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Apologetics

What is apologetics?

Apologetics is the discipline that gives a reasoned account of Christian hope to anyone who asks for it, as 1 Peter 3:15 to 16 frames the task: a defense, a reasoned account and a manner of gentleness and respect. It sets out the grounds of belief and answers objections, and Catholic teaching places it within fundamental theology.

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Study v1.1, 5 November 2026

Apologetics

At a glance

Why it matters for reading Scripture

The reasoned case for faith and the answers to objections, for anyone who asks whether any of it is true.

What the study found

Apologetics defends Christian faith through nine schools of method; arguments for God and the resurrection, and objections from evil and hiddenness, remain contested, with no side's case generally judged decisive.

Where traditions divide

They divide on method (evidence, presupposition or proper basicality), on whether apologetics should argue at all, on evil, hell and pluralism, and on mission to Jews and Muslims.

How the traditions compare

  • Classical

    Holds that natural theology first establishes theism and that historical evidences, above all the resurrection, then point to Christianity.

    Its modern manifesto is Classical Apologetics (1984) by R. C. Sproul, John Gerstner and Arthur Lindsley, and William Lane Craig represents it in Five Views on Apologetics, holding that reason serves the faith in a ministerial role and that the witness of the Holy Spirit is more fundamental than argument. George Zemek charges the school with overconfidence in the proofs and neglect of the noetic effects of sin, and Michael Martin argues that Craig's appeal to the Spirit's self-authenticating witness begs the question.

    Sources1–4

  • Evidential

    Argues from historical evidence directly to Christianity, without first establishing a generic theism.

    Gary Habermas's minimal facts method admits only facts with strong evidence that most scholars in the relevant fields accept, and Michael R. Licona weighs naturalistic hypotheses against the resurrection, which he judges the best fit. Habermas himself lists the objections, among them that head-counts of scholars are estimates and can conflict, and Kierkegaard's pseudonym Climacus holds that historical claims yield only approximation.

    Sources15–7

  • Presuppositional

    Holds that unbelief is itself a presupposition that distorts reasoning, so there is no neutral ground, and that Christian theism must be presupposed for logic, science and morality to make sense.

    Cornelius Van Til made the transcendental argument its only appropriate form, and Greg Bahnsen used it in his 1985 debate with Gordon Stein; John Frame accepts the basic claim while granting that positive proofs such as Aquinas's can establish the same conclusion. Stein replied that Bahnsen borrowed the logic he says the atheist cannot account for, and Michael Martin argues that even a valid transcendental argument would show only what atheists must presuppose.

    Sources8–11

  • Reformed epistemology

    Holds that belief in God can be rational without evidence or argument, and offers a mainly defensive apologetic.

    Alvin Plantinga argued that belief in God grounded in the sensus divinitatis is properly basic, and William Alston that Christian mystical practice is justified in the way perceptual practice is. Its best-known objection is the Great Pumpkin objection, pressed by Michael Martin and in another form by Linda Zagzebski; Reformed epistemologists reply that basic beliefs remain defeasible.

    Sources12–13

  • Cumulative case

    Holds that several considerations, each inconclusive on its own, together make Christianity the best explanation of a wide range of phenomena.

    Peter Forrest dates Basil Mitchell's cumulative argument to 1973 and Richard Swinburne's Bayesian approach to 1979, and John Henry Newman anticipated the idea with converging probabilities judged by the illative sense. W. K. Clifford's principle requires such a case to show that its evidence is sufficient, and the Catholic magisterium has condemned the view that the assent of faith rests on a sum of probabilities.

    Sources113–15

  • Fideist and existential

    Holds that faith is not grounded on proof or historical evidence.

    The label is used mainly by opponents and rarely self-applied, and C. Stephen Evans reads Kierkegaard, the figure most often called a fideist, as non-evidentialist but not radically fideist. Pascal wrote that the metaphysical proofs have little value, though Richard Amesbury stresses that it is reason that recognizes its limits. J. L. Mackie likened Kierkegaard's position to a reckless gamble with the intellect, and the First Vatican Council and Fides et Ratio reject fideism.

    Sources16–20

  • Catholic fundamental theology

    Teaches that motives of credibility, above all miracles, prophecies and the Church herself, make revelation credible without compelling faith, while the motive of assent is the authority of God who reveals.

    Maurice Blondel's method of immanence took a different route within the tradition and was charged by critics with naturalism, fideism and modernism. After the Second Vatican Council the emphasis moved to revelation as God's personal self-disclosure, and Fides et Ratio (1998) describes fundamental theology as the discipline charged with giving an account of faith.

