Attorney and politician. Read more about Callahan here.

• The Lawyers of the Bible. Indianapolis: Hollenbeck Press, 1912. 77 pp.; 20 cm. A lecture delivered before the Indiana University School of Law, January 23, 1911.

French Benedictine. Read more about Calmet here.

• Antiquities sacred and profane: or, a collection of curious and critical dissertations on the Old and New Testament. ... Done into English from the French, with notes, by a clergyman of the Church of England. Illustrated with copper plates. London, 1724. 42 pp.
• Calmet's Great dictionary of the Holy Bible: historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: ... Revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, ... under the direction of C. Taylor.Volume 1 of 2. London, 1797-1801. 675 pp.
• Calmet's Great dictionary of the Holy Bible: historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: ... Revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, ... under the direction of C. Taylor. Volume 2 of 2. London, 1797-1801. 890 pp.
• Fragments, illustrative of the manners, incidents, and phraseology, of the Holy Scriptures: ... intended as a continued appendix to Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible. London, 1798-1801. 909 pp.

Reformation leader. Read more about Calvin here and here.

• Institutes of the Christian Religion here and here.
• Works by John Calvin, here. Includes his Commentaries on the Bible.

Scottish minister and theologian.

• The Authenticity of the Gospel-history justified: and the truth of the Christian revelation demonstrated, from the laws and constitution of human nature. In two volumes Edinburgh: printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1759. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
• An Enquiry into the original of moral virtue wherein it is shewn, (against the author of The fable of the bees, &c.) that virtue is founded in the nature of things, with some reflections on a late book, intitled, An Enquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue. Edinburgh: printed for Gavin Hamilton, by R. Fleming and Company, 1733. [4], xxxii, [23], 546, [1] pp. ; 21 cm.

(TM): George Campbell was a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and professor and principal at Marischall College and a member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, of which the noted Scottich philosopher Thomas Reid was also a member.
Read more about Campbell here.

• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 1 of 2. London: A. Strahan; T. Cadell. 1789 edition. 762 pp.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 2 of 2. London: A. Strahan; T. Cadell. 1789 edition. 703 pp.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 1 of 4. Also here. Boston: W. Wells, and Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811 edition. Original from the University of California.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 2 of 4. Also here. Boston: W. Wells, and Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811 edition.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 3 of 4. Also here. Boston: W. Wells, and Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811 edition.
  • Preface to Matthew. Extract from The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory, Vol 3. Boston: W. Wells, and Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811 edition.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 4 of 4. Also here. Boston: W. Wells, and Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811 edition.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 1 of 2. Andover: Gould and Newman, 1837 edition. Original from Harvard University.
• The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations and Notes Critical and Explanatory. Volume 2 of 2. Andover: Gould and Newman, 1837 edition.
• The Happy Influence of Religion on Civil Society: A Sermon, preached at the assizes at Aberdeen, Sunday, May 23. 1779. By George Campbell. Edinburgh, 1779. 33 pp.
• A Dissertation on Miracles: containing an examination of the principles advanced by David Hume in an Essay on Miracles, with a correspondence on the subject by Mr. Hume, Dr. Campbell and Dr. Blair, now first published, to which are added Sermons and Tracts. The third edition, with additions and corrections. Edinburgh, 1797. Volume 1 of 2, 465pp.; Volume 2 of 2, 375 pp.

  "CHRISTIANITY," it hath been said, "is not founded in argument." If it were only meant by these words, that the religion of Jesus could not, by the single aid of reasoning, produce its full effect upon the heart; every true Christian would cheerfully subscribe to them. No arguments unaccompanied by the influence of the Holy Spirit, can convert the soul from sin to God; though even to such conversion, arguments are, by the agency of the Spirit, render'd subservient. Again, if we were to understand by this aphorism, that the principles of our religion could never have been discover'd, by the natural and unassisted faculties of man; this position, I presume, would be as little disputed as the former. But if, on the contrary, under the cover of an ambiguous expression, it is intended to insinuate, that those principles, from their very nature, can admit no rational evidence of their truth, (and this, by the way, is the only meaning which can avail our antagonists) the gospel, as well as common sense, loudly reclaims against it.

