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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Christian Apologetics"”.
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Christian apologetics in transition : from C. S. Lewis to Frederick Buechner and Susan Howatch.
Christian apologetics—the justification of Christian truth-claims—constitute a fundamental dimension in the writings of C. S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, and Susan Howatch. Radical changes in epistemology during the latter half of the twentieth century serve as a point of contrast dividing Lewis' …
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From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
This dissertation considers an approach toward Christian apologetics that tests the veracity of truth-claims from within the scope of entire worldviews, demonstrating how it is an effective approach for validating Christianity’s truthfulness, revealing other worldview’s falseness, and neutralizing …
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Shifting landscapes: Christian apologetics and the gradual restriction of dhimmi social religious liberties from the Arab-Muslim conquests to the Abbasid era
… research study explores the changes of conquered Christians’ social-religious liberties from the first interactions between Christians and Arab-Muslims during the conquests c. A.D. 630 through the the ‘Abbasid era c. A.D. 850. Examining the development of Christian apologetic interaction over time …
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Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement
… is congruent with social epistemology as well as Christian apologetics. Chapter 1 introduces the epistemology of disagreement, giving attention to the concepts of disagreement found in the literature on religious diversity. This introduction also demonstrates that the two responses to disagreement …
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The problem of faith and the self: the interplay between literary art, apologetics and hermeneutics in C.S. Lewis's religious narratives
… by twofold enterprise—imaginative writing and Christian apologetics, this thesis aims to undertake a comprehensive reception of Lewis’s works by considering carefully the inter-mixture of literary art and Christian apologetics within the texts and the relevance of the reader’s role to the …
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A Comparative Critique of the Moral Philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre and John Hare
… the relationship between moral philosophy and apologetics and presents the thesis of the dissertation. Chapter 2 surveys the Aristotelian elements of MacIntyre’s moral philosophy and provides an argument that these aspects of MacIntyre’s philosophy provide his Aristotelianism with significant …
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An invitation to thought: ambiguity in the apologetic of C. S. Lewis
… That role is almost entirely unexplored within Christian apologetics and Lewis studies. Through an exposition of examples from selected primary works, I will argue that the ambiguity evidenced in Lewis, while at times errant, is often employed with great strategic value, carrying the reader …
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Children’s Catechisms as Resources for Discipleship and Apologetics in England, 1549–1642
… faith and were used apologetically to defend Christian doctrine within the church and family in England from 1549 to 1642. The catechisms examined are exclusive to the Book of Common Prayer. Chapter 2 presents a survey of catechisms used specifically with children focusing on discipleship and …
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Restoring Reason: Theology of Logic in Origen of Alexandria
… (fl. AD 184–253/4) has contributed the first Christian theological interpretation of logic. He has, beginning in his systematic theology On First Principles, interpreted logic as a simulation of the Logos, communicated by Christ, in and through the divine hypostases of God as Trinity. And he …