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5 unusual facts about apologetics


Apologetics

One of the earliest Buddhist apologetic texts is The Questions of King Milinda, which deals with ethical and intellectual problems.

Auguste-François Maunoury

His only contribution to Apologetics is a volume entitled Soirées d'Automne, ou la Religion prouvée aux gens du monde (Paris, 1887).

Bahá'í literature

Bahá'í literature, like much religious text, covers a variety of topics and forms, including scripture and inspiration, interpretation, history and biography, introduction and study materials, and apologia.

Francis Hosier

It is an apology for the failure of Hosier's earlier mission, and seeks to absolve Hosier of having shown a lack of initiative, blaming rather Admiralty orders "not to fight", which were obeyed only "against his heart's warm motion", having been "sent in this foul clime to languish".

John Bergsma

He has written several scholarly articles, some of which were co-authored by Catholic apologist and theologist Dr. Scott Hahn.


John Doget

The neoplatonic texts cited by Doget, which include Marsilio Ficino's Latin version of the Pimander, or Poemander, of Hermes Trismegistus, are seen through the prism of Christian apologetics, and the Phaedo was no doubt chosen in the first place as a vehicle for his commentary because it could be presented as a mythologized version of Christian doctrine.

Karl Joseph Schulte

He was a repetitor at the Collegio Leonino and Major Seminary of Paderborn from 1901 to 1905, whence he began teaching theology, canon law, and apologetics at the Theological Faculty of Paderborn.

Leonard of Chios

His best-known writings are the two letters mentioned above and an apologetical tract in answer to the humanist Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini.

Lionel Luckhoo

His spiritual life and apologetics contributions have been discussed in the writings of Ross Clifford and Lee Strobel.

Robert M. Bowman, Jr.

In his early years of studying theology and apologetics, Bowman was influenced by a variety of Christian apologists, including C. S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, and John Warwick Montgomery.

Ross Clifford

His MA thesis examined the apologetics arguments of eight lawyers concerning the resurrection of Christ.

Walter Künneth

After his official Habilitation in Berlin in 1930, he held private lectures in Theology and Apologetics.


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