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This is the famous formal debate between Dr. Bahnsen and atheist promoter Dr. Gordon Stein held at the University of California (Irvine) in 1985. Hear how hard it is to deny God's existence and how intellectually rigorous the Christian position really is.
This formal debate between Dr. Bahnsen and atheist lawyer (former ACLU) Edward Tabash at the University of California (Davis), is a great follow-up to the Bahnsen/Stein debate. Witness again how and atheist fails to wrestle with fundamental philosophical issues.
Dr. Bahnsen and atheist scholar Dr. Michael Martin were scheduled to debate the truth of Christian theism at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Two weeks before the scheduled debate, citing his opposition to having the debate recorded for public distribution, Dr. Martin declined to debate. Dr. Bahnsen traveled to Memphis anyway and presented a lecture on atheism, exposing the weakness of Dr. Martin's published attack on Christian theism.
GB1273 Faith Not Contrary to Reason
GB1274 Facts Don't Speak for Themselves & a Self-Conscious Christian Worldview
GB1275 Neutrality and Worldviews
GB1276 Dualistic & Religious Worldviews (1)
GB1277 Dualistic & Religious Worldviews (2)
GB1278 Biblical Imitations and Cults
GB1279 Unbelieving Presuppositions Don't Comport with Each Other
Dr. Bahnsen takes apologetics beyond the "theory" of defending the faith and places one of the leading, philosophically competent antagonists to Christian theism "under the microscope" for detailed analysis and refutation. Dr. Michael Martin (philosophy professor at Boston University) has published two very hard-hitting books against the faith: "Atheism: A Philosophical Justification", and "The Case Against Christianity". In this 1994 SCCCS Summer Seminar Dr. Bahnsen walks students through a presuppositional analysis of Martin's methods, prejudices and ineffective attacks.
GB1052 Comparison and History of Apologetic Systems
GB1053 Comparison and History of Apologetic Systems
GB1054 Neutrality, Antithesis, Revelational Epistemology
GB1055 Neutrality, Antithesis, Revelational Epistemology
GB1056 Method for Defending the Faith
GB1057 Method for Defending the Faith
GB1058 Method for Defending the Faith
GB1059 Method for Defending the Faith
GB1060 Philosophical Issues: Objectivity, Necessity, Certainty, Dialectical Tension
GB1061 Philosophical Issues: Objectivity, Necessity, Certainty, Dialectical Tension
GB1062 Presuppositional Method and the Transcendental Challenge
GB1063 Presuppositional Method and the Transcendental Challenge
GB1064 Critique of Evidentialism and the Traditional Method
GB1065 Critique of Evidentialism and the Traditional Method
GB1066 Application & Illustration of Method (Discussion of the Bahnsen/Stein Debate)
GB1067 Application & Illustration of Method (Discussion of the Bahnsen/Stein Debate)
GB1068 Success & Practice in Apologetics (illustration continued)
GB1069 Success & Practice in Apologetics (illustration continued)
GB1818b Four Types of Proof (con't)
GB1819a Van Til's: Why I Believe in God
GB1819b Van Til's: Why I Believe in God (con't)
GB1820b Kant in Context (con't)
MB1821a Contemporary Transcendental Arguments - part 1 (Michael Butler)
MB1821b Contemporary Transcendental Arguments - part 1 (Michael Butler) (con't)
MB1822a Contemporary Transcendental Arguments - part 2 (Michael Butler)
MB1822b Contemporary Transcendental Arguments - part 1 (Michael Butler) (con't)
GB1823a Summary of Transcendental Arguments - part 1a
GB1823b Summary of Transcendental Arguments - part 1b
GB1824 Summary of Transcendental Arguments - part 2
GB1052 Comparison and History of Apologetic Systems
