Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics
Vols 1 - (2008- )

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The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics is a peer-reviewed journal published annually with the support of the International Society of Christian Apologetics to foster scholarly discussion of ideas among evangelical scholars relevant to the defense of the Christian Faith. It includes articles from a wide variety of apologetically relevant fields, including philosophy, ethics, theology, biblical studies, history, and missions. Click here to visit the official website.

Volume 1 (2008)

1.1	Complete issue pdf
	Norman Geisler, "The Apologetics of Jesus: Survey and Significance," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 1-24. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Gary Habermas, "Reflections on the Place of Friendship in the Practice of Christian Apologetics," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 25-36. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Alan W. Gomes, "Faustus Socinus's A Tract Concerning God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 37-57. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Robert M. Bowman, Jr., "Cross-Examination: Socinus and the Doctrine of the Trinity," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 59-77. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Winfried Corduan & Michael J. Anderson, "The Straw Man Strikes Back: When Gödel's Theorem is Misused," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 79-103. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Douglas Groothuis, "Sankara's Two-Level View of Truth: Nondualism on Trial," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 105-112. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Ron Rhodes, "Assessing Modern Psychic Phenomena," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 113-135. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1.1 (April 2008): 137-151. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 2 (2009)

2.1	Complete issue pdf
	Editor's Introduction," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 1-3. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	David J. Hesselgrave, "Revelation and Reason in Cross-Cultural Apologetics and Missiology," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 5-22. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Kirk R. MacGregor, "Understanding ‘If Anyone Says to This Mountain…’ (Mark 11:20-25) in Its Religio-Historical Context," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 23-39. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Hendrik van der Breggen, "Dawkins’ Logico-Philosophical Blunder: A Reply to a Dawkins Apologist," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 41-48. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Thomas A. Provenzola, "Some Fallibilist Conceptions of Rationality: An Intuitive Approach," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 49-63. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Steven B. Cowan, "How to Make a Case for the Inspiration of Scripture in the Current Milieu," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 65-85. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Michael R. Licona, "Using the Death of Jesus to Refute Islam," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 87-110. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Gene Carpenter, "Resources for Discovering the Literary, Conceptual, and Historical Context of the OT," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 111-133. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2.1 (April 2009): 136-143. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 3 (2010)

3.1	Complete issue pdf
	J.P. Moreland, "The Origin of the Soul in Light of Twinning, Cloning, and Frozen Embryos," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 1-12. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	John Warwick Montgomery, "A New Approach to the Apologetic for Christ’s Resurrection by Way of Wigmore’s Juridician Analysis of Evidence," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 13-27. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Louis Markos, "The Return to Myth: Apologetic for Postmoderns," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 29-40. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	David C. Cramer, "John Hick’s Pluralism-Hypothesis or Religious Worldview? A Comparison with Religion Specific ‘Hypothesis'," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 41-56. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Stephen J. Bedard, "Methodological Problems with the Jesus Myth Hypothesis," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 57-66. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	John D. Wilsey, "Paul Davies and the Philosophy of Science," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 67-81. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	F. David Farnell, "Searching for the Historical Jesus: Does History Repeat Itself?" The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 83-107. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Dallas Willard, "Philosophical Note: The Faith of Unbelief," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 109-113. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 3.1 (April 2010): 116-122. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 4 (2011)

4.1	Complete issue pdf
	Hugh Ross, "A Beginner's - and Expert's - Guide to the Big Bang: Separating Fact and Fiction," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2011): 1-27. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Kirk R. MacGregor, "Evangelical Anabaptism - Historical Disproof of Quinn's Tolerance through Uncertainty," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2011): 29-53. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	James K, Dew, Jr., "Science as the Servant of Theology: An Appraisal of Alister McGrath's Critical Realist Perspective," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2011): 55-71. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Steven B. Cowan, "Personal Identity and the Jehovah's Witness View of Resurrection," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2012): 73-81. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Glenn B. Siniscalchi, "Eucharist Origins for Jesus' Resurrection," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2012): 83-95. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 4.1 (April 2012): 98-110. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 5 (2012)

5.1	Complete issue pdf
	Winfried Corduan, "Fragments from the Editor’s Laptop," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 1-4.
	John Warwick Montgomery, "A Short and Easie Method with Postmodernists," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 5-14. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Khaldoun A. Sweis, "Philosophical Paradoxes of Darwinian Evolutionary Naturalism," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 15-30. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	K. Dayton Hartman."A Presuppositional Response to the Problem of Evil," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 31-45. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Richard A Holland, Jr., "Evil, Real Life, and Apologetics," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 47-59. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Norman L. Geisler & William C. Roach, "Defending Inerrancy: A Response to Methodological Unorthodoxy," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 61-87. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Eugene A. Curry, "The Disbelieving Michael Shermer: A Review Essay of Michael Shermer’s The Believing Brain," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 89-121. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 5.1 (April 2012): 122-132. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 6 (2013)

6.1	Complete issue pdf
	Douglas Groothuis, "A Critique of Pascal's Wager Argument against Natural Theology," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 5-36. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Bill Roach, "The Revelation of God: The Theanthropic Man and Book," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 37-74. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Mary Jo Sharp, "1 Corinthians 10:14-22: An Argument against the Syncretism of Christianity and Pagan Religions," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 76-106. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	John B. Carpenter, "Icons and the Eastern Orthodox Claim to Continuity with the Early Church," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 107-122. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Norman L. Geisler, " The Church Fathers and the Resurrection of the Saints in Matthew 27," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 123-147. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Kirk R. MacGregor, "The Widow's Mite and the Word-Faith Movement," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 148-178. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 6.1 (April 2013): 180-206. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 7 (2014)

7.1	Complete issue pdf
	Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., "The Creation and Historicity of Adam and Eve," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 5-32. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Norman L. Geisler, "A Review of Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 33-143. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	J. Thomas Bridges, "Intelligent Design and Some Thomist Philosophers," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 144-208. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Kirk R. MacGregor, "How to Convince Biblical Skeptics of Jesus' Divine Self-Understanding," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 209-243. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Cameron D. Armstrong, "Contextualization, Biblical Inerrancy, and the Orality Movement," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 244-304. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	J. Brian Ruffling, "An Exploration of Eleonore Stump's Theodicy," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 305-340. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	"Book Reviews," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 7.1 (April 2014): 341-368. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 8 (2015)

8.1	Complete issue pdf
	Norman L. Geisler, " Is it Just a Matter of Interpretation, not of lnerrancy? Examining the Relationship between Inerrancy and Hermeneutics," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 5-50. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	F. David Farnell, "A Critical Evaluation of Robert H. Gundry's Lecture: Peter: False Disciple and Apostate According to Saint Matthew," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 51-102. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	John D. Ferrer, "Amputees in the Image of God," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 103-143. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Michael Harbin, "History and Religion," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 144-186. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	J. Thad Harless, "A Biblical-Theological and Historical Critique of the Doctrine of Hell as an Emphasis in Evangelism," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 187-235. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Adam Lloyd Johnson, "Strengthening the Moral Argument," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 236-267. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	William C. Roach, "Evaluating Objections to Carl F. H. Henry's Cognitive-Propositional Hermeneutic," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 268-325. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Christopher T. Haun, "A Review of Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus," The Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 8.1 (April 2015): 326-360. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]