AP120 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics I: Foundations
Overview
Dr. K. Scott Oliphint begins with the basics—what is covenantal apologetics and why do it? What is the basis for defending the Bible’s truths? He provides examples from the Old and New Testaments, and uses the doctrines of Scripture, God, man, and salvation as a biblical warrant for apologetics. Throughout the course, Dr. Oliphint focuses on humanity’s covenant relationship with God in all things.
Top Highlights
“First of all, the relationship of God to His creation and His creatures made in His image was a relationship initiated by God alone and is a result of His kindness and mercy. It is important to understand that prior to the entrance of sin Adam and Eve could commune with God in the garden without the need of a redemptive mediator.” (source)
“When the battle is being waged, when defense is taking place, when apologetics is being done, it is the Lord who is fighting. And it is the Lord Himself who is always and everywhere present with His people, in order to defend His own glory.” (source)
“A covenant might be an agreement between two equal parties, but that notion would not apply to the covenantal relationship of God to man. The covenant in view in Scripture is a covenant between a lord and his servants. In that sense it does not imply mutual agreement, but rather it is a covenant unilaterally initiated by the Lord, with conditions and obligations placed on both sides.” (source)
“So the wilderness is the place wherein we drink from the spiritual rock but is also the place wherein unbelief is overthrown.” (source)
“that God’s revelation is the principium cognoscendi, which means ‘foundation or source of knowledge.’” (source)
- Title: AP120 Introducing Covenantal Apologetics I: Foundations
- Author: K. Scott Oliphint
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Apologetics; Reformed Church › Doctrines; Education › Apologetics; Education › Reformed Church--Doctrines
- Resource ID: LLS:AP120OLIPHINT
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:02:50Z
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.