Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 10): Delay of the Parousia
Did Jesus predict he would return within the lifetime of his first hearers? Some of his sayings seem to say exactly that. Dr. Craig weighs t...
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Defenders is Dr. William Lane Craig's Sunday school class on Christian doctrine and apologetics
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20 of 966 episodesDoctrine of the Last Things (Part 9): The Time of the Second Coming
Did Jesus expect to return within the lifetime of his first hearers? Dr. Craig takes up one of the most debated questions in the doctrine of...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 8): The Purpose of the Second Coming
Why does Christ need to come back at all? Dr. William Lane Craig lays out four purposes Scripture assigns to the Second Coming: it completes...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 7): The Nature of the Second Coming
Having rejected both the Rapture view and the Preterist view in prior lessons, Dr. William Lane Craig lays out the classical Christian posit...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 6): The Preterist Interpretation Continued
Dr. William Lane Craig continues his critique of the preterist view that Christ's "coming" as the Son of Man was fulfilled in the destructio...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 5): The Preterist Interpretation
Continuing the series on the Second Coming, Dr. William Lane Craig examines the Preterist view, the position, defended by scholars including...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 4): The Rapture Interpretation Concluded
Does the New Testament actually teach a secret "rapture" before Jesus' final return — or is that idea being read into the text rather than o...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 3): The Rapture Interpretation Continued
Dr. William Lane Craig continues his examination of the "secret rapture" view, tracing Paul's language about the Lord's coming through 1 and...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 2): The Rapture Interpretation
Continuing the study of the Second Coming, Dr. William Lane Craig examines the popular "rapture" view — the idea that Christ will secretly r...
Doctrine of the Last Things (Part 1): The Second Coming of Christ
Dr. William Lane Craig opens the eschatology unit of Defenders 3 with a study of the Second Coming of Christ. He surveys Old Testament messi...
Doctrine of the Church (Part 12): Assessment of Competing Views on the Lord’s Supper
Dr. William Lane Craig evaluates competing views of the Lord's Supper — transubstantiation, consubstantiation, and the Reformed spiritual-pr...
Doctrine of the Church (Part 11): Consubstantiation and Other Views
Having examined the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation in previous episodes, Dr. Craig now turns to three more views of the Lord's Supp...
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 10): The Lord’s Supper - Roman Catholic Interpretation
Dr. William Lane Craig continues his examination of the Lord's Supper with a deep dive into the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist as...
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 9): Transubstantiation
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 9): Transubstantiation
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 8): The Lord’s Supper
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 8): The Lord’s Supper
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 7): Believer’s Baptism
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 7): Believer’s Baptism
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 6): Infant Baptism
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 6): Infant Baptism
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 5): Baptism as an Ordinance - Continued
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 5): Baptism as an Ordinance - Continued
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 4): Baptism as an Ordinance
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 4): Baptism as an Ordinance
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 3): Baptism as a Sacrament
Defenders: Doctrine of the Church (Part 3): Baptism as a Sacrament