Apologetic books, an evergreen genre of titles that offer arguments and justifications for Christian beliefs, do not usually top bestseller lists. Nevertheless, as a new generation of readers looks ...

Appeals to nonbelievers should go beyond pure rationality, but they shouldn’t go beyond the bounds of Scripture. Justin Bailey’s Reimagining Apologetics: The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age ...

A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, sprawling, rollicking narrative. This tension has led many Christians either ...

The "Four Horsemen" of modern atheism—authors famed in the 1990s and early 2000s for their acerbic attacks on the existence of God and the value of religion—have mostly ridden out of sight. Social ...

Mosaic of St. John the Theologian above the entrance to the Cave of the Apocalypse on Patmos, Greece (iStock) In his classic 1949 book Jesus and the Disinherited, the African American preacher, mystic ...

Francis Spufford has won several literary awards in Great Britain for his nonfiction works, which include I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination and a memoir of childhood, The Child That ...

Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics—the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed-upon grounds of reason—as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological ...