The Academy of the Faithful

Cultural Apologetics Course Content

Unit 1: Introduction

1. What is cultural Apologetics?
2. Understanding second level philosophy
3. 2nd level philosophy illustration ( SOAD’s song: Lonliness)
4. 2nd level philosophy illustration (Hindi movie: Life Mein Kabhi Kabhi)
5. 2nd level philosophy illustration (Advertisement)
6. Taking Theology to the movies
7. Engaging with cultural products

Unit 2: Understanding the context

1. Wake up! The World has changed

Unit 3: Storykeepers and cultural engagement

1. Story Keepers in an Information Age (Part 1)
2. Luke’s best seller
3. Jesus’s engagement with urban culture
4. Paul’s blogs
5. Paul’s cultural apologetics
6. Paul’s speaks the gospel in a pluralistic setting
7. All truth is God’s truth: Paul’s use of secular poems 
8. Paul’s e-group discipleship
9. John and religious philosophers of his times
10. Revelation: God’s Sci-Fi narrative
11. God and visual communication
12. All things to all men

Unit 5: Are there rules to live by? – Revisiting Moral Frameworks

1. Are there no right turns?
2. Are there rules to live by (part 1)
3. A reality check!
4. Are there rules to live by (Part 2)
5. Conversations: Are there rules to live by? Discussion based on Gen 39: 1 – 23
6. Audio Lectures online 
7. Re: Search – Further Reading