Apologetic Methodology/The Need for Apologetics/Resources
- Philosophical Apologetics Chart
- The Bible, Apologetics, and Using Your Testimony
- How to Get Apologetics in Your Church
- Who is the True Evangelist? We Need a Paradigm Shift
- Cross-Based Apologetics for a Scientific Millennium: George L. Murphy
- 100 Christian Apologists
- The Ultimate Apologetics MP3 Audio Page
- Recommended Apologetics Book Directory
- The Ultimate Apologetics MP3 Audio Page
- Why Ohio State Needs Ratio Christi/Blog Post
- Christian Apologetics Blog Directory
- Basic Logic Primer
- Audio Debates
- Apologetics Group Directory
- An Apologetic for Apologetics: This is taken from our blog
- Do Christians Get Brownie Points For Being Ignorant? Is Anti-Intellectualism Biblical?/Blog Post
- The Problem of Anti-Intellectualism in the Church-Problems and Possible Solutions/Blog Post
- Classical Apologetics Chart
- Presuppositional Apologetics Chart
- Comparing Apologetic Systems: Four Approaches
- Cumulative Case Apologetics
- A New Day For Apologetics: Troy Anderson
- Apologetics: Why Your Church Needs It!
- The Need to Answer Every Man: This is taken from our blog
- A Response to Bart Ehrman
- Mike Licona’s Review of Bart Ehrman’s “Forged”
- Book Review of Bart D. Ehrman’s Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
- A Look at Bart Ehrman: Agreements and Disagreements (Blog Post)
- A Response to Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: Dr. Thomas Howe
- Misplaced Faith, Bart Ehrman, and the Kerygma of the Early Church
- What Can We Know About Jesus? Bart Ehrman and The Historical Bedrock (Blog Post)
- Wallace, Daniel B: The Gospel According to Bart: A Review of Bart D. Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
- Reflections on the Bart Ehrman/Michael Brown Debate at The Ohio State University/Blog Post
- A Response to Atheism
- The Moral Argument: A Look at the Harris/Craig Debate (Blog Post)
- Reflections on the Krauss/Craig Debate (Blog Post)
- Prominent Atheist Professor of Law and Philosophy Thomas Nagel Calls Intelligent Design Scientific and Constitutional to “Mention” in Science Classes
- Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris
- Resurgent Atheism: Robert Bowman:This article shows some of the weaknesses of popular atheism
- Killing the Canaanites: A Response to the New Atheism’s “Divine Genocide” Claims By Clay Jones
- Can Naturalistic Evolution Yield True Beliefs About Reality?
- How Does One Atheist Support the Existence of Human Rationality?
- The Apologetic Argument: David Snoke
- God's Existence: Cumulative Case Apologetics
- Primitive Monotheism: Norman L. Geisler, Ph.D.
- God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible
- Reflections and Complaints on the Divine Revelation Model (Blog Post)
- Any Absolutes? Absolutely! By Norman Geisler
- Did Jesus Really Exist? By Paul L. Maier, The Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University
- The Evidence for Christianity: William Lane Craig
- Has Science Eliminated God? Alister McGrath
- The Absurdity of Life Without God William Lane Craig
- The Dawkins Delusion, by Professor Alister E. McGrath
- Reflections And Advice on Atheist/Christian Discussions
- The God Delusion
- F. Beckwith: Why I Am Not a Relativist
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Richard Dawkins' Failed Rebuttal of Natural Theology
- Is the Purpose of the Bible to Prove God’s Existence?
- Paul Copan: “The Presumptuousness of Atheism”
- The Vertical Cosmological Argument
- For a review of The God Delusion, see Alvin Plantinga’s article here
- What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?
- Who is God? Comparing Atheism, Theism, Deism, Pantheism, and Polytheism: A Closer Look
- Kardiatheology-What About The Hardness of Heart?
- Two Sources of the Knowledge of God by Prof. Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
- Articles by J.P. Moreland
- Paul Copan: “Are Old Testament Laws Evil?” from God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible, eds. William Lane Craig and Chad V. Meister. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009.
- Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? An Overview: Paul Copan
- The Zeitgeist Movie & Other Myth Claims about Jesus: Gregory Koukl
- Willam Lane Craig: God Is Not Dead Yet
- An Atheist Defends Religion: Why Humanity is Better Off with Religion Than Without It
- Answering The New Atheists
- Atheist says Africa needs Christian Missionaries
- Questions, Doubts, and Faith: This is taken from our blog
- Did Morality Come Before Religion? This is taken from our blog
- First Principles and God’s Existence
- The Justification of Theism: Richard G. Swinburne
- The Plight of the New Atheism: Gary Habermas
- Is the God of the Old Testament a moral monster? To see an extensive treatment of this issue, see Christian philosopher Dr. Paul Copan
- God, Naturalism, and the Foundations of Morality: Dr. Paul Copan
- The Natural Law Is What We Naturally Know: Jay Budziszewski
- Tips in Picking a Worldview
- The God Who Hides and Seeks / Why Isn't God More Obvious?
- Reflections/Advice on Atheism/Theism Discussions
- A Look at Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion/Blog Post
- Doubt and the Vain Search for Certainty: Alistar McGrath (Great article on atheism)
- Euthyphro’s Dilemma:Greg Koukl
- Richard Swinburne on The Existence of God
- Ben Witherington’s Review of Earl Doherty’s The Jesus Puzzle
- A Response to the Problem of Miracles
- Miracles: Dr. Tim McGrew: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- F. Beckwith: Hume's Evidential/Testimonial Epistemology, Probability, and Miracles.
- Norman Geisler: Miracle -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: Miracles: Providing Validation for the Christian Faith, Part 1 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: Miracles: Providing Validation for the Christian Faith, Part 2 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: Miracles: Providing Validation for the Christian Faith, Part 3 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: Miracles: Providing Validation for the Christian Faith, Part 4 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: False Miracles, Part 1 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler: False Miracles, Part 2 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler:False Miracles, Part 3 -- HTML version
- Norman Geisler:Magic and Miracles -- HTML version
- Miracles, Intelligent Design,and God-of-the-Gaps: Jack Collins
- Miracles-Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
- The Adjudication of Miracles: Rethinking the Criteria of Historicity: Mike Licona and JG van der Watt
- Historians and miracles: The principle of analogy and antecedent probability reconsidered: Mike Licona and JG van der Watt
- Miracles and Modern Scientific Thought: Norman Geisler
- The Problem of Miracles: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective: William Lane Craig
- The Argument From Miracles: Daniel Bonevac
- Historic Doubts Relative To Richard Whately: Did the Archbishop Believe in Miracles?
- Other Contemporary Issues
- Is Jesus The Only Way? The Problem With Religious Pluralism
- “But Jesus never said, ‘I am God.’”
- What is Faith?/ A Look at the Nature of Faith
- Which Revelation is True/Is Religious Experience a Test For Truth?
- Do You Have a Worldview?
- What is Truth? Dr. Norman Geisler
- Tips in Picking a Worldview
- How Philosophy Has Impacted The Bible
- Two Sources of the Knowledge of God by Prof. Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
- Is Belief in Jesus Necessary? The Answer to Religious Inclusivism: Ronald H. Nash
- Miracles-Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?/Blog Post
- Paul’s Gospel-Good News for Pagans-This is taken from our blog
- Do All Roads Lead To God?: Blog Post
- Heaven Is Not Our Home: N.T. Wright
- Why Jesus Instead of the Buddha? Harold Netland
- J.P. Moreland Articles
- Utilitarianism and the Moral Life
- The Good Life
- Christianity as a Knowledge Tradition
- Does The Argument For Mind Provide Evidence For God ?
- Scientific Creationism, Science, and Conceptual Problems
- Argument from Consciousness
- Is Science a Threat or Help to Faith?
- Complementarity, Agency Theory, and the God-of-the-Gaps
- The Euthanasia Debate: Understanding the Issues
- Scientific Apologetics/Science and Religion Issues
- The Return of the God Hypothesis: Stephen C. Meyer
- A Designed Universe: Robert Newman
- Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo: William Lane Craig
- Revisiting the God of the Gap: Ronald G. Larson
- Genesis Quantum Theory and Reality: How the Bible agrees with Quantum Physics - An Anthropic Principle of Another Kind: The Divine Anthropic Principle: Peter Zoeller Green
- Miracles, Intelligent Design,and God-of-the-Gaps: Jack Collins
- Why the Universe Is the Way It Is and More Than A Theory: Hugh Ross
- The Anthropic Principle:Is the fine tuning of nature due to a Multiverse and/or Intelligent Design? Craig Rusbult, Ph.D.
- Has Science Eliminated God? Alister McGrath
- Fine Tuning The Multiverse Theory: Peter May
- The Trustworthiness of Scripture in Areas Relating to Natural Science: Walter L. Bradley, Ph.D and Roger Olsen
- Perspectives on Science and The Christian Faith
- Science, Metaphysics, and Worldviews: James Stump
- Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? This is taken from our blog
- God Are You There? A Look at Cosmology-This is taken from our blog
- The Fine Tuning Argument: This is a series of essays by Robin Collins
- Did The Universe Know We Were Coming? A Look at the Fine Tuning Argument-This is taken from our blog
- 5 things that can’t be proven by science but are still rational to have beliefs about – 22 Words
- Deconstructing Dawkins: A Look at Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion: This is from our blog
- Prominent Atheist Professor of Law and Philosophy Thomas Nagel Calls Intelligent Design Scientific and Constitutional to “Mention” in Science Classes
- What is Scientific Naturalism? J.P. Moreland
- The Cosmological Argument: Where did God Come from? The singularity and Who is Agent X?
- Signature In The Cell by Stephen C. Meyer
- Problems With Naturalism
- Dallas Willard: Knowledge and Naturalism
- J.P. Moreland: Naturalism and Libertarian Agency
- J.P. Moreland: Scientific Naturalism and the Unfalsifiable Myth of Evolution
- J.P. Moreland: The Ethical Inadequacy of Naturalism
- A Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism : Troy M. Nunley
- Anthony Matteo: Reasonable Doubt: Why naturalism might not be able to solve the problem of consciousness
- C.S. Lewis’s Case Against Naturalism: Steven Lovell
- The Great Cloud of Unknowing: From Naturalism to Nihilism Through Epistemology: Douglas Groothuis
- Naturalism: A World View: L. Russ Bush III
- Worldviews
- Summit Ministries
- The Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship
- The Truth Project
- What is a worldview? — Definition & Introduction
- Archaeology
- All About Archaeology
- Footsteps of Paul
- Archaeology and the Book of Acts: John McRay
- Reading and Writing at the Time of Jesus: Alan Millard
- Biblical Archaeology Society
- Jerusalem Christian Review
- Bible Places.com
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Biblical Texts
- Bible Difficulties
- Errors and Contradictions in the Bible?
- Reliability of New Testament/The Gospels
- The Earliest Record of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus-1 Corinthians 15:3-7
- “The Formation of the Gospels in the Setting of Early Christianity: The Jesus Tradition as Corporate Memory": Michael Bird
- The Implications of Eyewitness Tradition: Dr. Craig Evans
- Did Jesus Really Exist? By Paul L. Maier, The Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University
- New Testament Theology Re-Loaded: Integrating Biblical Theology and Christian Origins: Michael Bird
- “Jewish Interpretation of Paul in the Last Thirty Years: Michael Bird
- Why I believe the New Testament is historically reliable: Gary Habermas
- The Dating of the New Testament: Norman Geisler
- Recent Perspectives on the Reliability of the Gospels: Gary Habermas
- Archeology and the Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Peter S. Williams
- Old News! A Look at the So-Called Contradictions in the Gospels-Blog Post
- Ancient and Modern Historiography-What Are The Gospels? Blog Post
- The 7 E’s of Testimony in the New Testament/Blog Post
- Anthony R. Cross, "Historical Methodology and New Testament Study," Themelios 22:3 (April 1997): 28-51.
- Michael F. Bird, “The Purpose and Preservation of the Jesus Tradition: Moderate Evidence for a Conserving Force in its Transmission
- James M. Arlandson: Historical Reliability of the Gospels
- What Can We Know About Jesus? A Friendly Response From Ratio Christi/Blog Post
- Dr. Phil Fernandes on New Testament Reliability
- Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions? Ronald Nash
- Craig Blomberg: Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him And Why It Matters
- Mark Roberts: The Game of Telephone and Oral Tradition
- Norman Geisler: A Note on the Percent of the Accuracy of the New Testament Text
- F. F. Bruce: The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
- Ben Witherington’s Review of Earl Doherty’s The Jesus Puzzle
- Kenneth E. Bailey, "Informal Controlled Oral Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels," Asia Journal of Theology 5 (1991): 34-54. = Themelios 20.2 (1995): 4-11.
- Memory and the Gospel Tradition: W.S. Taylor
- The Gospels and The Synoptic Problem The Literary Relationship of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Dennis Bratcher)
- Robert L. Thomas, "The Rationality, Meaningfulness, and Precision of Scripture," The Master's Seminary Journal 15.2 (Fall 2004): 175-207.
- Richard Bauckham, "The Study of Gospel Traditions Outside the Canonical Gospels: Problems and Prospects," pp.369-404.
- Richard Bauckham, "The Study of Gospel Traditions Outside the Canonical Gospels: Problems and Prospects," David Wenham, ed., Gospel Perspectives, Vol. 5. The Jesus Tradition Outside the Gospels. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. pp. 369-403
- Peter M. Head, "The Role of Eyewitnesses in the Formation of the Gospel Tradition," Tyndale Bulletin 52.2 (2001): 275-294.
- Anthony R. Cross, "Historical Methodology and New Testament Study," Themelios 22:3 (April 1997): 28-51.
- What Can We Know About Jesus? Bart Ehrman and The Historical Bedrock
- Craig Blomberg:The Historical Reliability of John
- Matthew’s Intention to Write History: J.W. Scott
- Richard Bauckham: For whom were the Gospels written?
- They Really Saw Him: Gary Burge Interview with Richard Bauckham
- Craig A. Evans: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewishness of the Gospels
- Craig A Evans : "Introduction” to Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature
- Craig A. Evans, "The Passion of Jesus: History Remembered or Prophecy Historicized?" Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996): 159-165.
- Martin Hengel, "The Tasks of Modern Scholarship," Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996): 67-86.
- F. David Farnell, "The Synoptic Gospels in the Ancient Church: A Testimony to the Priority of Matthew's Gospel," The Master's Seminary Journal 10.1 (Spring 1999): 53-86
- Robert L. Thomas, "Discerning Synoptic Gospel Origins: An Inductive Approach (Part Two)," The Master's Seminary Journal 16.1 (Spring 2005): 7-47.
- Ben Witherington, “The Origins of Jesus: Matthew 1:1-25″.
- The Resurrection/Resurrection Apologetics
- The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael R. Licona
- The Case for Christ's Resurrection: Gary Habermas
- Contemporary Scholars and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: William Lane Craig
- Could the Resurrection Appearances Have Been a Group Hallucination? Glen Miller
- Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ: Peter Kreeft
- Suggested Readings on the Resurrection
- Did Jesus Really Exist? By Paul L. Maier, The Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University
- Is 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 an Interpolation? By Christopher Price
- Is Belief in the Resurrection Rational? A Response to Michael Martin
by Stephen T. Davis - Our Certainty of Jesus' Resurrection: A Response to Michael Martin, "Why the Resurrection is Initially Improbable," Philo, 1, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 1998): 63-73.
- Explaining Away Jesus' Resurrection : HALLUCINATION The Recent Revival of THEORIES, by Dr. Gary R. Habermas
- Jesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic, by Dr. Gary R. Habermas (Part I) (pdf)
- Jesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic, by Dr. Gary R. Habermas (Part II) (pdf)
- The Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah: The Birth of Christianity and The Birth of Christology/Blog Post
- The FEAT-Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? Blog Post
- Craig S. Keener, “The Witness of the First Disciples (1:19-51)”.
- Joe Zias, “Crucifixion in Antiquity: The Evidence”
- Richard Bauckham: The Women & the Resurrection
- The Resurrection/Myth or Fact?
