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Article: The existence of god. (Apologetics).
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- Catholic Insight
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- March 1, 2003
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In Catholic high schools and colleges several decades ago, there was a course in the Theology Department called apologetics. The word is from the Greek meaning defence. Such a course is a defence of the rationality, the reasonableness, of Catholicism. It shows that many revealed truths can be proven by philosophy also, without direct aid from revelation. And it shows that other revealed truths, though not provable by philosophy, do not contradict it, and are eminently acceptable by many philosophers as reasonable.
Some of the chief areas of apologetics deal with the existence of God, the nature of God, the immortality of the human soul, and the reasonableness of ...