  The Lord JESUS CHRIST, the author of our religion, often argu'd, both with his disciples and with his adversaries, as with reasonable men, on the principles of reason. Without this faculty, he well knew, they could not be susceptible either of religion or of law. He argu'd from prophecy, and the conformity of the event to the prediction¹. He argu'd from the testimony of John the Baptist, who was generally acknowledged to be a prophet². He argu'd from the miracles which he himself perform'd³, as uncontrovertible evidences, that GOD Almighty operated by him, and had sent him. He expostulates with his enemies, that they did not use their reason on this subject. Why, says he, even of yourselves, judge ye not what is right?⁴ In like manner we are called upon by the apostles of our Lord, to act the part of wise men, and judge impartially of what they say.⁵ Those who do so, are highly commended, for the candour and prudence they discover, in an affair of so great consequence.⁶ We are even commanded, to be always ready to give an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of our hope;⁷ in meekness to instruct them that oppose themselves;⁸ and earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.⁹ God has neither in natural nor reveal'd religion, left himself without a witness; but has in both given moral and external evidence, sufficient to convince the impartial, to silence the gainsayer, and to render the atheist and the unbeliever without excuse. This evidence it is our duty to attend to, and candidly to examine. We must prove all things, as we are expressly enjoin'd in holy writ, if we would ever hope to hold fast that which is good.¹⁰

  ¹ Luke xxiv. 25. &c. John v. 39. & 46.
  ² John v. 32. & 33.
  ³ John v. 36. x. 25. 37. 38. xiv. 10. 11.
  ⁴ Luke xii. 57.
  ⁵ I Cor. x. 15.
  ⁶ Acts xvii. 11.
  ⁷ I Peter iii. 15.
  ⁸ 2 Tim. ii. 25.
  ⁹ Jude 3.
  ¹⁰ I Thess. v. 21.
  

  (TM): Campbell's book is perhaps the best-known of the replies to Hume's attack on miracles to be issued in Hume's lifetime, and it is historically important since Campbell and Hume actually corresponded briefly, through a mutual friend, regarding a manuscript of Campbell's work.
  While scholars have tended to stress Campbell's view of testimony as an autonomous source of knowledge, there is much else in the book worthy of at least as much notice, including a thorough discussion of Hume's attempt to draw a parallel between pagan and popular miracle accounts and the gospel miracles. (Part II, sections IV and V)
  
  The works of Adams, Campbell, and John Douglas, taken together, provide a thorough response to Hume's essay; but it was Campbell to whom Hume was referring when he remarked to a friend that 'the Scotch theologue' had beaten him. [See also here.]
  Campbell was not only a theologian but also an authority on rhetoric, so it is no surprise that his Dissertation contains many memorable passages, such as this one from the Introduction (p. 12):

  God has neither in natural nor in revealed religion left himself without witness; but has in both given moral and external evidence, sufficient to convince the impartial, to silence the gainsayer, and to render inexcusable the atheist and the unbeliever. This evidence it is our duty to attend to, and candidly to examine. We must prove all things, as we are expressly enjoined in holy writ, if we would ever hope to hold fast that which is good.

• The Spirit of the Gospel neither a Spirit of Superstition nor of Enthusiasm. London, 1807. 518 pp. Vol. 2 of 13. Extracts.
• Lectures on Ecclesiastical History. To which is added, an essay on Christian temperance and self-denial: by the late George Campbell, D.D. With some account of the life and writings of the author. By the Rev. George Skene Keith. Vol. 1 of 2. London, 1800. 514pp.
• Lectures on Ecclesiastical History. To which is added, an essay on Christian temperance and self-denial: by the late George Campbell, D.D. With some account of the life and writings of the author. By the Rev. George Skene Keith. Vol. 2 of 2. London, 1800. 445 pp.
• Lectures on Ecclesiastical HistoryHistory of the sacred canon, Extract from Volume 1, Lecture 2.
• Lectures on Systematic theology and pulpit eloquence. Boston: W. Wells and T.B. Wait & Co., 1810. ix, 333 pp. ; 23 cm.
• The Philosophy of Rhetoric. New ed., with the author's last additions and corrections. Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 (Philadelphia : W. Brown) xii, 445 pp.

American political leader. Read about Carroll here and here.

• Charles Carroll Letter. Written to Dr. Charles Wharton, an Episcopal clergyman, 27th September 1825: "Too much of my time & attention have been misapplied on matters to which an impartial Judge, penetrating the secrets of hearts, before whom I shall soon appear, will ascribe merit deserving recompense. On the mercy of my redeemer I rely for salvation and on his merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to his precepts, for even these, I fear, a fallacy a mixture will render unavailing, and cause to be rejected."
• Bernard C. Steiner. The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry, Secretary of War under Washington and Adams. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1907. 660 pp. Letter to James McHenry of November 4, 1800, p. 475.
  "Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."

Agricultural science pioneer. Read more about Carver here, and here.

