This the apologist will recognize as the most plausible hostile alternative.
But hereafter it may not prove possible for the apologistto assume as unchallenged the Christian moral outlook.
More visible dangers arise for the apologist in the region of science, historical or physical.
The modernapologist must do ephemeral work--unless it should chance that he proves to be the skirmisher, pioneering for a modified dogmatic.
The Apologist began by explaining the mysteries of the two comings of Christ, first in humiliation, and afterwards in glory, as Jacob prophesied in his last words.
Athenagoras, anapologist of the second century, gives the following account in his Presbeia, 24-27.
So long as he has not succeeded in persuading himself or others that this is their effect the thoughtful apologist for sports will not rest content, and commonly, it is to be admitted, he does not rest content.
This apologist argues, too, that Buddhism still retains the power of moulding public opinion.
To conceal his bloody project (though the apologist does not mention the circumstance), James next passes four hours in hunting.
But presently we shall find that, while modern apologists for Gowrie deny that Henderson had been at Falkland, the contemporary Ruthven apologist insists that he had been there.
Again, the apologist never even hints at the locked door of the gallery chamber, whereat Mar, Lennox, and the rest so long and so vainly battered.
The apologist adds that James's companions will swear to whatever he pleases.
Nothing more is attributed to the Murrays, and the contemporary apologist did not try to make capital out of them.
The old apologist asserts, what modern vindicators deny, that Henderson was at Falkland.
Gowrie appears to have visited Rome; the Ruthven apologist declares that he was there 'in danger for his religion.
If Ruthven spoke the truth, he did know the motive, or pretext, of the King's coming, which the apologist denies.
It does not follow that Henderson was really at Falkland because the apologist says that he was.
It is curious that no apologist for Gowrie, as far as I have observed, makes any remark on this perplexing affair of 'my Lady.
The Ruthven Apologist mentions this fact, and the predilection of the Kirk for Gowrie, among the motives for destroying him.
Though the narrative of the contemporary apologist for the Ruthvens appears absolutely to lack evidence for its assertions, it reveals, on analysis, a consistent theory of the King's plot.
These are pretty sayings which, if he remembers them, should, I think, sometimes make John Morley a little ashamed of the part he was persuaded by his Foreign Office friends to play that summer as apologist of their iniquities.
Let us, then, very briefly consider some of those evidences which the Christian apologist recognizes as most important for the confirmation of faith.
There was no sympathy with those who regarded the case as closed, either as the anti-Christian assailant or as the apologist did; either with the school of Paine or with the school of Calvin.
He, the most distinguished Dutch scholar and the chief apologist of Christianity in his day, had to seek refuge, on his escape from prison, in Catholic France, whose king granted him a pension.
The reply of the apologist is that Montaigne never extends his skepticism to "revelation," but on the contrary declares that revelation alone gives man certainties (work cited, p.
This apologist has the courage to face the protest of Pascal: "Montaigne puts everything in a doubt so universal and so general that, doubting even whether he doubts, his uncertainty turns upon itself in a perpetual and unresting circle.
In 1736 he and Shaftesbury are described by an orthodox apologist as the "two oracles of deism.
Here he is in marked contrast with Descartes, who dissembled his opinion about Copernicus and Galileo for peace' sake, [331] and was the close friend of the apologist Mersenne down to his death.
This too is told by the Apologist Tatian, who in him mocks at the pretension on the part of heathen philosophers to emancipation from all wants.
Arianism found a zealous apologist in the Sophist Asterius, whose treatise is lost.
At Rome, the noble Apologist Justin Martyr, denounced by his opponent the philosopher Crescens, after cruel and bloody scourging, died under the executioner’s axe about A.
Eighteen Italian bishops, among them Julian of Eclanum in Apulia, the most acute and able apologist of Pelagianism, refused to subscribe and were banished.
In affirming the probability of a revelation, the Christian apologist need not go beyond the region of actual facts.
But placing the matter as he has, the Christian apologist may well feel indebted to Mr. Mill for his crushing demolition of the dangerous portions of Dr.
The modern apologistescapes by explaining religion; the apologist of a hundred years ago was required to prove it.
I have ever been the apologist of strong passions; they alone move me.
Once more, to quote Al Kindy: Thou invitest me (says our apologist to his friend) into the "Easy way of faith and practice.
Even in the palmy days of the Abbasside caliphs, our apologist could challenge his adversary to produce a single conversion otherwise than by reason of some powerful material inducement.
This remarkable apologistwill be noticed further below.
Despite the ornamental borders to each page, and many other details which stamp it as old-fashioned, it does not require a rabid apologist of the past to discuss it appreciatively.
