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APOLOGETICS, in theology, the systematic statement of the grounds which Christians allege for belief in (at least) a supernatural revelation and a divine redemption (cf. e.g. Heb. i. 1-3). The majority of apologists in the past have further believed in an infa ...

APOLOGUE (from the Gr. dTroXoyos, a statement or account), a short fable or allegorical story, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for some moral doctrine or to convey some useful lesson. One of the best known is that of Jotham in the Book of Judges (ix. 7-15

... &c., e.g. Justin Martyr's Apology or J. H. Newman's Apologia pro vita sua. (See APOLOGETICS.)

... d are, at least in design, pure reactions involving no new thoughts. Apart from apologetics or single doctrines like that of the Atone- proposals ment, the task of rethinking Christian theology upon to unity the great scale has been left chiefly to German scie ...

... home and foreign missions. He lectured on the Old and New Testaments, theology, apologetics and the history of the church in the i8th century. In 1821 appeared his first work, Sufismus, sive theosophia Persarum panlheistica; following the same line of study he ...