Juvenal and Christian Apologetics in Prudentius’ Hymn to Romanus (Peristephanon 10)

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-246
Author(s):  
Thomas Tsartsidis
Keyword(s):  
Christian Apologetics

Dorothy L. Sayers, Dante, and the Modern Reader

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Chris Willerton
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Modern Reader ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Christian Apologetics

The strongest link between the medieval and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Christian apologetics are her commentaries on Dante. She was less interested in medievalism than in the medieval itself, used as a mirror of her own century. One result is that Sayers does not discuss Dante’s work in order to promote the gospel but rather finds the gospel fused into it. Her concern with reader response drives both her exposition of Dante and the Christian apologetic embedded in it: to rejoice in Dante, a reader has to suspend disbelief (and other habits of modern thought) and consider whether Christianity might be both true and desirable.

Is Jesus my Superhero?

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Andy Stirrup
Keyword(s):  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Near East ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The Relationship

This paper considers an implicit trend in youth ministry to present Jesus as the archetypal superhero and asks if this is a valid and a helpful approach. The paper examines the relationship between the biblical category of hero and the contemporary notion of superhero and a broader appreciation of the use of myth for communicating Christian apologetics as seen in Lewis and Tolkien. The starting point for the paper is that an arguable starting point for the creation of Superman is in the epic character of Hercules and the biblical hero Samson. Through an examination of biblical and other Near East material the paper calls for a deeper and more nuanced appreciation of the relevance of modern western myth in the task of communicating theological narratives and concepts.

CONTRA APIONEM AND CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

1996 ◽  
pp. 369-402 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Christian Apologetics

scholarly journals historiografía apologética en el Discurso Contra los griegos de Taciano el Sirio.

Daímon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Julián Barenstein
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The One

En este trabajo nos proponemos poner de manifiesto un aspecto poco estudiado del Contra los griegos de Taciano (circa 170); nos referimos a la introducción del discurso historiográfico en la apologética cristiana. En cumplimiento de nuestro objetivo daremos cuenta, por una parte, del carácter idiosincrático de la producción de este apologista en el contexto de la defensa de la fe cristiana en el s. II y analizaremos, por otra, lo que de acuerdo con nuestra línea de investigación es lo más relevante de su controvertido modus cogitandi: el rechazo de la Filosofía como via regia de acceso al Cristianismo para las gentes de alta cultura y la introducción del discurso historiográfico como garantía de veracidad. In this paper we propose to highlight a little studied aspect of the Discourse Against the Greeks of Taciano (circa 170); we refer to the introduction of historiographical discourse in Christian apologetics. In fulfillment of our objective we will give account, on the one hand, of the idiosyncratic character of the production of this apologist in the context of the defense of the Christian faith in the s. II and we will analyze, on the other hand, what according to our line of research is the most relevant of his controversial modus cogitandi: the rejection of Philosophy as a way of access to Christianity for people of high culture and the introduction of the historiographical discourse as a guarantee of truthfulness.

scholarly journals Music-Makers and Reformed Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Jahdiel N Perez
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The Church ◽  
Unique Power

ABSTRACT: If Reformed theology hopes to impact contemporary and future societies as much as possible it will have to harness the unique power of music to influence the world beyond the walls of the Church. In this essay, I want to draw attention to the ways in which Christianity, in general, and Reformed theology, in particular, are criticized through music and what we can do to respond. I will introduce an approach to Christian apologetics, which I call sonic-apologetics that enables our music-makers to defend the faith musically. In the first part of this paper, I will discuss five problems to which sonic-apologetics is an answer. This will anchor the second part of this essay, in which I construct sonic-apologetics from three notions: (1) methodological emphasis on effects, (2) genres of expression, and (3) the distinction between linear and angled apologetic responses. In the final part of this essay, I present two different study cases of sonic-apologetics. Nothing about what I will discuss regarding sonic-apologetics changing existing liturgical norms of Christian churches, especially Reformed ones. It does, however, call for those producing and performing music in these churches to direct their music-making interests and abilities toward the world outside the church walls. KEYWORDS: reformed theology, music, sonic-apologetics.

scholarly journals The Polemic Between J. Searle and D. Dennett from the Perspective of Christian Apologetics

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-147
Author(s):  
Анатолий Анатольевич Парпара
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Room ◽  
World Views ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Christian Apologetics

В статье излагаются взгляды известных философов Дж. Сёрла и Д. Деннета на природу сознания и полемика между ними. Оба автора являются материалистами, однако принадлежат к различным течениям: редукционизму (Деннет) и антиредукционизму (Сёрл): первое утверждает, что явления сознания без остатка сводятся к физической реальности, второе - что они обладают онтологической несводимостью. Рассматриваются мировоззренческие основания обоих мыслителей, в том числе отношение к религии, и кратко разбираются основные теоретические конструкции, которые они используют: эмерджентизм, «китайская комната», виды редукции и субъективности по Сёрлу, «пандемониум», мемы, верификационизм и гетерофеноменология по Деннету. Показано, что споры между редукционистами и антиредукционистами свидетельствуют о наличии существенных противоречий в современном материализме, которые могут быть использованы христианской апологетикой как для критических целей, так и в качестве отправной точки для построения диалога. The article discusses the views of J. R. Searle and D. C. Dennett on the nature of consciousness and their polemic. Both philosophers are materialists but take different positions on the problem of consciousness: Dennett claims that mental phenomena can be completely reduced to physical (reductionism), while Searl maintains ontological irreducibility of the former (antireductionism). The author states their world views, including attitudes towards religion, and briefly discusses the main theoretic constructs they use: emergentism, the Chinese room, types of reduction and subjectivity according to Searle, pandemonium, memes, verificationism and heterophenomenology according to Dennett. It is shown that discussions between reductionists and antireductionists reveal substantial contradictions in contemporary materialism, which may by used by Christian apologetics not only for critics, but as a starting point for a dialog as well.

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