apologetics

And that was before Pat Buchanan's later venture into explicit apologetics for Hitler in his World War II books.

At one bound Cossington's papers passed from apologetics varied by repudiation to triumphant praise.

Christianity, once an aggressive and virile movement, now resorts to apologetics, compromise and concession to prolong her life.

But that is not an unusual feature of Christian apologetics.

He perceived it was a hard and invincible malevolence, and that no petty apologetics of demeanour could avail against it.

In like fashion, historic rationalism has often tended to use Reason as an agency of justification and apologetics.