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As most good theologians, Calvin concludes his theology with reference to points mentioned toward the end of the Apostles' Creed.

First, he describes his model for the church - one that differs markedly from the hierarchical model developed during the Middle Ages.

Been told by your pastor that the "joint declaration on justification" ironed out all problems between Lutheranism and Rome? Find a new pastor, one who will walk you through Robert Preus' Justification and Rome, his last book prior to his death.

Reformation folk are often charged with "having no doctrine of sanctification." To answer this charge, Lutheran theologian William Hordern writes his masterful little Living by Grace.

Much of the book is analysis of why so many of us Christians "measure Christianity" this way. It is to be expected of the non-Christian, because our behavior is all he or she notices (if he or she evaluated by doctrine, he or she would likely become a Christian!) But a lot of the charge traces back to Rome and to Wesley, so the issue is all too often within the circle of Christianity more than it is an issue to the non-Christian (with the exception of the theme that "...the church is filled with hypocrites.")

Dr. Hordern doesn't have a Biblical view of Scripture's inspiration and inerrancy, but you can just "read over" such paragraphs. On what the Reformers called "the material principle [the Gospel]," he is extremely insightful.

Dr. Pinnock wrote this book decades ago, when he believed much more than he does these days.

He divides the book into five types of apologetic arguments for the truth of the Gospel: (1) the Pragmatic basis for Christian faith, (2) the Experiential basis for Christian faith, (3) the Cosmic basis for Christian faith, (4) the Historical basis for Christian faith, and, (5) the Community basis for Christian faith.

Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed (1736) was an important work of Christian apologetics. The deists of his century had argued, "Scripture is filled with nothing but problems! The 'Book of Nature' contains every doctrine that Scripture teaches, but it is founded on science are not on a book of fables, a book filled with contradictions and gross moral errors!"

Butler took this on with his Analogy of Religion. The "analogy" of which he spoke was the one between the so-called "two books of revelation": The book of Nature and the book of Scripture.

This book is a French Calvinist's defense for the Reformed practice of infant baptism. I think that most "truly Reformed" men in our day would say that Marcel's treatment is a fair representation of Calvinism's position on the doctrine? (Were this not the case, I doubt that the late Dr. Philip Edgumbe Hughes of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) would have given so much of his time to do the work of translating it.)

The Case for Christianity is part of C.S. Lewis’ World War II “Broadcast Talks” and is one of the first of the three books that now comprise Mere Christianity. The other two books of Mere Christianity are Christian Behaviour and Beyond Personality: Beginning Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity.

Zillions of English-speaking Christians owe their eternal lives to two books: Holy Scripture and C.S. Lewis’ The Case for Christianity.

Did the apostles and the earliest church, when called for, cognitively defend the Gospel as true or no?

This is for those Christians who accuse you of being an "intellectual pointy-head" when you argue that some non-Christians need to converse with us regarding the truthfulness (or lack thereof?) of the Gospel claims.

Originally an Inter-Varsity monograph in small booklet form, The Evidence for the Resurrection tackles basic arguments against Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, offers a Christian response to these, and a positive defense of Jesus’ resurrection having actually occurred.

Anderson was a missionary to Muslim lands and later became a professor of law, particularly of Islamic law. It is short, but argued as a lawyer would argue the case.

See also Dr. Anderson’s Jesus Christ: The Witness of History.

A study in the 17th-century Lutheran dogmaticians, with whose writings (in Latin!) the late, great Confessional Lutheran professor/pedagogue was more familiar than any other man of his century.

A tour de force on the subject of the inspiration of the Bible, complete with detailed use of the key verses.