I wish we could just pen the best apologetic and therefore have it convince all who read it, but alas the power is not in our penmanship, but in the Paraclete; may we have patience as we wait upon God's timing to grant more new births and the maturity to confess such is from God alone.
Todd Lambert
On what grounds do the children of light defend their faith against the children of this age? The answer is their creation in the image of God. ... man's creation in the image of God does not first and foremost entail his rational facilities, but his built-in teleology as a receptacle and reflector for the divine glory-presence. By his life of faith the Christian reflects the glory of God. Thus, the most compelling apologetic argument the believer can make is his godliness. It is our godliness that most clearly demonstrates our other-worldliness ... Unfortunately, the practice of apologetics has become an academic enterprise. The Kingdom of God is not advanced by winning a debate, but by losing your life. This is the foolishness of the cross. An apology of the hope that is within us (1 Pet 3:15) is a witness to the truthfulness of the gospel-event. It is not a defense of our subjective feelings of hopefulness, but a defense of the objective hope into which we were broght, the living hope which is Christ resurrected from the dead (1 Pet 1:3). If we investigate this text in 1 Peter we are brought to realize that the subject of apologetics arises in the midst of our suffering for righteousness' sake (3:14) and the apologetic of godliness (3:13). It is specifically our patience in suffering for righteousness' sake which bears witness to our eschatological hope (not-yet other-worldliness) as it demonstrates our union with our Saviour (other-worldliness already) who alone truly suffered for righteousness' sake and that with perfect patience. As it is written, "As a lamb led to slaughter He did not open His mouth." And lest we should grow triumphalistic in our apology the imperative is modified by "with gentleness and fear."
Two Age Press
| Title |
Notes |
Answering Objections  |
Dr. Greg Bahnsen |
| Justifying Non-Christian Objections |
Douglas Wilson & Farrell Till |
| A Pastor's Sketches: Or, Conversations with Anxious Inquirers (8.6 MB .pdf) |
Ichabod Spencer |
| Apologetics |
John M. Frame - This article was originally published in Kevin Vanhoozer, ed., Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible |
| Apologetics in Practice |
Dr. Greg Bahnsen |
| Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics |
Steve Hays |
| Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs (.pdf) |
Tim Keller |
| Evangelism and Apologetics |
Greg Bahnsen |
| Is Christianity Good for the World? |
Atheist Christopher Hitchens and Theologian Douglas Wilson Debate |
| Paradox of the Greatness and Wretchedness of Man |
Blaise Pascal |
| Talking About Idolatry in a Postmodern Age |
Tim Keller |
| The Complete Wilson-Hitchens Debate (.pdf) |
Douglas Wilson (theist) & Christopher Hitchens (Atheist) |
| The Defense of Christianity |
Cornelius VanTil - This article was taken from The Reformed Pastor & Modern Thought (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1980), pp. 36-72. |
| The Golden Rule Apologetic |
Bob Passantino |
| Tim Keller Speaks at Google (YouTube) |
Tim Keller - The Reason For God |
| A Survey of Christian Epistemology |
Cornelius Van Til |
| Responses to "Notable" Skeptics |
Truthbomb Apologetics blog has put together a growing one-stop resource for responses to notable skeptics, including Dan Barker, Richard Carrier, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Bart Ehrman, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and more. |
| The End of Infidelity (.pdf) |
Steve Hays & Jason Engwer Peter Pike, editor |
| The Person of Jesus Christ |
Jim Wallace |
| Two Dozen (Or So) Theistic Arguments |
Alvin Plantinga (pdf) |
| Naturalism is a Simpler Explanation than Theism |
