Sentences with phrase «use apologetics»

And don't use some apologetics website, that's not acceptable.

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.

Many later used apologetics to strengthen their own faith... but apologetics won none of my close friends.

Not exact matches

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.

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 is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

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.

I've heard the study used to support everything from buying more Christian apologetics books to sending kids to private Christian high schools and colleges.

Then again, the use of the word «apologetics» in your name is all one needs to see right through you.

Last, and paradoxically, the word «inerrancy» undermines its apologetic intent by reflecting a defensiveness toward Scripture that is out of keeping with the gospel's own boldly proclaimed confidence.52 For these reasons, Hubbard has become increasingly uncomfortable with the use of the term «inerrancy» to describe his basic commitment to Scripture's infallibility, though he has no basic argument with those like Pinnock who use the term as qualified and understood Biblically.

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.

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».

Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from not feeling God's presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.

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.

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.

Apologetics, in its attempt to defend the factual claims of the Bible through the use of reason, thus implicitly affirms the very philosophical outlook that undermines its own project, placing the truth of Christianity in the realm of rational reflection and thus into the realm of reasonable doubt and provisionality.»

Prophecy and apologetics may also be used, if you feel the need to authenticate the claims of the Bible.

110.1 (Mark 14.62 a and Acts 7.56); and a passion apologetic tradition using Zech.

In this text we can see that the apologetic begun by using Zech.

and Dan 7.13 have been used together in Christian passion apologetic, and this is then the case in both Mark 13.26 and 14.62.

It is well known that earliest Christianity used the Old Testament extensively in her attempts to present a crucified Messiah to the Jews, (B. Lindars appropriately calls this «passion Apologetic».)

is established in early Christian passion apologetic, it would be natural to go on to use other aspects of the passage to formulate Christian expectation, a practice we find often enough in the Qumran pesharim.

34 The apologetic motif is stressed by B. LeRoy Burkhart in «The Rise of the Christian Priesthood,» Journal of Religion, XXII (1942), 187:»... under the necessity of meeting pagan criticism Christian leaders brought back into use the ancient terminology of religion.»

Careful not to use the Christian apologetics lines

Striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing faded and apologetic in history textbooks.

Most striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-Semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing, faded and apologetic, in history textbooks.

A film designed to be the fiery response to critics of his combative style is his most pandering (in the first section Solondz uses a red square to obscure a violent (but consensual) sex act, a flaccid pre-emptive strike against the MPAA) and, in the end, his most fearful and apologetic.

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.

They were apologetic and told me to use a disabled space.

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.

The 33 - year - old started adopting a more apologetic rhetoric in early 2017 following the initial controversy caused by numerous reports about the role Facebook played in foreign misinformation campaigns aimed at meddling with the last U.S. presidential election and the backlash prompted by his initial response to the allegations, which was to assert that the very notion of Russian or other agents being capable of using Facebook to influence the stateside democratic process is «pretty crazy.»