北美中華福音神學院 Christian Apologetics 基督教護教學延伸制 (2 學分 ) 及碩士課程 (3 學分 ) Instructor: Rev. Dr. Chun-Ming FONG 2013 年 11 月 11 ~ 16 日 Location: Vancouver, Canada ----------------------- 一 課程簡介 COURSE DESCRIPTION 很多人對福音不感興趣, 我們怎樣向他們說明福音是重要的呢? 在這情境中, 我們不一定要向他們傳福音, 而是開啟他們對福音的興趣和需要 為了達至這目的, 本課程探索前設式護教法如何運用在實際的處境, 引導人在任何一個傾談的題目中, 認識福音是真理 前設式護教法認為知己知彼, 百戰百勝 若要有效地辯護基督信仰的可信性, 信徒必需首先了解基督徒在 21 世紀面對的各種挑戰, 例如, 世俗化的挑戰 相對主義的挑戰 耶穌復活的挑戰等 另一方面, 信徒要認識基督信仰的內容, 具備適切的態度和辯護的方法 這樣才能有效地回應挑戰 二 課程目的 COURSE OBJECTIVE The purpose of this course is to teach students how to defend their faith in the post-modernism through the use of Presuppositional Apologetics 第一部分 : 新的挑戰 1. 護教學的未來 2. 世俗化的挑戰 : 神在哪裡? 3. 相對主義對年青新一代的挑戰 4. 耶穌復活 : 挑戰與回應 第二部分 : 新的進路 三 大綱 OUTLINE 2013 Christian Apologetics Vancouver CESNA 1
5. 認識神的四種特徵 6. 辯護福音的方法 7. 回到最基本的 : 你對福音的態度是怎樣的? 8. 信心與理性的關係 : 亞伯拉罕的信心 第三部分 : 新的方法 9. 前設式護教學 : 來源 本質與方法 10. 如何運用前設式護教法 11. 護教示範 : 在郵輪上, 與拜偶像的人對話 12. 護教示範 : 在飛機上, 與無神論者對話 四 課程要求 ( 延伸制 )COURSE REQUIREMENTS 1. 課堂參與 (20%) 2. 課堂分組討論測驗 (open book discussion with your partner) (2 times, 40% each) 測驗問題例題 : a. 司布真反對學習護教學的理由是甚麼? 你可以怎樣回應這理據 b. 請解釋為福音辯護時的四個基本前設 c. 請指出前設式護教方法與證據式護教方法的異同 五 課程要求 ( 碩士科 )COURSE REQUIREMENTS 1. 課堂參與 (10%) 2. 課堂分組討論測驗 (open book discussion with your partner) (2 times, 10% each) 測驗問題例題 : a. 司布真反對學習護教學的理由是甚麼? 你可以怎樣回應這理據 b. 請解釋為福音辯護時的四個基本前設 c. 請指出前設式護教方法與證據式護教方法的異同 3. An opened book, take-home exam question. (10%) For example, 奇克果如何解釋信心的主觀看法 有人反對前設式護教方法, 因它是一種循環論證 請說明和評論這觀點 2013 Christian Apologetics Vancouver CESNA 2
4. 書籍評論 知己知彼 : 基督教護教學 克服憂慮 : 基督教與心理學的方法 (30 %) 5. 分組討論 1) In a critical reading you may try to summarize the overall structure of the assigned reading by considering the following questions: The main idea of this book is. In this reading, I discovered that... The most important issue of this book is... The message of the book was... 2) Giving evaluations of what you read. You may ask yourself the 指定書目 following questions. The followings are just examples. It may help you to write a logical and smooth essay. How could this work be considered as a book about Christian apologetics? In what sense? Is this book significant in the field of Christian Apologetics? Thinking about what is talking, but isn t being talked about. This book made me realize What is sufficient and insufficient of this book? Does the message of this book connect to your own life or to what you already know? What is your reaction to the message of this book? What is the next book you think you should pursue, after reading this book? Is this book well supported by biblical or theological ideas? 六 書目 方鎮明 知己知彼 : 基督教護教學 香港 : 浸信會出版社, 2012 年 與神對話 香港 : 浸信會出版社, 2009 年 第 7 章 克服憂慮 : 基督教與心理學的方法 香港 : 浸信會出版社, 2010 年 參考書目 2013 Christian Apologetics Vancouver CESNA 3
約翰 傅瑞姆 (John Frame) 衛道學概論 廖和美譯 台北 : 中華福音神學院出版社, 2001 年 普蘭丁格 基督教信念的知識地位 北京 : 北京大學出版社, 2004 年 Anderson, Owen. Reason and Worldviews; Warfield, Kuyper, Van Til and Plantinga on the Clarity of General Revelation and Function of Apologetics. New York: University Press of America, 2008. Clark, Kelly. Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment, Evidentialism, and Defense of Reason and Belief in God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990. Carlson, Richard F. and Longman, Tremper III. Science, Creation and the Bible: Reconciling Rival Theories of Origin. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP, 2010. Frame, John. Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought. New Jersey: P&R, 1995. McDowell, Sean. Editor. Apologetics for a New Generation: A Biblical and Culturally Relevant Approach to Talking about God. Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2009. McGrath, Alister and McGrath, Joanna Collicutt, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP, 2007.. Science and Religion: An Introduction. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1999. Van Til, Henry R. The Calvinistic Concept of Culture. Rand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001. REFERENCE ( 過去有關的基督教護教的書籍 ) Anselm. Basic Writings : Proslogium. La Salle, IL : Open Court, 1962. Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles (On the Truth of the Catholic Faith). Translated by A. Pegis, V. J. Bourke, J. O Neil. Garden City: Image Books, 1955-57. Augustine, The City of God. In Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 3. Translated by A. W. Haddan. Edited by Philip Schaff. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994. Brown, Colin. Philosophy and the Christian Faith. Calvin, John. The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1. Carson, D. A. The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1996. Gascoigne, Robert M. The History of the Creation: A Christian View of Inorganic and 2013 Christian Apologetics Vancouver CESNA 4
Organic Evolution. Sydney: Wild & Woolley Pty Limited, 1993. Haqopian, David. Editor. The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation. Mission Viejo, Calif.: Crux Press, 2001. Kuyper, Abraham. A. Lectures on Calvinism Long, Jeffrey. Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. New York: HaperOne, 2010. Paley, William. Lectures on Natural Theology. Pascal, Blaise. The Pensees. Plantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Walton, John H., The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the origins Debate. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP, 2009. Warfield, B. B. Faith in its Psychological Aspect. Wells, David. No Place for Truth or Whatever Happens to Evangelical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. 2013 Christian Apologetics Vancouver CESNA 5