    Sources19–24

  • Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox

    Hold a range of positions.

    The neo-patristic strand of Georges Florovsky is suspicious of rationalist apologetics and centers theology on liturgical experience, while other Orthodox teach apologetics by name, including natural theology, and some Orthodox online call the classical arguments a generic theism. Older apologies come from writers under non-Christian rule: Eznik of Kołb against dualism, and Timothy I of the Church of the East before the caliph al-Mahdi. Teresa Obolevitch finds Florovsky's critique ambivalent and sometimes unfair.

    Sources25–30

  • Pentecostal and experiential

    Draws on testimony to present miracles, affective and narrative knowing, and the witness of the Spirit, in three types: an evidential case from testimony to miracles (Craig Keener), a critique of evidentialism grounded in affective and narrative knowing (James K. A. Smith), and a Spirit-centered theology of religions (Amos Yong), with the Manila Manifesto's idea of power encounter beside them.

    The central figures for miracles rest on Keener's own reporting, and Andrew Shepardson objects that narrative knowing leaves no common ground to judge between rival stories.

    Sources31–35

  • Postliberal, missional and imaginative

    Give apologetics an ad hoc rather than a foundational role.

    Hans Frei disliked general apologetics, and Lesslie Newbigin declines to make apologetics the basis of belief because it presumes a neutral framework outside the Christian story. Holly Ordway's imaginative apologetics holds, after C. S. Lewis, that imagination is the organ of meaning, so the apologist must first discern what words such as "guilt" or "redemption" mean to the listener.

    Sources36–38

How the field developed

  1. Early church
    c. 170

    Celsus writes the True Discourse, which Mark Edwards dates to about 170 and which survives in Origen's reply, Contra Celsum. Celsus charges that Christians tell people to believe without examining, and Origen answers that the disciples would not have taught so dangerous a doctrine with such courage if they had invented it.394041

  2. Late antiquity
    362 to 363

    Julian writes the three books Against the Galileans at Antioch in the winter of 362/3, calling Christianity a human fabrication; the work survives mainly through Cyril of Alexandria's Contra Iulianum.4243

  3. Late antiquity
    410

    The sack of Rome by Alaric, which pagans blamed on Christianity, occasions Augustine's City of God. In Book XXII he argues that since the world's belief in Christ's rising and its spread by a few uneducated fishermen are visible facts, the rising itself should not be dismissed.4445

  4. Medieval
    781 to 782

    The Catholicos Timothy I of the Church of the East debates the Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi at Baghdad, in Arabic; the record survives in Syriac, and Sidney Griffith places Timothy within a wider Arabic Christian apologetic under Abbasid rule.3046

  5. Medieval
    1077 to 1078

    Anselm's Proslogion argues that even the fool understands a being than which nothing greater can be conceived, which must therefore exist in reality as well as in the mind. Gaunilo replies that the same reasoning would prove an island more excellent than all lands.474849

  6. Medieval
    1259 to 1265

    Aquinas writes the Summa contra Gentiles, using natural reason because some opponents, Muslims and pagans, accept no Scripture. In the Summa Theologiae he gives the five ways to God's existence.505152

  7. Modern
    1670

    Pascal's Pensées are published from the notes he drafted for a defense of the Christian religion, which he passed away before completing. They include the wager, which met the many gods objection first in Diderot.185354

  8. Modern
    1692 to 1693

    Richard Bentley gives the first Boyle Lectures, funded by Robert Boyle's will for lectures "proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels".5556

  9. Modern
    1736

    Joseph Butler's Analogy of Religion seeks to persuade the deists while assuming only premises Butler shared with them, and rests on probable reasoning as a sufficient guide to action.5758

  10. Modern
    1779

    David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion are published after his passing. Philo, the skeptic, objects that the cosmos resembles an organism more than a machine and that a designer would itself need explaining.596061

  11. Modern
    1802

    William Paley's Natural Theology contrasts a stone with a watch whose parts are arranged for a purpose and so imply a maker, and applies the reasoning to the eye, animals and plants.61

  12. Modern
    24 April 1870

    The First Vatican Council promulgates Dei Filius, which teaches that God can be known with certainty from created things by the natural light of reason and names miracles and prophecies as most certain signs of revelation.6263

  13. Modern
    1948

    On 28 January F. C. Copleston and Bertrand Russell debate the contingency argument on BBC radio. On 2 February, at the Oxford Socratic Club, Elizabeth Anscombe answers C. S. Lewis's argument that naturalism refutes itself, and Lewis later rewrites the chapter of Miracles.646566

