“On the Opprobrium of Apologetics”

There have been a number of attacks recently on the practice of apologetics within the Latter-day Saint community.  Some of these attacks are rather puzzling, since they purport to be motivated by a desire to defend the academic study of religion and scripture — to which few if any of the Mormon “apologists” I know (John Welch, say, or John Sorenson, or Noel Reynolds, or any of a host of others) have even the slightest objection.  (Quite the contrary, in fact.)

John Gee reflects on “the opprobrium of apologetics” here.