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Overcoming Obstacles

… Saint working in the field is doing some kind of faithful apologetics (a term we’ll define in a moment). It’s … more broadly conceived. It’s to acknowledge the important apologetic work that’s already been done and to push that …

The Book of Mormon and the Academy

… language of its readers that it does its marvelous work. Apologetics as an Enterprise The preceding sections all deal … question of historicity that threatens to compromise the apologetic task. If the work of apologists addresses this one …

Latter-day Saint Christianity

… BC, has written the following in his book, Humble Apologetics : If I go no further than to think that it’s okay … 110; April 2001, 4. [4] John Gordon Stackhouse, Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today (New York and Oxford: … Oxford University Press, 2002), 41. [5] Stackhouse, Humble Apologetics , 72–73; emphasis in original. [6] Stackhouse, …

Christianity in the Second Century

… Christian responses to pagan opposition: martyrdom and apologetics. Martyrdom In approximately AD 110, a Christian … positions of their pagan and Jewish opponents. We have apologetic literature that survives from the second century …

A Celebration of Interfaith Activity

… decided in that first gathering that our purpose was not apologetic—we were not there to defend our own faith. Nor was … but kind and pleasant personality. Those steeped in apologetics, whether Latter-day Saint or evangelical, face an …

The Train Ride

… Saint faith, fostering generations of biblical studies, apologetics, and, in some cases, critics of Church practice … our methods to keep up with the changing times,” he wrote apologetically to an interested investigator. [9] As …

Mormon-Evangelical Dialogue

… Evangelicalism, by many ex-Mormons, and by some more apologetically minded or very traditional Latter-day Saints. … dialogue in which anything that even begins to hint of apologetics for one’s faith is censored as an egregious …

Teaching Legacy: Hugh Nibley

… He began publishing on two fronts. First, he published apologetic articles for a Mormon audience, constructing … peace" (D&C 98:16). His social criticism, like his apologetics, was rooted in his understanding of Mormon …

Joseph Smith’s Developing Relationship with the Apocrypha

… in the Church and whose interests may be classified as apologetic. These approaches span the range of being … Bible, Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph’s mother, would later claim apologetically that Joseph “never read the Bible through in … passages. [8] Some of these early reminisces have obvious apologetic and explanatory interests, and one can readily …

Submit Yourselves . . . as unto the Lord

… long-suffering, sheepish, modest, henpecked, shrinking, apologetic, gentle, humble, subservient, and forbearing. When … obedience to the Father. But henpecked, spineless, and apologetic? Certainly we do not conclude from Paul’s … trait, why do we think it means sheepish, spineless, and apologetic when it is used to describe women? Submission is …