So i'm doing Jesus and the early church (Matt-Acts) for seminary...And I can write an interpretive topic, so I was thinking 'you know what, I haven't read ANYTHING about Jesus being an apologist...So why not write about the Apologetic Method of Jesus.
I was thinking 'what i'll do is start by writing about Apologetics in general, what it is and it's goal, then I'd talk about Jesus the chief apologist, and then I would go through and extract all the dialogues Jesus had in the Gospels and categorise them into different groups of, for e.g.: (1) Socratic Method (questioning the questioner), (2) Reductio ad Absurdum (3) The A Fortiori Method etc. etc.
THEN - as I started google searching, I found out that Geisler (the president of my seminary, yes I'm at VES) has written a book titled "The APologetics of Jesus" and after a quick survey of the TOC, amongst a wealth of other information, he breaks down the methodology like I was hoping to do...
So, my question is - should I find something else to write about? I mean, if I went ahead with this topic, I wouldn't read Geisler, lest I just become a clone of him...I don't know...I was hoping this might be original, but it seems not...
Thoughts?
I was thinking 'what i'll do is start by writing about Apologetics in general, what it is and it's goal, then I'd talk about Jesus the chief apologist, and then I would go through and extract all the dialogues Jesus had in the Gospels and categorise them into different groups of, for e.g.: (1) Socratic Method (questioning the questioner), (2) Reductio ad Absurdum (3) The A Fortiori Method etc. etc.
THEN - as I started google searching, I found out that Geisler (the president of my seminary, yes I'm at VES) has written a book titled "The APologetics of Jesus" and after a quick survey of the TOC, amongst a wealth of other information, he breaks down the methodology like I was hoping to do...
So, my question is - should I find something else to write about? I mean, if I went ahead with this topic, I wouldn't read Geisler, lest I just become a clone of him...I don't know...I was hoping this might be original, but it seems not...
Thoughts?