• Raleigh H. (Raleigh Howard) Merritt, From Captivity to Fame, or, The Life of George Washington Carver. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Library. [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Electronic edition, 2000. Birth and early childhood -- Early schooling and struggles -- Working his way through college -- First twelve years at Tuskegee -- Discovers possibilities of native products -- The Tuskegee Farmers' Conference -- His creative ability -- The Carver School Farm Club -- Still achieving and helping people -- Views and comments -- Supplement: 105 different ways to prepare the peanut for the table -- The sweet potato and various ways to prepare it -- How to make and save money on the farm -- How to raise pigs with little money -- Poultry raising -- The tomato -- The cow pea -- Three delicious meals every day -- 43 ways to save the wild plum crop -- Alfalfa -- The pickling and curing of meat in hot weather.
  
• Gary R. Kremer, editor.George Washington Carver in his Own Words. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.

  "I am not interested in science or any thing else that leaves God out of it." p. 131

  "My beloved friend, I do not feel capable of writing a single word of counsel to those dear young people, more than to say that my heart goes out to every one of them, regardless of the fact that I have never seen them and may never do so.
  "I want them to find Jesus, and make Him a daily, hourly, and momently part of themselves.
  "O how I want them to get the fullest measure of happiness and success out of life. I want them to see the Great Creator in the smallest and apparently the most insignificant things about them.
  "How I long for each one to walk and talk with the Great Creator through the things he has created." p. 135.

  "I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in and remain so." p. 143.

• George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words William J. Frederer. Amerisearch (January 2003) "The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible. 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.'" p. 66.

Methodist preacher. Read more about Cartwright here and here.

• W.P. Strickland, editor. Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the backwoods preacher. New York, Carlton & Porter, 1857. 525 pp. See pages 192-194 for anecdotes on Andrew Jackson.

Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more about Cecil here.

• Life, character, and remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil. London: Printed for L.B. Seeley [etc.] 494 pp.
• With Pratt, Josiah, 1768-1844. The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life , vol. 1. Also here. , vol. 2. New York: Robert Carter, 1845. , vol. 3. Crocker and Brewster, 1825. 486 pp.

  [T]he religious world has not been sufficiently instructed in the Evidences of Revelation; or, as to the ground on which thinking men receive the Bible as the Word of God. Young converts are so affected with the discovery of their lost condition, of the importance of salvation, and of the Scriptures as their only rule, that they are for proceeding as soon and as fast as possible. If they can but build rightly on the foundation, they have no question as to the foundation itself. And, indeed, if this foundation should never be called in question afterwards, all would be well; but I feel convinced that something more than an implicit faith is necessary here: a merely traditional adherence to Scripture lies too much exposed to assaults, especially in such an age as this?an age, in which one can scarcely take up a daily print, or pass an hour in company, without meeting some remark which has a tendency, more or less, to sap the ground on which we stand.

  I myself was once a professed infidel: that is, one who, carried away first by the love of sin, hoped the Bible might not be true. I then listened to such as were hardened enough to assert that it was not true: till, at length, I believed my own lie; and the vanity of appearing something like a philosopher, who had thrown off the traditions of the nursery, set me on propagating that lie. But when, like the prodigal, ?I came to myself,? I had many painful steps to tread back, and many difficult and intricate paths to retrace. I now wished that the Bible might be true, and was glad to receive help from any able guide who had written on its evidences. Grotius, Bishop Butler, and many others helped me to see, that he, who is acquainted with the evidence which God has annexed to his word, has not only every thing he can reasonably require, but that, as Mr. Soame Jenyns has remarked, he will find it requires more faith to be a consistent Infidel than to be a Christian.

  But you ask, "Do you never feel a shake after all this inquiry and experience?" I answer, Now and then an unexpected and malignant blast meets my mind, and obliges me to have recourse to my usual method. Perhaps, after what I have known and felt, I ought to repel it instantly as a temptation. Perhaps, at my standing, I ought not to honour such an assault with any examination at all. But I am not telling you what may be my duty, but what is my practice. Moreover, such is the frame of my mind, that I fear no other method than that which I take would satisfy it. As soon, then, as an alarm is given, I cast the eye of my mind over the leading evidences of the Scriptures, of which I have an habitual recollection, and which I need not particularize in their order to you. I likewise contemplate facts and experience, and soon obtain repose. Like a man who is told that the foundation of his house is in danger, I call for the key of the vaults on which my dwelling stands. I light a candle, walk down stairs, and pass very deliberately through the arches: I examine very particularly the arch suspected; and, after having satisfied myself that the foundation remains perfectly safe, I walk up again, lock the door, hang up the key, put out the candle, and quietly go about my business, saying as I go, "They may raise an alarm, but I find ALL IS SAFE.

