Sentences with phrase «apologetic work»

Calling his books «Christian apologetic work» is nothing but demeaning to his legacy.

The Four Loves — with its argument that the natural loves can not flourish if isolated from supernatural love — is, among other things, an apologetic work.

Her most well known Christian apologetic work is The Mind of the Maker.

While his intellect speaks for itself in his most influential apologetic works, wonder explains the playfulness that keeps the reader from becoming overwhelmed by the complexity of his arguments.

Lewis» apologetic works, writes Jacobs, «presuppose, and rarely make any argument for, the criteria for rationality.»

These, and many many other apologetic works may open a few minds and hearts.

He came to feel that the «method and manner» of his apologetic works were «spurious,» and he turned to «make - believe» as «another way of talking about the reality of things.»

Not exact matches

Works of apologetics are defenses of the Christian faith.

Seems like an obvious contradiction to me; something that's only supposed to work as an apologetic against problems with the prevailing God model while, in fact, it works equally well against all the positive aspects of that same model.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

$ 25 Apologetics is experiencing a small revival these days, both within the academy and outside it, and Oxford professor Richard Swinburne has led the charge in the philosophical community with an outpouring of careful work over the....

In Paul's own writings this universalism becomes explicit if the once rabidly exclusivistic Paul was moved by the work of Christ to anticipate elements of rationalistic liberalism in his apologetics and universalism, Peter was driven to «remythologize» apocalyptic Judaism.

All these parallel our own work in promoting a new apologetic for the scientific age.

Devin works as a software developer and in his free time writes articles on adoption, Catholic fatherhood, and apologetics.

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

The death of God tradition is beginning to see the work laid out before it: historical, exegetical, apologetic, ethical.

The only good that seems to have come from my questions is that our Apologetics minister has plenty of work to do!

Lindsell's book is a work of apologetics, a polemical discussion backing up his claim that to be an evangelical demands a commitment to the notion of inerrancy.

Finally, Sources of the Self is also a work of religious apologetic.

Sources is in part a work of moral philosophy, and it might also be said in certain respects to be a work of religious apologetic; to these aspects I return later.

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.

While acknowledging a debt of inspiration to the British author, he insists that it is «silly» to equate his work with the apologetic genius of Lewis, and that such comparisons owe more to overenthusiastic book cover publicity than reality.

Our best apologetic always has been and always will be a life transformed by the scandalous and subversive work of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to know every apologetic answer — only the cross work of Christ.

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.

A theology of police work is no answer, but a religious message that seriously addresses itself to the problems of violence and the need for order and authority within a democratic, legal framework must be, as I see it, a central task for the theologian and for Christian apologetics.

Two of Kiefer's works that bear the same title — «Ways of Worldly Wisdom» — gain impact if one realizes that he borrowed the title from Bernhard Jansen, a sanguine Jesuit theologian who in the 1920s, in his apologetic efforts to give rational justification for Catholicism, drew on the writings of a number of German philosophers who, ironically, also proved to be useful foils in the apologetics of Nazi ideologues.

I've done quite a lot of work on apologetics on both the book or Mormon and the Koran, and the Koran is easier to dismiss actually.

If apologetics no longer worked effectively, theologians could try dogmatics.

To identify the work of the social gospel leaders as «theology» is hardly justified if we take the German apologetic tradition as defining what «theology» is.

Better works of apologetics are being written.

Despite considerable success with it, Ratcliffe is vaguely apologetic about this phase of his work.

«This work is a narcissistic apologetic review of failed policies and practices that might have helped him rise to Governor, but as Governor, lead the state as it slides to the bottom of the barrel,» the reviewer, who identified himself as Ken Barlow (also the name of a television character from a soap opera), wrote.

A bit of a philosopher, the man sounds bleakly apologetic about his line of work.

What made Meyers» monologue work was exactly how savage his cracks were — if they'd been weak and apologetic they could have felt like misjudged humour.

«We are not at all apologetic for the fact that it takes time... this is not a checklist and it wasn't intended to be, it's a way of building capacity through working through the framework.»

Though they were very apologetic and placed me in a rental car immediately, they have been terrible to work with since.

Melissa, Thank you so much for this article, It was really helpful not only on how to price my work, but how to not feel apologetic about it!

Just as in all his works, they are striking for being neither critical nor apologetic.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for employers being this rigid on scheduling (like the interviewer will be coming in from out of town and is only there for a limited time)... but it's also true that if an employer is really interested in you, they'll try to find a way to make it work, or will at least be really apologetic if they can't be more flexible.

If you had time away from work, there's no reason to be apologetic about it — it's a lot better to be positive.

If you've been out of work because you raised a family, continued your education, cared for a sick family member or recovered from an injury, be sure your tone is not apologetic.

But, in being unnecessarily apologetic about Sarah's feeling of being ganged up on, they are missing the opportunity to teach her about how two - parent families work.

But they DID contact social services [who were very cool and apologetic] when we told them that we were working on getting my son the mmj card.