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The Evidences of the Christian Religion by Joseph Addison; The Evidence of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated (1786) by James Beattie; A View of the evidences of Christianity in three parts (1794) by William Paley; Génie du christianisme (1802) (English: The Genius of Christianity) by François-René de Chateaubriand
His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics. He is best known for his apologetic works, widely read during the Renaissance by humanists , who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero".
Christian apologetics (Ancient Greek: ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") [1] is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. [2]Christian apologetics have taken many forms over the centuries, starting with Paul the Apostle in the early church and Patristic writers such as Origen, Augustine of Hippo, Justin Martyr and Tertullian, then continuing with writers ...
Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, including early Christian art and architecture and Christian media. Images of Jesus and narrative scenes from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play a part in the art of most denominations.
Christian apologetics combines Christian theology, natural theology, [15] and philosophy in an attempt to present a rational basis for the Christian faith, to defend the faith against objections and misrepresentation, and to show that the Christian doctrine is the only world-view that is faultless and consistent with all fundamental knowledge ...
According to art historian André Grabar, the first known Christian images emerge from about AD 200, [52] though there is some literary evidence that small domestic images were used earlier. Although many Hellenised Jews seem, as at the Dura-Europos synagogue , to have had images of religious figures, the traditional Mosaic prohibition of ...
Pages in category "Christian apologetic works" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Leirvik, Oddbjørn. 2001. "History as a Literary Weapon: The Gospel of Barnabas in Muslim-Christian Polemics." Studia Theologica 54: 4-26. Watt, William Montgomery. 1991. Muslim-Christian Encounters: Perceptions and Misperceptions. Routledge, London & New York. Westerlund, David. 2003. "Ahmed Deedat's Theology of Religion: Apologetics Through ...