  " "Have you had occasion," say you, "often thus to go down?'? Not very often. ?Did you always return satisfied?" Always. -- Volume 2, "Reasons for Repose," pp. 149-51.

• Online works.

Modern scientist. Learn more about Chadwick at his entry in the scientists of Christian faith project.

• Abiogenic Origin of the Theory of Life.
• A Modern Framework for Earth Sciences in a Christian Context. 2004.

Mathematician and lecturer. Learn more about Chalmers here and here

• Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation. 6th edition. Andover [Mass.]: Published and sold by Mark Newman, 1818. (Andover: Flagg & Gould). 172 pp.; 23 cm. Extracts of the first five chapters regarding testimony. Extract, Chapter 3, On the Internal Marks of Truth and Honesty to be Found in the New Testament.
  "It will be a great satisfaction to the writer of the following pages, if any shall rise from the perusal of them, with a stronger determination than before to take his Christianity exclusively from his Bible. It is not enough to entitle a man to the name of a Christian, that he professes to believe the Bible to be a genuine communication from God. To be the disciple of any book, he must do something more than satisfy himself that its contents are true -- he must read the book -- he must obtain a knowledge of the contents. And how many are there in the world, who do not call the truth of the Bible message in question, while they suffer it to lie beside them unopened, unread, and unattended to."
• The Application of Christianity to the commercial and ordinary affairs of life: in a series of discourses. 3rd American ed. Hartford, 1821. 219 pp.
• Discourses on the Application of Christianity to the commercial and ordinary affairs of life. Edinburgh, 1850. 375 pp.
• The Christian and Civic economy of large towns. Three volumes in one. Volume 1, 361 pp. Volume 2, 366 pp. Volume 3, 412 pp. Glasgow: Printed by J. Starke, for Chalmers & Collins, 1821-1826. 21 cm.
• The Influence of Bible societies on the temporal necessities of the poor. 4th edition. Edinburgh: Printed for Oliphant, Waugh & Innes, and W. White, 1818 (Edinburgh: Balfour & Clarke). 44 pp.; 21 cm.
• The Christian's defence against infidelity: with an introductory essay. Glasgow: William Collins, 1829. 536 pp.: front.; 20 cm. Consisting of, 1. Leslie's short and easy method with the Deists.--2. Lyttelton's observations on St. Paul.--3. Doddridge's evidences of Christianity.--4. Bates on the divinity of the Christian religion.--5. Owen on the self-evidencing light of Scripture.--6. Baxter on the danger of making light of Christ.
• On Political economy in connexion with the moral state and moral prospects of society . 2nd American ed. Columbus, Ohio, 1833. 446pp.
• On the Power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the adaptation of external nature, to the moral and intellectual constitution of man. London: William Pickering, 1833. 2 Volumes; 22 cm. Series: Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation; Treatise I.
• On the Miraculous and Internal Evidences of the Christian Revelation. Books I and II. New York: Leavitt, Lord, & Co.; Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1836. Books III and IV. New York: Robert Carter, 1840. From The Works of Thomas Chalmers.
• Evidences of Christianity [Review]
• Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy. To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science. New York: Robert Carter & Bros., 1855. xiii, 358 pp.; 20 cm.
• Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the apostle to the Romans. New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1874. 521 pp. 24 cm.
• Thomas Carlyle. TC to William Hanna. June 7, 1852. From The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1852; Volume 27 of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle; authored by Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding; edited by Clyde de L. Ryals, Kenneth J. Fielding. Duke University Press, 1999, 464 pp.

  It is not often that the world sees men like Thomas Chalmers; nor can the world afford to forget them, or in its most careless mood be willing to do it, when they do appear, in whatever guise that be. Probably the time is coming when it will be more apparent than it now is to every one that here intrinsically was the chief Scottish man of his Time: a man curiously and perhaps beneficently limited, by his training and position, into narrow St. Andrews and exclusively Scottish fields of action and speculation; but possessed of such a massive geniality of intellect and temper as belonged to no other man. What a grand simplicity, broad humour blent so kindly with enthusiastic ardour and blazing insight; a man of such mild noble valour, strength and piety; above all things, of such a perfect veracity, I have not met with in these times. Honour to him;--honour belongs to him; and to the essential work he did, an everlasting continuance among the the possessions of this world!

Scottish minister and teacher. Learn more about Chambers here.

• My Utmost for His Highest
• The Golden book of Oswald Chambers. My Utmost for His Highest; selections for the year. New York: Dodd, Mead & company, [1935] 375 pp. 19 cm.

