Great Dates in the Apologetics Calendar—June 8
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June 8 is unusual for the many dates bearing some relation to Christian apologetics.
1686 – Humphrey Prideaux graduated with D.D. from Christ Church, Oxford (installed as Dean of Norwich on this date in 1702)
1809 – Death of Thomas Paine, antagonist against Christianity and author of The Age of Reason (published in three installments: 1794, 1795, 1807)
1810 – Death of William Finch, whose 1797 Bampton lectureship was titled “The Objections of Infidel Historians and other writers against Christianity” (eight sermons)
1889 – Death of Christian metaphysical poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, famous for “Pied Beauty” (written in 1877, and published in 1918) and “God’s Grandeur” (also composed in 1877); also the sonnet “Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I conted”
1894 – Birth of Wilbur M. Smith, author of the thick volume of Christian evidences called Therefore Stand
1903 – Birth of G. C. Berkouwer, theologian in the Dutch Reformed tradition, whose many books include The Providence of God (1952) and General Revelation (1955)
1941 – C. S. Lewis preached his sermon “The Weight of Glory”
1954 – Death of Kenneth Escott Kirk, bishop of Oxford who wrote in defense of Christian moral philosophy
2007 – Death of Richard Rorty, postmodernist critic of religion
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Other posts in this series . . .
- Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165 AD)
- Ephraem the Syriac (ca. 306-373)
- William Warburton (1698-1779)
- William Paley (1743-1805)
- William Beauchamp (1772-1824)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Conrad Emil Lindberg (1852-1930)
- W. H. Griffith Thomas (1861-1924)
- Arnold Lunn (1888-1974)
- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
- Edward John Carnell (1919-1967)
- Great Dates in the Apologetics Calendar—June 8
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