Petrine apologetics: Hope, imagination, and forms of life
In practice, apologetics is all about arguments. The danger in this lies in the fact that hope, a key feature of the classic apologetics proof-text (1 Pet 3:15), gets overlooked. This article suggests that the task of apologetics must be grounded in an eschatological hope—one that manifests itself i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2014
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Review and expositor
Year: 2014, Volume: 111, Issue: 3, Pages: 274-280 |
| Further subjects: | B
Imagination
B Despair B Apologetics B Hope B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | In practice, apologetics is all about arguments. The danger in this lies in the fact that hope, a key feature of the classic apologetics proof-text (1 Pet 3:15), gets overlooked. This article suggests that the task of apologetics must be grounded in an eschatological hope—one that manifests itself in the embodied forms of life that believers inhabit. Moreover, since imagination is the faculty that gives concrete form to hope, the most urgent task of apologetics in the twenty-first century is not the perpetuation of ratiocination, but the recovery of lively imaginations. Specifically, we are to imagine and lead lives of quiet moral confidence in cultures whose flirtation with despair leaves them bereft of meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637314533292 |