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1 Peter 3:15 Giving a Reason for Our Hope by Grover Gunn

A Call for Courage in the Cause of Truth by John Piper

A Christian Appraisal of Contemporary Philosophy by Gordon H. Clark

A Christian Theory of Knowledge by Cornelius Van Til

A Comparison of Apologetic Methods by Grover Gunn

A Critique of the Evidentialist Apologetical Method of John Warwick Montgomery by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

A New Design Argument by Charles Thaxton

A Philosophical Apologetic by Ray Liikanen

A Ready Defense by Josh McDowell

A Reformed Response To: Is Science a Religion?, by Richard Dawkins, The Humanist, Jan./Feb. 1997., pp 26-29 by Jonathan Barlow

A Short Explanation and Defense of Presuppositional Apologetics by Grover Gunn

A Statement on the Christian View of Knowledge by Jay Wegter

A Supernatural Faith by K. Cody Vest

Abridged Chart of Religious Groups in America by Massimo Lorenzini

An Answer to a Refutation of the Transcendental Argument by Matt Slick

An Answer to Another Response to the Transcendental Argument by Matt Slick

An Answer to the Hypocrisy Excuse by Kenneth Richard Samples

An Apology for my Theology: The Inseparable Link Between Reformed Theology and Presuppositional Apologetics By Bryan Neal Baird

An Assessment and Synthesis of Various Apologetic Methodologies by Carmen C. DiCello

Apart from God, Facts are Mute by Jay Wegter

Apologetics and the Heart by Douglas Wilson

Apologetics Articles by Gannon Murphy

Apologetics By B. B. Warfield

Apologetics in a Postmodern Age by Don Matzat

Apologetics, Truth, and Humility by Douglas Groothuis

Apologetics: Still Relevant Today? by Hank Hanegraaff

At War With the Word: The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis By Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Awaiting Our Verdict? by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Beware of Philosophy! by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Beyond a Shadow by William Brugman

Biblical Rationalism vs. Psycho Assertion Sansone vs. Cheung

by John Hendryx

Can a person who commits suicide be saved? by Massimo Lorenzini

Can Religious Unbelief Be Proper Function Rational? by Michael Sudduth

Can You Prove That God Exists? by Gannon Murphy

Christ has Absolute Authority in all areas of Knowledge by Jay Wegter

Christ's View of the Authority of Canonical Scripture: A Paradigm for Systematic Theology by Christopher Louis Lang

Christian Internet Apologetics by Dolphin, Stedman, McKenna, and Wise

Classical Apologetics by Gordon H. Clark

Commentaries on Apologetics by Gregory Koukl

Common Misunderstandings of Van Til's Apologetics Part 1 by Richard L. Pratt

Common Misunderstandings of Van Til's Apologetics Part 2 by Richard L. Pratt

Communicating the Authority of Scripture in a Postmodern Enviroment by Jonathan Gundlach

Comparing Modernist and Postmodern Educational Theory From The Death of Truth

Comparison Between Traditional and Presuppositional Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til

Culturally Aware Apologetics By Gregory Koukl

Defending a Lion: Presuppositionalism or a Classical Approach, Must We Choose? Gregg Strawbridge

Defending the Faith: A Crash-Course in Apologetics by Greg Johnson

Defending the Faith: An Introduction to the Presuppositional Method by Massimo Lorenzini

Depravity has Radically Corrupted Human Reason by Jay Wegter

Determinism and Responsibility by Gordon H. Clark

Displays of God Remove the Excuse for Failed Worship by John Piper

Do All Paths Lead To God? by Gannon Murphy

Does Presuppositional Apologetics Use Circular Reasoning? by Massimo Lorenzini

Epistemology 101 by Grover Gunn

Evangelism and Apologetics By Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Evangelizing New Agers by Doug Groothuis

Evidence for the Resurrection by Josh McDowell

Facts (Seen and Unseen) by John Piper

From Relativism and Skepticism to Truth and Certainty by Dr. Josef Seifert

Fulfilled Prophecy as an Apologetic by Hank Hanegraaff

Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus by Douglas Groothuis

God Vindicated His Righteousness in The Death of Christ by John Piper

Honoring the God of History by Jay Wegter

How Can You Say Jesus Is the Only Way to God? by Answers In Action

How Far Can We Trust The Bible? By Bob Passantino

How Real People Believe: A Defense of Reformed Epistemology by Kelly James Clark

How should we respond to terrorists? by Massimo Lorenzini

I'm Glad You Asked by Steve Hays

In Defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument by William Lane Craig

Is Human Language Adequate to Talk about God? A Critique of Verificationism and Theological Pessmism by Dr. Michael Sudduth

Is Sola Scriptura a Protestant Concoction?" By Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Is the Bible Reliable? by Bob and Gretchen Passantino

Jesus Came into the World To Be Trusted by John Piper

Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True: Part 1 by John Piper

Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True: Part 2 by John Piper

Jesus is Precious Because We Yearn For Beauty by John Piper

Jesus: God's Wisdom James Patrick Holding

Jesus: Worthy of More Glory Than Moses by John Piper

John 1:1 Meaning and Translation by James White

John Calvin and the Natural Knowledge of God by Michael Sudduth

Justifying Non-Christian Objections Douglas Wilson & Farrell Till

Legal Rather Than Evangelical Knowledge: Calvin on the Limits of Natural Theology  by Michael S. Horton

