An apologetics/polemics guide -- simply resource list not evaluations
MJ. Smith
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Step 1: Add position summaries similar to those proposed in https://community.logos.com/forums/t/188442.aspx to the Lexham Survey of Theology
Step 2: Build an apologetics guide with pro (apologetics) and con (polemics) for each of the positions from the LST summary. It would contain 4 sections:
1. Church documents - creeds, catechisms, confessions ... with references to the particular position
2. Theologians with references to the particular position
3. Bible references drawn from the church documents and theologians with the option to show in order of frequency
4. Apologetic/polemic resources split between historic and contemporary -- this would require new coding.
Step 2: Build an apologetics guide with pro (apologetics) and con (polemics) for each of the positions from the LST summary. It would contain 4 sections:
1. Church documents - creeds, catechisms, confessions ... with references to the particular position
2. Theologians with references to the particular position
3. Bible references drawn from the church documents and theologians with the option to show in order of frequency
4. Apologetic/polemic resources split between historic and contemporary -- this would require new coding.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I think an Apologetics Guide would be great.
I would go a bit further and say this could be a sort of crossover effort with the Counseling Guide, too. In my experience, and that of numerous colleagues and friends, it can be hard to know how to answer or what to say to people when they start walking away from the faith because of their own preconceptions and misunderstandings.0
