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Course · Tony T. Yarber

Urban Apologetics

Engaging the Questions Our Communities Are Actually Asking

LISTEN → LOCATE → UNCOVER → RESPOND → CHRIST

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Apologetics is faithful Christian witness under the lordship of Christ. It requires more than winning arguments. It requires listening carefully, identifying the real question, understanding the assumptions and experiences beneath it, answering truthfully, and bringing the conversation toward Jesus without caricature, fear, or defensiveness.

Module 1

What Is Apologetics For?

Apologetics is not Christian combativeness. It is faithful witness: giving a reasoned response for Christian hope while remaining under the lordship, character, and mission of Christ.

  1. Lesson 1Defense Without Defensiveness
  2. Lesson 2Truth, Love, and the Witness of Christ
  3. Lesson 3Understanding the Question Behind the Question

Module 2

Can We Trust the Bible?

The Bible came to us through real authors, historical communities, manuscripts, copying, translation, and canon recognition. Honest history is not the enemy of confidence in Scripture.

  1. Lesson 1Where Did the Bible Come From?
  2. Lesson 2Manuscripts, Transmission, and Translation
  3. Lesson 3Contradictions, Difficult Texts, and Honest Questions

Module 3

Is Christianity a White Man’s

Christianity did not originate as a European religion, yet Christians and Christian institutions later participated in colonialism, racial slavery, segregation, and oppression. Faithful apologetics tells both truths.

  1. Lesson 1Christianity Before Colonialism
  2. Lesson 2Africa and the Early Christian Story
  3. Lesson 3Slavery, Segregation, and the Misuse of Scripture

Module 4

Jesus, Race, and Identity

Jesus entered history as a real Jewish man within a particular people and culture. Ethnicity matters, but no racial identity is allowed to become the controlling lens through which Christ is reconstructed.

  1. Lesson 1What Did Jesus Look Like—and Does It Matter?
  2. Lesson 2Biblical Identity and Ethnic Identity
  3. Lesson 3When Race Becomes Theology

Module 5

Competing Religious Claims

Christians live among competing claims about God, Scripture, identity, revelation, salvation, and Jesus. Faithful apologetics represents those claims fairly and evaluates them biblically, historically, and Christocentrically.

  1. Lesson 1Hebrew Israelite Claims
  2. Lesson 2Islam and the Identity of Jesus
  3. Lesson 3African Spirituality and Ancestral Religious Claims

Module 6

Christianity, Power, and Culture

The gospel speaks to public life, justice, power, and culture, but Christianity cannot be reduced to any political party, ideology, nation, movement, or cultural agenda.

  1. Lesson 1Faith and Politics
  2. Lesson 2Justice, Oppression, and the Gospel
  3. Lesson 3When Culture Begins Interpreting Christ

Module 7

Answering Hard Questions

Some objections are intellectual; others emerge from grief, betrayal, moral tension, or competing truth claims. Faithful apologetics listens, answers honestly, admits limits, and keeps returning to Christ.

  1. Lesson 1Why Does God Allow Suffering?
  2. Lesson 2What About Hypocrisy in the Church?
  3. Lesson 3Why Jesus? Why Not Simply Believe in God?

Final step · Capstone

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