APOLOGETICS
BIBLIOGRAPHY* GENERAL,
PHILOSOPHICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC
INTRODUCTORY
- Ankerberg, John, and John Weldon. Ready with an Answer. Eugene, OR: Harvest
House, 1997.
- Beisner, E. Calvin. Thoughtful Skeptics: Dialogs About Christian Faith and Life.
Rev. ed. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1993.
- Craig, William Lane. The Existence of God & the Beginning of the Universe.
San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1979.
- Greenleaf, Simon. The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules
of Evidence. Grand Rapids, Kregel, 1995.
- Hawkins, Craig. Apologetics: An Apologetic for Apologetics. Rev. ed. Santa Ana,
CA: Apologetics Information Ministry, 1/25/99.
- _____. Faith and Knowledge, Evidence, and Reason: Their Role and Relationship to One
Another. Rev. ed. Santa Ana, CA: Apologetics Information Ministry, 1/25/99.
- _____. God and Logic. Rev. ed. Santa Ana, CA: Apologetics Information Ministry,
1/25/99.
- Hunt, Angela Elwell. If God is Real, Where on Earth is He? San Bernardino, CA:
Here's Life Publishers, 1991.
- Little, Paul. Know Why You Believe. Rev. ed. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1987.
- Linton, Irwin H. A Lawyer Examines the Bible: A Defense of the Christian Faith.
Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1943, 1977.
- McDowell, Josh. Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Volume I: Historical Evidences for
the Christian Faith. Rev. ed. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1979.
- Miethe, Terry L. Living Your Faith: Closing the Gap Between Mind and Heart.
Joplin, MO: College Press, 1993.
- Montgomery, John Warwick. How do We Know There is a God? Minneapolis, MN: Bethany
Fellowship, 1973.
- _____. Sensible Christianity. Audiocassettes. 3 Vols. Newport Beach, CA:
Institute for Law and Theology, 1981.
- Purtill, Richard L. C.S. Lewis's Case for the Christian Faith. San Francisco:
Harper and Row, 1985.
- Ross, Clifford, ed. The Case for the Empty Tomb: Leading Lawyers Look at the
Resurrection. Claremont, CA: Albatross Books, 1991.
- Story, Dan. Christianity on the Offense: Responding to the Beliefs and Assumptions of
Spiritual Seekers. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.
- _____. Defending Your Faith: Reliable Answers for a New Generation of Seekers and
Skeptics. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1997.
- Wilder-Smith, A.E. He who Thinks has to Believe. Costa Mesa, CA: TWFT Publishers,
1981.
INTERMEDIATE
- Bahnsen, Greg L. Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis. Phillipsburg, NJ:
Presbyterian and Reformed, 1998.
- Beckwith, Francis J., and Stephen E. Parrish. See the Gods Fall: Four Rivals to
Christianity. Joplin, MO: College Press, 1997.
- _____, and Gregory Koukl. Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air. Grand
Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998.
- Boyd, Robert T. Boyd's Handbook of Practical Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Kregel,
1997.
- Bush, L. Russ, ed. Classical Readings in Christian Apologetics: A.D. 100-1800.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983.
- Carnell, Edward John. An Introduction to Christian Apologetics: A Philosophic Defense
of the Trinitarian-Theistic Faith. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948.
- Clark, Gordon H. Religion, Reason and Revelation. Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press,
1978.
- Clark, Kelly James. Return to Reason. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
- _____, ed. Philosophers who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993.
- Corduan, Winfried. No Doubt About It: The Case for Christianity. Nashville, TN:
Broadman & Holman, 1997.
- Craig, William Lane. The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz. New York:
Barnes and Noble, 1980.
- _____. "Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio Ex Nihilo."
Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. 32 (March 1980): 5-13.
- _____. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics. Rev. ed. Wheaton, IL:
Crossway Books, 1994.
- _____, and Q. Smith. Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1993.
- Dembski, William A., ed. Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998.
- Frame, John M. Apologetics to the Glory of God: An Introduction. Phillipsburg,
NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1994.