  14. Modern
    1967

    Alvin Plantinga's God and Other Minds is published. The atheist philosopher Quentin Smith later writes that the secularization of mainstream academia began to unravel after it.6768

  15. Modern
    1979

    William Lane Craig's The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Richard Swinburne's The Existence of God appear, and William Rowe states the evidential problem of evil.697071

  16. Modern
    2004 to 2007

    The New Atheism takes shape in books by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens, and Gary Wolf's Wired cover story of November 2006 gives the label wide currency. Critics answer from Christian and secular sides alike, among them Alvin Plantinga and Terry Eagleton.7273747576

How to study apologetics

The questions it asks

  • Where does the reasoning start, what can it achieve and what may it assume?
  • Does an argument claim to demonstrate its conclusion, or to give it probabilistic or cumulative support?7778
  • Can belief in God be rational without evidence or argument?12
  • In a historical argument, which claim is at issue: the date of the testimony, its literary dependence, the sincerity of the witnesses, the content of their experiences or the truth of their interpretation?79
  • Should apologetics argue at all, or is faithful exposition of revelation the only legitimate defense?80
  • How is the reason to be given: with the gentleness and respect the founding text asks, and without manipulation or coercion?8182

Its method

Start

  1. Begin from the question the inquirer asks: the founding text calls for an account of the hope to anyone who asks for it81.

  2. Choose the starting point: natural theology first and historical evidences second in the classical method, or historical evidence directly in the evidential1.

  3. Admit a historical fact into the argument only when it has strong evidence, usually several independent lines, and is accepted by most scholars in the relevant fields, as Habermas's minimal facts method requires5.

  4. Where no single argument is decisive, weigh many individually inconclusive considerations together, as the cumulative case does13.

  5. Answer objections, including the charge that belief without proof is irrational, which Reformed epistemology meets defensively12.

  6. State the opponent's case at its strongest before replying, as Anatol Rapoport's rules for criticism, relayed by Daniel Dennett, require83.

  7. Identify the kind of doubt, factual, emotional or volitional, before offering evidence, as Habermas advises84.

  8. Claim no more than the arguments' own defenders claim: Plantinga calls the theistic arguments non-coercive sketches, and Habermas presents probability rather than deductive certainty as the ceiling7785.

What to read

Its primary witnesses

  • 1 Peter 3:15 to 16, which apologists commonly take as the charter of the discipline, with its call to respond with gentleness and respect8681.
  • Paul's speech at the Areopagus, Acts 17:22 to 34, often cited as the founding text of common-ground apologetics, though that reading is one among several8788.
  • The second-century apologies, among them Justin Martyr's First Apology and Athenagoras's A Plea for the Christians, and the Epistle to Diognetus899091.
  • The pagan critics Celsus, Porphyry and Julian, whose works survive only in fragments or in Christian quotation409242.
  • Anselm's Proslogion and Gaunilo's reply, In Behalf of the Fool4849.
  • Aquinas's five ways in the Summa Theologiae (I, q. 2, a. 3) and the Summa contra Gentiles5251.
  • Pascal's Pensées, Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and his essay Of Miracles539394.
  • Paley's Natural Theology, Butler's Analogy of Religion and Newman's Grammar of Assent615795.
  • Church teaching: Dei Filius (1870), the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraphs 156 to 159) and Fides et Ratio (1998)632120.
  • The Lausanne Covenant (1974), the Manila Manifesto (1989), the Cape Town Commitment (2010) and Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World (2011), which bind the manner of witness96349782.

Standard reference works

  • Avery Dulles, A History of Apologetics, revised edition (Ignatius Press, 2005; first edition 1971)9899.
  • Steven B. Cowan (ed.), Five Views on Apologetics (Zondervan, 2000), with essays for the classical, evidential, cumulative case, presuppositional and Reformed epistemology methods100101.
  • Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman Jr, Faith Has Its Reasons (2002; second edition 2005 to 2006)102.
  • Bernard Ramm, Varieties of Christian Apologetics (Baker, 1961)103.
  • New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (InterVarsity Press, 2006)8.
  • The Catholic Encyclopedia articles "Apologetics" (1907) and "Fideism" (1909), and the New Schaff-Herzog articles "Apologetics" and "Polemics"10415105106.
  • Gary Habermas, History of Apologetic Methodology: Outlines and Notes (2019)85.
  • The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (ed. William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, 2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (ed. Michael Martin, 2006)107108.
  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on fideism, the epistemology of religion, the cosmological and ontological arguments and the problem of evil161369109110.