GB1053 Comparison and History of Apologetic Systems
GB1054 Neutrality, Antithesis, Revelational Epistemology
GB1055 Neutrality, Antithesis, Revelational Epistemology
GB1056 Method for Defending the Faith Antithesis Mars Hill
GB1057 Method for Defending the Faith Antithesis Mars Hill 2
GB1058 Method for Defending the Faith Four Things
GB1059 Method for Defending the Faith Evidence for the Bible
GB1060 Philosophical Issues: Objectivity, Necessity, Certainty, Dialectical Tension
GB1061 Philosophical Issues: Objectivity, Necessity, Certainty, Dialectical Tension
GB1062 Presuppositional Method and the Transcendental Challenge
GB1063 Presuppositional Method and the Transcendental Challenge
GB1064 Critique of Evidentialism and the Traditional Method
GB1065 Critique of Evidentialism and the Traditional Method
GB1066 Application & Illustration of Method (Discussion of the Bahnsen/Stein Debate)
GB1067 Application & Illustration of Method (Discussion of the Bahnsen/Stein Debate)
GB1068 Success & Practice in Apologetics (illustration continued)
GB1069 Success & Practice in Apologetics (illustration continued)
GB1186 Van Til’s Life and Career
GB1187 Van Til’s Conception of Apologetics (Kuyper, Dooyeweerd, Schaeffer)
GB1188 Van Til’s Conception of Apologetics (Warfield)
GB1189 Van Til’s Publications (Apologetics in the Theological Encyclopedia)
GB1190 Survey of Christian Epistemology (Transcendental Argumentation)
GB1191 Survey of Christian Epistemology (Neutrality)
GB1192 Survey of Christian Epistemology (Plato; God’s Incomprehensibility)
GB1193 Survey of Christian Epistemology (God’s Incomprehensibility; Worldview)
GB1194 Christian Theistic Evidences: Pamphlets (Why I Believe in God, etc.)
GB1195 Pamphlets (Intellectual Challenge, “Paul at Athens” Defense of the Faith)
GB1851 The Historical & Biblical Usage of The Term Apologetics
GB1852 Biblical Warrant & Need for Apologetics
GB1853 Apologetics’ Relationship to Other Fields—part I
GB1854 Apologetics’ Relationship to Other Fields—part II
GB1855 Apologetic Argumentation
GB1856 Apologetics From the Second Century to the Present
GB1857 Revelational Epistemology
GB1858 Impossibility, Immorality and Robbery of Neutrality
GB1859 Foolishness of Unbelief
GB1860 Presuppositional Argumentation
GB1861 Acts 17: Paul’s Great Example
GB1862 Antithesis & Self-Attestation of Scripture
GB1863 Worldview Issues—part I
GB1864 Worldview Issues—part II
GB1865 Epistemological Issues: Knowledge—part I
GB1866 Epistemological Issues: Knowledge—part II
GB1867 Epistemological Issues: Foundationalists & Certainty
GB1868 Empiricism & Revisionary Immunity
GB1869 The Greatness of Divine Wisdom
GB1871 Natural Theology & Theistic Proofs
GB1872 Evidences & Evidentialism
GB1873 A Checklist for Reasoning With Unbelievers—part I
GB1874 A Checklist for Reasoning With Unbelievers—part II
GB1875 Classification of Worldviews
GB1876 Two Theoretical Problems With Presuppositionalism
GB1877 Answering Frame’s Critique of Presuppositionalism
MB122 Van Til as a Synthetic Thinker
MB123 Van Til as a Seminal Thinker
MB124 Ultimate Commitment, Epistemology
MB125 Impossibility of the Contrary
MB126 Van Til & Critics, Clark
MB127 Nature & Necessity of Apologetics
MB128 A Simple Summary & Illustration
MB129a The Epistemological Side of Apologetics
MB129b The Epistemological Side of Apologetics
MB130 Epistemology (cont.) - Self Deception
MB131a The Apologetical Side of Epistemology
MB101 What is Philosophy - part 1
MB102 What is Philosophy - part 2
MB103 History of Science - part 1
MB104 History of Science - part 2
MB105 History of Science - part 3
MB107 Definition of Science - part 1
MB108 Definition of Science - part 2
MB111 Logical Positivism - part 1
MB112 Logical Positivism - part 2