mcgyver
Member
Just an observation here, with a question tacked on the back end...
Used to be that Apologetics (defense of the faith from attacks outside the faith) and Polemics (defense of the faith from attacks within Christianity [i.e. heresy]) were two completely different disciplines. Scholars devoted themselves primarily to either one or the other (although there was some overlap).
Seems that now however the lines have become so blurred that there really is no functional difference between the two disciplines.
Why do you think that's the case? (Has the church as a body strayed so far away from sound theology that the basics of the Christian faith need to be re-laid? Has the church allowed the world to dictate to it? A watered down gospel?)
Just curious as to what ya'll think.
Used to be that Apologetics (defense of the faith from attacks outside the faith) and Polemics (defense of the faith from attacks within Christianity [i.e. heresy]) were two completely different disciplines. Scholars devoted themselves primarily to either one or the other (although there was some overlap).
Seems that now however the lines have become so blurred that there really is no functional difference between the two disciplines.
Why do you think that's the case? (Has the church as a body strayed so far away from sound theology that the basics of the Christian faith need to be re-laid? Has the church allowed the world to dictate to it? A watered down gospel?)
Just curious as to what ya'll think.