Scholarship referenced in this study

The works below shaped the field and are cited in this study, from the earliest to the most recent. Hover over a book, or select it, to see its author and the sources behind it.

  • 2003The Resurrection of the Son of GodN. T. WrightThe Resurrection of the Son of God (2003)N. T. WrightSources111–112
  • 2004The Twilight of AtheismAlister McGrathThe Twilight of Atheism (2004)Alister McGrathSources113–114
  • 2008Consciousness and the Existence of GodJ. P. MorelandConsciousness and the Existence of God (2008)J. P. MorelandSources115–116
  • 2008Why There Almost Certainly Is a GodKeith WardWhy There Almost Certainly Is a God (2008)Keith WardSources117–118
  • 2009Signature in the CellStephen C. MeyerSignature in the Cell (2009)Stephen C. MeyerSources119–120
  • 2010The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical ApproachMichael R. LiconaThe Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (2010)Michael R. LiconaSources6121
  • 2011Is God a Moral Monster?Paul CopanIs God a Moral Monster? (2011)Paul CopanSources122–123
  • 2012The Minimal Facts Approach to the Resurrection of JesusGary HabermasThe Minimal Facts Approach to the Resurrection of Jesus (2012)Gary HabermasSources5124
  • 2017Five Proofs of the Existence of GodEdward FeserFive Proofs of the Existence of God (2017)Edward FeserSources125–126
  • 2017Hidden in Plain ViewLydia McGrewHidden in Plain View (2017)Lydia McGrewSources127–128
  • 2022Christian Apologetics, second editionDouglas GroothuisChristian Apologetics, second edition (2022)Douglas GroothuisSources129
  • 2023The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in GodJustin BrierleyThe Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God (2023)Justin BrierleySources130

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Key terms

The words that carry the most weight in this field, each defined from the sources of this study. Turn a card over to read its definition.

The Greek noun for a defense, the term for a legal defense in an ancient court and the source of the English "apologetics"; it occurs eight times in the New Testament131.

The defense of essential or distinctive doctrine in controversy between Christian traditions, called "applied dogmatics" in the New Schaff-Herzog106.

In Catholic teaching, the discipline charged with giving an account of faith, into which much of the older apologetics was folded after the Second Vatican Council20104.

An external sign, such as a miracle, a prophecy or the Church herself, that makes revelation credible without compelling faith1921.

Reason serving revelation by grasping and interpreting it, as against a magisterial use that sets reason up as judge over revelation1323.

A belief that is rational without resting on evidence or argument; Reformed epistemologists hold that belief in God can be one12.

Exclusive or basic reliance on faith alone, with a consequent disparagement of reason; the term functions mainly as a term of abuse and is rarely self-applied16.

An argument that one thing is a necessary condition for the possibility of another that is accepted, so that it must hold; for Van Til the only appropriate kind of apologetic argument1339.

Gary Habermas's method of admitting only facts with strong evidence that most scholars in the relevant fields accept, such as Jesus' death by crucifixion and the disciples' experiences they believed were appearances5.

The view that, even if theism is true, human beings should be skeptical of their ability to predict all of God's plans, and that this undermines arguments from evil134.

Where it sits

Builds on

Apologetics

Questions people ask

Their defenders differ on what they claim: some claim demonstration, others offer probabilistic or cumulative support. Alvin Plantinga calls the theistic arguments good argument sketches but not coercive proofs77. Graham Oppy, an atheist, concludes that no argument on either side is powerful enough to change the minds of reasonable participants78.

Tacitus reports that Christus suffered the death penalty under Tiberius by sentence of Pontius Pilate, and Josephus adds partly disputed evidence: his reference to James, "the brother of Jesus who was called Christ", is widely accepted, while the Testimonium Flavianum is usable only in a reduced, disputed form135136137. Bart Ehrman, a non-Christian scholar, argues against the view that Jesus never existed, which Richard Carrier defends and Daniel N. Gullotta finds unpersuasive138139140.

Gary Habermas says his survey of the literature proves nothing as to whether the resurrection occurred141. Most critics named in the debate, among them Gerd Lüdemann and Bart Ehrman, accept that the early followers had experiences they took to be appearances, and explain them naturally142143. N. T. Wright and Dale Allison hold, in different ways, that the final step from the facts to the resurrection turns on prior probabilities and worldview144145.

