apologetics

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Apologetics is a branch of Christianity whose adherents actively defend their faith, and Ham is a robust debater.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2017

In 1904�the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary�John Foster began his college career in Princeton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apologetics, a defence of the historical verity of the Christian religion in opposition to the rationalist and mythical theories.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

If these Six Conversions are read without the balancing of something deeper they have the superficial look that belongs of necessity to Apologetics.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie