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Systematic Theology: William Lane Craig's Defenders' Podcast and Transcripts

Defenders Podcast "Defenders is Dr. Craig's Sunday school class on Christian doctrine and apologetics." Available as podcasts and (partial) transcripts.

Complete List of Lectures (listed below)

Foundations of Christian Doctrine
Part 1 What is Christian Doctrine?
Part 2 Why Study Christian Apologetics?
Doctrine of Revelation
Part 1 Introduction to General Revelation
Part 2 Functions of General Revelation
Part 3 Introduction to Special Revelation
Part 4 Theories of Inspiration
Part 5 Translations and Biblical Inerrancy Defined
Part 6 A Closer Look at the Chicago Statement
Part 7 Difficulties and Defense of Biblical Inerrancy
Part 8 Canonicity
Doctrine of God
Part 1 The Infinite-Personal God
Part 2 Infinite: Self-Existence
Part 3 How Christian Theology Determines a Divine Attribute
Part 4 Infinite: Eternity
Part 5 God's Eternity and His Relationship to Time
Part 6 Questions on God's Relationship to Time
Part 7 Application of God's Eternality
Part 8 Infinite: Omnipresence
Part 9 Application of God's Omnipresence
Part 10 Infinite: Immutability
Part 11 Personal: Incorporeality
Part 12 Personal – Intellectual: Omniscience
Part 13 Omniscience Defined
Part 14 Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Part 15 Middle Knowledge
Part 16 Personal – Volitional: Omnipotence
Part 17 Paradoxes and Application of Omnipotence
Part 18 Personal – Moral: Holiness
Part 19 Application of God's Holiness
Part 20 Personal: God's Love
Existence of God
Part 1 Contingency Argument
Part 2 Necessity and Contingency
Part 3 Objection: Universe Is Exempt
Part 4 Objection: Universe Exists Necessarily
Part 5 Objection: Universe Is Contingent But It Is Necessary That Something Exist
Part 6 Kalam Cosmological Argument
Part 7 The Universe Began to Exist: First Philosophical Argument
Part 8 The Universe Began to Exist: Second Philosophical Argument
Part 9 The Universe Began to Exist: First Scientific Confirmation
Part 10 Big Bang Cosmology
Part 11 The Universe Began to Exist: Second Scientific Confirmation
Part 12 Attempts to Avoid the Beginning of the Universe
Part 13 If the Universe Has a Cause… A Conceptual Analysis
Part 14 Teleological Argument
Part 15 Fine-Tuning Due to Physical Necessity?
Part 16 Fine-Tuning Due to Chance?
Part 17 Anthropic Principle
Part 18 Who Designed The Designer?
Part 19 Moral Argument
Part 20 Objective Human Value on Naturalism / Euthyphro Dilemma
Part 21 Atheistic Moral Platonism
Part 22 Objection: Socio-Biological Evolution
Part 23 Ontological Argument
Part 24 The Ontological Argument Examined
Part 25 Defending Premise One of the Ontological Argument
Part 26 Properly Basic Belief In God
Part 27 Biblical Data Pertinent to the Witness of the Holy Spirit
Part 28 Role of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Unbeliever
Part 29 Defeaters and Christian Belief
Part 30 What About Other Faiths and Their Claim of Religious Experience?
Part 31 Problem of Suffering and Evil
Part 32 Problem of Suffering and Evil: Logical Version
Part 33 Problem of Suffering and Evil: Probabilistic Version
Part 34 Given the Full Scope of the Evidence, God’s Existence is Probable
Part 35 Problem of Suffering and Evil: The Emotional Problem of Evil
Doctrine of the Trinity
Part 1 There is One God
Part 2 Three Distinct Persons in the Godhead
Part 3 The Deity of Christ
Part 4 The Holy Spirit
Part 5 Historical Survey of the Doctrine
Part 6 Arianism and the Council of Nicaea
Part 7 Coherence of the Doctrine
Part 8 A Possible Model of the Trinity
Doctrine of Christ
Part 1 The Person, Deity and Humanity of Christ
Part 2 Alexandrian Christology (Monophysitism)
Part 3 Antiochean Christology (Dyophysitism)
Part 4 Council of Chalcedon
Part 5 Kenotic Christology and A Possible Model of the Incarnation
Part 6 The Logos was the Rational Soul of Jesus
Part 7 The Divine Aspects of Jesus Were Subconscious
Part 8 Questions on the Incarnation of Christ
Part 9 The Work of Christ – His Death and Atonement
Part 10 Christ's Death is an Expiation and Propitiation
Part 11 Theories of Atonement 1
Part 12 Theories of Atonement 2
Part 13 Assessment of the Theories of Atonement
Part 14 The Work of Christ – His Resurrection
Part 15 Historical Survey of Various Theories of the Resurrection
Part 16 Assessing the Different Theories of the Resurrection 1
Part 17 Assessing the Different Theories of the Resurrection 2
Part 18 Historicity of the Resurrection: The Burial of Jesus
Part 19 Historicity of the Resurrection: The Empty Tomb
Part 20 Historicity of the Resurrection: The Postmortem Appearances of Jesus
Part 21 Historicity of the Resurrection: The Disciples’ Belief in the Resurrection
Part 22 Best Explanation of the Facts of the Resurrection
Part 23 Objections to the Resurrection Hypothesis
Part 24 The Probability of the Resurrection Hypothesis
Part 25 Is Christ the Only Way of Salvation?
Part 26 The Demise of the Exclusivity of Salvation Through Christ
Part 27 Religious Pluralism
