Watson, Richard
An Apology for the Bible is Bishop Watson’s answer to Thomas Paine’s book The Age of Reason, Part...
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Category: Biographies
Blunt, John James
An undesigned coincidence occurs when one account of an event leaves out a bit of information that...
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McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1799-1873), Episcopal Bishop of Ohio and president of Kenyon College,...
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Leland, John
(Read volume 1 and volume 2 at the Internet Archive) John Leland (1696-1766), an English...
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Campbell, George
George Campbell (1719-1796) was a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and professor and principal at...
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Thomas Hartwell Horne
Read volume 1 and volume 2 at Google Books. Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780-1862) was a theologian and...
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Simon Greenleaf
We are indebted to Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853), professor of Law at Harvard University, for one of...
Read MoreLardner, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Lardner (1684-1768) was a dissenting minister who devoted his life to producing the apologetic masterpiece of the 18th century, the multi-volume Credibility of the Gospel History. Lardner’s objective may be explained...
Read MoreFarrar, Adam Storey
Adam Storey Farrar (1826-1905), fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, delivered his Critical History of Free Thought as a set of eight sermons preached under the auspices of the Bampton Foundation in 1862. The work is a...
Read MoreWestcott, Brooke Foss
This popular work by the great 19th century textual scholar makes the argument for the resurrection in an interesting way. Westcott, who is well aware of (though not persuaded by) critical attacks on the authenticity of the...
Read MorePaley, William
Paley’s Evidences is one of the very best summaries of the historical case for Christianity, making good use of the work of his great predecessors Lardner and Douglas. In Part I, which is the heart of the book, Paley sets out to...
Read MoreChalmers, Thomas
This is an exceptionally clear and vigorous presentation of the historical argument for the resurrection, which Chalmers regards as the key argument for the truth of Christianity. Simon Greenleaf had read it and quotes several...
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