Assertion: apology | /r/HasProperty | ad
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text: The term's current use, often in the context of religion, theology and philosophy, derives from St. Justin Martyr's First Apology (AD 155-157) and was later employed by John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua (English: A Defense of One's Own Life) of 1864, which presented a formal defense of the history of his Christian life, leading to his acceptance by the Catholic Church in 1845.