100 Christian Apologists

Get to know some of the best minds in the field. Most are current while some have passed away. They range from world-class philosophers and thinkers to Internet and radio apologists. But all have made an impact with their works and ministries. They are in alphabetical order. (This is not a top 100, and theologians and church fathers have been left out.)

1. Kerby Anderson - Head of Probe ministries
2. John Ankerberg - Founder of Ankerberg Theological Research Institute
3. Greg Bahnsen - the late presuppositional apologist
4. Andy Bannister - London School of Theology / Oxford Centre for Christian apologetics
5. Francis Beckwith - noted philosopher and apologist, especially in the area of ethics
6. Ken Boa - relational evangelism, discipleship, apologetics
7. Darrell Bock - Research Professor of NT Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.
8. Joe Boot - apologist, educator, author and pastor
9. Robert Bowman - noted apologetics and theology teacher (Biola)
10. Justin Brierley - host of Unbelievable? on Premier Christian Radio, UK
11. Kyle Butt - staff at Apologetics Press and editor of Discovery magazine
12. Ted Cabal - general editor of The Apologetics Study Bible
13. Charlie Campbell - head of AlwaysBeReady.com
14. Ergun Caner - president of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary; author
15. Edward John Carnell - was a prominent and influential Christian theologian and apologist
16. G.K. Chesterton - famous author, philosopher, theologian, apologist
17. David K. Clark - apologist with notable books; teaches at Bethel Seminary
18. Gordon Clark - Christian philosopher, apologist, and theologian. Contemporary of Van Til
19. Kelly James Clark - notable philosopher of religion, author; Calvin College
20. Gene Cook - host of UnchainedRadio; reformed pastor and apologist
21. Paul Copan - Philosophy and ethics; apologist and author
22. Winfried Corduan - Christian philosopher of religion and author.
23. Steven B. Cowan - Associate director of Apologetics Resource Center; Areopagus Journal
24. William Lane Craig - philosopher, theologian, apologist; Debater par excellence.
25. Dinesh D’Souza - writer, speaker, debater. Various notable debates.
26. William Dembski - philosopher of science and mathematician; ID theorist
27. William Edgar - Professor of Apologetics Westminster Theological Seminary
28. Lenny Esposito - founder of ComeReason apologetics ministry
29. C. Stephen Evans - philosophy of religion Baylor.; apologetics
30. Paul D. Feinberg - the late philosopher of religion and apologist; author
31. Harold Felder - founder of GivingAnAnswer apologetics ministry
32. Phil Fernandes - Christian philosopher, apologist, debater with audio resources.
33. John Frame - Reformed Theological Seminary; reformed apologist; Van Til expert
34. Norman Geisler - prolific author of over 70 books; Classical apologist
35. R. Douglas Geivett - Professor of Philosophy Talbot Department of Philosophy / Biola
36. Simon Greenleaf - legal scholar famous for his book Testimony of the Evangelists
37. Douglas Groothuis - Christian philosopher, author, teacher
38. Shandon L. Guthrie - philosophy, apologetics, atheism, comparative religions, ethics
39. Gary Habermas - the world's foremost expert on the resurrection of Jesus
40. Ken Ham - young Earth creationist involved with Creation Museum.
41. Hank Hanegraaff - today's Bible Answer Man
42. Craig Hazen - director of Biola's Christian Apologetics program
43. J.P. Holding - founded Tektonics apologetics website; author
44. Anthony Horvath - Athanatos Christian Ministries and online Apologetics Academy
45. Phillip E. Johnson - one of the key leaders of the Intelligent Design movement
46. Walter Kaiser - scholar, writer, educator, and distinguished Professor of Old Testament
47. Timothy Keller - urban pastor, author and apologist
48. Greg Koukl - apologist and president of Stand to Reason
49. Peter Kreeft - professor of philosophy at Boston College, noted apologist
50. John Lennox - philosopher of science, mathematician, Oxford debater of Dawkins

