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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 inaugural lecture on the occasion of his appointment as professor of law and humanities at the University of Luton, England. Do law and morals have an essential interrelationship? If so, from where can moral values justifiably be derived?

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.

Two lectures analyzing and critiquing Kantian and neo-Kantian and natural law efforts to establish and justify human rights.

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".

The one book of the Bible which best unites the Old Testament with the New is the Epistle to the Hebrews. Produced in Apostolic circles, doubtless by a companion of St. Paul, it remains the best account in all of divine revelation as to how the history of Israel and its sacrificial system were God's vehicle for the coming of Jesus the Messiah.

This is an examination of the nature of the Bible and the claim for its reliability as a revelation from God.

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.

In this lecture, Dr. Montgomery offers an in-depth analysis based both upon Scripture and upon the human rights record of modern Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinian problem and the Near East situation in general.

John Montgomery analyzes and critiques "deconstructionism" in the field of law, and examines sometimes hilarious examples of lawyers' reasoning.

John Montgomery examines Martin Luther and the German Reformation; Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation; the principles for interpreting the Bible by comparison of the approaches of Zwingli and Luther; the life, times, and thought of John Calvin; and the influence of the Bible Reformers, especially Martin Luther, on artists such as Bach and Mendelsohn compared to 20th century artists such as Picasso.