“There is much more to apologetics than affirming the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things. Apologetics, we must recall, engages the mind, emotions and imagination. It appeals to beauty and morality, as much as to rationality.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions the dignity of the human vocation, restoring hope to those who now despair of anything higher than their present lot. Its message, far from belittling man, secures the light, life and freedom of his development. Nothing other than… — Andrew Davison Copy Share
“The Church is a living body; continuously active, continuously performing Christ in the myriad contexts within which it operates. It comprises those conformed to… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“among the most important things to consider when it comes to gaining the skills of Christian living are things like discipline, physical actions, training… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to ‘preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary’, like many timeworn phrases, contains… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be a flourishing… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
