Sentences with phrase «good apologetic»

I'm not sure... I just don't know if it's a good apologetic argument (maybe it is!).

Whenever the text turns apocalyptic, as it does this week, there would seem to be only two choices: either take it literally and join the lucrative doomsday machine of late - night, splendidly coifed Christian psychics, or begin your best apologetic backpedaling — cheered on by Bishop John Spong.

There are thousands of expert theologians that have much better apologetics but that is the simple one.

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

For good apologetics, consider Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org).

The majority of Chesterton's best apologetic writing begins with his arrival at the place his journey finally came to an end, that is with Christian orthodoxy «as understood by everybody calling himself Christian until a very short time ago».

At all events, I think a comparison of these two recent books from Wright will show that the best apologetics comes above all from theology at its best, whether its primary purpose is apologetic or not.

Not exact matches

In addition, the now persistently apologetic Kalanick announced the search for a COO to help him do a better job.

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.

Of course, the fact that I was well read in the apologetics against Mormonism, didn't help their cause either.

I also spend years in studying good christian apologetics books - namely Answers for Aethists, Design vs Evolution, Biblical creation, Bible Authenticity, Is Jesus Christ - Yeshua Hamashiya, Divinity of Jesus Christ, Bible Prophesises etc..

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.

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

Though people here have made some very good points about the supremacy of love and being «living epistles», I think it would be a mistake to dismiss the apologetics of inerrancy entirely.

Books critical of Christianity lately are best - sellers (hey Shawn, yes, this is a plug for our apologetics class).

Jerry Coyne's reponse to the Christian response to the New Atheism opens up a better way forward for apologetics.

All three do well concerning that other oft forgotten foundation of catechesis and apologetics: showing evidence for existence of God, with an openness to modern observations.

As well as using traditional apologetic approaches in his recent book The Evidence for Jesus (Berforts Information Press), Steel uses the shroud as contemporary evidence for the resurrection of Christ.

(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.

As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent».

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

In terms of real depth, Biblical insight, Christian apologetics, and faith, it's one of the very best blogs out there.

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.

Vic Well if you believe the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old then don't bother going to a reputable science site stick with apologetic sites, they will bolster your vast knowledge of well, nothWell if you believe the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old then don't bother going to a reputable science site stick with apologetic sites, they will bolster your vast knowledge of well, nothwell, nothing.

, but Barth certainly seemed to him the best exemplar of a «descriptive» theologian who eschewed systematic apologetics and simply tried to lay out a Christian view of the world with attention to its own internal logic.

He was best known for his role as president of the Christian Research Institute, a Christian apologetics organisation based in the USA.

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

Further, freethinkers often have a better knowledge of Christian scripture and apologetics than many believers.

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

Apologetics has not had a good press for quite some time, owing partly to the rise of rationalist theology and partly to a decline in the use of scholastic philosophy in theological training.

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.

Jeremy, the Tektonics apologetics site utilizes the Social Science approach, so check it out for good summaries.

Having made the case for a generic intelligent agent, however, one may then switch categories from science to apologetics, and propose the biblical God as the best candidate, as Paul did in Acts 17 when he proposed to tell the Athenians the identity of the «unknown god.»

I think Team Apologetics is really representing Christians well.

Amy is a theologian who, as well as contributing to a number of books, authored two books exploring apologetics: Why Trust the Bible and But is it Real?

He assumed in his evangelistic apologetics that God is a necessary companion in the human pilgrimage, and human life makes better sense with him than without him.

With the exception of this one category, however, every form of messianic expectation was applied to Jesus, and even this one, that of the Prophet, already preempted for John, was turned to good account in Christian apologetics: the Prophet had indeed come, but his purpose was to announce the coming of Jesus, the real Messiah, and to prepare his way.

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.

Well, kind of apologetic.

According to Strobel, more people than ever are attending apologetics seminars and getting degrees in philosophy in an effort to combat the militant atheism that has surfaced in college classrooms, TV documentaries, and best - selling books.

Brunner's theological contributions extend also to the fields of epistemology, anthropology, Christology, personal and social ethics, eschatology and eristics (Brunner's preferred approach to apologetics), as well as helpful treatments of the standard topics in theology.

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.

Therefore, I feel I must overcome my resistance and resentment, must dismiss the feeling of engaging in an unwilling exercise in apologetics, and try earnestly, if not to supply straight and simple answers, at least to clarify and line up some of the evasive arguments that I have harbored for a long time, and to articulate them as well as I can.

The best discussion of this point in Christian apologetic writing is, in my view, to be found in C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man:

I've got a lot to learn on this front, and I need people to keep me accountable, but I'm convinced that my best «apologetic» is not an argument or a defense or even a published book, but a life transformed by the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

AiG is the popular young - Earth creationist apologetics organization led by Ken Ham, well - known for the 2014 Bill Nye - Ken Ham debate.

Apologetics and philosophy are helpful here, but the Bible is an excellent tool as well.

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.

Whereas European apologetic theology responded brilliantly to the intellectual challenges of the modern world, it is not so well positioned to respond to the challenges that now face us.

That task can be specified more exactly: it is to capacitate students» minds quite specifically for apologetics, for making well - warranted cases for theories about what can and can not be known about God, what should and should not be done in fidelity to God's nature and action.