Apologetics

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.

• GB433 - Part One

• GB434 - Part Two

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.

• GB1407 - Part One

• GB1408 - Part Two

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.

• GB1492 - Part One

• GB1493 - Part Two

GB217 ASM4 Part One

GB218 ASM4 Part Two

GB1080 Worldviews in Collision

GB1081 The Certainty of Christianity

GB1082a The Futility of Unbelief

GB1082b The Futility of Unbelief (con't)

GB1084 Self-Deception - Romans 1

GB1085 Apologetics Conference Q & A

GB704 Worldviews in Collision - Part One

GB705 Worldviews in Collision - Part Two

GB1096 ASP5 Part One

GB1097 ASP5 Part Two

GB1482 Amoebas, Apes and Adam

GB1483 The Muslim Menace and Message

GB1484 A Tremendously Trustworthy Text

GB1485 Miracles and Modern Thought

GB1486 The Problem of Pain, Suffering and Evil

GB1487 The Mushy Mindedness of a Quasi-Atheist

GB1488 Questions and Answers

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.

1. GB1470 - Seminar Themes

2. GB1471 - Influences, Inaccuracies

3. GB1472 - Terms, Burden of Proof

4. GB1473 - Weak Thesis & Understanding

5. GB1474 - Biases, Non-rationality

6. GB1475 - Misses Transcendental Challenge

7. GB1476 - Transcendental Failure

8. GB1477 - Transcendental Failure (cont.)

9. GB1478 - Transcendental Failure (cont.)

10. GB1479a - Faith and Reason

11. GB1479b - Faith and Reason (con't)

12. GB1480a - Evidences

13. GB1480b - Evidences (con't)

14. GB1481- The Attempted Refutations of Theism

GB938 ASW3 Part One

GB939 ASW3 Part Two

GB940 ASW4 Questions and Answers

GB995 ASW Part One

GB996 ASW Part Two

GB997 ASW Part Three

GB1428 Introduction

GB1429 Answering Fools Without Becoming One

GB1430 The Toothpaste Proof of God's Existence

GB1431 Christianity in a League of Its Own

GB1398 Worldviews in Collision - Part 1

GB1399 Worldviews in Collision - Part 2

GB1400 Atheists & Other Fools

GB1401 Evolution: No More Monkey Business - Part 1

GB1402 Evolution: No More Monkey Business - Part 2

GB1403 How to Deal With Your Obstinate Brother-in-Law

GB1404 The Myth of Neutrality & Christian Education

GB1405 Questions & Answers

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)

GB1012 ASR Part One

GB1013 ASR Part Two

GB1014 ASR Part Three

GB1049 Is Evolution Scientific?

GB1050 Can Theistic Evolution Save the Theory?

GB248 Is the Problem of Evil Problematic?

GB249 Is God Good?

GB250 How to Defend the Faith in the Face of Evil

GB1780 ASA3 Part One

GB1781 ASA3 Part Two

GB733 Should We Reason?

GB734 How Should We Reason? - Part 1

GB735 How Should We Reason? - Part 2

GB1424 ASW2 Part One

GB1425 ASW2 Part Two

GB521 The Aim of Apologetics

GB522 Approach to Atheism

GB523 How to Argue With Atheists

GB524 How to Argue With Non-Atheists

GB1356a Check List of Defects in Unbelieving Arguments

GB1356b Check List of Defects in Unbelieving Arguments (con't)

GB1357a Inconsistencies in Unbelieving Reasoning: Preface to Theistic Proof

GB1357b Inconsistencies in Unbelieving Reasoning: Preface to Theistic Proof (con't)

GB1358a Objective Proof of God's Existence: Evolution Refuted

GB1358b Objective Proof of God's Existence: Evolution Refuted (con't)

GB1359a Evil Not a Disproof: False Religions and Cults

GB1359b Evil Not a Disproof: False Religions and Cults (con't)

GB1360a Islam: Why the Christian Version of Theism? Objections: Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian

GB1360b Islam: Why the Christian Version of Theism? Objections: Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian

GB949 ASB Part One

GB950 ASB Part Two

GB951 ASB Part Three

GB1410 What Does It Mean?

GB1411 How to Discern & Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews - Part 1

GB1412 How to Discern & Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews - Part 2

GB1413 How to Discern & Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews - Part 3

GB1414 Personal and Public Applications

GB1415 Questions & Answers

GB1730 With Good Reason

GB1731 The Facts Don't Speak for Themselves

GB1732 Hasn't God Made Foolish the Wisdom of This World?

GB1457 Profound Differences Between the Traditional & Presuppositional Methods - part 1

GB1458 Profound Differences Between the Traditional & Presuppositional Methods - part 2

GB1459 Reply to Frame's Criticisms of Van Til - part 1

GB1460 Reply to Frame's Criticisms of Van Til - part 2

GB804 Foundations I

GB805 Foundations II

GB806 Foundations III

GB808 Foundations IV

GB810 Foundations V

GB813 Foundations VI

GB814 Foundations VII

GB817 Foundations VIII

GB820 Foundations IX

GB821 Methods I

GB822 Methods II

GB826 Methods III - part 1

GB828 Methods III - part 2

GB830 Methods IV

GB833a Methods V

GB833b Methods VI

GB834a Methods VII

GB834b Methods VIII

GB838 Methods IX

GB839 Methods X (Hinduism)

GB840 Methods XI (Buddhism)

GB841 Methods XII (Islam)

GB842 Methods XIII (Mormonism)

GB843 Methods XIV (Unification Church)

GB844 Methods XV

GB845 Methods XVI

GB846 Methods XVII

GB853 Conditions for Success I

GB854 Conditions for Success II

GB857 Conditions for Success III

GB858 Conditions for Success IV

GB1818a Four Types of Proof

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)

GB1820a Kant in Context

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

GB1825 Apologetical Transcendental Argument

GB1826 Back to Basics

GB1827 Van Til's Critics: Hoover, Dooyeweerd, Frame

GB1812 Van Til's Distinctive Presuppositional Apologetic

GB1813 The Self-Deception of Unbelievers

GB1814 Van Til's Legacy and Critics

RW1815 Van Til the Man (Roger Wagner)

RW1816 Van Til and the Critique of Culture (Roger Wagner)

RB1817 The Lifestyle of the Apologist (Randy Booth)

GB1789 Did Van Til Follow Kuyper or Warfield?

GB1790 Van Til and Clark: A Friendly Analysis

GB1791 Van Til and the Copernican Revolution in Apologetics

GB558        The Christian Mind

GB559        A Reasoned Defense

GB560        The Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel

GB561        Humble Boldness

GB581        The Place of Evidence in Apologetics—part I

GB1024      Facts Don’t Speak for Themselves

GB582        The Place of Evidence in Apologetics—part II

GB214        Bahnsen/Sproul—part I

GB215        Bahnsen/Sproul—part II

GB216a        Comparison of Two Apologetic Systems a

GB216b       Comparison of Two Apologetic Systems b

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)

GB1015      The Myth of Neutrality

GB1016      Worldviews: Questions & Answers

GB1017      Worldviews in Conflict

GB1018      The Defense of the Faith—part I

GB1019      Questions & Answers

GB1020 Defense of the Faith - part II

GB1021 Problems for Unbelieving Worldviews

GB1838      Apologetics Doesn’t Mean Saying “I’m Sorry”

GB1839      Unbelievers Intellectually “Cook the Books”

GB1840      Hasn’t God Made Foolish the Wisdom of This World?

GB1841      Questions and Answers

GB206        Biblical Considerations

GB207        Biblical Considerations

GB208        Philosophical Considerations

GB209        Philosophical Considerations

GB210        Van Til and G. Clark

GB211        Van Til and G. Clark

GB212        Van Til and J. W. Montgomery

GB213a       Van Til and J. W. Montgomery

GB213b       Sproul and Schaeffer Previewed

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) 

GB1420      The Essence of Presuppositionalism

GB1421      The Essence of Presuppositionalism

GB1422       Kuyper, Warfield, Dooyeweerd, Schaeffer

GB1423      Theistic Proof & Evidences 

GB1763      ASV5 Part One

GB1764      ASV5 Part Two

GB1765      Paul on Mars Hill

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

GB1870      Kuyper & Warfield

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

GB1878      Answering the Problem of Religious Language

GB1879      Answering Evolution

GB1880      Answering Islam 

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

MB131a The Apologetical Side of Epistemology

MB132 Presuppositional Argument & Conclusion

MB200 Introduction

MB201 Introduction (cont)

MB202 Thomism

MB203 Common Sense

MB204 Princeton Apologetics

MB205 Wittgensteinian Fideism

MB206 Scientific Models

MB207 Clark & Intro. to Reformed Epistemology

MB208 Plantinga

MB209 Biblical Epistemology

MB210 Biblical Epistemology (cont)

MB100 Introduction

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

MB106 Science and Theology

MB107 Definition of Science - part 1

MB108 Definition of Science - part 2

MB109 Overton's Decision

MB110 Overton's Definition

MB111 Logical Positivism - part 1

MB112 Logical Positivism - part 2

MB113 Quine/Kuhn

MB114 Kuhn

MB115 Realism

MB116 Positivism/Pragmatism

MB117 The Scientific Method

MB118 Limits of Science

MB119 Presuppositions

MB120 Presuppositions of Science

MB121 Christian Approach to Science

VT124             The Conflict in History

VT125             The Conflict in Philosophy

VT126             The Conflict in Theology