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Apologeticus (Latin: Apologeticum or Apologeticus) [1] is a text attributed to Tertullian according to Christian tradition, [2] consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity , demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated like all other sects of the Roman Empire .
An abridged, free translation into Old English, known as the Old English Orosius, previously erroneously attributed to King Alfred and now thought to have been done in the early tenth century. [45] [46] [47] An Arabic translation, known as Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh, reputedly made during the reign of al-Hakam II of Córdoba. This is one of the very ...
Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, apología, 'speaking in defense') is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse.
Walton appears to have been a canon of Osney Abbey in 1410, when he completed his verse-translation of the De Consolatione Philosophiæ of Boethius.This work was undertaken at the request of Elizabeth Berkeley; she, possibly, was the daughter of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, patron of John de Trevisa, who married Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.
Apologeticus or Apology (c. AD 197) of Tertullian; Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864), a defense of Catholicism by John Henry Newman; Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531), a defense of Lutheranism by Philipp Melanchthon
The ancient Greek poet Hesiod (between 750 and 650 BC) describes in his Theogony the birth of the gods and creation of the world, [web 4] which became an "ur-text for programmatic, first-person epiphanic narratives in Greek literature," [7] [note 1] but also "explores the necessary limitations placed on human access to the divine."
The "Johannine Comma" is a short clause found in 1 John 5:7–8.. The King James Bible (1611) contains the Johannine comma. [10]Erasmus omitted the text of the Johannine Comma from his first and second editions of the Greek-Latin New Testament (the Novum Instrumentum omne) because it was not in his Greek manuscripts.
Tractatus Apologeticus integritatem Societatis de Rosea Cruce defendens, &c., Leyden, 1617. Tractatus Theologo-philosophicus, &c., Oppenheim, 1617. The date is given in a chronogram. This treatise "a Rudolfo Otreb Britanno" (where Rudolf Otreb is an anagram of Robert Floud) is dedicated to the Rosicrucian Fraternity.