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18 Cards in this Set
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Justin Martyr
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First Apology, Second Apology: Defended against pagan slander
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Irenaeus
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refuted gnoticism, explained suffering as a necessary part of human growth
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Tertullian
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Christians prove the truth of their faith by their lives. "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
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Origen
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Contra Celsum. Defended the divinity of Christ, resureection, historicity of Bible
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Anthanasius
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Instrumental in recommending books for the canon. Took on Arias at Nicean council who said that Jesus was "tertium quid" a third thing.
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Augustine
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argued the existence of God from the existence of truth, the church is a big enough miracle to prove Christianity is true.
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Anselm
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ontological argument, doctrive of atonement that sees Christ as providing satisfaction for human sin
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Thomas Aquinas
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Summa Contra Gentiles, some truths surpass human understaning, some lie within the grasp of human understanding. The "Five ways" for existence of God as the cause of first things.
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Martin Luther
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Human depravity requires that all knowledge of God is a gift of grace
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John Calvin
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"Sensus divinitatis" an innate sence of God which every person possesses but is corrupted by sin.
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John Locke
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Religious belief must have a rational justification
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Blaise Pascal
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Provided probability for God. Jesus uniquely met human needs
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William Paley
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Telological argument
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Christianity is a way of existing, not a way of thinking. Rational proofs are antithetical to faith. Christianity is true because of its absurdity.
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Karl Barth
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Christian God is "Wholly other", mysterious, cannot be approached using human argument. Authority of the Word of God is foundation for belief.
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Cornelius Van Til
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Defended presuppositionalism. Believers and non-believers have no common ground. Apologetics must be negative, pointing out contradictions that arise from inadequate presuppositions.
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C.S. Lewis
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Added imagination to rational argument. Universal human belonging.
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Alvin Plantinga
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Belief in God is "properly basic" which means that it is a belief which needs no other outside justification from other beliefs. He does address the role of apologetics in "defeaters" such as the existence of evil
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