This website is a growing bibliography for works related to the field of Christian Apologetics. The audience in mind is the Lutheran student, but anyone interested in apologetics will find not only a bibliography of Lutheran apologists, but also a comprehensive list of seminal apologetic works by Christians and non-Christians alike.
The bibliography is divided into three main sections (literature, audio, and video). The literature section contains published books, essays, and reviews, as well as links to public literature. The audio and video section contains audio and video lectures, presentations, interviews, and debates either published or hosted (with links to the webpage hosting the material).
Each section’s bibliography is further subdivided into five fields of study:
- Critical Studies: Critical textual, historical, and archaeological studies. This section contains the world’s top scholars in Biblical-related critical studies. Scholars include: N.T. Wright, Ben Witherington III, Gary Habermas, Dominic Crossan, etc.
- Religion and Philosophy: Professional philosophical inquiry into the limits of knowledge, ethics, the problem of evil, and metaphysics. Scholars include: Peter Kreeft, Alvin Plantinga, Daniel Dennett, etc.
- Science and Culture: Biological, cosmological, mathematical, and other scientific research and scholarship that informs or implies an understanding of cultural and religious worldviews. Scholars include: Michael Behe, William Dembski, Stephen J. Gould, Richard Dawkins, etc.
- Existential Topics: Questions dealing with meaning, literature, and the problem of suffering. Scholarship and authorship include: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, etc.
- General Apologetics: Scholarship in the specific field of defending particular worldviews (Christian, theistic, atheistic), often drawing on other fields professionally and respectably. Scholars include: William Lane Craig, Ravi Zacharius, John Warwick Montgomery, etc.
After dividing the bibliography into principle formats, and further into fields of research, the bibliography is divided one more time into works of either Lutheran authorship, mainstream Christian authorship, or mainstream non-Christian authorship. Mainstream merely refers to categorizing the works as works that are prominent in Christendom. Since this bibliography is to specifically specialize in Lutheran scholarship, it will also contain confessional Lutheran scholarship that would not be considered prominent and well-known in Christendom.
Note that a scholar may have works in multiple fields; Gary Habermas is published in both the fields of critical studies (the resurrection) and existential research (the problem of suffering). For a complete listing of a particular scholar’s work, search his or her name in the search box (located in the lower portion of the sidebar). Note that a work may also be presented in multiple formats; The Privileged Planet is both a book and a movie.
