基督教辨惑學 

基督教辨惑学(英語:Christian apologetics,这个词来源于希腊语词汇ἀπολογία,意为“以言语辩护”),或称基督教护教学,是基督教神学的一个分支领域,主要是为了展现基督教信仰的理性基础,针对批评而进行辩护,并揭露其他类型世界观中可察觉的缺陷[1]。基督教辨惑学具有多种形式。从使徒保罗开始以来的若干世纪里,相关人物包括俄利根奥古斯丁等作家以及为现代教会团体做出贡献的G·K·切斯特顿C·S·刘易斯等。辨惑家以历史证据、哲学逻辑论证、科学发现以及其他学科的论证为基础,站在基督教的立场上进行辨惑。术语“基督教辩论术”(Christian polemics)则被用于表示护教士批判、攻击其他信仰系统的方式。[2]

  1. ^ John M. Frame. Apologetics to the Glory of God. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian & Reformed. 1994. ISBN 978-0875522432. 
  2. ^ Maijastina Kahlos, Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430 (Ashgate, 2007), pp. 7–9 et passim; Ernestine van der Wall, "Ways of Polemicizing: The Power of Tradition in Christian Polemics," in Religious Polemics in Context. Papers Presented to the Second International Conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (Van Gorcum, 2004), p. 401ff.; Thomas E. Burman, Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c.1050-1200 (Brill, 1994), p. 62 (on medieval Christian polemic against Islam); Jeremy Salt, "Imperial and the Christian Polemic," in Imperialism, Evangelism and the Ottoman Armenians, 1878–1896 (Frank Cass, 1993) p. 9ff.; Alan F. Segal, "Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism," in Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity: Separation and Polemic (Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 1986), p. 153;Tim Hegedus, Early Christianity and Ancient Astrology (Peter Lang, 2007), p. 23; Kathy L. Gaca, "Paul's Uncommon Declaration in Romans I:18–32 and Its Problematic Legacy for Pagan and Christian Relations," in Early Patristic Readings of Romans (T&T Clark, 2005), p. 1; Arieh Kofsky, Eusebius of Caesarea against Paganism (Brill, 2000), p. 4.



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