Its logical form is widely judged to fail: J. L. Mackie granted in 1982 that Alvin Plantinga's free will defense shows the problem does not prove theism inconsistent, and William Rowe set that form aside146147148. Nathan Hanna and James Sterba argue that reformulated logical arguments remain147146. The evidential arguments of Rowe and Paul Draper are live, and skeptical theism, a main reply to them, faces objections that are not settled148149134150.

No. Karl Barth held that good dogmatics is the only possible apologetics, Kierkegaard that objective proof would undermine faith, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer judged an apologetic that exploits human weakness ignoble8016151. Myron Penner argues that apologetics functions as coercion, and critics such as Douglas Groothuis reply that presenting evidence is not coercion152153.

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  61. 61Teleological Arguments for God's Existence, Del Ratzsch and Jeffrey Koperski (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleological-arguments/ (opens in a new tab)
  62. 62Dei Filius, Third Session, 24 April 1870, in Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds2.v.ii.i.html (opens in a new tab)
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  73. 73Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, publisher description (Nile)https://www.thenile.co.nz/books/richard-dawkins/the-god-delusion/9780618680009 (opens in a new tab)
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  79. 79Sean McDowell, Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs for Their Faith? (Christian Research Journal)https://www.equip.org/articles/apostles-really-die-martyrs-faith (opens in a new tab)
  80. 80Clark H. Pinnock, Karl Barth and Christian Apologetics, Themelios 2.3 (The Gospel Coalition)https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/karl-barth-and-christian-apologetics/ (opens in a new tab)
  81. 811 Peter 3:15 Interlinear (Bible Hub)https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_peter/3-15.htm (opens in a new tab)
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  83. 83Maria Popova, Daniel Dennett's Rapoport rules for criticism (The Marginalian)https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ (opens in a new tab)
  84. 84Gary R. Habermas, The Thomas Factor, online text (garyhabermas.com)https://www.garyhabermas.com/books/thomas_factor/thomas_factor.htm (opens in a new tab)
  85. 85Gary R. Habermas, History of Apologetic Methodology: Outlines and Notes, e-book (garyhabermas.com)https://www.garyhabermas.com/books/ApologeticsMethodsEbook/Habermas_Apologetic%20Methodology%20E-BOOK.pdf (opens in a new tab)
  86. 861 Peter 3, Berean Standard Bible (Bible Hub)https://biblehub.com/bsb/1_peter/3.htm (opens in a new tab)
  87. 87Monique Cuany, Proclaiming the Kerygma in Athens, sample PDF (Mohr Siebeck)https://cdn.mohrsiebeck.com/5c,6e487391a44b56b0f8cdb8fe5997dc.pdf (opens in a new tab)
  88. 88Acts 17:22 to 34, American Standard Version (Christianity.com)https://www.christianity.com/bible/asv/acts/17-22-34 (opens in a new tab)
  89. 89Justin Martyr, The First Apology (New Advent)https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm (opens in a new tab)
  90. 90Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians (New Advent)https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0205.htm (opens in a new tab)
  91. 91Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (New Advent)https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0101.htm (opens in a new tab)
  92. 92Porphyry, Eyjólfur Emilsson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/porphyry/ (opens in a new tab)
  93. 93David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Project Gutenberg)https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4583/4583-h/4583-h.htm (opens in a new tab)
  94. 94David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, section 10, Of Miracles (Hume Texts Online)https://davidhume.org/texts/e/10 (opens in a new tab)
  95. 95John Henry Newman, An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent, contents (Newman Reader)https://www.newmanreader.org/works/grammar/index.html (opens in a new tab)
  96. 96The Lausanne Covenant (Lausanne Movement)https://lausanne.org/content/covenant/lausanne-covenant (opens in a new tab)
  97. 97The Cape Town Commitment (Lausanne Movement)https://lausanne.org/content/ctcommitment (opens in a new tab)
  98. 98A History of Apologetics, Avery Cardinal Dulles (Ignatius Press)https://ignatius.com/a-history-of-apologetics-hoap/ (opens in a new tab)
  99. 99Cardinal Dulles on the History of Apologetics, ZENIT interview (EWTN Library)https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/cardinal-dulles-on-the-history-of-apologetics-1183 (opens in a new tab)
  100. 100Five Views on Apologetics, ed. Steven B. Cowan (Zondervan Academic)https://zondervanacademic.com/products/five-views-on-apologetics (opens in a new tab)
  101. 101Five Views on Apologetics, ed. Steven B. Cowan (Christianbook)https://www.christianbook.com/five-views-on-apologetics/9780310224761/pd/24764 (opens in a new tab)
  102. 102Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith (robertbowman.net)https://robertbowman.net/faith-has-its-reasons-integrative-approaches-to-defending-the-christian-faith/ (opens in a new tab)
