Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.

* the Apology for Origen, the first five books of which, according to the definite statement of Photius, were written by Pamphilus in prison, with the assistance of Eusebius.

" For next to God, we worship and love the Logos who is out of the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became man for our sakes, that, becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might also bring us healing " ( Second Apology, 13 ).

He refers to Justin's primary source for demonstrating scriptural proofs in the First Apology and parallel passages in the Dialogue as a " kerygma source ".

Organisations such as the Apology Alliance and Adoption Loss Adult Support have actively campaigned for a parliamentary apology similar to that given for the Stolen Generations.

Apologeticus pro Christianis ( Apology for the Christians )

Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.

alt = Title page from " An Apology for the Bible "

" Significantly, Watson's Apology directly chastises Paine for his mocking tone:

An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, addressed to Thomas Paine.

His most important theological work of this period was the Commentarii in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos ( Wittenberg, 1532 ), noteworthy for introducing the idea that " to be justified " means " to be accounted just ," whereas the Apology had placed side by side the meanings of " to be made just " and " to be accounted just.

* Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry

On the " 19th of June ", 2000, Juneteenth leaders stood with Congressman Tony Hall ( D-OH ) as historic Apology for Slavery legislation was announced at the U. S. Capitol during the 1st National Day of Reconciliation & Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement.

In contrast, during the period Detour was in post, PRC shot, posted and released Apology for Murder, also starring Ann Savage.

Apology was given a shorter production period, a quick sound job, and used library music for the soundtrack.

Later, in his Apology ( 1580 ), William stated that his resolve to oppose the King's policies had originated in June 1559, when, during a hunting trip to the Bois de Vincennes together with the duke of Alva and King Henry II of France, to whom both had been sent as hostages to ensure the proper fulfilment of the conditions of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis following the Hispano-French war, the latter two had openly discussed a secret understanding between Philip and Henry which aimed at the extermination of the Protestants in both France and the Netherlands ; William at that time had kept silent, but had decided for himself that he would not allow the slaughter of so many innocent subjects.

The Pensées is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion and which was never completed.

In the shortest of them ( 43 pages as of 2009 ), which he titles " Apology for the Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis " ( using the word " apology " in the rarely used sense of apologia ), he claims to use his tools on the theory of Hilbert spaces of entire functions to prove the Riemann Hypothesis for Dirichlet L-functions ( thus proving GRH ) and a similar statement for the Euler zeta function, and even to be able to assert that zeros are simple.

His greatest work, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, was published in Latin at Amsterdam in 1676, and was an elaborate statement of the grounds for holding certain fundamental positions laid down in the Theses.

* An Apology For the True Christian Divinity by Robert Barclay

These two tracts may be from the same source, which may have been an early Christian Apology.

Justin's statements in his First Apology are some of the earliest Christian expressions on the Eucharist.

In 1724 Collins published his Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing prefixed.

* Anthony Collins-Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing

Early uses of the term ( in the first sense ) include Plato's Apology ( the defense speech of Socrates from his trial ) and some works of early Christian apologists, such as St. Justin Martyr's two Apologies addressed to the emperor Antoninus Pius and the Roman Senate.

There are only two mentions of him in early Christian literature: several accredited quotations from his Apology in a fragment of Methodius of Olympus ( died 312 ) and some untrustworthy biographical details in the fragments of the Christian History of Philip of Side ( c. 425 ).

The treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead, the first complete exposition of the doctrine in Christian literature, was written later than the Apology, to which it may be considered as an appendix.

After a time, by the study of Origen and the other early Fathers, he became possessed with the notion of the importance of an allegorical or spiritual interpretation of Scripture, and advocated its use in the defence of Christianity both in his sermons and in his first book, while attacking what he saw as the shallow literalist interpretation of contemporary divines, The Old Apology for the Truth of the Christian Religion against the Jews and Gentiles Revived ( 1705 ).

Included among the topics on which he wrote are: the Apology of Aristides ( 1891 ), the Didache, Philo, the Diatessaron, the Christian Apologists, Acts of Perpetua, The Odes and Psalms of Solomon ( 1906 ), the Gospel of Peter, and other Western and Syriac texts, and numerous works on biblical manuscripts.

While far from radical, Justin suggested a value in the achievements of Classical culture in his Apology Influential letters by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa confirmed the commitment to using pre-Judeo Christian knowledge, particularly as it touched the material world.

The earliest extant Christian writings on the age of the world according to the biblical chronology are by Theophilus ( AD 115-181 ), the sixth bishop of Antioch, in Apology to Autolycus ( Apologia ad Autolycum ), and by Julius Africanus ( AD 200-245 ) in his Five Books of Chronology.

The Apology of Aristides was written by the early Christian writer Aristides ( fl.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

This was the start of a " golden decade " of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relating to his exiles and returns from exile in the Apology Against the Arians.

Justin Martyr ( c. 155 ) in 1 Apology 66 wrote: "... the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels ".

Johnson joined his flock in 1597, and in 1604 he and Ainsworth composed An Apology or Defence of such true Christians as are commonly but unjustly called Brownists.

The Dialogue is a later work than the First Apology ; the date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161.

The Against Marcion is lost, as is the Refutation of all Heresies to which Justin himself refers in Apology, i. 26 ; Hegesippus, besides perhaps Irenaeus and Tertullian, seems to have used it.

Justin Martyr, in his First Apology ( ca.

The designation " memoirs of the apostles " occurs twice in Justin's First Apology ( 66. 3, 67. 3 – 4 ) and thirteen times in the Dialogue, mostly in his interpretation of Psalm 22, whereas the term " gospel " is used only three times, once in 1 Apol.

Justin uses material from the Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, and Luke ) in the composition of the First Apology and the Dialogue, either directly, as in the case of Matthew, or indirectly through the use of a gospel harmony, which may have been composed by Justin or his school.

Justin then rearranged and expanded these testimonia to create his First Apology.

* the value and proper aims of philosophy ( in the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, etc.

H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

* A Mathematician's Apology, by G. H. Hardy.