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Creed and Ideology Apologists can only be Sophists At Best
Some raw opinions rolling off might head right now:
One cannot be a true philosopher AND an apologist for any confessional creed; especially not a creed featuring a theology which is dependent on a series of hard historical claims. I think it is simply not possible to expound upon pure metaphysics within the narrow confines of a religious doctrine or theology that makes a lot of hard claims on the nature of reality, especially claims that assert truth-exclusivity at the sharp expense of other doctrines, or really just differ a whole lot from the claims other doctrines assert. In my view, even the smartest and most metaphysically competent of apologists and ideologists can only be Sophists at best.
One cannot be a true philosopher AND an apologist for any confessional creed; especially not a creed featuring a theology which is dependent on a series of hard historical claims. I think it is simply not possible to expound upon pure metaphysics within the narrow confines of a religious doctrine or theology that makes a lot of hard claims on the nature of reality, especially claims that assert truth-exclusivity at the sharp expense of other doctrines, or really just differ a whole lot from the claims other doctrines assert. In my view, even the smartest and most metaphysically competent of apologists and ideologists can only be Sophists at best.