  103. 103Gordon H. Clark, review of Bernard Ramm, Varieties of Christian Apologetics (gordonhclark.com)https://gordonhclark.com/review-of-varieties-of-christian-apologetics/ (opens in a new tab)
  104. 104Apologetics, Charles Francis Aiken, Catholic Encyclopedia 1907 (New Advent)https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01618a.htm (opens in a new tab)
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  107. 107The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, ed. William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, table of contents (Wiley-Blackwell)https://gov.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405176571,descCd-tableOfContents.html (opens in a new tab)
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  109. 109Ontological Arguments, Graham Oppy, Joshua Rasmussen and Joseph Schmid (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/ (opens in a new tab)
  110. 110The Problem of Evil, Michael Tooley (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/ (opens in a new tab)
  111. 111About (NTWrightOnline)https://ntwrightonline.org/about/ (opens in a new tab)
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  113. 113Prof Alister McGrath (The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion)https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/about/people/prof-alister-mcgrath (opens in a new tab)
  114. 114Professor Alister McGrath (Gresham College)https://www.gresham.ac.uk/node/9751 (opens in a new tab)
  115. 115J. P. Moreland, faculty directory (Biola University)https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/jp-moreland (opens in a new tab)
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  117. 117Keith Ward, CV (keithward.org.uk)https://www.keithward.org.uk/cv/ (opens in a new tab)
  118. 118Todd McAlster, review of Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God (Boston University)https://people.bu.edu/wwildman/atheo/reviews/review_ward01.htm (opens in a new tab)
  119. 119Stephen C. Meyer, profile (Discovery Institute)https://www.discovery.org/p/meyer/ (opens in a new tab)
  120. 120Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell (WorldCat)https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/232978147 (opens in a new tab)
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  122. 122Paul Copan, home page (paulcopan.com)https://paulcopan.com/ (opens in a new tab)
  123. 123Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?, record (Open Library)https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780801072758 (opens in a new tab)
  124. 124Gary R. Habermas, home page (garyhabermas.com)https://www.garyhabermas.com/ (opens in a new tab)
  125. 125Edward Feser, blog (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/ (opens in a new tab)
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  127. 127Lydia McGrew, home page (lydiamcgrew.com)https://lydiamcgrew.com/ (opens in a new tab)
  128. 128Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View, catalog record (Petra Christian University library)https://perpus.petra.ac.id/catalog/site/detail?id=143034 (opens in a new tab)
  129. 129Dr Douglas Groothuis joins Cornerstone University (Cornerstone University)https://www.cornerstone.edu/dr-douglas-groothuis-joins-cornerstone-university-as-distinguished-university-research-professor-of-apologetics-and-christian-worldview/ (opens in a new tab)
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  131. 131Strong's Greek 627: apologia (Bible Hub)https://biblehub.com/greek/627.htm (opens in a new tab)
  132. 132Richard Muller on the Ministerial (or Instrumental) Use of Reason (The Riddleblog, Kim Riddlebarger)https://www.kimriddlebarger.com/the-riddleblog/richard-muller-on-the-ministerial-use-of-reason (opens in a new tab)
  133. 133Transcendental Arguments, Tony Cheng (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendental-arguments/ (opens in a new tab)
  134. 134Skeptical Theism, Timothy Perrine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skeptical-theism/ (opens in a new tab)
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  136. 136Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20 (penelope.uchicago.edu)https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-20.html (opens in a new tab)
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  146. 146James P. Sterba, God and Purported Logical Arguments from Evil and Suffering, New Blackfriars 105 (Cambridge University Press)https://core-prod.cambridgecore.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/536C39A264E49BB0312C547736625CD3/S0028428924000532a.pdf/god-and-purported-logical-arguments-from-evil-and-suffering.pdf (opens in a new tab)
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  149. 149Paul Draper, Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists (SciSpace)https://scispace.com/pdf/pain-and-pleasure-an-evidential-problem-for-theists-3xmp3yey8u.pdf (opens in a new tab)
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  151. 151Richard Beck, Letters from Cell 92: Part 3, The World come of Age (Experimental Theology, Substack)https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/letters-from-cell-92-part-3-the-world-10-12-08 (opens in a new tab)
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