Sentences with phrase «make apologetic»

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.

Not exact matches

So I made the call and was very apologetic and sincere, letting them know it wasn't them, it was me.

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

Ironically, it was the missionary activity of Jehovah's Witnesses and other evangelists regularly knocking at his door that made Ally decide to develop an apologetic strategy of his own.

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.

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

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.

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

His suspicion of systematic apologetics might at first glance make Frei seem a kind of theological isolationist, retreating from wider circles of intellectual discussion.

Not only were theologians and preachers often apologetic about their tradition's peculiarities, but larger cultural forces were making it difficult for those traditions to sustain themselves.

When, for the sake of apologetic or missionary conprehensibility or for the sake of internal coherence, we step back from that concreteness and express ourselves in more general terms, it must not be with the thought that this will make the faith more credible.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

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.

Secondly, you are doing the classical Christian Apologetics move by attempting to take a flaw in your position and ask for the other side to make your argument for you.

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.»

In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».

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.

Alistair McGrath points out that «apologetics appeals to beauty and morality as much as to rationality [and] must go beyond demonstrating the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things, and speak meaningfully of deeper issues of purpose, value and identity.»

That's the issue that made me start writing pastoral position papers, because it kept coming up, and I either had to write something, or wage a relentless campaign of homiletical apologetics from the pulpit week after week.

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.»

The vivid memories of Jesus and the fact of his continuing Lordship in the community would make such a development all but inevitable, and the exigencies of evangelism and apologetic only accelerated it.

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.

Within the church today there is too much preoccupation with «not making proselytes» or «not engaging in apologetics,» as though we were still in the age of a socially triumphant church using propaganda against poor and defenseless innocents.

Regardless of who signs onto the idea, atheist or theist, it is still like a type of apologetics — trying to make us seem special and singled out in the universe.

But if apologetics are indeed making a comeback, I just hope we can avoid the kind of militant rationalism that characterized the apologetics movement of the 80s and 90s.

(John 12:24) Affliction, being thus redemptive, was in consequence itself redeemed; «Christ crucified,» whom Paul rightly called a stumblingblock to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, was proclaimed as the wisdom and power of God; (I Corinthians 1:23 - 24) and, not stopping with any negative apologetic to explain the cross, the early Christians positively gloried in it (Galatians 6:14) and made it their ambition to know «the fellowship of his sufferings.»

I use the historical apologetic of men like John Warwick Montgomery and come from a place of looking at the Bible like any book and dissecting the claims it makes and going into the historical evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ and proceeding from the view He took of scripture.

He made it possible for me to become a Christian as no other figure before or since has (although I can today find similar inspiration from Hans Kung and David Tracy among the Catholics, and Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff among Reformed Christians) More, he made the quest for an apologetic, cosmopolitan Christian social ethic imaginable.

De Lubac's book is a masterpiece of intellectual erudition and sophisticated apologetics that argues that the deepest human longings for unity — longings that made communism so alluring to many idealistic people in the first half of the twentieth century — are fulfilled in the Church's supernatural mission.

If I'm mistaken about this, I apologize beforehand, just view this as a general explanation, an apologetics if you will, of my earlier statements and why I made them.

Once you've done everything you can to make your post fair, factual, and civil, don't get all apologetic and sheepish about it when it garners a big response.

... Saint Justin, in his Apologetics,... vituperates the custom of rejected children - boys and girls - being made slaves for prostitution.

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.

If Barth's analysis doesn't make you shy away from apologetics, the crude way that apologetics is often practiced may do so.

But the task of apologetics — making Christian belief intelligible — remains inescapable.

(365 - 6) Loss of Coherent Apologetics There has been a long tradition within Catholic catechesis of making a rational case for the immortal nature of man.

The owners were apologetic that I had missed the harvest and the hot sauce making but they invited me to comeback next year to participate in the harvest.

It just makes it so much worse when its a person doing something painful * to * you and not even being apologetic about it.

However, neither ASDA nor Nestlé are apologetic for being caught out misleading parents and Baby Milk Action is today filing a case against internet advertisements from Nestlé for the same products that make similar claims.

If she's apologetic and wants to make it right, that's a huge plus.

I don't know if my husband would necessarily agree, but most of them are pretty nice guys, just trying to make a living, and a lot of them are apologetic.

My contact was very apologetic and even offered another free item to make up for it.

Martin's apologetic and promises to make it right and then proceeds to bite a chunk of flesh out of his own arm and spit it onto the floor as an offering.

Joining a small crew of underpaid, rather dull people (mad Ernie (Maury Chaykin), belligerent Rocky (Matt Groening - sketched Joe Piscopo), and sexpot Vivian (Glenne Headly)-RRB-, pallid and peculiar Bartleby makes waves when he begins to respond to any request outside the ordinary with a slightly apologetic, «I would prefer not to.»

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.

Lemov also talks about curriculum a fair bit — from making sure that teachers don't back down from the choice of rigorous material because they are pandering to students to not being apologetic for the choice of material.

Ryan was very apologetic for what had happen and made sure I was completely satisfied with the vehicle.

Personally, my favorite aspect of the new C - Class is the styling, which moves from slightly apologetic to bold and a bit threatening on the Sport, clearly influenced by the tweaks AMG, Mercedes» in - house performance tuner, has made to its own models these past few years.