A HANDBOOK OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICSCHAPTEB IintroductoryThe Purpose and the Problems(1) The Greek word farokoyio. (dira and Aoyo?) means a speech in defence; it may be of a fact as true, or against acharge as false. Tho phrase dzrokayttadai Sikijv ffavarovmeans to speak against tho sentence of death being passed. In the Apology Plato gives the defence of Socrates against the charges which Jed to his death. Turning to the use of the word in the New Testament, we find Festiis declaring * that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defence (apology) concerning the matter laid against him' (Acts xxv. 16). Paul uses the word of 'the clearing of themselves * by the Corinthians (2 Cor. vii, 11). He addresses the Philippians as partakers with him of grace in 1 bonds and in the defence (apology) and confirmation of tho Gospel* (Phil, i, 7). The writers who, in the second aTable of Contents CONTEXTS; XI; CHAPTER VI; P»OU; THE CHUlSTTAS VTKW OF god 138; 1 The Personalit* op God-(i] Religion and Theology; (2) The Conception defined; {$) Objections to the Conception II Tub Perfection op God-(1) Christian Meliorism j not Pessimism or Optimism; (2} The problem of physical evil; (3) The problem of moral evil ; (4) The practical solution the condition of the theoretical, III Tub Tih-Uxit? op God-(1) The reasons for the Divine Incarnation ; (2} The experience of the Holy Spirit; (3) The religious interest of the Doctrine of the Trinity; (4) The terms of definition; CHAPTER VII; the christian view of man1g2; I Tue Conception Oie Human Personality-(1) Some character* is lies of Human Personality; (2) Tho question of Hnman Liberty; (3) The hope of Immortality II Tub Christian Exfuabls on Huwak Sin-(1) The reality and the universality of sin; (2) The explanations o