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51. C.S. Lewis - famous author, lecturer, apologist; Narnia books, Mere Christianity
52. Gordon Lewis - philosopher and theologian; author of Testing Christianity's Truth Claims
53. Mike Licona - historian and apologist; authority on the resurrection of Jesus
54. Bruce Little - philosopher noted for work on the problem of evil and theodicy
55. Paul Little - late apologist and author noted for his simple style and easy communication
56. David Marshall - world cultures, outspoken against new atheism
57. Walter Martin - most famous for his Kingdom of the Cults book; the original Answer Man
58. Stuart McAllister - Scottish itinerant cultural apologist with RZIM
59. Josh McDowell - famous for Evidence that Demands a Verdict
60. Sean McDowell - worldview youth minister / itinerant apologist
61. Alex McFarland - itinerant apologist targeting young people, teens
62. Alister McGrath - Oxford professor of theology, author and opponent of new atheism
63. Chad Meister - philosopher of religion, ethics, logic; apologist, author; Bethel College
64. Angus Menuge - Concordia University professor of philosophy
65. Albert Mohler - president of SBTS, worldview cultural commentator, author, radio host
66. John Warwick Montgomery - perhaps the most famous evidentialist apologist
67. J.P. Moreland - Christian philosopher, noted author, apologist
68. Ronald Nash - Professor Philosophy and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary
69. Randall Niles - itinerant and multimedia apologist
70. David Noebel - founder of Summit Ministries and worldview apologist
71. Scott Oliphint - Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology WTS
72. Amy Orr-Ewing - Director of Training of the Zacharias Trust
73. Craig Parton - trial lawyer and noted Lutheran apologist
74. Alvin Plantinga - world-class philosopher; reformed epistemology, philosophy of religion
75. Doug Powell - excellent multimedia apologist at SelflessDefense
76. Michael Ramsden - European Director of Zacharias Trust, speaker for RZIM
77. Fazale Rana - PhD biochemist with Reasons to Believe
78. Ron Rhodes - author and apologist founder of Reasoning from the Scriptures
79. John W. Robbins - reformed apologist, founder of Trinity Foundation
80. Mark D. Roberts - pastor, author, speaker, blogger. Emphasis in NT / Gospels
81. David Robertson - Scottish pastor famous/notorious for his Dawkins Letters
82. Hugh Ross - astrophysicist apologist and old Earth creationist; founder Reasons to Believe
83. Kenneth Samples - reformed philosopher, theologian, apologist with Reasons to Believe
84. Francis Schaeffer - famous late cultural apologist, author, philosopher; founder of L'Abri
85. Mary Jo Sharp - author, apologist, debater; founder of Confident Christianity
86. James Sire - influential worldview author, apologist, and speaker
87. Matt Slick - founder of CARM.org with extensive apologetics encyclopedia
88. R.C. Sproul - notable theologian, author, and classical apologist
89. Don Stewart - prolific author, apologist, and host of the Bible Explorer
90. Lee Strobel - journalist famous for his Case for Christ series of books; popular apologist
91. Richard Swinburne - world-class Oxford philosopher of religion; author
92. Frank Turek - itinerant apologist and founder of CrossExamined; debated Hitchens
93. Cornelius Van Til - the most famous presuppositional reformed apologist
94. Jim Wallace - cold case detective, pastor, and apologist with extensive web site
95. James White - theologian, author, prolific debater, and reformed apologist
96. Dallas Willard - Christian philosopher; notable works in philosophy, discipleship
97. Peter S. Williams - Christian philosopher; notable works countering Dawkins
98. Douglas Wilson - presuppositional apologist; number of atheist debates (Hitchens, Barker)
99. N.T. Wright - Archbishop of Canterbury; notable work on the resurrection
100. Ravi Zacharias -perhaps today's most notable international cultural apologist
 

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