counterapologetics

English

Noun

counterapologetics (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of counter-apologetics
   • 1999, Raymond Edward Brown, The Birth of the Messiah:

     However, Danell, "St Paul," points out that in the later Jewish Targum on the Psalms, David applies the lordship to himself: "He [God] will make me lord of all Israel." Danell suggests that this change may reflect Jewish counterapologetics, to prevent the pasalm from being used to prove Jesus' lordship.)

   • 2016, John Loftus, Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End:

     So I wrote an encyclopedic counterapologetics book to answer that question titled Why I Became an Atheist, which I consider my magnum opus.

   • 2017, Matthew V. Novenson, The Grammar of Messianism:

     In addition to its enduring value as a contribution to biblical exegesis, He That Cometh is a sophisticated piece of counterapologetics—a 500-page scolding of the many modern scholars who find in the Hebrew Bible a praeparatio evangelica.