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This course aims to help the student examine fundamental questions on the nature of the universe and human participation in it. Particular stress is placed on the answers offered by great thinkers through the ages. These answers are evaluated rationally, and in the light of Biblical revelation, in order to understand the principles of a Biblical worldview in comparison and contrast with other world views. This course will help you learn to articulate a reasoned defense of the philosophical foundations of a Biblical worldview.

A survey and critique of various current schools of theological thought that have contributed to the decline of the Biblical perspective in today's world, together with a vigorous call to return to the theology of the New Testament and the Reformation.

For eight years, Dr. Montgomery's Sunday evening call-in radio show in Southern California featured a "Legal Loon Award" for nutty (or appalling) religious ideas and practices. Here is a selection of the best of those awards

An examination of the basis and justification for war crimes trials, including international law and the rule of law, while protecting the rights of the individual and the desire to achieve a common good. Two lectures.

Centuries ago St. Paul stated the issue succinctly: "If Christ was not raised from the dead, then neither our preaching nor your faith has any meaning at all" (1 Cor. 15:14, Phillips). Dr. Montgomery presents the case for the historicity of the resurrection and the reliability of the New Testament accounts of the resurrection. Dr. Grabbe, dean of the Theology Department at the University of Hull, argues that very little is known or knowable about what may have happened.

Dr. Montgomery served as director of studies at the prestigious International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, for three years. For 13 years he has integrated biblical theology and human rights through a summer program in Strasbourg. Learn why only a serious biblical theology can supply the foundations for human rights in our world.

In 1987, Dr. Montgomery delivered the annual Pascal Lectures at the University of Waterloo. In clear, precise, and easy-to-understand language, he details why the inter-relationship between human rights and Christian theology is so critical. He explains why the justification for human rights can be founded only on a revelation that transcends human knowledge. He then provides reasons why Christians, on the basis of that revelation, should be keenly interested and active in human rights issues.

Dr. Montgomery's historic decimation of death-of-god theology in debate with Thomas J.J. Altizer at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, February 24, 1967.

Reveille Scholar Lectures: In 1970 Dr. Montgomery was the visiting Reveille Scholar at the University of California - San Diego. This set is comprised of the series of lectures in which he developed a Christian approach to the study of the philosophy of history. Where is History Going?: A critique of secular philosophers of history such as Marx, Spengler, and Toynbee, and presentation of a Christian philosophy of history.

A condensed version of Defending the Biblical Gospel and Sensible Christianity, with additional material on cults and other religions (Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Islam, and eastern religions).

The contribution of the third person of the Trinity to apologetic activity in evangelism and missions.

Many claim to have been drawn to the Christian faith by charismatic prophecy or by the prophetic-eschatological themes in such popular works as The Last Days of the Late, Great Planet Earth. This recording examines in what sense and to what degree scriptural prophecies have legitimate apologetic value and how they can be used properly in the contemporary defense of the faith.

An evaluation of the current state of Evangelicalism.

Whose Life Is It Anyway? An examination of legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide. November 1997. Issues in Health Care: Rights of the Unborn This lecture is based on the prize-winning essay "The Rights of Unborn Children", in which the legal protection offered to the unborn in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States are compared. The ethical implications of the law are examined.

A survey and critique of the eschatological aspects of non-Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic thinkers - Altizer and the "Death of God", de Chardin and "Process Theology", and Moltmann and "Theology of Hope".

An introductory lecture on jurisprudence (philosophy of law) delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta on March 26, 1993.

On February 5, 1969, Drs. Montgomery and Steen were invited to the campus of DePaul University to debate the question "is there a supreme being - someone above me - who knows me, who watches out for me, who can help me, who is my guarantee of eternal life; or is man on his own in this universe?" Julian J. Steen was dean of the Chicago School for Adults and a well-known American humanist.

Too often, contrasting styles of evangelical apologetics are discussed solely within the Christian context. In this recording the relative merits of presuppositionalism and evidentialism are evaluated by seeing their application to the argument for the Muslim view of Jesus.

An introduction to Albert Schweitzer's (1875 -1965) life and thought, especially as it relates to the quest for the historical Jesus.

How do we find God in a senseless world where we are overloaded with information and technology, distraught by the futility of politics and are constantly being controlled by the machines of progress? In a world obsessed with power and control, many are finding the inner peace we all seek by taking a step back instead of "forward" to identify with nature and common sense, back to the Garden of Eden in a sense. God has a far deeper and more personal meaning beyond the increasing complications of world religions and the rapid "progress" that mankind claims to be experiencing.