Not exact matches
Until the recent past the main
emphasis has been
on apologetics, catechesis and other reasoned approaches, but there are complementary steps to be taken towards the expressive and inspirational by featuring less rational and doctrinal means, such assacred art, that can in their distinct manner explore the way of beauty.1
Hence, an
emphasis on right doctrine and aggressive
apologetics has replaced an
emphasis on consistently following the teachings of our Lord.
More of it, however, was due to the Continental
emphasis on «proclamation,» with the implication that «
apologetics» is always trying to compromise the truth.
It is the weaknesses endemic to narrative that may cause some to question its sufficiency: the rejection of the philosophical supports needed to sustain Christian truth, an
emphasis on divine agency entailing a disdain for
apologetics, and a turn to intratextual (rather than correspondence) theories of truth.
I think the evangelical community has gotten to a point where it is so steeped in modernism's
emphasis on rationalism that it is obsessed with
apologetics, emphasizing orthodoxy (right belief) over orthopraxy (right action).