Apparently he was not a participant in the college or university theatricals, which he once attacked as utterly unworthy performances ( see Apology, 3:300 ) ; ;

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.

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.

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.

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.

He indicates this time in the Apology which he addressed to Antonine, where he writes as follows: ' We do not think it out of place to mention here Antinoüs also, who lived in our day, and whom all were driven by fear to worship as a god, although they knew who he was and whence he came '.

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.

" Although he admitted that what he called " real " mathematics may someday become useful, he asserted that, at the time in which the Apology was written, only the " dull and elementary parts " of either pure or applied mathematics could " work for good or ill ."

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.

The Apology, however, failed to arrest the persecution to which the Quakers were exposed, and Barclay himself, on returning from Europe, where he travelled extensively ( once with William Penn and George Fox ), and had several interviews with Elisabeth, Princess Palatine, was several times thrown into prison, but soon regained his liberty, and was in the enjoyment of Court favour.

Confession and absolution is called a sacrament in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession and so is also considered by many Lutherans to be a sacrament, because it was instituted by Christ and has his promise of grace, even though it is not tied to a physical element.

" His opinion of British activity in the Transvaal was well voiced in the Canadian press and in his book In The Court of History: An Apology of Canadians Opposed to the Boer War ( 1902 ).

His chief work was " Antirresis ", a reply to Pamphilus's " Apology for Origen "

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.

It was later claimed that he was poisoned on the orders of King Philip, especially by William the Silent in his Apology, a 1581 propaganda work against the Spanish king.

In the " Apology for the & c ." ( which was added in 1710 ), Swift explains that his work is, in several places, a " parody ," which is where he imitates the style of persons he wishes to expose.

It was in this edition that the Notes and the " Apology for the & c ." ("& c ." was Swift's shorthand for Tale of a Tub: Nutt was supposed to expand the abbreviation out to the book's title but did not do so ; the mistake was left ) were added, which many contemporary readers and authors found a heating up of an already savage satire.

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.

The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of " corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel " ( 24b ).

This has led some scholars to suspect that Xenophon's Apology was the original conclusion to the Memorabilia ; given our limited evidence, however, this cannot be known with certainty.

A criterion is thus given us for the construction of the Apology based on the abbreviated Greek and we are enabled to claim with certainty the passages of the Syriac which might otherwise be suspected interpolations.

Special attention is given to the 1993 Joint Resolution of Congress known as the " Apology Resolution ," which expressed regret for the role of the United States in the 1893 coup and " the deprivation of the rights of Native Hawaiians to self-determination.

This Apology Project is not to be confused with the Apology Project of Elliniko Teatro, a theatrical production based on Plato's The Apology of Socrates, featuring Yannis Simonides ( see http :// www. ellinikotheatro. org.

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 state of California was the first state to apologize when it passed the " Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program " in 2005, officially recognizing the " unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent " and apologizing to residents of California " for the fundamental violations of their basic civil liberties and constitutional rights committed during the period of illegal deportation and coerced emigration.

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.

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.

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.

Moreover, Hardy deliberately pointed out in his Apology that mathematicians generally do not " glory in the uselessness of their work ," but rather – because science can be used for evil as well as good ends – " mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is one science at any rate, and that their own, whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean.

In his First Apology, Justin used the Stoic concept of the Logos as a way of arguing for Christianity to non-Jews.

The term " gadfly " ( Ancient Greek: μύωψ, mýops ) was used by Plato in the Apology to describe Socrates ' relationship of uncomfortable goad to the Athenian political scene, which he compared to a slow and dimwitted horse.

* Apology hand gesture, used in India

Track 11, " Apology for Non-Symmetry " was used on the soundtrack of the driving simulator Gran Turismo 4.

He went by the pseudonym Mr. Apology ( a label which has since been adopted by an advice columnist ) and used new technology of the time, an answering machine, to record confessions from anonymous callers.

The 1580 German edition of the Book of Concord used the translation of the Apology prepared by Justus Jonas, who rendered it freely based on Melanchthon's further editing.

Melanchthon used much the same rhetorical style in < cite > The Tractate </ cite > as he did in the < cite > Apology of the Augsburg Confession </ cite > ( 1531 ): both were originally written in Latin.

The film Apology won the Audience Award at the 1987 Cognac Festival du Film Policier, and that same year it won a CableACE Award for Maurice Jarre's music score.

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

* 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.

An Apology for the True Christian Divinity.

" 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 ".

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.

* Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry

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.