Self-selected Apologetics Argument Thesis and Outline Smith
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Jeffery D. Smith
Make sure you review and understand the assignment instructions and the grading rubric before you attempt to complete any part of this template. Do not change any aspect of this template; and
do not delete anything from it. Instead, type your content in the spaces provided. Before typing your content, you should review the entire template to be sure you understand what is required.
The purpose of this template is to provide you with a few major building blocks that can be
incorporated into your final paper
. In the sections provided below, you will insert your approved thesis statement, you will begin building the foundation for the body of your paper.
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Thesis Statement
Insert a thesis statement that is supported by all three major sections of the paper.
Christianity provides a more coherent and satisfying worldview than pantheism, because it affirms the personal and relational nature of God, the objective reality and moral value of creation, and the historical and salvific significance of Jesus Christ.
The remainder of this form will help you begin working on what will become the first two major sections of your final paper – the analysis and the critique of the worldview you are writing about.
The basic outline for your final paper should follow this structure:
I.
Introduction
II.
Analysis of Aspects of the Opposing Worldview
III.
Critique of Aspects of the Opposing Worldview
IV.
Defense of Christianity
V.
Conclusion
In what follows, you will be crafting the building blocks that will eventually become sections I, II and III in the outline.
2.
Analysis of Aspects of the Opposing Worldview
This section will form the building blocks of what will become the first major section
in the body of your final paper (section II in the outline above)
: Summarize the worldview by using aspects of its presuppositions and beliefs using one sentence per bullet point (revision and/or expansion of these bullet points is required in the next stage of the project). The number of bullet points needed will be determined by your approach to this topic and the quality of your research but at least two are required.
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Bullet point 1: Pantheism is a belief that God and the universe are the same.
Bullet point 2: Pantheism upholds that God is present in all things but is not a conscious being.
Bullet point 3: Pantheism believes that scientific research is used as a method of understanding God.
Pantheism upholds that all paths to God can lead to some sort of knowledge of God. 3.
Critique of Aspects of the Opposing Worldview
This section is focused on helping you build what will become the second major section of the body of your final paper (section III in the outline above)
: Evaluate aspects of your selected worldview described in the previous section in order to show where it fails to provide a rational, livable, comprehensive system.
Bullet point 1: Is the universe capable of creating itself?
Bullet point 2: How can a non-conscious being create other conscious beings?
Bullet point 3: Science attempts to find concrete evidence and origins of events. What happens when events cannot be organized into theories and experiments.
Bullet point 4: How can different and divergent paths/beliefs all lead to the knowledge of the same entity?
4.
Defense of Christianity
This section is focused on helping you build what will become the second major section of the body of your final paper (section IV in the outline above)
: Demonstrate that Christianity is a superior worldview using the critiques above in order to reveal the significant ways in which it has advantages over the selected worldview in providing a rational, livable, comprehensive system.
Bullet point 1: God is the creator of all things, and the creator is distinct from the creation.
Bullet point 2: God is a conscious being that created life and breathed spirit/consciousness into humanity.
Bullet point 3: There is only one pathway to God, and that is through belief in Jesus Christ, and the concept of salvation.
Bullet point 4: God and Christianity cannot be fully explained through scientific research.
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