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Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., Denver Seminary

Introductory Lecture

Audio (26 minutes)

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Nature of Apologetics, 1

Audio (1 hour, 21 minutes)

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Nature of Apologetics, 2

Audio (38 minutes)

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Developing an Apologetic Mind, 1

Audio (1 hour, 10 minutes)

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Developing an Apologetic Mind, 2

Audio (1 hour, 14 minutes)

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Worldviews, Truth, and Knowledge, 1

Audio (1 hour, 15 minutes)

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Worldviews, Truth, and Knowledge, 2

Audio (57 minutes)

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Truth and Knowledge

Audio (50 minutes)

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Conventionalism

Audio (14 minutes)

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Testing Worldviews

Audio (47 minutes)

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Natural Theology

Audio (26 minutes)

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Atheism

Audio (24 minutes)

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Cosmological Arguments, 1

Audio (38 minutes)

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Cosmological Arguments, 2

Audio (34 minutes)

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Cosmological Arguments, 3

Audio (53 minutes)

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Design Arguments, 1

Audio (51 minutes)

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Design Arguments, 2

Audio (41 minutes)

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Design Arguments, 3

Audio (52 minutes)

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Design Arguments, 4

Audio (39 minutes)

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God and Moral Meaning, 1

Audio (40 minutes)

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God and Moral Meaning, 2

Audio (29 minutes)

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God and Moral Meaning, 3

Audio (43 minutes)

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Argument from Religious Experience

Audio (40 minutes)

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Question and Answers

Audio (20 minutes)

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Pascal's Wager

Audio (56 minutes)

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Miracles, 1

Audio (44 minutes)

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Miracles, 2

Audio (37 minutes)

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Reliability of the New Testament, 1

Audio (43 minutes)

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Reliability of the New Testament, 2

Audio (35 minutes)

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Reliability of the New Testament, 3

Audio (46 minutes)

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Apologetic Role Playing

Audio (43 minutes)

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Claims of Jesus and Resurrection

Audio (39 minutes)

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Easternism and New Age, 1

Audio (29 minutes)

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Easternism and New Age, 2

Audio (1 hour)

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Easternism and New Age, 3

Audio (44 minutes)

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Testimony on New Age

Audio (32 minutes)

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Religious Pluralism and Exclusivism

Audio (1 hour, 6 minutes)

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Islam, 1

Audio (36 minutes)

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Islam, 2

Audio (28 minutes)

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Brief Comments on the Medium of Video

Audio (10 minutes)

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Intelligent Design and Science, 1

Audio (53 minutes)

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Intelligent Design and Science, 2 (Closing Comments)

Audio (15 minutes)

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God and the Problem of Evil, 1

Audio (56 minutes)

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God and the Problem of Evil, 2

Audio (1 hour, 12 minutes)

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Additional Readings Pertinent to the Lectures: 

No Doubt About it. Winfried Corduan (Nashville, TN: Broadman, Holman, 1997)  Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism. Douglas Groothuis (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000) 

On Jesus. Douglas Groothuis (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003; published June 2002) 

Confronting the New Age. Douglas Groothuis (InterVarsity, 1988) 

Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity. J.P. Moreland (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987) 

The Universe Next Door, 4th edition. James Sire (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004)

Other Pertinent Works:

The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel: Issues & Commentary. Craig L. Blomberg (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001) The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. Craig L. Blomberg (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987)

Breaking the Da Vinci Code:  Answers to the Questions Everybody's Asking. Darrell L. Bock (Nashville, TN:  Nelson Books, 2004)

The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities. Darrell L. Bock (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2006)

Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods. Darrell L. Bock (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002)

The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? F.F. Bruce (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981)

What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. Richard A. Burridge (Dearborn, MI: Eerdmans, 2004)

Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan. Paul Copan, ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998)

Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Craig A. Evans (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006)

The Canon Debate. Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders, eds. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002)

The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Bruce M. Metzger (Oxford University Press, 1997)

Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus. Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland, eds. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995)

Judas and the Gospel of Jesus: Have We Missed the Truth about Christianity? N.T. Wright (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006)