Creedal Apologetics: Learning to Use the Apostles’ Creed to Defend and Proclaim the Christian Faith

by Nancy A. Almodovar

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

The Apostles' Creed was used in two distinct ways by the early Christian church: first, as a tool to teach new disciples the essentials of the faith, and second, as a defense for the faith from unbelievers and skeptics alike. In the world today, many are engaged in apologetics but with their presuppositions and subjective reasoning, they offer the world nothing different than their own subjective beliefs. Using the Apostles' Creed as a guide enables the Christian to give a hope for the faith within using objective truths based on eyewitness testimony.

This book teaches you how to use the Creed to stay on topic and bring out the essentials of the faith in a concise and graceful manner. Dr. Almodovar gives a rubber-hits-the-road approach to apologetics, offering various scenarios to show how Creedal apologetics is accomplished. This simple tool (the Apostles' Creed), once used for defense, is dusted off, polished up, and sharpened so that today's Christians can defend and proclaim the great gospel of Jesus Christ to a world in desperate need of the forgiveness of sins and new life in his name.

Key Features

• Explores the relevance of the Apostle's Creed
• Examines why the Apostle's Creed can help answer an unbeliever's questions about the Christian faith
• Seeks to equip readers to defend and proclaim the Christian faith through the use of the early church creeds

Contents

• Why a "Creedal Apologetic?"
• First Things First
• Creeds in the Bible
• Ancient Creeds
• I Believe in God the Father
• And in Jesus Christ
• Born to Die
• For You
• Why the Resurrection Matters
• The "What Now?"
• Defending and Proclaiming the Faith
• Carpe Diem

Endorsements

Creedal Apologetics is a book desperately needed in today’s confessional churches, both Lutheran and Reformed. It serves as a path to train and teach our laity in a simple and easy way to both share the gospel and defend the faith and advance the cause of Christ in a world in need of Jesus. It resets our subjective and individualist mindset, which is both corrupting and breaking the modern evangelical church, and gives us a path forward into the twenty-first century.

—Aaron Long, pastor at Paul’s Chapel, Lexington, North Carolina

Product Details

• Title: Creedal Apologetics: Learning to Use the Apostles’ Creed to Defend and Proclaim the Christian Faith
• Author: Nancy A. Almodovar
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 151
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Apologetics; Apostles' Creed
• ISBNs: 9781725297593, 9781725297579, 9781725297586, 1725297590, 1725297574, 1725297582
• Resource ID: LLS:CREEDALAPOLOGETICS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-21T16:29:41Z