To: SirLinksalot
BUT YOU DO APOLOGETICS SIR, YOU DO. You have to go to the eighth definition on a "Define:apologetics" google to get a non-religious meaning, and that definition is from Wikipedia, hence suspect. Apologetics is "defense of religious belief":
- The term apologetics comes from the Greek apologia, which means "defense" or "answer." Apologetics is the task of defending a particular idea or belief system and answering its critics. The origin of the concept of apologetics lies in the beginnings of Christianity. Between the second and fourth century, a number of Christian teachers wrote defenses of Christianity against pagan critics.
- The defense of the Christian faith on intellectual grounds by trained theologians and philosophers.
- A conscious, articulated defense of the claims of the Christian Faith. The two main apologetic methods are classical (evidential) and presuppositional.
- The branch of theology which deals with the defensive facts and proofs of Christianity
- Argumentative defence. That part of theology which tries to show the reasonableness of Christian faith and to refute objections to it.
- an evangelistic approach that is concerned with increasing understanding of Christianity by answering reasonable questions about the faith (Whittaker).
- the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines
- Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position. Someone who engages in apologetics is called an apologist.The term comes from the Greek word apologia (?πolog?a), meaning the defense of a position against an attack, not from the English word apology, which is exclusively understood as a defensive plea for forgiveness for an action that is open to blame.
362 posted on
07/23/2006 8:17:28 AM PDT by
Coyoteman
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To: Coyoteman
Wikipedia, hence suspect. Apologetics is "defense of religious belief":
PRECISELY. BELIEF IN HUMAN LIFE COMING FROM NATURAL SELECTION PLUS RANDOM MUTATION *IS*, FOR ME, AKIN TO RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
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