Some Thoughts On Catholic Apologetics: a plea for interpretation

Some Thoughts On Catholic Apologetics: a plea for interpretation

Author: Watkin, E. I. (Edward Ingram), 1888-1981

Year: 1915

Catholic Library series #17 CONTENTS SECTION I Need and Place of a General Outlook i SECTION II Flood of Infidelity in the Immediate Past Signs of Better Things to Come 3 SECTION III Pressing Need to Interpret the Catholic Faith to the Modern World 9 SECTION IV Instances of Interpretation 18 SECTION V Beneficial Effects of Interpretation on Catholicism and on Catholic Theology 20 SECTION VI The Argument from Analogy . . . . .24 SECTION VII Difficulties of Revelation illustrated by Difficulties arising out of the Natural Order. Further Illustrations from Analogy 25 SECTION VIII Some Further Analogies 28 SECTION IX The Argument from Analogy illustrated by the Analogy between Human and Divine Love 31 SECTION X Apologetic from the Nature and History of the Church 41 SECTION XI Apologetic from Comparative Religion .... 42 SECTION XII A Discussion of Difficulties against Christian Theism derived from the Phenomena of (Nature and Human History : i.e. Suffering and Evil 44 SECTION XIII Seven Leading Tendencies of Modern Thought hostile to Catholicism. Their Treatment by Apologetic . . 51 SECTION XIV These Tendencies are mutually Inconsistent, being often Contradictory Exaggerations 54 SECT