Worldview Apologetics
Welcome to Worldview Apologetics
By Daniel Janosik, March 22, 2007
Apologetics for the 21st Century
Greetings! Josh Mcdowell and others have revealed that almost 70% of young people today who have grown up in the church have turned their backs on Christianity by the time they finish college. We cannot afford to have this trend continue. Our children are too precious to us and to God for us to allow that. Therefore, we need to arm them against the onslaught that they may face when they leave home for the “real world.” My desire in this course is to analyze what is false by contrasting it with true biblical Christianity. In this way we will be able to not only avoid the pitfalls ourselves, but we will also be prepared to help others out of the "sinking sand."
Below you will find a chart of the topics that I am planning to cover in the Worldview/Apologetics class for this next year. I am excited about teaching this material and I am excited about the great students that the Lord is sending our way. I believe that this is going to be a significant class in our lives. This is material that students really need to grapple with before they go off to college.
Click on the following link for more details (or use the "Class Syllabus" link above):
http://www.worldviewapologetics.mysite.com/1_column_page.html
1st Quarter: Worldviews James Sire, The Universe Next Door | 3rd Quarter: World Religions Kenneth Boa, Cults, World Religions and the Occult |
Introduction and Overview | Historic Biblical Christianity: The Standard |
Christian Theism | Hinduism |
Deism | Buddhism |
Naturalism | Confucianism |
Nihilism | Origin of Religions |
Existentialism | Shintoism |
Postmodernism | Islam, part 1 |
Eastern Pantheistic Monism | Islam, part 2 |
The New Age, part 1 | Judaism |
2nd Quarter: Apologetics Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith | 4th Quarter: Cults Kenneth Boa, Cults, World Religions and the Occult |
Introduction to Apologetics | Marks of a Cult |
Existence of God; Suffering and Pain | Mormonism, part 1 |
Miracles | Mormonism, part 2 |
Creation vs Evolution, part 1 | Jehovah's Witnesses, part 1 |
Creation vs Evolution, part 2 | Jehovah's Witnesses, part 2 |
Accuracy of the Bible | Bahai |
Uniqueness of Christ | Scientology; Boston Church of Christ |
God as Judge | Witchcraft and Satanism |
Hypocrites; Were the Crusades Christian? | The New Age Movement, part 2 |
Daniel Janosik has been involved in teaching apologetics for over 20 years. He has also taught Bible and science at Ben Lippen for eleven years and at the present time teaches apologetics at Columbia International University.
Daniel received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary. He has also received a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts degree in Islamic Studies from CIU. He is now working on a Ph.D. in theology and apologetics to Muslims at the London School of Theology.
Daniel has been married to Ann for almost 25 years and they have one daughter, Anna, who is a junior in high school.