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He makes an even greater argument in referring to the pagan gods as demons, whose sole purpose is the subversion and destruction of mankind. They corrupt the souls of men by passions and lusts and rather successfully procuring "for themselves a proper diet of fumes and blood offered to their statues' images."
Greek text of Origen's apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, which is considered to be the most important work of early Christian apologetics [1] [2]. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a ...
Lewis's trilemma is an apologetic argument traditionally used to argue for the divinity of Jesus by postulating that the only alternatives were that he was evil or mad. [1] One version was popularized by University of Oxford literary scholar and writer C. S. Lewis in a BBC radio talk and in his writings.
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 ...
Scholion by Theodore Bar Konai (8th century, Church of the East); The Book of Proof and the Book of Questions and Answers by Ammar al-Basri (9th century, Church of the East); On the Proof of the Christian Religion and other works by Abu Raita al-Takriti (9th century, Syriac Orthodox)
The following individuals are all known to a significant degree for their work in the field of Christian apologetics ... People of the Christian countercult movement
Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing. General: List of apologetic works Polemic
The logical argument from evil argued by J. L. Mackie, and to which the free-will defense responds, is an argument against the existence of God based on the idea that a logical contradiction exists between four theological tenets often attributes to God. Specifically, the argument from evil asserts that the following set of propositions are, by ...