Apologetics Resources Links by Week

William Lloyd Garrison: “My singularity is, that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.” (“No Compromise with Slavery,” 1854)

Frederick Douglass: “What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy is, of necessity, to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one is, of necessity, to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Appendix.)

Week XXIX

Recommended Reading:

–Strobel, The Case for Christ: https://www.divinerevelations.info/pdf/the_case_for_christ.pdf

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week XXX

Recommended Reading:

–Strobel, The Case for Christ: https://www.divinerevelations.info/pdf/the_case_for_christ.pdf

Apologetics Workbook Two

Categories 4-6

SUGGESTED BOOKLIST:

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

*Blaise Pascal, Pensées (Trans. by A.J. Krailsheimer, Penguin Books, 1995)

Frank Turek, Stealing From God

Myers and Noebel, Understanding the Times

Additional Resources:

Apologetics Template for Printing

Week I

Recommended Reading:

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

Week II

Recommended Reading:

–Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy: https://christlifemin.org/assets/pdf/the_knowledge_of_the_holy_tozer.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

–Calvin, Institutes: https://ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes/institutes.vi.ii.html

–Spurgeon’s “The Sinner’s Savior:” https://ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons22/sermons22.xlix.html

Week III

Recommended Reading:

–Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy: https://christlifemin.org/assets/pdf/the_knowledge_of_the_holy_tozer.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week IV

Recommended Reading:

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

–“The God Debate II: Harris vs. Craig:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaHXKLRKzg&t=489s

Week V

Recommended Reading:

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week VI

Recommended Reading:

–Tozer, The Purpose of Man: https://archive.org/details/purposeofmandesi0000toze

–Augustine, City of God: https://files.romanroadsstatic.com/materials/romans/nicene-christianity/City%20of%20God.pdf

––Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week VII

Recommended Reading:

–Billy Hollowell, “'I Almost Died': Inside Ex-Atheist Lee Strobel's Journey to Find Proof of Heaven, Hell and Near-Death Experiences:” https://cbn.com/news/cwn/i-almost-died-inside-ex-atheist-lee-strobels-journey-find-proof-heaven-hell-and-near-death

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

–Lewis, The Problem of Pain: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264598/page/n115/mode/2up

Week VIII

Recommended Reading:

–Augustine, “Letter 211:” https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102211.htm

–Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18755/pg18755-images.html

–Luther, Commentary on Galatians: http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Luther%20Commentary%20on%20Galatians.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week IX

Recommended Reading:

–Aquinas, Summa Theologica: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2003.htm#article8

–Westminster Catechism: https://westminsterstandards.org/westminster-larger-catechism/

–Tozer, The Purpose of Man: https://archive.org/details/purposeofmandesi0000toze/page/20/mode/2up

–Augustine, Confessions: https://ccel.org/ccel/augustine/confessions/confessions.iv.html

–Tozer, Pursuit of God: https://ia601605.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/33/items/GutenbergENzip/31.zip&file=Pursuit%20of%20God%2C%20The%20-%20A.%20W.%20Tozer%2C%202008%20%2839p%29.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week X

Recommended Reading:

– The 2009 “Manhattan Declaration:” https://www.manhattandeclaration.org/

–Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?: https://www.epm.org/static/uploads/downloads/book-resources/why-prolife-2004-edition.pdf

–Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html

EXTRA: on Evangelium Vitae: https://www.usccb.org/resources/wwmin-evangelium-vitae-summary.pdf

Week XI

Recommended Reading:

–Tozer, Pursuit of God: https://ia601605.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/33/items/GutenbergENzip/31.zip&file=Pursuit%20of%20God%2C%20The%20-%20A.%20W.%20Tozer%2C%202008%20%2839p%29.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week XII

Recommended Reading:

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

–Calvin, Institutes: https://ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes/institutes.vi.ii.html

–Spurgeon, “Grace Exalted– Boasting Excluded:” https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/grace-exalted-boasting-excluded/#flipbook/

Week XIII

Recommended Reading:

–Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, https://ccel.org/m/machen/liberalism/chr_and_lib_2.html

– The 2009 “Manhattan Declaration:” https://www.manhattandeclaration.org/

–Luther, Commentary on Galatians: http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Luther%20Commentary%20on%20Galatians.pdf

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

Week XIV

Recommended Reading:

–Sproul, Objections Answered: https://archive.org/details/objectionsanswer0000spro/page/46/mode/2up or https://www.monergism.com/what-happens-person-who-never-heard-jesus-dr-r-c-sproul

–Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century:

https://archive.org/details/churchatendof00scha/page/58/mode/2up?q=tape&view=theater

–Lewis, The Problem of Pain: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264598/page/n115/mode/2up

–Kevin DeYoung, “Clarifying Inclusivism and Exclusivism.”

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/clarifying-inclusivism-and-exclusivism/

Week XV

Recommended Reading:

–Lewis, Mere Christianity: https://archive.org/details/c.-s.-lewis-mere-christianity-2001/mode/2up

– The 2009 “Manhattan Declaration:” https://www.manhattandeclaration.org/

Week XVI

Recommended Reading:

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

EXTRA: Polls of Americans:

–https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2008/12/18/many-americans-say-other-faiths-can-lead-to-eternal-life/

–https://www.christianpost.com/news/nearly-70-percent-of-born-again-christians-dont-see-jesus-as-only-way.html

–Keller, The Reason for God: (The Amazon sample allows you to read Chapter 1. Alternatively, just add this Christian classic to your apologetics bookshelf: https://amzn.to/40tufEB)

Week XVII

Recommended Reading:

–Allison, Sojourners and Strangers:

https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Gregg-R-Allison_Sojourners-and-Strangers_Introduction-to-Ecclesiology.pdf

–Foster, Celebration of Discipline: https://christianstronghold.com/youthministry/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Celebration_of_Discipline.pdf

–Calvin, Institutes: https://ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes/institutes.vi.ii.html

Week XVIII

–Bouma-Prediger, For the Beauty of the Earth, https://archive.org/details/forbeautyofearth0000boum_f2k1/page/110/mode/2up?view=theater

Week XIX

Recommended Reading:

–Turek, Stealing from God: https://archive.org/details/frank-turek-stealing-from-god-why-atheists-need-god-to-make-their-case

EXTRA: Biologos articles: