Ancient History
Contra Celsum (Κατὰ Κέλσου) – Origen
Origen
Contra Celsum is Origen's largest surviving work and the fullest surviving example of early Christian apologetic literature.
Category
Apologetics
Apologetics is the rational defense of religious belief against criticism. It presents philosophical, historical, and scientific arguments in support of faith claims. This category includes classical, evidential, presuppositional, and contemporary apologetic approaches.
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Apologetics
The Verity of Christian Faith – Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
The Verity of Christian Faith is a treatise of Christian apologetics by the Dominican friar Hierome Savonarola of…
Apologetics
The Triumph of the Cross (Triumphus crucis) – Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola’s four-book Latin defense of the Cross, written in the 1490s and translated into English here, began…
18th Century
The Evidences of the Christian Religion – Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison's The Evidences of the Christian Religion is a work of Christian apologetics written in the early…
18th Century
Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever – Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Priestley believes most unbelief grows not from argument but from inattention, and his letters are designed to force…
Apologetics
On the Truth of the Christian Religion (De veritate religionis Christianae) – Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
De veritate religionis Christianae is a six-book Latin apologetic defending the truth and credibility of Christianity.
Apologetics
On the Testimony of the Soul (De testimonio animae) – Tertullian
Tertullian
The treatise was composed while Tertullian was still a loyal member of the Church, before his later embrace…
Ancient History
Apology (Apologeticus) – Tertullian
Tertullian
This volume brings together Tertullian's Apology and De Spectaculis, translated by T. R. Glover, and Minucius Felix's Octavius,…
Apologetics
The Everlasting Man – G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
The book presents a sweeping survey of human history, from prehistoric times through the rise of ancient civilisations,…
Apologetics
Orthodoxy – G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is an extended prose work by G. K. Chesterton, written in the early twentieth century.