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The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
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Edward John Carnell
Born:
June 28, 1919
Died:
April 25, 1967
(aged 47)
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Edward John Carnell was a prominent Christian theologian and apologist, was an ordained Baptist pastor, and served as President of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Known for:
The Case for Orthodox Theology (1959)
Christian Commitment: An Apologetic (1957)
A philosophy of the Christian religion (1952)
The burden of Søren Kierkegaard (1965)
The theology of Reinhold Niebuhr (1951)
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