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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology in the United Free Church College, Glasgow, for his treatise on "The Problem of the Old Testament," which was published in 1906 as Volume III of the Bross Library.

From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah

Apologetics or harmonization has its rights, but it is a different department of study, and should be treated by itself, or in connection with exegesis of the Bible.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac