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An expository sermon on Paul's defense before King Agrippa in Acts 26, and its application today. Sets forth principles by which Christians can effectively witness to Christ in a secular world.

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.

On February 14, 1986, in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Montgomery debated Mark Plummer, president of the Atheists and Skeptics Society of Australia. An overflow audience attended, and the debate received full-page coverage in The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's equivalent of The New York Times). Hear Dr. Montgomery defend historic Christianity in this live unedited recording.

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson embark on an inquiry searching for ultimates. A keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Montgomery, a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, at the 24th Annual Philosophy Symposium of the California State University, Fullerton, in March, 1993.

This recording bridges an intellectual chasm often regarded as impassable - that between modern jurisprudence (philosophy of law) and contemporary theology. Dr. Montgomery's thesis is that remarkably similar developmental patterns exist in these two areas of the history of ideas and that lessons learned in one are of the greatest potential value to the other.

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

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

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.

An introduction to the law of evidence - the canons of evidence developed in the courts as a means to establish religious truth claims. Also examines myth and folktale as the sources of universal archetypes that point toward Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the myths and legends of the world.

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.

Dr. Montgomery's brief for the truthfulness of Christianity, using legal standards of evidence. Given at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta on November 15, 1991.

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.

In 1970, Dr. Montgomery was the visiting Reveille Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. This audio set is comprised of the series of lectures in which he surveyed the theological scene in the 20th century.

An introduction to the world of the occult and an evaluation of its claims and teachings.

What can one know about God from a study of the world around us, and how can this study prepare us for a special revelation from God?

No book in the entire Bible has had such an impact for theological conversion as Paul's Epistle to the Romans. St. Augustine came to Christ on hearing Romans 13:11-14; Martin Luther's study of the book brought him to an understanding of salvation by grace alone through faith; John Wesley's heart was "strangely warmed" as he listened to the reading of Luther's Preface to the Book of Romans at a little Moravian chapel in Aldersgate; and Karl Barth sounded the death knell of pre-World War I liberal theology with his Commentary on Romans.

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.

An introduction to principles used in interpreting documents in the field of law and their application in the field of theology. An address to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1994.

Two lectures analyzing and critiquing the efforts by Marxists and legal positivists to establish credible bases for human rights.