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 |
Justifying Non-Christian Objections  |
Douglas Wilson & Farrell Till |
| Answering Objections |
Dr. Greg Bahnsen |
| Apologetics |
John M. Frame - This article was originally published in Kevin Vanhoozer, ed., Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible |
| Evangelism and Apologetics |
Greg Bahnsen |
| Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs (.pdf) |
Tim Keller |
| The Golden Rule Apologetic |
Bob Passantino |
| Apologetics in Practice |
Dr. Greg Bahnsen |
| 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. |
| Paradox of the Greatness and Wretchedness of Man |
Blaise Pascal |
| Is Christianity Good for the World? |
Atheist Christopher Hitchens and Theologian Douglas Wilson Debate |
| The Complete Wilson-Hitchens Debate (.pdf) |
Douglas Wilson (theist) & Christopher Hitchens (Atheist) |
| Talking About Idolatry in a Postmodern Age |
Tim Keller |
| Tim Keller Speaks at Google (YouTube) |
Tim Keller - The Reason For God |
| A Pastor's Sketches: Or, Conversations with Anxious Inquirers (8.6 MB .pdf) |
Ichabod Spencer |
| Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics |
Steve Hays |
| Two Dozen (Or So) Theistic Arguments |
Alvin Plantinga (pdf) |
| A Survey of Christian Epistemology |
Cornelius Van Til |
| The Person of Jesus Christ |
Jim Wallace |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Tools of Apologetics |
Greg Bahnsen - Equip and familiarize yourselves with the "tools" of reasoning and argumentation |
| Do Theistic Proofs Proove the Wrong God? |
Douglas Groothuis - Pascal, the "God of the Philosophers" and Peter Geach |
| How to Believe in God in the 2000s |
John M. Frame |
| The God Wouldn't Do X Fallacy |
Peter Pike |
| Truth Tactics: Principles For Doing Apologetics |
Carmen C. DiCello |
| Aplogetics Index |
Phenomenal resource on all things heretical, questionable and bad. |
| PENSÉES |
Blaise Pascal |
| The Apologetic Methodology of Blaise Pascal |
Dr. Phil Fernandes |
| The Myth of Neutrality (SermonAudio.com) |
Jess Stanfield |
| Faithful Debate (SermonAudio.com) |
Jess Stanfield |
| What's So Great About Christianity? |
Dr. Paul Kengor |
| People Believe What They Want |
Gregory Koukl |
| Are You Prepared To Give A Defense? |
Rod Rosenbladt - A Crash Course In Evidential Apologetics |
| An Interview with Timothy Keller |
Anthony Sacramone - February 25, 2008 |
| Defending the Faith: A Crash Course in Apologetics |
beginner |
| Hypocritical Christians? |
Joseph R. Nally |
| If God Exists, Why Doesn't He Prove It? |
David R. Bickel |
| Evangelical stays the course, with grace and humility |
Washington Times Review of Tim Keller's New Book |
| 21st-Century Apologetics: Pastor Timothy Keller makes the case for faith. |
Reviewed by Anthony Sacramone |
| Hidden with Christ in God: A Covenantal Apologetic |
Jeff Downs |
| Is Our Pain God's Problem? |
Bart Ehrman and Tom Wright |
| Tim Keller Reasons with America |
Interview by Susan Wunderink |
| Darwin’s Dilemma—“The Horrid Doubt” |
Charles Leiter |
| For the Sake of the Gospel -- Paul's Apologetic Speeches in the Book of Acts |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
| Don't Fool with Fools |
Robert M. Bowman, Jr. |
| The Psalms in Present-Day Apologetics |
Jesse Johnson |
| A Covenantal Apologetic |
Jeff Downs |
| Comparative Apologetic Anatomy |
Steve Hays |
| Principles in Reformed Apologetics/Evangelism |
John Hendryx |
| The Storyteller and the Scientist |
A Review of Dawkin's Climbing Mount Improbable by Phillip Johnson |
| Faith Has Its Reasons |
co-authored by Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Jr.. |
| How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong? A Response to Skepticism (.pdf) |
Paul Copan |
| Are Old Testament Laws Evil? (.pdf) |
Paul Copan |
| Various Approaches to Apologetics |
Tawa Anderson |
| Apologetic and Practical Treatises |
Tertullian |
| The Infidel Delusion |
by Patrick Chan, Jason Engwer, Steve Hays & Paul Manata debunks the Atheist book "The Christian Delusion!!" |
| The Golden Rule of Apologetics (7-Part Series) |
Kenneth Samples |
| Gambling on the Resurrection (.pdf) |
MICHAEL J. SVIGEL |
| No Pass from Theological Responsibility — The BioLogos Conundrum |
Albert Mohler |
| Five Views of Apologetics |
John Frame (YouTube) |
| Unless You Can Scientifically Verify, or Falsify Your Belief, It's Meaningless |
Payl Copan |
| Common Objections to Christianity from Skeptics |
Monergism.com Q&A |
| Three Rules for Polemics |
Tim Keller |
| Naturalism and the Crisis of the Soul (.pdf) |
Dr. J. P. Moreland |
| A Critique of “Creation, Evolution, and Christian Lay People,” by Tim Keller |
Dr. Adrian Keister, Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Virginia Tech |
| God’s Dupes? |
Ravi Zacharias |
| How Could God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? |
Justin Taylor |
| Federal and Natural Headship |
Kevin T. Bauder |
| Christian Scholarship and the Defense of the Faith |
J. Gresham Machen |
Alvin Plantinga (32 links)
Always Ready
Apologetics to the Glory of God 
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism