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    4/02/2016 6:28 pm  #1

    iwpoe
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    Apologetics and Theology

    So, from my Evangelical Protestant background I have a really low image of apologetics. The way I came to understand apologetics was 'noble lies and false confidence'.

    Now That I'm older, I'm willing to look at it again, but I'm having a hard time understanding what the proper difference between apologetics and theology would even amount to. Is apologetics just theology applied to questions of particular concern for those in doubt about their faith or is it something wholly distinct from theology or what exactly?

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    4/03/2016 5:19 pm  #2

    Jeremy Taylor
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    Re: Apologetics and Theology

    I see apologetics as drawing from theology and philosophy, but apologetics is distinguished by its immediate end of providing reasons for belief and action now.

     ​You get some popular apologetics that is dubious, or at least is somewhat superficial. But you do get interesting and profound apologetics. I would say that much of the work of C. S. Lewis or Butler's Analogy falls into this category.

     

     

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