Reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine.
‘free market 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.’
‘The methods of apologetics outlined above - natural theology and history - are primarily scientific.’
‘Various forms of theistic apologetics serve this function (among others).’
‘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.’
‘He demonstrates this by taking up two topics often seen as points of divergence and conflict: apologetics and biblical exegesis.’
‘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.’
‘But it's astounding that a man who specializes in supposedly scientific apologetics, makes fundamental errors with even high-school level genetics.’
‘To speak too much as though faith were the result of a process of reasoning is a hazard built into apologetics.’
‘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.’
‘Even unapologetic apologetics can distort the content of the theology.’
‘The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine - something of a pious cold fish.’
‘This is not Catholic or Christian apologetics, but serious and sophisticated scholarship.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘Now it is out of such apologies for the foundations of Christian belief that the science of apologetics has taken form.’