Topic · Doctrine · 11 books
Books on Apologetics
Defending the faith before pagans, skeptics and rival creeds, from the second century to the Enlightenment.
Against Apion
Josephus · 95 AD — Josephus defends Jewish antiquity against Greek critics and preserves lost ancient fragments.
Dialogue with Trypho
Justin Martyr · 160 AD — the earliest surviving Christian apologetic addressing Judaism.
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Adversus Judaeos
John Chrysostom · 386 AD — eight fourth-century homilies from Antioch, a historical document of the early church.
The City of God: Volume 1
Augustine of Hippo · 413 AD — books 1 to 10: the case against the pagan gods.
The City of God: Volume 2
Augustine of Hippo · 413 AD — books 11 to 22: the two cities from creation to judgment.
A Reformed Catholic
William Perkins · 1597 AD — argues the Reformation restored true catholicity by grounding faith in Scripture, not Rome.
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
John Ray · 1691 AD — a survey of the created world as evidence of divine design.
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Cotton Mather · 1693 AD — Mather's defense of the Salem witch trials and their theological grounding.
The Christian Philosopher
Cotton Mather · 1721 AD — thirty-two essays turning natural science, from stars to the body, into praise.
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