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Definition of Apologists
1. apologist [n] - See also: apologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apologists
Literary usage of Apologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(2) The apologists are most of them philosophic in their treatment of ... We must
not always accept the view given to outsiders by the apologists, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The apologetic material developed by what one may call the more philosophical of
the apologists (Aristides, Athenagoras, Tatian, ..."
3. A History of the Christian Church by Williston Walker (1918)
"THE apologists These charges against Christians, and the hostile attitude of the
Roman government, aroused a number of literary defenders, who are known as ..."
4. A Handbook of Patrology by Joseph Tixeront (1920)
"The five volumes devoted to St. Justin were published in a third edition in
1876-1881. The individual edition of each of the apologists will be pointed out ..."
5. Christianity and the Roman Empire by William Edward Addis (1893)
"For what man wanted, was, in the eves of the apologists, not redemption, ...
That being given, the rest was in his own power, for the apologists, ..."
6. History of Ancient Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband (1899)
"The apologists undertook to accomplish this. On the other hand, the unity and
purity of the Christian conceptions threatened to be lost with the spreading ..."
7. A Critical History of Christian Literature and Doctrine: From the Death of by James Donaldson (1866)
"The first apologists presented their apologies to that emperor. ... There were
many other writers besides the apologists, and the apologists wrote other ..."
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