Sentences with phrase «apologetics at»

Alex McFarland, the Christian director of Worldview and Apologetics at North Greenville University, holds regular public debates with Silverman about God and the place of religion in American culture.

The two represent the type of «pragmatic spirituality» that Trump evoked throughout his campaign, with Graham advancing a political agenda and White a financial one, according to John D. Wilsey, author of American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion and an assistant professor of history and Christian apologetics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Now, I'm not saying that there is no room for apologetics at all.

CHRIS SINKINSON is a lecturer in Old Testament and Apologetics at Moorlands College and author of Time Travel to the Old Testament (IVP, 2013)

I'd read a fair bit about apologetics at the time, but nothing quite prepared me for that kind of pressure.

Carl is the Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, TX, Associate Pastor of Cultural Apologetics at New City Fellowship, in Chattanooga, TN, and serves as adjunct faculty at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA..

On National Poetry Day, poet, academic and chair of the department of apologetics at Houston Baptist University Holly Ordway explains how poetry... More

The need to give young people this apologetic, to give them a reason for believing in Christ, His infallible Church, His seven sacraments and His Blessed Mother, is so important that we repeat at least some outline of the apologetic at every one of our conferences.

Not exact matches

But he was at turns apologetic and defiant when it came time to discuss the lawsuit.

Holders of paper claims to gold will receive polite and apologetic letters from intermediaries offering to settle in cash at prices well below the physical market.

I spend years in Apologetics and arrived at rational basis for my Christian faith, defend the faith against objections, and expose the perceived flaws of other world views.

Think of it this way: For all that «God» is in the title, God and Man at Yale is not a particularly religious book, and it certainly is not a volume of Catholic apologetics or exegesis.

It's about as credible as any other apologetic nonsense, which is to say not at all.

That's the point I was gesturing at with my comment about the different tasks of apologetics and dogmatics: Apologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distortapologetics and dogmatics: Apologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distortApologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distort dogmatics.

Ironically, it was the missionary activity of Jehovah's Witnesses and other evangelists regularly knocking at his door that made Ally decide to develop an apologetic strategy of his own.

Tell me, what sophistry... er... I mean «apologetics» did you learn from nut - riding Greg Koukl every Sunday at 3PM?

I'd love to see one of you arrogant, «skeptical» morons call up Greg Koukl on his Sunday apologetics radio show at 3PM PST and we'll see how far your «knowledge» goes.

I would like you to consider posting up my Christian Apologetics Blog on your next updated list if at all possible?

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

FAITH Magazine July - Aug 2007 Ecumenical and Inter-religious developments in the search for a modern apologetic Following Pope Benedict's reflections on Faith and Reason at Regensburg...

Justin is Theology and Apologetics Editor at Premier and presents the Saturday radio show and podcast «Unbelievable?»

But there seems to me at the common - sense level something here that we must take seriously, more seriously than any other element in the traditional Easter apologetic.

If you undermine their authority (to take at face value and not resort to «they were deluded and scapegoating»), aren't you undermining perhaps the most significant apologetic we have to know that the resurrection really happened?

In the same vein, it seems to me that we are doing far better at apologetics right now than at catechesis.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

A Christian theologian, Frei explained, will therefore «do ethics to indicate that this narrated, narratable world is at the same time the ordinary world of our experience, and he will do ad hoc apologetics, in order to throw into relief particular features of this world by distancing them from or approximating them to other descriptions....

His suspicion of systematic apologetics might at first glance make Frei seem a kind of theological isolationist, retreating from wider circles of intellectual discussion.

A variant of this, no longer as popular as it was, but still widely adopted, is the apologetic» the desire by some Muslims, and also some non-Muslims, to present Islam in terms likely to win the approval of the non-Muslim and, more particularly, the Western reader and to omit or at least gloss over those aspects that would obstruct this aim.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

At the time, the majority of the science faculty espoused young earth creationism, so I learned about evolution in the context of Christian apologetics courses, with the presupposition that evolution was incompatible with the Christian faith.

This book is a sequel (of sorts) to Good God which looked at moral apologetics and a theistic ethic.

Looked at from a different perspective, Miracles is by no means simply a piece of apologetics.

One thesis, offered by more than one writer, rests on the claim that Lewis gave up entirely his interest in reasoned apologetics after a 1948 debate with Elizabeth Anscombe at a meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club.

More specifically, his goal is «to examine — with a frank apologetic agenda near at hand — the possibilities for envisioning the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode»

The apologetics of a vengeful, wrathful Hitler or a Hitler that allows terrible things are exhausting and at the end there are few points where I really just don't get it or how it fits into the overall picture of a loving Hitler.

The apologetics of a vengeful, wrathful God or a God that allows terrible things are exhausting and at the end there are few points where I really just don't get it or how it fits into the overall picture of a loving God.

At the heart of our appeal to the mind is the rooting of our apologetic in modern science.

I dropped hints here and there that my worldview was changing, and that I was increasingly unsatisfied by some of the apologetics that I once embraced and wielded, and I was less and less comfortable serving at church.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacitAt such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacitat mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

At least have the integrity to learn about it from a non apologetic source before you reject it.

This demands a fresh and compelling apologetic which demonstrates to this scientifically sophisticated yet spiritually conflicted age a new intellectual, moral and social synthesis which once again places God at the heart of human thinking, planning and activity.

To be sure, the priestly point of view sees at least two laws antedating Moses: Sabbath and circumcision; and in later Judaism this tendency grew stronger under the demands of apologetics.

Reynolds defines my book, at least in part, as «Islamic apologetics.»

Funny, a whole long article about how apologetic these people are, but I didn't see one thing about them offering the couple the choice of a symbolic marriage ceremony at the church to show both acceptance & tell the bigots there cries for hate won't be tolerated & they won't get their way.

I use the historical apologetic of men like John Warwick Montgomery and come from a place of looking at the Bible like any book and dissecting the claims it makes and going into the historical evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ and proceeding from the view He took of scripture.

At the helm of the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), an organization that defends the LDS Church from detractors, is president Scott Gordon.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

Another Christian expert in apologetic discourse with UK Muslims says that if there's one thing we can learn from the Muslim approach to faith - sharing, it's their conviction that the afterlife is at stake.