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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.

Edward John Carnell

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

Edward John Carnell

Edward John Carnell

Edward John Carnell

Born: June 28, 1919

Died: April 25, 1967 (aged 47)

Bio: 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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