- Did Paul Invent Christianity?
- Tim and Lydia McGrew: On The Historical Argument: A Rejoinder to Plantinga
- Resurrecting Old Arguments: Responding to Four Essays: N.T. Wright
- Resurrection claims in non-Christian religions: Gary Habermas
- Craig A. Evans: Jewish Burial Traditions and the Resurrection of Jesus
- Tim and Lydia McGrew: The Argument from Miracles: A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth
- On Parallels between Christianity and the Mystery Religions
- Alleged Similarities Between Jesus & Pagan Deities
- More On The Historical Jesus
- Ancient Jewish Accounts of Jesus
- Craig A. Evans: Jewish Scripture and the Literacy of Jesus
- Jesus And His Contemporaries: A Look At The Miracles of Jesus
- “Should Evangelicals Participate in the ‘Third Quest’ for the Historical Jesus?" Michael Bird
- Lifelines: The Historical Jesus Part 11/-The Contribution of N.T Wright
- Richard Longenecker, “The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith: Some Contemporary Reflections”
- Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No. We Need History: N.T Wright
- Michael Pahl, “Is Jesus Lost? Evangelicals and the Search for the Historical Jesus
- Craig Keener: Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No, Jesus Studies Matter
- Abandon Studying the Historical Jesus? No, We Need Context: Darell Bock
- The Jesus of Faith or The Jesus of History? A False Dichotomy/Blog Post
- Christianity: The Quest for the Historical Jesus
- Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar, by Dr. William Lane Craig
- The Adjudication of Miracles: Rethinking the Criteria of Historicity: Mike Licona and JG van der Watt
- Historians and miracles: The principle of analogy and antecedent probability reconsidered: Mike Licona and JG van der Watt
- Assessing Progress in the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus: Craig Evans
- Messianic Apologetics/Christology
- Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah? Messianic Apologetics/Tips in Understanding Messianic Prophecy
- Larry Hurtado: Jesus as Lordly Example: From Jesus to Paul
- Larry Hurtado: Early Devotion to Jesus
- A Look at Jewish Messianism: A Crucified Messiah:What An Embarrassment!(Blog Post)
- Does the Bible say Jesus is God? Explicit and Implicit Christology
- Why Would God Become a Jewish Man? A Look At The Incarnation
- Other Messiah Claimants
- The Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah: The Birth of Christianity and The Birth of Christology/Blog Post
- Marshall, I. Howard: The Messiah in the First Century: A Review Article
- John C. Collins," The Background of the 'Son of God' Text," Bulletin for Biblical Research 7 (1997): 37-50.
- A Divine Messiah: This is taken from our blog
- Michael A. Rydelnick: The Jewish People and Salvation
- Christopher Wright: A Christian Approach To Old Testament Prophecy Concerning Israel
- Mark R. Saucy: Miracles And Jesus' Proclamation of The Kingdom of God
- Glenn Miller: Did the Messianic Jewish Believers Use the OT Deceitfully or Ignorantly in the New Testament?
- Miller, Glenn: Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism: Documentation from Non-Christian Sources
- “Did God Become a Jew? A Defense of the Incarnation.” Paul Copan
- Jesus and Prophetic Actions: Scot McKnight
- The Jewish Context of Jesus’ Miracles: Eric Eve
- Jesus and the Twelve: Scot McKnight
- Darrell L. Bock, "The Son of Man in Luke 5:24," Bulletin for Biblical Research 1 (1991): 109-121.
- F. F. Bruce: “The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts”
- A Look At Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity: This is taken from our blog
- The Son of God: Ben Witherington
- Jewishness And The Trinity: By By Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum
- Oskar Skarsaune:The Cultural Dimension: Judaism and Hellenism”, Chapter 1 of In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity
- Messianic Hopes and Messianic Figures
In Late Antiquity/Craig Evans
- Yeshua’s Right To David’s Throne: Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
- A Nation, The King and the World: A Look at Jesus as the Jewish Messiah: PPoint:This power point looks at Jesus' Messiahship and how it plays a role in God's redemptive plan.
- A Nation, The King and the World: A Look at Jesus as the Jewish Messiah: PDF