Part 28 The Fate of Unbelievers
Part 29 The Fate of Those that Never Hear the Gospel
Part 30 Why Didn’t God Create a Different World?
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Part 1 Third Person of the Trinity
Part 2 Relation to Christ
Part 3 Presence of the Holy Spirit in the Old and New Covenant
Part 4 Permanent Presence in the Believer
Part 5 Baptism and the Fullness of the Holy Spirit
Doctrine of Creation
Part 1 Creatio ex nihilo
Part 2 Genesis 1
Part 3 Affirmation of Creatio ex nihilo In New Testament
Part 4 Systematic Summary of Scriptural Data
Part 5 Problems With a Tenseless View of Time
Part 6 Conservation and the Tensed Theory of Time
Part 7 God’s Existing Timelessly sans Creation
Part 8 Concurrence and Providence
Part 9 Calvinism, Arminianism, and Molinism
Part 10 Calvinism and Universal Divine Causal Determinism
Part 11 Arminianism and Molinism
Part 12 An Objection to Molinism
Part 13 Ordinary Providence and Extraordinary Providence
Part 14 God's Special Providential Acts: Miracles
Part 15 The Attack on Miracles
Part 16 The Defense of Miracles
Part 17 Contra Spinoza
Part 18 Contra Hume 1
Part 19 Contra Hume 2
Part 20 Nature of Angels
Part 21 Questions on Angels
Part 22 Work of Angels
Part 23 Satan and the Demons
Part 24 Origin of Satan and Nature of Demons
Part 25 Nature of Demons Continued
Part 26 Christian Response to Demons
Creation and Evolution
Part 1 Interpretation of Genesis 1
Part 2 Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1
Part 3 Summary of Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1
Part 4 Gap Interpretation
Part 5 Day-Gap and Day-Age Interpretation
Part 6 Revelation-Day and Literary Framework Interpretation
Part 7 Functional Creation Interpretation 1
Part 8 Functional Creation Interpretation 2
Part 9 Functional Creation Interpretation 3
Part 10 Functional Creation Interpretation 4
Part 11 Hebrew Myth Interpretation of Genesis 1
Part 12 Summary and Implications of Different Interpretations
Part 13 Compatibility of Biblical Theism with Evolutionary Biology
Part 14 Random Mutations
Part 15 Methodological Naturalism
Part 16 Origin of Life
Part 17 Evolution of Biological Complexity
Part 18 Common Ancestry
Part 19 Mechanisms of Biological Evolution
Part 20 Theological Synthesis
Part 21 Putting It All Together
Doctrine of Man
Part 1 Man as the Image of God
Part 2 Image and Likeness
Part 3 Nature of Man
Part 4 Paul’s Anthropological Terms
Part 5 Dualism-Interactionism 1
Part 6 Intermediate State Between Death and Resurrection
Part 7 Theological Consequences of Denying the Soul
Part 8 Why Not Physicalism?
Part 9 Origin of the Soul
Part 10 Doctrine of the Fall
Part 11 Challenges to the Existence of the Historical Adam
Part 12 Defending the Traditional Doctrine of the Fall
Part 13 Nature of Sin
Part 14 Original Sin
Part 15 Attempts to Systematize Data on Original Sin
Part 16 Freedom of the Will
Part 17 Evaluating Views of Appropriating God's Grace and Salvation
Doctrine of Salvation
Part 1 Doctrine of Election from a Calvinist Perspective
Part 2 Calvinist Perspective on Calling and Regeneration
Part 3 Arminianism
Part 4 Evaluation of Calvinism and Arminianism
Part 5: The Mystical Union of the Believer with Christ
Part 6: The Mystical Union of the Believer with Christ Part 2
Part 7 Regeneration (New Birth)
Part 8 Regeneration (New Birth) Part 2
Part 9 Justification (Catholic View)
Part 10 Justification (The New Perspective View)
Part 11 Imputed Righteousness
Part 12 The Grounds, Means, and Results of Justification
Part 13 Perseverance of the Saints (Calvinism)
Part 14 Perseverance of the Saints (Arminianism)
Part 15 Assessment of the Competing Views on Perseverance
Doctrine of the Church
Part 1 Baptism
Part 2 Baptism as a Sacrament
Part 3 Baptism as an Ordinance
Part 4 Infant Baptism
Part 5 The Lord's Supper (Biblical Data)
Part 6 Catholic and Lutheran View of the Lord's Supper
Part 7 Reformed View of the Lord's Supper
Doctrine of the Last Things
Part 1 The Second Return of Christ (Biblical Data)
Part 2 The Rapture View, Part 1
Part 3 The Rapture View, Part 2
Part 4 Preterism
Part 5 Nature of the Second Coming
Part 6 Purpose, Time, and Delay of the Second Coming
Part 7 Contextual Ambiguity Regarding the Delay of the Parousia
Part 8 Caution about Date of the Second Coming
Part 9 Practical Application of the Second Coming of Christ / The Millennium
Part 10 Views on the Millennium
Part 11 State of the Soul after Death and the Biblical Position
Part 12 State of the Soul after Death in the New Testament
Part 13 The Character of a Disciple of Christ
Part 14 The Character Qualities of Christians

Resources on The Trinity

Answering-Islam on the Trinity. A full page of links, including patristic and RC sources.

Showdown at Nicea: the victory that failed An historical sketch -- chapter from a book.

William Lane Craig Defender's Series - Doctrine of God: Trinity Series of 8 podcasts with transcripts

"How Important Is the Doctrine of the Trinity?" April 29, 2013 by Roger E. Olson. A contemporary take on the topic.