Paul Copan |
| The Sufficiency of Scripture in Apologetics (,pdf) |
Michael J. Kruger |
| Transcendental Arguments |
John Frame - from IVP Dictionary of Apologetics. |
| The God Wouldn't Do X Fallacy |
Peter Pike |
| 21st-Century Apologetics: Pastor Timothy Keller makes the case for faith. |
Reviewed by Anthony Sacramone |
| A Covenantal Apologetic |
Jeff Downs |
| A Critique of “Creation, Evolution, and Christian Lay People,” by Tim Keller |
Dr. Adrian Keister, Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Virginia Tech |
| An Interview with Timothy Keller |
Anthony Sacramone - February 25, 2008 |
| Aplogetics Index |
Phenomenal resource on all things heretical, questionable and bad. |
| Apologetic and Practical Treatises |
Tertullian |
| Are Old Testament Laws Evil? (.pdf) |
Paul Copan |
| Are You Prepared To Give A Defense? |
Rod Rosenbladt - A Crash Course In Evidential Apologetics |
| Christian Scholarship and the Defense of the Faith |
J. Gresham Machen |
| Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics |
Monergism.com Q&A |
| Comparative Apologetic Anatomy |
Steve Hays |
| Darwin’s Dilemma—“The Horrid Doubt” |
Charles Leiter |
| Defending the Faith: A Crash Course in Apologetics |
beginner |
| Do Theistic Proofs Proove the Wrong God? |
Douglas Groothuis - Pascal, the "God of the Philosophers" and Peter Geach |
| Don't Fool with Fools |
Robert M. Bowman, Jr. |
| Evangelical stays the course, with grace and humility |
Washington Times Review of Tim Keller's New Book |
| Faith Has Its Reasons |
co-authored by Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Jr.. |
| Faithful Debate (SermonAudio.com) |
Jess Stanfield |
| Federal and Natural Headship |
Kevin T. Bauder |
| Five Views of Apologetics |
John Frame (YouTube) |
| For the Sake of the Gospel -- Paul's Apologetic Speeches in the Book of Acts |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
| Gambling on the Resurrection (.pdf) |
MICHAEL J. SVIGEL |
| God’s Dupes? |
Ravi Zacharias |
| Hidden with Christ in God: A Covenantal Apologetic |
Jeff Downs |
| How Could God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? |
Justin Taylor |
| How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong? A Response to Skepticism (.pdf) |
Paul Copan |
| How to Believe in God in the 2000s |
John M. Frame |
| Hypocritical Christians? |
Joseph R. Nally |
| If God Exists, Why Doesn't He Prove It? |
David R. Bickel |
| Is Our Pain God's Problem? |
Bart Ehrman and Tom Wright |
| Naturalism and the Crisis of the Soul (.pdf) |
Dr. J. P. Moreland |
| No Pass from Theological Responsibility — The BioLogos Conundrum |
Albert Mohler |
| PENSÉES |
Blaise Pascal |
| People Believe What They Want |
Gregory Koukl |
| Principles in Reformed Apologetics/Evangelism |
John Hendryx |
| The Apologetic Methodology of Blaise Pascal |
Dr. Phil Fernandes |
| The Golden Rule of Apologetics (7-Part Series) |
Kenneth Samples |
| The Infidel Delusion |
by Patrick Chan, Jason Engwer, Steve Hays & Paul Manata debunks the Atheist book "The Christian Delusion!!" |
| The Myth of Neutrality (SermonAudio.com) |
Jess Stanfield |
| The Psalms in Present-Day Apologetics |
Jesse Johnson |
| The Storyteller and the Scientist |
A Review of Dawkin's Climbing Mount Improbable by Phillip Johnson |
| Three Rules for Polemics |
Tim Keller |
| Tim Keller Reasons with America |
Interview by Susan Wunderink |
| Tools of Apologetics |
Greg Bahnsen - Equip and familiarize yourselves with the "tools" of reasoning and argumentation |
| Truth Tactics: Principles For Doing Apologetics |
Carmen C. DiCello |
| Unless You Can Scientifically Verify, or Falsify Your Belief, It's Meaningless |
Payl Copan |
| Various Approaches to Apologetics |
Tawa Anderson |
| What's So Great About Christianity? |
Dr. Paul Kengor |
Alvin Plantinga (32 links)
Always Ready
Apologetics to the Glory of God 
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism