counterapologetics

A form of counter-apologetics — A treatise or field of study critical of religious apologetics.

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nouncounterapologetics (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of counter-apologetics.

    So I wrote an encyclopedic counterapologetics book to answer that question titled Why I Became an Atheist, which I consider my magnum opus.

    2016, John Loftus, Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End
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    However, Danell, "St Paul," points out that in the later Jewish Targum on the Psalms, David applies the lordship to himself: "He [God] will make me lord of all Israel." Danell suggests that this change may reflect Jewish counterapologetics, to prevent the pasalm from being used to prove Jesus' lordship.)

    1999, Raymond Edward Brown, The Birth of the Messiah

    In addition to its enduring value as a contribution to biblical exegesis, He That Cometh is a sophisticated piece of counterapologetics—a 500-page scolding of the many modern scholars who find in the Hebrew Bible a praeparatio evangelica.

    2017, Matthew V. Novenson, The Grammar of Messianism
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