Apologetics

Adams, William - Christianity the End and Unity of All Sciences and Pursuits: An Address (1847)

William Adams, then pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in New York City, addressed the alumni of his alma mater, Yale University, to argue that Christianity is foundational to all knowledge and intellectual endeavors. He sums up his point in this manner: “[The cross of Christ] is the one fact which is central to all other facts; the one knowledge which is ultimate to all other departments of knowledge. We announce it here not merely as the Sabbath-day religion of the pulpit; but as a great intellectual truth before an university of scholars, that the true philosophia prima is the knowledge of Christ; that the only object which gives relationship, harmony, unity, connection, to all this world's affairs, is the grand purpose of God to diffuse a stable and substantial happiness over the world, through the all-pervading beneficence of Christianity, as the central power; and consequently, that our true interest and duty, in all the variety of our pursuits, is to devote ourselves to the service of our race, in seeking to make the world better.”

Adger, John Bailey - Roman Catholicism (1833)

John Bailey Adger, as a 23 year old, writes compellingly against the errors of Rome, particularly focusing upon the ways she denigrates the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, and sullies the worship of God. Adger’s article flows from the belief that Rome combines elements of truth with error: “It is not strange…that the advocates of error (always crafty) should mingle truth with their errors. Connected with a portion of heaven-born truth, a vast amount of error may be palmed upon the world. Men seldom buy pure gold, because, with the multitude, all is gold that glitters. Few men can separate the alloy from the purer parts of the mixture. All they demand is, that their coin should shine, and pass current with their fellows; that their system of opinions should have the appearance of truth in its favour, together with a favourable reception among those whose office it is to do their thinking for them.”

Aiken, Charles Augustus - The Variable and the Constant in Christian Apology (1872)
- Catholic and Protestant Treatment of the Christian Evidences (1873)
- Christian Apologetics (1879)

Alexander, Archibald - A Dialogue Between a Presbyterian and a "Friend" (1792)
- A Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion (1825)
- A Preliminary Discourse on the Evidences of Christianity (1831)

Barnes, Albert - Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century (1868)

Beattie, Francis Robert - Christian Apologetics: Inaugural Address (1890)
- Apologetics or the Rational Vindication of Christianity (Vol. 1) (1903)

Dana, William Coombs - A Reasonable Answer to the Skeptic (1858)

DuBose, Hampden Coit - Natural and Apologetic Theology [written in Chinese] (1906)

Gibson, William - A Dialogue Concerning the Doctrine of the Atonement, Between a Calvinist and a Hopkinsian (1803)

Greene, Jr., William Brenton - The Metaphysics of Christian Apologetics (1898)
- The Practical Importance of Apologetics (1903)
- The Pastor and Apologetics (1904)

Hope, Matthew Boyd - Review of Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (1852)

Hoyt, Thomas Alexander - The Astronomical Argument Against Christianity (1859)

Johnson, William Hallock - Is the Design Argument Dead? (1919)
- Can the Christian Now Believe in Evolution? (1926)

Kyle, Melvin Grove - The Importance of an Exclusive Use of the Psalms in Present-Day Apologetics (1907)