As discussed in the One Minute Brief below, Christianapologistsrespond that atheists who raise these kinds of questions misunderstand or misstate the Law of Causality. The Law of Causality only requires a cause for things thatcome into existence, not something thatexists eternallylike the God desc...
I have asked myself the same questions that Beckwith himself asked and over the years through the challenge of Roman Catholic apologists such as Karl Keating, Scott Hahn, Patrick Madrid and others, I have been motivated to study and research the pertinent doctrinal and historical issues related t...
Even for Bobby Fischer's apologists, who had dismissed previous similar outbursts, these comments were a new low that brought Fischer a virtual international persona non grata status. Photo: Raymond Bravo Pratts Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 His Extreme Paranoia May Have Been Fueled By FBI ...
Apologetics, in Christianity, the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a branch of theology. In Protestant usage, apologetics can be distinguished from polemics, in which the beliefs of a particular Christian ch
Apologist, any of the Christian writers, primarily in the 2nd century, who attempted to provide a defense of Christianity and criticisms of Greco-Roman culture. Many of their writings were addressed to Roman emperors and were written to address charges a
Apologists and the formulators of doctrines in the 3rd through the 6th century. During this time Christians met incouncilto develop statements of faith, confessions, and creeds. The claimed essence was used in conflict and rivalry with others. Christian Apologists began to speak, both to the ...
Acts of the Apostles, fifth book of the New Testament, a valuable history of the early Christian church. Acts was written in Greek, presumably by the Evangelist Luke, whose gospel concludes where Acts begins, namely, with Christ’s Ascension into heaven.
Didache, the oldest surviving Christian church order, probably written in Egypt or Syria in the 2nd century. It is considered to be a work of patristic literature from an unknown Apostolic Father. Some early Christian writers treated it as canonical.
simply for persistence in their faith, the proof of which lay often in refusal to participate in the cult of the emperor. Persecution at Lyon in 177, whenMarcus Aureliusabandoned Trajan’s principle “that they are not to be sought out,” pointed to what might come. Meanwhile,Apologistssuch...
Tatian submitted that the Judeo-Christian tradition furnished Greek moral philosophy with everything it contained of value; the former, however, exhibited a selflessness that was markedly absent from the latter. For this defensive work, he is sometimes counted among the Christian Apologists of the...