Sentences with phrase «apologetic which»

In truth, it wasn't a nice tackle from the Southampton forward as his studs went down the back of the Belgian's heel and he was instantly apologetic which showed that he knew straight away it was a poor challenge.

From the days of his youth he had met with a form of Christian apologetic which could be nothing if not ineffective and which could only have adverse effects upon him, because it was uninformed and proceeded from unexamined presuppositions.

Such a dialogue requires Christian theologians to advance an apologetic which will argue for the truth and goodness of their traditions in language that is intelligible within a broader culture.

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.

There will be an intensified demand for the kind of apologetic which gives up the notion of religious certainty, and attempt to rally the sporting spirit of our compatriots in favour of a balance of probabilities.

There will be an intensified demand for the kind of apologetic which gives up the notion of religious certainty, and attempts to rally the sporting spirit of our compatriots in favour of a balance of probabilities.

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

Presenting Christ as Divine King entering into His created inheritance is a powerful apologetic which clearly differentiates Christianity from man - made and imperfect religions.

Not exact matches

Her response was heartfelt, apologetic, straightforward and, most importantly, immediate — which may have prevented an even bigger PR disaster.

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

There is a distinct difference in the «belief» derived from testable and empirical physical evidence which is repeatedly validated via successful predictions and applications in medicine, agriculture, engineering, etc, and the «belief» of those who rely on alleged supernatural, divinely - inspired narratives where the only application for these «beliefs» is apologetics.

It would bring religion out of the closet to which the dearth of apologetics has consigned it.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

As if the seeming predestinarian «logic» of revelational theology (so fundamentally alien to the apologetic mindset) were not problem enough, there is the harsh apocalypticism into which Jesus is reported to have so deeply dipped his hands.

Finally, it is very very evangelical movement, so it requires a large school of apologetics many of which, like any religion in with new converts are highly zealous and incredibly hostile towards anything outside of the boarders of their particular brand of faith.

There is no escaping the extreme difficulty that confronts any attempt to frame a doctrine of the Atonement as a result of the growing recognition of the extent to which motives of theological and apologetic construction determine the Gospels as we have them.

Rather than have recourse to an unproductive apologetics when faced with contemporary atheism, we ought to concern ourselves with weeding out from Christianity what is not authentic, should even be grateful to Marx's critique of religion for the purifying function which it performs in this way.

I remember attending an apologetics camp in which I was reminded of the importance of building my house on the solid rock of a biblical worldview... or else the surging floods of the «wisdom of the age» would wash my faith away.

There is, for instance, the conclusion to a C. S. Lewis Lecture on Christian apologetics: «This means, of course, that we need to rethink the Christian basis for a liberal society, in which the rights of individuals and communities are founded upon a Christian understanding of man which is widely shared by non-Christians.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

That Word was not open to rational investigation, and classical apologetics was not just useless, it was a betrayal of the sovereignty of the Word which allows no space for such reflection.

Beth Grove is from the Pfander Centre for Apologetics, a Christian group which promotes engagement with Islam.

I thus conclude, within the oversimplification which is excusable for this kind of capsule argument, that apologetics or evangelism should not be thought of as constituting a distinctive mode of theological discourse for which we would need a specific definition of the place of the Bible.

This, to my mind, not only represents very movingly the anthropological presupposition of all authentic soteriology, but exemplifies the apologetic stance for which we must aim in our proclamation of «gospel» in our time and place.

Apologetic organisation Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RVIM), which Qureshi was a part of, confirmed the news on Saturday.

In this movement from below to above we can see an apologetic framework which is in my opinion very powerful.

It is a world in which the subconscious «suspicion» of God's existence and presence, on which so much of our Christian apologetics and proclamation have depended, may be disappearing.

That is, to bridge the gap between gospel and situation, engaging in an apologetic that will reinforce the ties of trust and co-operation between the church and the sociological segments with which, traditionally, we have made our bed.

To deal with issues involving inspiration is more than to make an apologetic appeal to the character of Scripture's autographs which we no longer possess.

It is actually a method of Christian apologetics called «Presuppositionalism», which assumes the exisistence of God to prove that He exists and to point out the poverty of other views.

What we have not yet fully grasped is that this very fact — our own participation in the anguished quest for moral authenticity — constitutes the apologetic necessity without which we could not begin to reach out to others.

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

Christian apologetics is a field of christian theology which aims to present a rational basis for the christian faith, defends the faith against objections and attempts to expose the flaws of other world views.

The lack of an agreed apologetic framework through which to think, teach, love and pray the faith, one which truly answers the agnosticism of our times, has opened the door to that same uncertainty and subjectivity in doctrine and discipline inside the Church.

Unfortunately, when scholars have taken an interest in this work it has too often been muddied by apologetic concerns, which make impartial evaluation very difficult.

In the previous chapter we have seen some of the reasons why Macgregor, like many others, accepted the more spiritual view as the earlier one, to which materialistic features were added out of apologetic motives.

Once the empty tomb story began to circulate, it is only natural that it would be seized upon for its apologetic value, and this is exactly the concern which became more prominent in the later Gospels.

Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from not feeling God's presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.

Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

No such limitation of simultaneity as a physically relevant relation exists in his earlier philosophy of nature.12 In addition, Whitehead appends a note to this statement which has an oddly apologetic tone, especially when one reads the note (as I think one must) as explaining how the statement above is compatible with Einsteinian assumptions: «This principle lies on the surface of the fundamental Einsteinian formula for the physical continuum (PR 61 / 96).

I wonder whether the rational analogy has not assumed too large a role in Newbigin's apologetics, so large as to become the rule by which faith acquits itself.

Of course, he might switch it up and claim that good works mean nothing without belief in his god, which is the standard apologetics answer.

We may call it apologetic: but Mark simply had to answer the questions which were in the minds of all his readers, Jewish and Gentile, Christian and non-Christian.

@Theo Those apologetics are a bit thin... What of Ezekiel 29 in which God gave Nebuchadnezzar all of Egypt as a reward?

I received several apologetic glances from the hostess, who finally managed to wrangle the conversation away from the young Calvinist and turn it to the topic of asparagus, which, miraculously, he did not seem to have an opinion about.

In the Christian thinking of the first century, therefore, the liberation of church from synagogue inaugurated a new era; the apologetic necessity of being persuasive to Gentiles overbore the tendency to be content with Hebraisms; and even in the New Testament, predominantly Jewish though it is in its backgrounds, one sees the beginning of that larger mental hospitality which led at last to the overwhelming influence of Greek thought on Christian theology.

But for most people living in Australia today, the environment in which we are living has changed its character, and with it is changing also the subconscious «suspicion» that people have of God's presence and activity, a suspicion on which so much of our Christian apologetics and proclamation has depended.

At the same time, Barth's polemic against the various ways in which apologetic theology had justified God - language was accepted.

I think a lot of young evangelicals are getting frustrated with the apologetics - driven culture of modern fundamentalism, which often emphasizes «right belief» to the neglect of «right action.»

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.