection
- Logic in the Christian Context
- The Background of the Transcendental Approach
- Kant’s Transcendental Approach
- Transcendental Argumentation
Unit 4: Apologetics Applied to the Problem of Evil
- Stating the Problem
- A History of the Problem of Evil
- Contrasting Two Hebrew Words for Knowledge in Genesis 2–3
- The Free Will Defense, Part 1
- The Free Will Defense, Part 2
- A Response to the Free Will Defense
- The Evidential Problem of Evil
- A Christian Context for the Problem of Evil
Conclusion
- Course Review
Product Details
- Title: AP121 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics II: Applications
- Instructor: K. Scott Oliphint
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2014
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 5
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About Dr. K. Scott Oliphint
Dr. K. Scott Oliphint, PhD, is professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and the author of numerous articles and books, including Is There a Reformed Objection to Natural Theology?: A Review Article, Using Reason by Faith, Bavinck’s Realism, the Logos Principle and Sola Scriptura, Something Much Too Plain to Say, Epistemology and Christian Belief, and Plantinga on Warrant. His books include The Battle Belongs to the Lord, Reasons for Faith, God with Us, and his most recent book, Covenantal Apologetics. He’s also the coeditor of the two-volume Christian Apologetics Past and Present: A Primary Source Reader and Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics.
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Reviews
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Dino
8/11/2025
Oliphint is a clear communicator but relies heavily on Cornelius Van Til. IMO Van Til is one of the least helpful thinkers in the history of Christian philosophy. I wonder if Van Til ever had a meaningful apologetic conversation with a non-Christian or whether he was primarily preaching to the choir of his own fundamentalist bubble. At any rate, I don't think his framework is helping us to cultivate self-criticism or to learn to actually listen to other people. The strict epistemological distinction between covenant keepers and covenant breakers is an overinterpretation of what we find in the Bible. The doctrine of total depravity doesn't imply that people are as evil as they could possibly be. It teaches that all areas of life are affected by sin, though, and that includes the mind of the covenantal apologist. We would do well to remember that Prov 21:2 was directed at God's covenant people (cf. also Rom 12:2). For example, if we acknowledge that it's possible to fall into bibliolatry (and it seems to me that the doctrine of total depravity implies that this is a possibility), we could derive from Rom 1:18-30 that it would have some sort of effect on the thinking of people who have fallen into it, even though their overall status might place them inside the covenant. On the other hand, it's an overinterpretation of Rom 1:18-30 to derive from it that all of a non-Christian's thinking follows a twisted agenda. That's just more than you can read out of that passage with responsible exegesis. Again, IMO this approach is liable to create arrogant "apologists" with an inward focus who are out of touch with their surroundings.