Writer and Soviet defector. Read more about Chambers here.

• Great Quotes by Whittaker Chambers. From Witness, 1952 and other selections. Quotes selected by Dr. Alan Snyder.
• Forward to Witness. Letter to My Children. New York, Random House. 1952. 808 pp. 22 cm. An autobiographical memoir written just after Chambers confessed to his earlier affiliation with the Communist Party and testified against his former friend and comrade, Alger Hiss, in the biggest espionage trial of the twentieth century.

  "Communists are that part of mankind which has recovered the power to live or die -to bear witness-for its faith. And it is a simple, rational faith that inspires men to live or die for it.

  "It is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

  "It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in His image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.

  "... Why do men break with Communism? He can only answer the question: How did you break with Communism? My answer is: Slowly, reluctantly, in agony. Yet my break began long before I heard those screams. Perhaps it does for everyone. I do not know how far back it began. Avalanches gather force and crash, unheard, in men as in the mountains. But I date my break from a very casual happening. I was sitting in our apartment on St. Paul Street in Baltimore. It was shortly before we moved to Alger Hiss's apartment in Washington. My daughter was in her high chair. I was watching her eat. She was the most miraculous thing that had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch her even when she smeared porridge on her face or dropped it meditatively on the Hoor. My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear-those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: "No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design." The thought was involuntary and unwanted. I crowded it out of my mind. But I never wholly forgot it or the occasion. I had to crowd it out of my mind. If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God. I did not then know that, at that moment, the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead.

  "One thing most ex-Communists could agree upon: they broke because they wanted to be free. They do not all mean the same thing by "free." Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind. Hence every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communist fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks. A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism...."

• President Ronald Reagan. Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida. March 8, 1983. The President refers to, and quotes, Whittaker Chambers.

Bishop of Durham.

• A Defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament; By the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Ld. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. The third edition, with a summary view of the whole argument, and an index of the texts explained London, 1728. 418 pp.
• A Vindication of the Defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament. In answer to The scheme of literal prophecy considered. With a letter from the Reverend Mr. Masson. Volume 1 of 2. London, 1728. 354 pp. Volume 2 of 2. London, 1728. 240 pp.

English divine. Read more about Chandler here.

• An Answer to the Brief remarks of William Berriman, D.D on Mr. Chandler's Introduction to the history of the Inquisition: in a letter to the said Doctor / By Samuel Chandler. The second edition. London: Printed for John Gray, 1733. 56 pp.; 20 cm.
• Benevolence and integrity essentials of Christianity . A Sermon preach'd at the Old Jury, March 3, 1735-6. To the Society for Relief of the Widows. London, 1736. 19 pp. Volume 1 of 1.
• Christ the pattern of the Christian's future glory. A Sermon, occasioned by the death of the late Reverend Mr. George Smyth, A.M. who departed ... London, [1746]. 36 pp.
• A Critical History of the life of David: in which the principal events are ranged in order of time; the chief objections of Mr. Bayle, and others, against the character of this prince, and the Scripture account of him, and the occurrances of his reign, are examined and refuted; and the Psalms which refer to him, explained / by Samuel Chandler. London: Printed by S. Chandler, for J. Buckland, and J. Coote, 1766. Volume 1 of 2, 344 pp. Volume 2 of 2, 494 pp.
• The History of Persecution, in four parts. London, 1736. 568 pp.
• The History of Persecution: from the patriarchial age to the reign of George II. / by S. Chandler. A new edition, to which are added, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan's notices of the present state of the inquisition at Goa; also an appendix, containing hints on the recent persecutions in the British Empire, some circumstances relating to Lord Viscount Sidmouth's bill, a circumstantial detail of the steps taken to obtain the new Toleration Act, with the act itself, and other important matter / by Charles Atmore. Hull: C. Atmore and J. Craggs; London: Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1813. 528 pp.: port.; 22 cm.
• A Paraphrase and critical commentary on the prophecy of Joel. London: Printed for J. Noon, R. Hett, and J. Gray, 1735. vii, [1], 160 pp.; 26 cm.(4to)
• Plain Reasons for Being a Christian; To which are added Rules and cautions to preserve sincere and unprejudiced. Dalry, 1800. 64pp.
• Sermons on the following subjects, viz. The religion of Christ. Objections against a resurrection answered. The second edition. London, 1759-1769. Volume 1 of 4, 492 pp.; Volume 2 of 4, 517 pp.; Volume 3 of 4, 444 pp.; Volume 4 of 4, 489 pp.
• A Vindication of the Christian religion. In two parts. The second edition. London, 1728. 429 pp.
• A Vindication of the antiquity and authority of Daniel's prophecies, and their application to Jesus Christ: in answer to the objections of the author of the Scheme of literal prophecy consider'd [by Anthony Collins]. By Samuel Chandler. London: John Gray, 1728. xxiv, 220 pp. 20 cm.
• Vindication of the History of the Old Testament in answer to the misrepresentations and calumnies of Thomas Morgan, By Samuel Chandler. London: printed for J. Noon, R. Hett, and J. Davidson, 1743. xxxi, [1],256, [4],257-610, [2] pp.; 80.
• The Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ re-examined: And Their testimony proved entirely consistent / by Samuel Chandler. London: Printed for J. Noon and R. Hett, [1744]. 170 pp.; 21 cm.
• n.g. A Letter to a friend, occasioned by Mr. Chandler's History of persecution. With a postscript concerning his answer to Dr. Berriman. London, 1733. 31 pp.

