Sentences with phrase «gave apologetic»

He gave me an apologetic look.

Zuckerberg gave apologetic interviews that night to CNN, Wired and the New York Times — as well as Recode's Kara Swisher and Kurt Wagner, to whom he said he'd be «open» to testifying in front of Congress.

I reached my hand in my pocket and gave her an apologetic look.

I am passionate about this subject so have given an apologetic for my response.

It is the creed of apologetic Christians that has given apologetics a bad name.

«President Obama's announcement that he favors the placement of the Cordoba House Mosque at Ground Zero is not surprising given the apologetic posture he has assumed on behalf our country on the international stage.»

Not exact matches

The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Strikingly, our catechists these days often just use apologetics tracts as their textbooks for catechism class, giving the faithful mere leftovers of what was actually prepared for others who do not yet share our faith.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

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.

But besides the fact that Thomas Aquinas says that bad arguments for God's existence do more harm than good, since they give unbelievers an occasion to laugh (ST I, q. 46, art. 2, response), I would also claim that apologetics is not that difficult.

Isolated individual philosophers have given way to an apologetics movement that has become an industry in itself.

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.

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.

Of course, they must be given the means to offer an effective apologetic to a secular world but it must go beyond that to the robust affirmation of a Christian worldview and its spiritual and sacramental consequences in Church and society.

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.

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.

It seems as if theologians give their time these days to writing apologies (not apologetics) for such current social fads as neo-Marxism and transactional analysis.

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

Mistakenly thinking the great Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen had written a book on Catholicism and wanting to give it as an example of Protestant apologetics in yesterday's item, I googled the subject and found that he didn't, but he did say this in his book Christianity and....

As I mentioned in the last post, those of us raised in the conservative evangelical subculture during the apologetics movement of the 80s and 90s grew up with the charge to «always be ready to give an answer» in defense of the Christian faith.

He believes that even if European apologetic theology responded brilliantly to the intellectual challenges of the twentieth century world, it is not so well positioned to respond to the challenges that now face us, and he gives three reasons why.

Christians have always had to engage in apologetics — to give an account of the faith to those who inquire.

Abhidhamma - pitaka, or the basket of discipline for the Sangha or Order; the basket of the sayings of the Buddha; and «the basket of higher subtleties as given by Winternitz, or variously as given by others, «the basket of philosophy,» or the «basket of apologetic,» or defense of the doctrine.

The first nurse who told us we «had» to give formula right then and there (her blood sugar was 22mg / dl — eg; close to seizure level), was very apologetic about it.

After the disintegration of Christendom - a historical apparatus that gave cultural pride of place to Christianity - Christian truth claims can not be taken for granted or simply asserted using logical apologetics.

i just found your reviews a bit apologetic when you critiques Xoom, which kinda gives an impression of being biased.

Bad eye migrating slightly, Perkus Tooth gave me a lunar look, neither unfriendly nor apologetic.

The clerk was very apologetic, and let me know that the delivery people would call the night before to give me a two hour window for delivery.

They were super apologetic AND several employees gave me love / commented on how cute and sweet I am, so they obviously have good taste.

They handled it well and were very apologetic - gave us a free meal as an apology.

I think you need to ask yourself about the courage of your convictions if you give way to apologetics the moment the WSJ finds you guilty by association.

The bottom line: By rolling out privacy updates and interviews with apologetic executives, the company is trying to give Zuckerberg material he can use to save himself when he faces fired - up lawmakers.

Why it matters: By rolling out privacy updates and interviews with apologetic executives, the company is trying to give Zuckerberg material he can use to save himself when he faces fired - up lawmakers.

Not only was it not specifically signed by any of Apple's executives, which given the severity of the situation I would have expected, but the tone was more defiant than apologetic, and reminiscent of how the company responded to the Antennagate issue in 2010.

If she won't budge on expecting two weeks and you really can't give it without significant hardship, all you can do is be sincerely apologetic and explain why you can't.