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Elenctics, in Christianity, is a
division of
practical theology concerned with
persuading people of
other faiths (or no faith) of the
truth of the Gospel...
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invented the "Socratic" method.
Plato famously formalized the
Socratic elenctic style in prose—presenting
Socrates as the
curious questioner of some prominent...
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definition of a concept, e.g.,
virtue or courage.
Socrates then,
through elenctic testing,
shows his
interlocutor that his
answer is unsatisfactory. After...
- protagonist. As a teacher,
competitor intellectuals resented Socrates's
elenctic examination method for
intellectual inquiry,
because its
questions threatened...
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renaissance of the
scholastic method.
Francis Turretin's
Institutes of
Elenctic Theology (1696) and
Petrus van Mastricht's Theoretical-Practical Theology...
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Baptist Perspective, to
which is
Appended a Historical, Exegetical, and
Elenctic Evaluation of
Influential Errors,
Particularly the
Keswick Theology, Great...
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church history,
though the
English translation of his
Institutes of
Elenctic Theology is
increasingly read by
students of theology. John
Gerstner called...
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Socrates uses the
elenctic method to
investigate the
nature or
definition of
ethical concepts such as
justice or virtue.
Elenctic re****ation depends...
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literature Diaries and
journals Didactic Dialectic Rabbinic Aporetic Elenctic Erotic literature Essay,
treatise History Genealogy Narrative People's...
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Platonic philosophy. The
dialogues of Plato’s
Socratic period,
called "
elenctic dialogues" for Socrates’s
preferred method of questioning, are Apology...
