A History of Apologetics

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2005-08-30
Publisher(s): Ignatius Press
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Summary

"Cardinal Avery Dulles's A History of Apologetics provides a masterful overview of Christian apologetics, from its beginning in the New Testament through the Middle Ages and on to the present resurgence of apologetics among Catholics and Protestants. Dulles shows how Christian apologists have at times both criticized and drawn from their intellectual surroundings to present the reason-ableness of Christian belief."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Avery Dulles is presently an advisor to the Committee on Doctrine of the NCCB, and is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD, by Dr. Timothy George ix
ABBREVIATIONS xv
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xix
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION xxv
1 APOLOGETICS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 1(26)
Apologetical Motifs in the Early Tradition
1(10)
The Earliest Preaching
2(2)
Apologetic Development
4(7)
The Ascension
4(1)
The Passion
5(2)
The Origins of Jesus
7(1)
The Public Life
7(3)
The Miracles of Jesus
10(1)
Changing Contexts: Acts, Paul, and Hebrews
11(5)
Acts
11(3)
Paul
14(1)
Hebrews
15(1)
The Four Evangelists as Apologists
16(7)
Mark
16(2)
Matthew
18(1)
Luke-Acts
19(2)
John
21(2)
Conclusion
23(4)
2 THE PATRISTIC ERA 27(64)
Apologists of the Second Century
30(8)
The Alexandrians of the Third Century
38(9)
Latin Apologists of the Third Century
47(8)
Latin Apologists of the Fourth Century
55(7)
Greek Apologists of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
62(11)
Augustine and His Disciples
73(14)
Conclusion
87(4)
3 THE MIDDLE AGES 91(54)
Disputes with Saracens in Muslim Territory: 600-1000
92(3)
Disputes with Saracens and Jews in Western Europe: 600-1100
95(3)
Anselm
98(6)
Twelfth Century
104(7)
Thirteenth Century: St. Thomas Aquinas
111(11)
Missionary Apologists: 1250-1320
122(5)
Scholasticism after St. Thomas Aquinas
127(6)
Fifteenth-Century Apologists
133(9)
Conclusion
142(3)
4 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY THROUGH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 145(64)
The Protestant Reformers
146(4)
The Counter-Reformation and Baroque Scholasticism
150(6)
France before 1650
156(4)
France in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
160(13)
Seventeenth-Century Holland
173(3)
England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
176(14)
Germany in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
190(6)
Catholic Apologetics in France and Italy
196(7)
Eighteenth-Century Scholasticism
203(2)
Conclusion
205(4)
5 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 209(62)
Protestantism: 1800-1850
210(16)
Germany
210(7)
Denmark
217(5)
Great Britain
222(4)
Catholicism: 1800-1850
226(18)
France
226(11)
Germany
237(3)
Spain and Italy
240(4)
English-Speaking Catholics: 1800-1900
244(10)
England
244(7)
The United States
251(3)
Catholicism in Continental Europe: 1850-1900
254(7)
France and Belgium: Vatican Council I
254(6)
Germany
260(1)
Protestantism: 1850-1900
261(6)
Germany
261(3)
The English-Speaking Countries
264(3)
Conclusion
267(4)
6 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (PART ONE) 271(54)
Catholic Apologetics
271(34)
Blondel and the Modernists
271(8)
Credibility and Apologetics: Scholastic Controversies in France
279(5)
The Refutation of Rationalism
284(7)
The Apologetics of Restoration
291(6)
Teilhard de Chardin
297(5)
German Apologists
302(3)
Protestant Apologetics (1900-1950)
305(18)
Dialectical Theology
305(8)
Germany
313(3)
England
316(5)
North America
321(2)
Conclusion
323(2)
7 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (PART TWO) 325(44)
Catholicism
325(20)
Vatican II
325(1)
The Debate about Method
326(3)
Evidentialist Apologetics
329(2)
Dynamism of the Subject
331(5)
Luminosity of the Object
336(2)
Catholic Apologetics toward the Close of the Century
338(7)
Protestantism
345(20)
Ambivalence about Apologetics
345(3)
Secular Theology
348(1)
Historical Criticism and Evidence
349(4)
Renewal in Anglo-American Evangelicalism
353(6)
The Classical Method
353(3)
The Evidential Method
356(1)
The "Cumulative Case" Method
356(1)
"Presuppositional" Apologetics
357(1)
"Reformed" Epistomology
358(1)
Growing Protestant-Catholic Convergences
359(4)
Christian Faith, Philosophy, and Science
363(2)
Conclusion
365(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 369(18)
INDEX 387

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