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"Apologetics" Quotes from Famous Books

... if they are only called into action. And the first condition of calling wisdom and goodwill into effective existence is to recognize the seriousness of the problem and the utter futility of trying to force its solution by impatient and hurried methods. Pro-Japanese apologetics is dangerous; it obscures the realities of the situation. An irritated anti-Japanism that would hasten the solution of the Chinese problem merely by attacking Japan is equally fatal to discovering and applying a ...

— China, Japan and the U.S.A. - Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing - on the Washington Conference • John Dewey

... will not hold good for the second couple. The party loyalists can hardly have been reduced to such insignificant proportions. Why, then, should they have hit upon the odd device of delivering their apologetics in pairs? Is suspicion so rampant in their ranks that no one man can be trusted? Is the drawing up of a reply to the insurgents so ticklish a business that two heads are needed for its satisfactory performance? Or are we to see in this circumstance merely another sign of ...

— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various

... the Resurrection of Jesus is characterized by a vigorous intellectual grasp of the subject. The author presents a most assuring and comforting contribution to Christian apologetics. It is a work that will not only meet the demands of the scholarly and thoughtful, but minister to those who ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... of Christian apologetics towards the ground of religious experience, a recoil produced by the pressure of scientific criticism upon other supports ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

Words linked to "Apologetics" : theology, divinity