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Line 9: + + + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − Evidential Apologetics is that style of Christian defense that stresses the miracles found in the Bible, particularly Christ's resurrection, as an evidence for the existence of God and the validity of Christ and His words. It also uses historical evidences to support the veracity of the biblical account(s).+ +
→Types of Christian Apologetics
Great theologians such as [[Origen]], [[Athanasius]], [[Irenaeus]], [[Martyr]], [[Augustine]], and [[Acquinas]] continued the tradition of apologetics on a dramatic scale. At the same time, apologetics was practiced by countless individual Christians, explaining and defending their beliefs.
Great theologians such as [[Origen]], [[Athanasius]], [[Irenaeus]], [[Martyr]], [[Augustine]], and [[Acquinas]] continued the tradition of apologetics on a dramatic scale. At the same time, apologetics was practiced by countless individual Christians, explaining and defending their beliefs.
===Purposes===
Apologetics has generally been used for two purposes: Efforts to ''persuade'' others of the truth of Christianity, and efforts to ''defend'' the reasonableness of one's own beliefs, while not seeking to convince others of their truth.
==Types of Christian Apologetics==
==Types of Christian Apologetics==
===Evidentialist===
===Evidentialist apologetics===
Evidential apologetics seeks to defend Christian belief through [[evidence]]. This can take the form of:
* Arguments based on the historical accounts of the Bible;
* Defense of the historical accuracy of the Bible;
* [[Biblical Archaeology]], seeking to show that the Bible is consistent with the physical evidence;
* [[Creationism]], seeking to show that the creation accounts of the Bible are the most reasonable explanation for life as we know it.
===Philosophical apologetics===
Philosophical apologetics seeks to defend Christian belief through philosophical argument: primarily [[arguments for the existence of God]]. This can take the form of:
* [[Teleological argument]]
* [[Cosmological argument]]
* [[Ontological argument]]
* [[Argument from morality]]
===Presuppositional apologetics===
Presuppositional apologetics seeks to defend Christian belief by showing that belief in Christian precepts is necessary to make sense of the human experience as a whole.
== Christian Apologetics and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ==
== Christian Apologetics and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ==