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词汇 apologetics
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Definition of apologetics in English:

apologetics

plural nounəpɒləˈdʒɛtɪksəˌpɑləˈdʒɛdɪks
  • treated as singular or plural Reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine.

    (多指为理论或宗教教义所做的)缜密的辩解(或辩护)

    apologetics for the slave trade are quite out of order

    为贩卖奴隶所做的辩护极不妥当。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The editor of this collection of essays contends that the standard works in seminary apologetics have become dated in light of contemporary developments in analytical philosophy.
    • To speak too much as though faith were the result of a process of reasoning is a hazard built into apologetics.
    • Another reason for commending the book is that it represents the first major response by competent Christian scholars to the new challenge of more scholarly Mormon apologetics.
    • Now it is out of such apologies for the foundations of Christian belief that the science of apologetics has taken form.
    • During the same period he also taught apologetics, church history, and patristics in the Bergamo seminary and had to survive a brief and unjust accusation of sympathy with Modernists.
    • Uninterested in apologetics and theodicy, Carroll is nonetheless obsessed with the God she finds in the natural world.
    • Thirdly, and despite all the religious apologetics that I mentioned in the beginning, the humanitarian relief effort I think has been remarkably free of sectarian division.
    • Even unapologetic apologetics can distort the content of the theology.
    • The methods of apologetics outlined above - natural theology and history - are primarily scientific.
    • Nevertheless, the issues he addresses and his treatment of them have important implications for Christian thinkers in other domains such as theology, apologetics, and public policy.
    • Various forms of theistic apologetics serve this function (among others).
    • The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine - something of a pious cold fish.
    • He demonstrates this by taking up two topics often seen as points of divergence and conflict: apologetics and biblical exegesis.
    • I can't read Lewis now; I devoured him as a young man, as a young priest, I loved his kind of argumentative certainties, his apologetics; can't stand it now.
    • Perhaps Dostoyevsky owes his unique brand of confrontational apologetics to this messy faith.
    • But it's astounding that a man who specializes in supposedly scientific apologetics, makes fundamental errors with even high-school level genetics.
    • This is not Catholic or Christian apologetics, but serious and sophisticated scholarship.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from apologetic.

Definition of apologetics in US English:

apologetics

plural nounəˌpɑləˈdʒɛdɪksəˌpäləˈjediks
  • treated as singular or plural Reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine.

    (多指为理论或宗教教义所做的)缜密的辩解(或辩护)

    free market apologetics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perhaps Dostoyevsky owes his unique brand of confrontational apologetics to this messy faith.
    • The editor of this collection of essays contends that the standard works in seminary apologetics have become dated in light of contemporary developments in analytical philosophy.
    • But it's astounding that a man who specializes in supposedly scientific apologetics, makes fundamental errors with even high-school level genetics.
    • This is not Catholic or Christian apologetics, but serious and sophisticated scholarship.
    • Now it is out of such apologies for the foundations of Christian belief that the science of apologetics has taken form.
    • Thirdly, and despite all the religious apologetics that I mentioned in the beginning, the humanitarian relief effort I think has been remarkably free of sectarian division.
    • During the same period he also taught apologetics, church history, and patristics in the Bergamo seminary and had to survive a brief and unjust accusation of sympathy with Modernists.
    • Nevertheless, the issues he addresses and his treatment of them have important implications for Christian thinkers in other domains such as theology, apologetics, and public policy.
    • Uninterested in apologetics and theodicy, Carroll is nonetheless obsessed with the God she finds in the natural world.
    • The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine - something of a pious cold fish.
    • To speak too much as though faith were the result of a process of reasoning is a hazard built into apologetics.
    • He demonstrates this by taking up two topics often seen as points of divergence and conflict: apologetics and biblical exegesis.
    • The methods of apologetics outlined above - natural theology and history - are primarily scientific.
    • Various forms of theistic apologetics serve this function (among others).
    • Another reason for commending the book is that it represents the first major response by competent Christian scholars to the new challenge of more scholarly Mormon apologetics.
    • I can't read Lewis now; I devoured him as a young man, as a young priest, I loved his kind of argumentative certainties, his apologetics; can't stand it now.
    • Even unapologetic apologetics can distort the content of the theology.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from apologetic.

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