Congressional representative. Read more about Chandler here.

• The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint. New York: The Empire Publishing Co., 1908. Volume 1 of 2. Also here
  Volume 2, Volume 1 special extract: on bias, Volume 1 special extract: on miracles.
• Clarrie Briese, Witnesses to the Resurrection: Credible or Not?.

English clergyman.

• Eusebius; or, The True Christian's Defense against a late book entitul'd The Moral philosopher. Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn, 1739. Volume 1 of 2. 580 pp. 20 cm.
• Eusebius, Volume II; or, The True Christian's farther defense against the late principles and reasonings of The Moral philosopher. By John Chapman. London, 1741. 532 pp. Volume 2 of 2.

English writer and scientist. Learn more about Charleton at his entry in the scientists of Christian faith project.

• The Darkness of atheism dispelled by the light of nature: a physico-theologicall treatise, written by Walter Charleton. London: Printed by J.F. for William Lee, 1652. [52], 355 pp.
• The Immortality of the Human Soul, demonstrated by the light of nature: in two dialogues. London: Printed by William Wilson for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop, 1657. [15], 188 pp.: port.

Church of England clergyman.

• The Dispersion of the men at Babel considered, and the principal cause of it inquired into. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. With new observations on the Sibylline writings, and on the third volume of Dr. Newton's Dissertations on the prophecies. London, 1769. Volume 1 of 2. Volume 2 of 2.

Puritan preacher. Learn more about Charnock here.

• The Existence and Attributes of God, abridged from the writings of the late learned and venerable Stephen Charnock, B.D. London, 1797. 570 pp.
• Discourses upon the existence and attributes of God, abridged from the writings of the late learned and venerable Stephen Charnock, B.D. By the Rev. Griffith Williams. London: printed for the editor, by W. Smith; and sold by J. Mathews; W. Button; J. Murgatroyd; and L. Rowe, 1797. viii, [2], 559, [1] pp.

Clergyman. Read more about Cheever here.

• God's Hand in America. New-York, 1841. 167pp.
• The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in New England, in 1620: reprinted from the original volume: with Historical and local illustrations. New York, 1848. 370 pp. Includes a reprint of the original t.p.: A relation or iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English aduenturers both merchants and others ... London, Printed for I. Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop at the two greyhounds in Cornhill neere the Royall exchange. 1622./ The main part of the narrative was probably written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow. G. Mourt (George Morton?) by whose name the relation is commonly known, seems to have had no other connection with it than that of writing the preface and giving the book to the press. -- Cf. Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers / A. Young. Boston, 1841. p. [109]-249.
• The Curse of God against political atheism: with some of the lessons of the tragedy at Harper's Ferry. Boston, 1859. 25 pp.
• A Defence of Capital Punishment. And an essay on the ground and reason of punishment: with special reference to the penalty of death by Tayler Lewis. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 370 pp.; 20 cm.
• The Removal of the Indians: an article from the American monthly magazine: an examination of an article in the North American review, and an . Boston, 1830. 73 pp.
• Right of the Bible in our public schools. New York: 1854. xii, [13]-303 pp.; 17 cm.
• God against slavery. Cincinnati: 1857. viii, [9]-272 pp. ; 20 cm.
• Online works.

Author. Apologist. Learn more about Chesterton here and also visit the American Chesterton Society and also here.

• Orthodoxy and other works -- also here. Buy this book here.
  This book is meant to be a companion to 'Heretics,' and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called 'Heretics' because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same.
  It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.
  Gilbert K. Chesterton.

