0 a person who supports a particular belief or political system, especially an unpopular one, and speaks or writes in defence of it: --
Second, local apologists justified this development by hailing the market as the principal site for the cultivation of civic and moral virtues.
Moreover, they have come to distrust the arrogant scientists and technologists who have helped to generate these risks, and the states and corporations who have employed scientists as risk apologists.
Concerns had been raised in the 1610 parliament that the politic mystification of the royal prerogative by apologists for absolutism was designed to undermine parliamentary privileges.
There is no reason why the apologist is forced to construe the presentation of theistic arguments as recommending such arguments to the unbeliever as the sole grounds for theistic belief.
However, it would be a mistake to assume that this uncritical appeal to instrumental rationality is limited to apologists for the status quo.
There is good news and bad news here for the theistic apologist.
If theistic arguments are logically invalid or lack cogency, their employment by the apologist may prove more embarrassing than victorious.
However, there are two items of good news for the theistic apologist.
