It will be seen that apologetics by no means reissued unchanged from the long period of authority.
If so, apologetics is literally a science, and it is pedantry to claim the defensive and pretend to throw the onus probandi upon objectors.
When we leave the New Testament, apologetics becomes conspicuous until the political triumph of Christianity, and even somewhat later.
Many of the principal medieval attempts in apologetics are directed chiefly against him, e.
Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late section of their system.
And there is perhaps a reason of a deeper kind for holding Apologetics to the defensive.
But, if not, then apologetics is a mere auxiliary, and is only "a science" in so far as it presents a conscious and systematic plea.
Any single effort in apologeticsmay be termed "an apology.
Without her aid Christian apologetics would indeed be in sad case.
He had, it is true, worked in it strenuously and with conspicuous success, and had revealed a natural aptitude for Christian apologetics of a very high order.
Cairns to leave Berwick and become Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics in the newly constituted Hall, or, as it was henceforth to be designated--"College.
Cairns prepared two courses of lectures for his students--one on the History of Apologetics, and the other on Apologetics proper, or Christian Evidences.
Lindsay had been Professor of Exegesis, but the United Presbyterian Synod in May 1867 provided for this subject being dealt with otherwise, and instituted a new chair of Apologetics with a special view to Dr.
All serious Apologetics must insist as a necessary starting-point on the awakening and conversion of the soul.
All Apologetics will inevitably dash themselves to pieces against the insurmountable contradiction that they will soon encounter.
Bismarck invited Treitschke to accompany the army of Sadowa as a writer of military bulletins, and both he and Sybel were, after due caution, commissioned to write those apologetics of Prussian policy which are classics of their kind.
Sybel’s apologetics in “Die Begründung des deutschen Reichs” began it; others have gone far beyond them.
This fact possesses a value in relation to Apologetics which intelligent students will readily appreciate.
It is amusing to look back on some of the lines of apologetics in recent years.
They have lived in a world of anxious questions and heated charges, and a special department called Apologetics has been added to theology.
Throughout this period, however, the zeal for apologetics continued unabated, but also in other directions, especially in the department of dogmatics, important contributions were made to theological science.
In apologetics the leading place is occupied by =Pascal=, with his brilliant “Pensées.
Finally, too, the revival of classical studies and the introduction of pagan modes of thought were followed by a renewal of anti-pagan Apologetics (Nicolas of Methone).
Great excitement was caused in 1860 by the “Essays and Reviews,” which in seven treatises by so many Oxford professors contested the traditional apologetics and hermeneutics of English theology, and set a sublimated rationalism in its place.
In a word, the best method of apologetics is to tell the whole truth.
In our mind, apologetics and history are two sisters, with the same device: "Ne quid falsi audeat, ne quid veri non audeat historia.
But we cannot proceed without briefly reminding ourselves of the certain consequences of this now far advanced dropping of miracles by modern apologetics from their ancient use as evidences of a supernatural Revelation.
The Apologeticsof Bahai writers, American or translations from the Persian.
The book is a notable addition to the apologetics of Missions and will carry a message of conviction to many a reader who may not be fully persuaded of the value and necessity of Christian work in foreign lands.
I found that in talking to him I could frame the apologetics I had not been able to find for myself alone.
At one bound Cossington's papers passed from apologeticsvaried by repudiation to triumphant praise.
The extraordinary divergence in the views of the authors, to say nothing of the transparency of some of their arguments, prevents all chance of apologetics convincing any but those already determined to be convinced.
Lest Gibbon's testimony be deemed untrustworthy on account of his anti-Christian bias, the following extract from a prize essay in Christian apologetics may be noted.
Such, then, is an outline of the state of apologetics on the subject of Miracles in general, and of those connected with the central doctrines of the Church in particular.
Finally we have to consider some arguments that have often quite as much weight with the believer as Bible apologetics or Theistic proofs.
Heresies and schisms and the need for apologetics form the constant note of Christian history from first to last.
The deplorable state of religious apologetics is becoming notorious, and articles bearing on the subject are now appearing from time to time in our leading magazines.
The truth or otherwise of the Bible miracles being of supreme importance, I begin with an examination of the position of apologetics with regard to them.
The above samples of apologetics fairly represent the various ways in which miracles are now explained.
If the events said to have happened really happened, and if God wished the world to know of them, why all this mystery, why the need for all these apologetics concerning them?
If apologetics dealing with the Resurrection are unconvincing, still more so are those regarding the Ascension.
Professor ofApologetics in Lancashire Independent College; Lecturer in the University of Manchester.
Professor of Apologetics in the Theological College of the United Free Church, Glasgow.
Scholarship in the harness of apologetics again found its task impracticable.
Textual criticism is indispensable; but as the servant of apologetics it is foredoomed to failure.
In looking back over the course that apologetics have taken, we cannot help being struck by a disproportion between the controversial aspect and the practical.
It has long been the crux of Catholic apologetics to reconcile the theoretical immobility of dogma with the actual facts.
Upon this conception of the supernatural as the personal, apologetics must found the claims of Christianity.
It is said that one of the very best collections of books of Christian evidences and apologetics to be found in all Japan is in the Buddhist library in Kyoto.
It is especially desirable that instruction in dogmatics and apologetics be thorough and sound, and these branches should perhaps be emphasized more than others.
The apologetics must be some form of social rite offered to the ancestors of a friend, all of it interesting but quite useless for our purposes at the moment.
Dreyer managed to glean only that Jandro was saying the men had come to offer the apologetics to his father and that Jandro had been chosen to go to Heaven World for his people.
Well, let us allow that out of the thousand disputes between critique and orthodox apologetics as to the details of the so-called sacred text there are some in which by accident and contrary to appearances the latter are in the right.
The new school revels in the miraculous, and seems to take its pleasure in narrowing the ground upon which apologetics can be defended.
