In this thrilling two-part episode of The Apologetics Podcast, Garrick and Timothy go back to the future.
Or, perhaps more precisely, they go back to the second century for the sake of the future.
In the book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, theologian Carl Trueman points out that the church's challenges of the second century A.D. provide one possible precedent for the struggles that Christians are facing in the present era. With that in mind, Garrick and Timothy travel back in time to see what contemporary Christians might learn from a second-century apologist named Aristides of Athens. It's basically like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, except without the whole debacle in the shopping mall. In this first episode of Garrick and Timothy's excellent adventure, your intrepid cohosts learn how ancient Christians did radical civic good without bowing to the civic gods.
The Raiders of Church History segment is the softest and weakest battle so far in this season. Basically, it consists of a silk flag being flopped against a piece of rope that was once the property of a monk. Along the way, Garrick mentions "elf spots." No one knows exactly what an elf spot is, but everyone agrees that "Elf Spot" would be a great name for an acoustic emo band that wears medieval outfits and plays music at Renaissance fairs.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTSTimothy Paul Jones, Ph.D., is C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He teaches in the areas of family ministry and applied apologetics. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including Why Should I Trust the Bible?, The God Who Goes Before You, Perspectives on Family Ministry, In Church as It Is in Heaven, and Christian History Made Easy.
Garrick Bailey is a Ph.D. student in systematic theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, studying Herman Bavinck and Roman Catholicism under the supervision of Gregg Allison.
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Every Christian Is an Apologist Now (Part 2), with Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey
How Bible Literacy Equips the Church to Defend the Faith, with Jen Wilkin
How to Be an Apologist without Being a Jerk, with Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey
Resurrection-Centered Apologetics, with Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey
How to Know God Exists, with Josh McDowell
Apatheism, Mormonism, and Theological Shoegazing, with Kyle Beshears
Huey Lewis and the News: The Holy Trinity and “The Power of Love”
Abortion, Apologetics, and the End of Roe v. Wade, with Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones
What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words? with Michael Kruger
Doubt, Deconstruction, and an Apologetic of Kindness, with Keith Plummer
Did the Council of Nicaea Choose the Books of the Bible? with Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones
How the Life of the Church Defends the Truth of the Faith, with Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones
Metallica (Part 2): The Problem of Evil, the Power of Shame, and ”The God That Failed”
Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and ”The God That Failed”
Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture, with Dan Kimball
What Could We Know About Jesus If Every Bible in the World Disappeared? with J. Warner Wallace
Who Really Wrote the Gospels? with Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey
Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Why the New Testament Can Be Trusted
Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Good Times with the End Times and Eschatology (Part 2) + “Accelerate” (R.E.M.)
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