单词 | evidence or evidences of christianity |
释义 | > as lemmasEvidence or Evidences of Christianity c. Grounds, or a proof, on which Christian belief is based. Frequently with capital initial, esp. in Evidence or Evidences of Christianity, Evidences of the Christian Religion, or simply The Evidences. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. iv. 294 This whole discourse and treatise of the proofes and euidences of our Christian religion. 1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. ii. ix. 365 Those who see so many objections and difficulties, that they are turned from the due apprehension of the Evidences of Christianity, and can think of nothing but stumbling-blocks to their Faith. 1729 J. Entick (title) The evidence of Christianity asserted. 1730 (title) The evidences of the Christian religion. 1794 W. Paley (title) A view of the evidences of Christianity. 1828 R. Taylor Syntagma App. 119 The passage..is..the very strongest testimony in favour of the Christian Evidences that I have ever met with. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 193 There is no reasonable objection to examining an atheist in the evidences of Christianity. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 295 The other half [of the Fallacy is found] in a treatise on the Evidences. 1977 T. D. Bozeman Protestants in Age of Sci. vii. 139 The Evidences quickly became a mainstay of orthodox Protestantism in both Britain and America. 2012 J. S. Fluhman Peculiar People ii. 69 High regard for the evidences of Christianity had been apparent since antiquity, but by the 1830s and 1840s Christian argumentation had become elaborate. < as lemmas |
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