• The Everlasting Man, a work C.S. Lewis said had influenced him.
  "The purpose of these pages is to fix the falsity of certain vague and vulgar assumptions; and we have here one of the most false. There is a sort of notion in the air everywhere that all the religions are equal because all the religious founders were rivals, that they are all fighting for the same starry crown. It is quite false. The claim to that crown, or anything like that crown, is really so rare as to be unique. Mahomet did not make it any more than Micah or Malachi. Confucius did not make it any more that Plato or Marcus Aurelius. Buddha never said he was Brahma. Zoroaster no more claimed to be Ormuz than to be Ahriman. The truth is that, in the common run of cases, it is just as we should expect it to be, in common sense and certainly in Christian philosophy. It is exactly the other way. Normally speaking, the greater a man is, the less likely he is to make the very greatest claim. Outside the unique case we are considering, the only kind of man who ever does make that kind of claim is a very small man; a secretive or self-centered monomaniac. Nobody can imagine Aristotle claiming to be the father of gods and men, come down from the sky; though we might imagine some insane Roman Emperor like Caligula claiming it for him, or more probably for himself. Nobody can imagine Shakespeare talking as if he were literally divine; though we might imagine some crazy American crank finding it as a cryptogram in Shakespeare's works, or preferably in his own works. It is possible to find here and there human beings who make this supremely superhuman claim. It is possible to find them in lunatic asylums; in padded cells; possibly in strait waistcoats. But what is much more important than their mere materialistic fate in our very materialistic society, under very crude and clumsy laws about lunacy, the type we know as tinged with this, or tending towards it, is a diseased and disproportionate type; narrow yet swollen and morbid to monstrosity. It is by rather an unlucky metaphor that we talk of a madman as cracked; for in a sense he is not cracked enough. He is cramped rather than cracked; there are not enough holes in his head to ventilate it. This impossibility of letting in daylight on a delusion does sometimes cover and conceal a delusion of divinity. It can be found, not among prophets and sages and founders of religions, but only among a low set of lunatics. But this is exactly where the argument becomes intensely interesting; because the argument proves too much. For nobody supposes that Jesus of Nazareth was that sort of person. No modern critic in his five wits thinks that the preacher of the Sermon on the Mount was a horrible half-witted imbecile that might be scrawling stars on the walls of a cell. No atheist or blasphemer believes that the author of the Parable of the Prodigal Son was a monster with one mad idea like a cyclops with one eye. Upon any possible historical criticism, he must be put higher in the scale of human beings than that. Yet by all analogy we have really to put him there or else in the highest place of all."

  "I have admitted freely that, considering the incident in itself, a man who says he is God may be classed with a man who says he is glass. But the man who says he is glass is not a glazier making windows for all the world. He does not remain for after ages as a shining and crystalline figure, in whose light everything is as clear as crystal.
  "But this madness has remained sane. The madness has remained sane when everything else went mad. The madhouse has been a house to which, age after age, men are continually coming back as to a home. That is the riddle that remains; that anything so abrupt and abnormal should still be found a habitable and hospitable thing. I care not if the sceptic says it is a tall story; I cannot see how so toppling a tower could stand so long without foundation. Still less can I see how it could become, as it has become, the home of man. Had it merely appeared and disappeared, it might possibly have been remembered or explained as the last leap of the rage of illusion, the ultimate myth of the ultimate mood, in which the mind struck the sky and broke. But the mind did not break. It is the one mind that remains unbroken in the break-up of the world. If it were an error, it seems as if the error could hardly have lasted a day. If it were a mere ecstasy, it would seem that such an ecstasy could not endure for an hour. It has endured for nearly two thousand years; and the world within it has been more lucid, more level-headed, more reasonable in its hopes, more healthy in its instincts, more humorous and cheerful in the face of fate and death, than all the world outside. For it was the soul of Christendom that came forth from the incredible Christ; and the soul of it was common sense. Though we dared not look on His face we could look on His fruits; and by His fruits we should know Him. The fruits are solid and the fruitfulness is much more than a metaphor; and nowhere in this sad world are boys happier in apple-trees, or men in more equal chorus singing as they tread the vine, than under the fixed flash of this instant and intolerant enlightenment; the lightning made eternal as the light."

• Collected Works.
• Works.
• Heretics.
• Christianity and Rationalism.
• Martin Cothran. "Reason and imagination: G.K. Chesterton's case for Christianity with a Chesterton bibliography". Simon Greenleaf Law Review, n. 7. 1987. pp. 199-227.

English churchman. Read more about Chillingworth here.

