Apologists . Les apologistes grecs. Paris: Hachette,...

Literature defending the Jewish religion. In the past Jewish apologetic was produced against Paganism, Christianity and Islam, but today is more likely to be written against secular materialism, to combat *anti-Semitism and to defend the State of...

APOLOGETICS. [This entry, which is restricted to consideration of monotheistic religions, places religious apologetics in comparative perspective and examines the difference between apologetics and polemics.] Apologetics is other-directed communication...

Patristic Philosophy s Exegesis and Theology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,...

Apologists are authors, writers, editors of scientific logs or academic journals, and leaders known for taking on the points in arguments, conflicts or positions that are either placed under popular scrutinies or viewed under persecutory examinations....

A History of Apologetics. 2d edition. By Avery Cardinal Dulles. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2005, 417 pp., $18.95. The first edition of this book came out while I was midway through my doctoral program at Southwestern Seminary. I read it then, but I remember...

For the Christian it is axiomatic that faith is a gift from God, a grace. Since the Council of Orange in the sixth century, the Church has consistently taught that even the first beginnings of faith depend on the working of the Holy...

Getting fired wasn't the first time Don Imus had hit rock bottom.Like his stumble into addiction in the 1980s, Imus fell into a personal purgatory after calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos.""I analogize it to being an alcoholic and a drug addict,...

Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson told a Jewish group Monday that earning money is "part of the Jewish tradition," a remark for which he later apologized."I'm in the private sector and for the first time in my life I'm earning money," Thompson told the Religious...