Christian apologetics

Christian Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense (apologetics) of Christianity. The word "apologetic" comes from the Greek word "apologeomai". It means "In defense of". A person involved in Christian or Bible Apologetics is a defender of Christianity. Someone who engages in Christian apologetics is called a Christian apologist.

Key print resources and introductory Christian apologetic works

Overview and reference

• Bush, L. Russ. 1983. Classical Readings in Christian Apologetics AD. 100-1800.Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Dulles, Avery. 1999. A History of Apologetics. Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon.
• Geisler, Norman L. 1999. Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. Baker Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Historical and legal evidential Christian apologetics

Introductory evidential

• McDowell, Josh, New Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Thomas Nelson, Inc, Publishers, 1999
• Strobel, Lee. 1998. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Hanegraaff, Hank. 2002. Resurrection: The Capstone in the Arch of Christianity. W Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee.

Other evidential

• Bruce, FF New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? Intervarsity Press 1981 (First published in 1943 as Are the New Testament Documents Reliable?) online version
• Habermas, Gary, The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ (College Press: Joplin, MI 1996).
• Habermas, Gary, Licona, Gary The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, Kregel, 1994)
• Kitchen, Kenneth, On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0802849601, 2003

Prophetic

• Peter, Stoner Science Speaks (Chapter 2: Prophetic Accuracy and Chapter 3: The Christ of Prophecy), Chicago, Moody Press, 1963 (online version available)

Philosophical

• Ramm, Bernard. 1962. Varieties of Christian Apologetics: An Introduction to the Christian Philosophy of Religion. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Sproule, R.C. Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology, Baker Book House: 1994

Biblical apologetics

• Archer,Gleason, 2001. New Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties. ISBN 0310241464
• Bruce,F.F.,The Canon of Scripture, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL, 1988
• Geisler, Norman and Howe, Thomas When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties Baker Books, Grand Rapids Michigan, 1992
• Geisler, Norman, ed. (1980). Inerrancy. ISBN 0310392810.
• Kaiser, Walter C., Davids, Peter H., Bruce,F.F., Brauch, Manfred, Hard Sayings of the Bible, Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 1996

Moral

• Sproul, R.C., The Holiness of God, Tyndale, Carol Stream, IL 1996

Scientific

• Johnson, Phillip E. Darwin on Trial. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois. 1991
• Wysong, R.L. The Creation-Evolution Controversy. Inquiry Press, East Lansing, Michigan. 6th printing, (455 pages), 1984 http://www.grisda.org/origins/05101.htm
• Ross, Hugh, A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy, 2004, ISBN 1-576-83375-5 (Details why Old Earth Creationism is the literal Biblical view)
• Ross, Hugh, The Genesis Question: Scientific Advances and the Accuracy of Genesis, 2001, ISBN 1-576-83230-9 (Details the agreement of science with Old Earth Creationism]
• Ross, Hugh, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, 2001, ISBN 1-576-83288-0
• Ross, Hugh, Beyond the Cosmos: The Extra-Dimensionality of God, 1999, ISBN 1-576-83112-4
• Ross, Hugh et al., Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials, 2002, ISBN 1-576-83208-2
• Ross, Hugh and Fazale Rana, Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off, 2004, ISBN 1-576-83344-5
• Ross, Hugh and Fazale Rana, Who Was Adam: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man, 2005, ISBN 1-576-83577-4

General/classics

• Lewis, C. S. 1955. Mere Christianity. Fontana, Glasgow.
• McGrath, Alister. 1992. Bridge-Building: Effective Christian Apologetics. InterVarsity Press, Leicester, UK.
• Schaeffer, Francis A. 1982. The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer. 5 Volumes. Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois.

For a more complete list of Christian apologetic works please see: List of Christian apologetic works.

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