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Excerpt from Outlines of Christian Apologetics: For Use in Lectures I. Apologetics, as a theological science, aims at the scientific comprehension of the nature of Christianity and of its place in the spiritual development of man. It seeks to maintain the validity of the religious view of the world over against the tendencies that would disown religion, and to establish Christianity's claim to be, for our age as for others, the perfect embodiment of religion over against those who dispute its permanent significance. This task can be achieved only within certain carefully drawn limits. Faith is a practical personal conviction and establishes its claims by the vigor and happiness that spring from it (evidence of the Spirit and of power). We can neither know God as we know the world, nor can religious truths be made evident to every thinking man by the method of abstract argument as can logical or mathematical ones which are postulated by the mind itself and hence can be deduced from it by analysis. Furthermore, every Chris tian will defend Christianity after the fashion of his special form of ecclesiastical conviction, and hold the methods current in other sects inadequate. But Christianity, as a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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