Apologetics; A Course of Lectures by Henry B. Smith

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Philosophy of all History can only be found in that which forms the center and head of Christianity, viz., That in the Person and Work and Church of the Incarnate God all the vital problems of Human Nature and Destiny find their best and only real solution?that Christianity is, in short, the one Absolute System of Truth. Such a vindication of Christianity forms the scope of Apologetics. 2. Fuller Distribution of the Subject. First DIVISION.?Fundamental Apologetics. Pre- ambula Fidei, or Rational Theology. This comprises the essential truths of Religion and Ethics against the anti-religious schemes of speculation. Book A.?The Underlying Religious Question. The Being and Nature of God as a Conscious Intelligence, personal and ethical, against anti-theistic and anti-religious theories: Materialism, Atheism, Pantheism. Or, the Being and Nature of God: with the arguments a priori and a posteriori against the objections of anti-theists. Here efficient and final causes are to be vindicated. Book B.?The Cosmological Question. Creation by Fiat: its order and end. It is not to be expected that a complete vindication on all of these points will be brought within any one course, or be given by any one man. But this scope is forced on us by the present attitude of the subject and of infidelity, in its last forms and battles?the real battle of Armageddon and the true Anti-Christ. Creation against anti-theistic Evolution and Development?as emanation?development by matter and motion. Creation against the Infinite Series. Successive Creations. There may be development and evolution as well as fiat. Book C.?The Anthropological Question. Man's nature?as spiritual or only material. Relation of man to nature and the brutes that perish. Man as free agent...