Major Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus by Gannon Murphy

My Creedo by Cornelius Van Til

Nine Ways to Know That the Gospel of Christ is True by John Piper

On Worshipping the Creature Rather Than the Creator by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Our Evangelistic Strategy is Guided by the Nature of Faith by Jay Wegter

Paganism tries to make "Pseudo-Science" its Universal by Jay Wegter

Pensees by Blaise Pascal

Plantinga's Revision of the Reformed Tradition:Rethinking our Natural Knowledge of God by Michael Sudduth

Point of Contact by Jay Wegter

Presuppositional Apologetics and the Moral Government of God by Jay Wegter

Presuppositional Apologetics by Wikipedia

Presuppositional Apologetics: An Introduction Part 1 by John M. Frame

Presuppositional Apologetics: An Introduction Part 2 by John M. Frame

Presuppositions and the Existence of God By Dennis McCallum

Prolegomena to Apologetics by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Reaching the Happy Thinking Pagan by Ravi Zacharias

Ready to Reason by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Reformed Epistemology and Christian Apologetics by Michael Sudduth

Relativism by Christian Apologetics and Research Ministries

Revelation, Speculation, and Science by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Revisionary Immunity by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Science, Subjectivity, and Scripture by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Self-Refuting Statements by John Frame

Shattering the Christ-Myth: The Reliability of the Secular Witness to Jesus by J. P. Holding

Six Enemies of Apologetic Engagement by Douglas Groothius

Standing on Mars Hill: A Closer Look at Biblical Apologetics by James F. Stitzinger

Suppose You Are a Liberal Critic of the Bible by John Piper

The Bible begins with a Declaration of God, not a Defense of God by Jay Wegter

The Christian World View by Jay Wegter

The Church's Need for Polemics in the Postmodern World by Massimo Lorenzini

The Craig-Pigliucci Debate: Does God Exist? by William Lane Craig and Massimo Pigliucci

The Crucial Concept of Self-Deception in Presuppositional Apologetics by Greg L. Bahnsen

The Defence of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til

The Devil’s Chaplain Confounded by Stephen M. Barr

The Disappearance Form of the Mind-Body Identity Thesis by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

The Edenic Lie and the "Eve Theory of Knowledge" by Jay Wegter

The Encounter of Jerusalem with Athens by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

The Futility of Non-Christian Thought A Debate Among by Douglas Jones, Michael Martin, and Keith Parsons

The Golden Rule Apologetic by Bob Passantino

The Greatest Danger Facing the Church by Douglas Groothuis

The Heart of the Matter: Knowing and Believing  by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

The Impropriety of Evidentially Arguing for the Resurrection by Dr. Greg Bahnsen

The Johannine Epistemology David R. Bickel

The Marvelous Rising of a Rejected Stone by John Piper

The Myth of Neutrality by Jay Wegter

The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable? By F. F. Bruce

The Platinum Rod by Grover Gunn

The Presuppositional Apologetic by James M. Harrison

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, by Dr. Armand Nicholi

The Sennacherib Defense Prayer and Apologetics By T. M. Moore

The Sufficiency of the Written Word Answering the Modern Roman Catholic Apologists by Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr

The Transcendental Perspective of Westminster's Apologetic by Robert Knudsen

Theological Chart: A Summary of Positions

There Are Only Two Religions in the Whole World! by John G. Reisinger

There is Salvation in No One Else by John Piper

There May be More Than One Way to God (Is Jesus the Only Way?) by John Hendryx

Thinking Straight About Tolerance by Douglas Groothuis

Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God from the Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Unapologetic Apologetics Credenda/Agenda

Van Til and the Ligonier Apologetic by John M. Frame

Van Til's "Presuppositionalism By Dr. Greg Bahnsen

Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions? by Ron Nash

Weighing the Evidence But on Whose Scales by Grover Gunn

What is Religious Truth? by Jay Wegter

What Jesus Built by Rising From the Dead by John Piper

What Shape is the Earth In?  by J. P. Holding

Whence and Why the Earthquake in Turkey? by John Piper

Who is a True Jew? by John Piper 

Why & What: A Brief Introduction to Christianity by Douglas Jones

Why Bertrand Russell Was Not A Christian by Rev. Ralph Allan Smith

Why Do I Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God? by Massimo Lorenzini

Why I Am (Still) a Christian by Daniel J. Phillips

Why I Believe In God by Cornelius Van Til

Why I Believe Jesus Is the Son of God by Peter Kreeft

Why I Believe The New Testament Is Historically Reliable by Gary Habermas

Why is Secularism Exempt from the Separation of Church and State?

Worldviews in Conflict by Rev. Dale Tedder

Zarathustra Shrugged - What apologetics should look like in a skeptical age by Andy Crouch

 

What is Apologetics?

 

Apologetics comes from the Greek word "apologia" which basically means a defense.  In English, this word has come to be defined as a defense of or for a particular faith.  Apologetics covers a wide variety of topics including:  the authority of the Bible, the person of Christ, biblical evidence in archaeology, refuting common objections, etc. 

 

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;