List of Christian apologetic works explained

This is a list of Christian apologetic works.

Antiquity

• Apologia prima (English: First Apology) (c. 150-155) by Justin Martyr^[1]
• Apologia secunda (English: Second Apology) (c. 150-57) by Justin Martyr^[2]
• Πρὸς Διόγνητον Ἐπιστολή (English: Epistle to Diognetus) (c. late 2nd century), author unknown^[2]
• The Apology to Autolycus (c. 169–83) by Theophilus of Antioch^[3]
• Octavius (before 250, likely contemporary with Tertullian's Apology) by Marcus Minucius Felix^[4]
• Apologeticus (or Apologeticum) (c. 197) by Tertullian
• De Carne Christi (English: On the Body of Christ) (c. 206) by Tertullian
• Contra Celsum (English: Against Celsus) (c. 248) by Origen of Alexandria^[5]
• De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) (c.392-3) by Jerome
• Apologia contra Rufinum (English: Apology Against Rufinus) (402) by Jerome

Medieval

• Scholion by Theodore Bar Konai (8th century, Church of the East)
• The Book of Proof and the Book of Questions and Answers by Ammar al-Basri (9th century, Church of the East)
• On the Proof of the Christian Religion and other works by Abu Raita al-Takriti (9th century, Syriac Orthodox)
• The Healer, by Gerasimos, Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Symeon (?13th century)
• Summa contra Gentiles (1265–74) by Saint Thomas Aquinas^{[6] [7]}

Early modern

• De Arte Cabalistica (English: On the Art of Kabbalah) (1517) by Johann Reuchlin
• Pensées (1669) by Blaise Pascal^[8]
• Alciphron (or The Minute Philosopher) (1732) by George Berkeley
• Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul. in a Letter to Gilbert West, Esq (1747) by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
• Observations on the History and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1747) by Gilbert West
• The Evidences of the Christian Religion by Joseph Addison
• The Evidence of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated (1786) by James Beattie
• A View of the evidences of Christianity in three parts (1794) by William Paley
• Génie du christianisme (1802) (English: The Genius of Christianity) by François-René de Chateaubriand
• Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (1802) by William Paley
• Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas H. Horne
• Testimony of the Evangelists, Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice (1846) by Simon Greenleaf
• Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) by John Henry Newman
• Christian Evidences (1837) by Richard Whately
• The Evidences of the Christian Religion (1832) by Archibald Alexander

20th century

• Heretics (1905) by G. K. Chesterton
• Why is Christianity True? Christian Evidences (1905) by Edgar Young Mullins
• Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
• The Facts of Faith (1910) by Charles Edward Smith
• Who Moved the Stone? (1930) by Albert Henry Ross
• The Everlasting Man (1925) by G. K. Chesterton
• The Problem of Pain (1940) by C. S. Lewis
• The Case for Christianity (1942) by C. S. Lewis
• Miracles (book) (1947) by C. S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity (1952) by C. S. Lewis
• Protestant Christian Evidences (1953) by Bernard Ramm
• La Phénomène Humain (English: The Phenomenon of Man) (1959) by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin^[9]
• Defense of the Faith (1955) by Cornelius Van Til
• Faith That Makes Sense (1960) by J. Edwin Orr
• 100 Questions About God (1966) by J. Edwin Orr
• Jesus: The Man That Lives (1975) by Malcolm Muggeridge
• The Existence of God (1979, new edition 2004) by Richard Swinburne
• Campus Gods on Trial (1964) by Chad Walsh
• Why I Believe (1980) by D J Kennedy
• Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World (1984) by Don Richardson
• (1983) by John Polkinghorne
• What If Jesus Had Never Been Born (1994) by D J Kennedy
• Reasonable Faith (1994) by William Lane Craig
• Is There a God? (1996) by Richard Swinburne
• The Signature of God (1997) by Grant Jeffery
• Beside Still Waters (1998) by Gregg Easterbrook
• The Case for Christ (1998) by Lee Strobel
• What If the Bible Had Never Been Written? (1998) by D J Kennedy
• Science and Theology (1998) by John Polkinghorne
• The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (1999) by Josh McDowell
• What Did Jesus Mean? (1999) by Ron Rhodes

21st century

• A Scientific Theology (2001) by Alister McGrath
  • Faith, Science and Understanding (2001) by John Polkinghorne The Resurrection of God Incarnate (2003) by Richard Swinburne
• The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3) (2003) by N. T. Wright
• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (2004) by Alister McGrath
• (2005) by Alister McGrath
• Skeptics Answered (2005) by D J Kennedy
• Why the Ten Commandments Matter (2005) by D J Kennedy
  • The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006) by Francis Collins Exploring Reality (2006) by John Polkinghorne
• God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2007) by John Lennox^[10]
• Was Jesus God? (2008) by Richard Swinburne
• The Reason for God: Belief in Age of Skepticism (2008) by Timothy Keller
  • What's So Great About Christianity (2008) by Dinesh D'Souza Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2009) by David Bentley Hart
  • Questions of Truth (2009) by John Polkinghorne More Than A Carpenter (2009) by Josh McDowell
• Life After Death: The Evidence (2009) by Dinesh D'Souza
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (2009) by James Hannam
• The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (2010) by Alister McGrath
• The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (2010) by Michael R. Licona .
• The Rage Against God (subtitle in US editions: How Atheism Led Me to Faith) (2010) by Peter Hitchens
• Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case For Biblical Faith (2011) by Douglas Groothuis
• Who Is Jesus?: Linking the Historical Jesus with the Christ of Faith (2012) by Darrell L. Bock
• Exposing Myths About Christianity: A Guide to Answering 145 Viral Lies and Legends (2012) by Jeffrey Russell
• OrganicJesus: Finding Your Way to an Unprocessed, Gmo-free Christianity (2016) by Scott Douglas
• Urban Apologetics (2021) by Eric Mason

Biblical apologetics

• Lines of Defence of the Biblical Revelation (1901) by David Samuel Margoliouth
• A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament (1926) by Robert Dick Wilson
• Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (1982) by Gleason Archer Jr.
• The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (1987) by Craig Blomberg
• The Historical Reliability of the New Testament: The Challenge to Evangelical Christian Beliefs (2016) by Craig Blomberg

See also

• Bibliography of books critical of Christianity
• Bibliography of books critical of Islam
• Bibliography of books critical of Judaism
• Bibliography of books critical of Mormonism
• Bibliography of books critical of Scientology
• List of apologetic works
• List of Islamic apologetic works
• Christian apologetics
• Biblical apologetics

Notes and References

1. [Avery Dulles|Avery Cardinal Dulles]
2. Dulles, p. 31-42 ff.
3. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/theophilus-book1.html Theophilus of Antioch
4. http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_10_0200-0300-_Minucius_Felix.html Minucius Felix
5. Herzog, Johann Jakob; Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (December 1908). "Celsus". In Samual Macauley Jackson. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. II. New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company. pp. 466.
6. Dulles, p. 120 ff.
7. L. Russ Bush, Classical Readings in Christian Apologetics, A.D. 100-1800, Parts 100-1800, Zondervan, 1983,, p. 275 ff.
8. [Douglas Groothuis]
9. Dulles, p. 297 ff.
10. Web site: Colin Tudge . The art of the soluble . 8 December 2007 . Well - has science buried God? Of course not. John Lennox answers his own question decisively. No one who understands what science really is and is not could suppose that such interment was ever on the cards. No one who understands what religion really is, beneath its sometimes ugly face, could suppose that it would be good to bury it. . The Guardian.