Over the years I’ve discovered loads of amazing free Christian Apologetics resources. The following is a curated list of some of the best material I have found. To be clear, these are resources that I personally deem high quality. I do not intend this list to be either representative or exhaustive. Also, I will be updating regularly; make sure to bookmark and check back frequently. Finally, if you know of good resources not listed here, do not hesitate to recommend them in a comment!
General
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Video
- Swinburne Conference // Features 10 sessions of talks from various philosophers of religion with responses
- Plantinga Conference // 13 videos including both interviews and lectures
- DrCraigVideos // YouTube channel of famed Christian Apologist William Lane Craig
- Trent Dougherty Academic Page // Videos and Podcasts featuring philosopher Trent Dougherty
- Acts17Apologetics // YouTube channel of Christian Apologist David Wood (specializes in Islam)
- STRvideos // YouTube channel of Christian Apologist Greg Koukl (author of Tactics)
- InspiringPhilosophy // YouTube channel of online Christian Apologist
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Blogs/Websites
Argument from Contingency
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Video
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Written
Kalam Cosmological Argument
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Video
- Animated Overview Video by Reasonable Faith
- Kalam Playlist (of over 100 videos) by Reasonable Faith
- William Lane Craig, “The Kalam Cosmological Argument” at Plantinga workshop
- William Lane Craig at University of Birmingham, UK
- “Worst Objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument” by William Lane Craig
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Written
- List of scholarly articles written by William Lane Craig (many of which feature the Kalam)
Argument from Fine-Tuning
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Video
- Animated Overview Video by Reasonable Faith
- Animated Overview Video by Luke Barnes
- Part 1 and Part 2 of a (single) Lecture by Luke Barnes (with the likes of Sean Carroll in the audience)
- 4 Part series “Fine-Tuning Conversations” with Luke Barnes
- Lecture 1, 2, 3, and 4 of 4-part series by Luke Barnes
- Robin Collins, “Fine-tuning for discovery” at Plantinga workshop
- Robin Collins, “Fine-tuning for discovery” at Greer Heard Forum
- Robin Collins, “Anthropic fine-tuning” at Pepperdine
- Robin Collins, “Scientifically Testable Consequences of Fine-tuning”
- Robin Collins, “Examples of fine-tuning”
- Tim Mawson, Mawson argues God is the best explanation of Fine-tuning
- John Bloom, “The fine-tuning of the Cosmos”
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Written
Moral Argument
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Video
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Written
Ontological Argument
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Video
Resurrection Argument
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Video
- Craig, “Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?” (Yale)
- Craig vs Lüdemann, “Possibility of the Resurrection”
- Craig vs Cavin, “Dead or Alive?”
- Richard Swinburne, “The Probability of the Resurrection”
- Probability and the Resurrection Workshop playlist
- N.T. Wright, Documentary on The Resurrection
- Tim McGrew, “The Resurrection of Jesus”
- Calum Miller vs Greg Cavin, “Resurrection: Fact or Fiction”
- Calum Miller vs Greg Cavin, “Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?”
- Calum Miller vs Chris Hallquist, “The Probability of the Resurrection”
- InspiringPhilosophy, “The Resurrection of Jesus (The Historical Evidence)”
- Mike Licona, “Evidence for the Resurrection”
- Probability & Resurrection Conference: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
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The Problem of Evil
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Video
- Hudson, “The Problem of Evil and Skeptical Theism”
- Bergmann, “Commonsense Skeptical Theism” Part 1
- Swinburne, “The Problem of Evil”
- Swinburne, “Why Does God Allow Suffering?”
- Swinburne vs Ehrman Debate, “The Problem of Evil”
- Plantinga vs Gale Debate, “The Existence of God and The Problem of Evil”
- Craig, Series of Lectures on The Problem of Evil, Part 1, 2, 3, and 4
- Dougherty, “Divine Hiddenness and God’s Seduction”
- Dougherty, “The Problem of Evil”
- Dougherty, “The Problem of Animal Pain”
- Kreeft, “The Problem of Evil and Suffering”
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Written
- Peter van Inwagen, “The Problem of Evil”
- Peter van Inwagen, “The Argument from Particular Horrendous Evils”
- Peter van Inwagen, “Probability and Evil”
- Michael Rea, “In Defense of Skeptical Theism”
- Bergmann, “Commonsense Skeptical Theism”
- Plantinga, “God, Freedom, and Evil” pdf
- Plantinga, “Supralapsarianism, or ‘O Felix Culpa'”
Here’s an excellent presentation & defense of the Transcendental argument. Audio is not great though.
https://youtu.be/ZLZdOGCE5KQ
Also CS Lewis has a compelling presentation of the Moral argument in the beginning of Mere Christianity.
I’ll keep that link in mind should I decide to do a section on the Transcendental Argument. For the moral argument in Mere Christianity, I might eventually include it in a paid resources post. Thanks for the suggestions, Stephen!
Do you know of any places on the net to get some good mentoring in Apologetics? Like discussion groups? I find that there’s not alot of support where I live and I feel I could almost drown in an apologetic tidal wave of information ha 🙂
Google for a Reasonable Faith Chapter around your place.
I feel the exact same way as a pastor in a community that is riddled with occult churches and universalism mindsets. Although I’m really enjoying the interviews and catching up at times I feel like I’m running out of breath to keep up in the same information wave lol.
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