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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Apologists"”.
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Training Members of Grace Fellowship a Church for All Nations to Be Effective Christian Apologists in West Palm Beach, Florida
… to become proficient Classical Christian apologists. The initiative involves the development of a comprehensive eight-week apologetic curriculum, enabling participants to articulate logical arguments for the existence of God and the evidence supporting the triune God of the Bible. Chapter …
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The Use of the Jewish Scriptures by Early Christian Greek Apologists 140-190 CE: Justin Martyr, Tatian and Theophilus of Antioch
A striking feature of some Greek Christian apologetic works of the mid-late 2C is the extent to which they make of the Jewish scriptures in their arguments, even though the scriptures were not known to any significant extent in Graeco-Roman circles before the advent of Christianity. To explore why …
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Traditional Apologetics in a Postconciliar Church: From Scholasticism to Combinationalism and Beyond
… as they emerged historically from the Church's apologists. Each of the individual apologetic systems from the past will be shown to have its own particular strengths and weaknesses. By way of contrast, I will argue that the best way to "make a defense for" the Gospel in a postconciliar church is …
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Paul’s Culturally Contextualized Apologetic
… I further argue that the first generation of apologists immediately following Paul also reprised his cultural contextualized apologetics and thus this apologetics model has merit for apologetics ministry for today. This is substantiated by assessing Paul’s use of non-canonical quotes, traces …
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Die Einstellung vorkonstantinischer Apologeten zum römischen Staat am Beispiel der römischen Frühzeit
… This thesis also refers to what Preconstantine apologists had to say about this idealized epoch of Rome at a time, in which Christianity was a religio illicita. The most important thesis here is the explosiveness of the subject for the Christian authors: their interest in the early exempla was …
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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
… numerous modern natural theologians, classical apologists and intelligent design advocates.<br/>Additionally, while popular in his day as a Christian author, this research identifies Chalmers’ verbose style of writing, limited technical acumen and the decline of Natural Theology as principal …
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Spanish Neutrality in World War II
… increasing throng of scholars, partisans, and apologists who laid siege to their Foreign Ministries demanding the release of pertinent documents.
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An Anonymous Karaite Commentary of the Fourteenth Century on the Book of Deuteronomy: Comments on Chapter Thirty-Two Edited from a Manuscript in the Sulzberger Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library with Translation and Introduction
… lexicographers, exegetes, legal authorities and apologists,2 who had graced the Karaite camp in the drawn battle with Rabbinism. Especially influential in this verbal warfare was the school at Jerusalem associated with the name of Abu Ya'qub Joseph ben Nuh3 and carried on by his students, …
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Preparing the Members of Tabernacle Baptist Church Cartersville, Georgia to Evangelize Apologetically
… and practices which guide evangelists and apologists. Chapter 4 describes the project itself, recounting the content and teaching methodology of the specific course curriculum. Chapter 5 evaluates the efficacy of the project based on completion of the specified goals. This project seeks to …
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The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors
… explained. Chapter 3 highlights theologians, apologists, and scientists in history who have understood the doctrine of divine providence as a basis for science. Chapter 4 focuses on the character of the laws of nature. Chapter 5 discusses the history of the problem of induction, including …
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Liberal education and Catholic theology
… and Catholic theology, beginning with the early apologists via Augustine and culminating in Aquinas' scholastic synthesis. This part of the study describes the synthesis which took place from early Christianity until the fifteenth century.The second part of the thesis deals with the separation of …
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Bricks Without Straw: The Mirage of Competition in The Desert of Phoenix Daily Journalism Since 1947
Contrary to the rationalizations of apologists for free enterprise, it has become almost impossible to establish a new metropolitan daily newspaper in a city with an existing morning and evening monopoly of the market. This holds true even in Sunbelt areas enjoying phenomenal growth, and the …
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Edification or Persuasion? A Comparative Analysis of the Apologetics Philosophies of Myron B. Penner and Os Guinness
… category. Penner argues that the approaches of apologists such as William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, and Douglas Groothuis are hopelessly hindered by their purported commitment to modern rationalism. To effectively navigate postmodern circumstances, he proposes an overhaul of the apologetics …
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Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation: a slab for all seasons?
… one form or another the uItimate weapons of the apologists and detractors of high-rise, and the Unites, in particular, have become the touchstone for much of the slab-building around. In view of alI this, one would expect that there exists a solid corpus of critical works explicating Le …
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From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
… concept within Christian thought and how recent apologists have taken worldview analysis as their approach to defending the faith. Chapter 3 considers the use of abductive reasoning—inference to the best explanation— within Christian apologetics, analyzing how abductive reasoning fits within the …
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The Gentile Opposition in the Wasatch Region: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
… religious and social conflict, has aroused many apologists (Mormon in the main) but has yet to find one adequate historian. Before a balanced picture of the Mormon state can be presented, there is need of many special studies. During the past two decades, a number of dissertations have appeared …
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The Emergence of Divine Simplicity in Patristic Trinitarian Theology: Origen and the Distinctive Shape of the Ante-Nicene Status Quaestionis
… Plato’s Republic and Phaedo respectively. In the apologists, divine simplicity emerged as a purely metaphysical doctrine. However, a richer interpretation of the doctrine is also available in ante-Nicene theology, as exemplified in Origen’s understanding of divine simplicity as a …
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… appears to be a formidable tool for Christian apologists in a postmodern culture, it has received surprisingly little attention and clarity in apologetic literature. Moreover, no efforts have been made to strengthen his anthropological argument by correlating it with insights from the doctrine …
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The Congo Reform Association and the beginning of Transnational Humanitarianism, 1904-1913
… acting against the wider movement. Congo apologists often claimed that the Congo reform movement was driven by the commercial ambitions of Liverpool shipping merchants, whereas the motives of the activists campaigning for reform are often perceived to be purely altruistic in nature. This …
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A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts
… or global conflict (World Wars I & II). While apologists for the pathology now evident in the implementation of the UNSNA describe its conception as an attempt, with limited indicators and blunt tools, to produce the best possible measurement system for a particular short-term historical …
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