Sentences with phrase «of apologetic»

> The aim of this paper is to examine how public figures realize creative forms of apologetic speech in order to minimize their responsibility for misdeeds, while calculating the costs and benefits in producing apology utterances.

At the same time there are those raising pit bulls and like to see them fight and bleed and are sort of apologetic when they attack a neighbor and / or his property.

Father Ted's Ardal O'Hanlon, who plays the retiring, reticent Jim, is a treat with his awkward asides and occasional flashes of apologetic confidence.

This process of apologetic and dogmatic has formed the dynamic of the history of Christian thought.

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.

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.

I'm more and more convinced of the apologetic leverage available to us.

But whereas I had presented this as a kind of apologetic for Christian faith, Shepard saw it as displaying the enormous culpability of Christianity for the profound sickness of our time.

Well, kind of apologetic.

Much Christian theology still has overtones of this apologetic approach, but it is being challenged by a more ecumenically minded sensitivity to the revelatory possibilities in all the religions.

It constitutes a radical challenge to classical and humanistic axioms with regard to beauty and art, not in the form of an apologetic diatribe but rather of a masterly study in comparative literature.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

The imparting of this apologetic

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.

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.

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.

At the heart of our appeal to the mind is the rooting of our apologetic in modern science.

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

In the previous chapter we have seen some of the reasons why Macgregor, like many others, accepted the more spiritual view as the earlier one, to which materialistic features were added out of apologetic motives.

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.»

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

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.

Part of the apologetic task of Christian theologians is to show the reasonableness of this belief.

However, against Fung's assertion that no examples of apologetic letters exist (quoting Meeks and Russel, p. 30), see Klaus Berger, «Hellenistische Gattungen im Neuen Testament», in Aufstieg und Niedergang der rdmischen Welt (Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 1984), 2.25, pp. 1272 - 74.

Lastly, I would again offer that these forms of apologetic responses to the depictions of genocide in the bible are little more than a Nuremberg Defense, i.e. the abdication of personal moral responsibility to evaluate a particular command in obedient deference to perceived authority.

I went to his blog that he is trying to use to back his claims... it is full of apologetic crap that holds no water in the real world.

What a lame bit of apologetics!

That's the point I was gesturing at with my comment about the different tasks of apologetics and dogmatics: Apologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distort dogmatics.

Works of apologetics are defenses of the Christian faith.

It would bring religion out of the closet to which the dearth of apologetics has consigned it.

In my review, I argued that the needs of apologetics ought not drive the development of dogmatic theology.

Delusion in your case is the ability to reject reality in favor of apologetics.

On National Poetry Day, poet, academic and chair of the department of apologetics at Houston Baptist University Holly Ordway explains how poetry... More

That takes a lot of the «burden» of apologetics off.

He didn't hand out too many tomes of apologetics Or colour - coded maps with seven easy steps to proper beliefs.

Moreover, the evident messianism of the Old Testament fulfilled in Christ has proven in the history of apologetics to be an essential subject to present towards non-believers.

Finally, it is very very evangelical movement, so it requires a large school of apologetics many of which, like any religion in with new converts are highly zealous and incredibly hostile towards anything outside of the boarders of their particular brand of faith.

I necessarily had to take a step back and defend my overall worldview, but not for the sake of apologetics, but to explain why I hold to the theology of human evil that I do.

Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith Movement carried the flag in the UK for doctrinal catechesis and the renewal of apologetics.

Thus, the discipline of apologetics is as old as Christianity itself, and comprises a significant part of the religion.

You need to be reminded to conform to the Holy Spirit because of your evil heart, so you come each Sunday and are tied up with all sorts of apologetics.

Other tasks, too, besides interpreting Scripture face theologians, tasks both intramural (dealing with the church) and extramural (dialoguing with the world)- tasks of phenomenological analysis of theologies past and present and of apologetics, philosophical, evangelistic, and defensive - but these can not be spoken of here either.

Have you never heard of Apologetics?

This seems a strange mode of apologetics, one particularly unsuited for the age of science....

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.

For these reasons the Church, and Christians, need to be equipped for a new era of apologetics in an unbelieving age.

Often people think of apologetics as arguing for the existence of God.

Looked at from a different perspective, Miracles is by no means simply a piece of apologetics.

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».

It is important to realize that Second Isaiah wrote with conscious recognition of the problem of apologetics; he took up the issue specifically and of set purpose.