- _____. Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought. Phillipsburg, NJ:
Presbyterian and Reformed, 1995.
- Geehan, E.R., ed. Jerusalem and Athens: Critical Discussions on the Philosophy and
Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1971.
- Geisler, Norman. Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Baker
Book House, 1999.
- _____. Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976.
- _____, and Ron Brooks. When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences.
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1990.
- Hackett, Stuart C. The Resurrection of Theism: Prolegomena to Christian Apology.
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1982.
- Lewis, Gordon R. Testing Christianity's Truth Claims: Approaches to Christian
Apologetics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
- Mayers, Ronald B. Balanced Apologetics: Using Evidences and Presuppositions in
Defense of the Faith. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1984.
- McDowell, Josh. Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Volume II: Historical Evidences for
the Christian Faith. Rev. ed. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1981.
- McGrath, Alister E. Intellectuals Don't Need God & Other Modern Myths. Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.
- Miethe, Terry L., and Gary R. Habermas. Why Believe? God Exists! Rethinking the Case
for God and Christianity. Joplin, MO: College Press, 1993.
- Montgomery, John Warwick. Defending the Gospel Through the Centuries: A History of
Christian Apologetics. Audiocassettes. Newport Beach, CA: Institute for Law and
Theology, 1981.
- _____. Faith Founded on Fact: Essays in Evidential Apologetics. Nashville, TN:,
Thomas Nelson, 1978.
- _____, ed. Christianity for the Tough Minded. Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship,
1973.
- _____, ed. Evidence for Faith: Deciding the God Question. Dallas: Probe Books,
1991.
- Moreland, J.P. Love Your God with All Your Mind. Colorado Springs, CO: 1997.
- _____. Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker
Book House, 1987.
- _____, ed. The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
- Nash, Ronald. Faith & Reason: Searching for a Rational Faith. Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 1988.
- Purtill, Richard L. Reason to Believe. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1974.
- Ramm, Bernard. Protestant Christian Evidences. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954.
- _____. Types of Apologetic Systems: An Introductory Study to the Christian Philosophy
of Religion. Wheaton, IL: Van Kampen Press, 1953.
- _____. Varieties of Christian Apologetics: An Introduction to the Christian
Philosophy of Religion. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1961.
- Ross, Hugh. The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of
the Century Reveal God. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1993.
- Schaeffer, Francis A. Escape from Reason. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
1968.
- _____. The God Who is There. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1968.
- _____. He is There and He is Not Silent. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1972.
- Smith, Wilbur M. Therefore Stand: Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Baker Book
House, 1976.
- Sproul, R.C., John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley. Classical Apologetics: A Rational
Defense of the Christian Faith and A Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics. Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1984.
- Van Til, Cornelius. Christian Apologetics. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and
Reformed, 1975.
- _____. A Christian Theory of Knowledge. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and
Reformed, 1969.
- _____. The Defense of the Faith. 3d ed. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and
Reformed, 1967.
- Zuck, Roy B., gen. ed. Vital Apologetic Issues: Examining Reason and Revelation in
Biblical Perspective. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1995.
ADVANCED
- Dembski, William A. The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small
Probabilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Craig, William Lane. The Kalam Cosmological Argument. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
- Geisler, Norman, and Winfried Corduan. Philosophy of Religion. 2d ed. Grand
Rapids: Baker Book House, 1988.
- Plantinga, Alvin. God, Freedom, and Evil. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.
- _____. God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967.
- _____. The Nature of Necessity. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Plantinga, Alvin, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds. Faith and Rationality: Reason and
Belief in God. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
- Swinburne, Richard. The Coherence of Theism. Oxford, England: Oxford University
Press, 1977.
- _____. The Existence of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
- _____. Faith and Reason. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Thaxton, Charles B., Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen. The Mystery of Life's
Origin: Reassessing Current Theories. New York: Philosophical Library, 1984.
*Works from the evidential, presuppositional, and
combinational perspectives are included in this bibliography.
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