List of Christian apologetic works

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
• Apology Against Rufinus (402) by Jerome
• On the Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius

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

• The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (c. 1418–1427) Thomas à Kempis
• 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
• The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
• 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
• The Way the World Is: Christian Perspective of a Scientist (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
• I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (2004) by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek
• Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (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 (1977, revised 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 ISBN 978-1848310704
• 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 ISBN 978-0-8308-2719-0.
• 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 ISBN 978-0830834662
• OrganicJesus: Finding Your Way to an Unprocessed, Gmo-free Christianity (2016) by Scott Douglas ISBN 978-0825443923
• 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