Outlines of Christian Apologetics: For Use in Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Nichols, Hermann Schultz Alfred Bull

 
9781333768706: Outlines of Christian Apologetics: For Use in Lectures (Classic Reprint)

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I. Apologetics, as a theological science, aims at the scientific comprehension of the nature of Christianity and of its place in the spiritual development of man. It seeks to maintain the validity of the religious view of the world over against the tendencies that would disown religion, and to establish Christianity's claim to be, for our age as for others, the perfect embodiment of religion over against those who dispute its permanent significance. This task can be achieved only within certain carefully drawn limits. Faith is a practical personal conviction and establishes its claims by the vigor and happiness that spring from it (evidence of the Spirit and of power). We can neither know God as we know the world, nor can religious truths be made evident to every thinking man by the method of abstract argument as can logical or mathematical ones which are postulated by the mind itself and hence can be deduced from it by analysis. Furthermore, every Chris tian will defend Christianity after the fashion of his special form of ecclesiastical conviction, and hold the methods current in other sects inadequate. But Christianity, as a.

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