• The Religion of Protestants a safeway to salvation, or, An answer to a book entituled Mercy and truth, or, Charity maintain'd by Catholiques, which pretends to prove the contrary to which is added The apostolical institution of episcopacy : as also, IX sermons, the first preached before His Majesty King Charles the First, and the other eight upon special and eminent occasions. London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Richard Chiswell, 1674. [28], 447 pp. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
• The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation, or, An answer to a book entituled Mercy and truth, or, Charity maintained by Catholicks, which pretends to prove the contrary together with The apostolical institution of episcopacy : as also Nine sermons, the first preached before His Majesty King Charles the First, the other eight upon special and eminent occasions / by William Chillingworth; to which is added, Mr. Chillingworth's letter to Mr. Lewger to persuade him to return to his mother the Church of England. London: Printed by M.C.: And are to be sold by William Crook and Charles Harper, 1684. [28], 452 [i.e. 450] pp. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus)
• Mr. Chillingworth's iudgment of the religion of Protestants, &c. . London: 1692. 8 pp. Huntington Library and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) Library.
• Mr. Chillingworth's judgment of the religion of Protestants of Scripture the only rule, of differences among Protestants, of using force in matters of religion &c. : with a preface to the reader giving the reason of publishing these passages. London: Printed for Francis Smith, 1680. [2], 7 pp. Harvard University Library.
• Mr. Chillingworth's judgment of the religion of Protestants, &c. . Printed for the information of ... the committee, appointed by the Lower House ... London, 1717. 24pp.
• Mr. Chillingworths letter touching infallibility. London: Printed by D. Maxwell for Timothy Garthwait, 1662. xii pp. Union Theological Seminary Library, New York and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Reasons against popery in a letter from Mr. William Chillingworth, to his friend Mr. Lewger, persuading him to return to his mother, the Church of England, from the corrupt Church of Rome. London: Printed for Robert Pawlet, 1673. [2], 8 pp. British Library.
• The Works of William Chillingworth, M.A. ... containing his book, intituled, The religion of Protestants, a safe way to salvation. Tenth Edition. London, 1742. 620 pp.

American lawyer and orator. Learn about Choate here, here and here.

• With Samuel Gilman Brown (1813-1885). The Works of Rufus Choate, with a memoir of his life. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862. Volume 1 of 2. 558 pp. Volume 2 of 2. 523 pp.
• Joseph Neilson. Memories of Rufus Choate; With Some Consideration of His Studies, Methods, and Opinions, and of His Style as a Speaker and Writer. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. 460 pages.
• Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882). Address commemorative of Rufus Choate: delivered before the students of the Law School of Harvard University, at their request, on the 29th of September 1859. Boston, 1859. 42 pp.
• Notes: Rufus Choate's Advice to a Young Lawyer. A letter written to J. D. Waddell, Cedartown, Ga., on January 26, 1855. From Southern Law Review, vol. 1, 1875.

  "We have reference to Prof. Simon Greenleaf's celebrated work entitled 'The Testimony of the Evangelists examined by the Rules of Evidence administered in Courts of Justice,' with an appendix containing a 'Review of the Trial of Jesus.' This was first published about thirty-five years ago, and has recently been republished in New York. No clergyman of any denomination should attempt to preach an Easterday sermon without having first read this latter work. We think M. Dupin and Prof. Greenleaf established, by the clearest record evidence, that the trial and sentence of Christ was illegal, when viewed simply as the ordinary course of law against any accused person.--N.Y. Daily Register.

• Judge Neilson. Rufus Choate. From The Western Jurist, January: "Rufus Choate." March: "Rufus Choate II." April: "Rufus Choate III." June 1877: "Rufus Choate, IV"; plus Address Delivered Before the Iowa State Bar Association, at Des Moines, May 17, 1877, by G. F. Magoun, Esq. President of Iowa College. Ref. to Dr. Spear's "Religion and the State" as to the bible in our public schools.

  Choate: "I would have it [the Bible] read, not only for its authoritative revelations and its commands and exactions, obligatory yesterday, today and forever, but for its English, for its literature, for its pathos, for its dim imagery, its saying of consolation and wisdom and universal truth."

The Christian Observer ... was founded at the Presbyterian publishing center of Philadelphia in 1813 as the Religious Remembrancer, "A Presbyterian Family Newspaper." Among its variety of religious articles were biographical sketches, revivals of religion, theological essays, missionary information, discourses on the preciousness of Christ and the denying of Christ, and essays on bible verses. The paper changed names several times, and in 1869 joined with the Free Christian Commonwealth in Louisville, Kentucky. Several of its contemporaries were swallowed up by its growth. In the early 1900's it was still a leading Presbyterian paper and contained stories and anecdotes, articles on such topics as "The Alcoholic problem," "Practical Suggestions for Church Work," "Saving Faith," "The Anti-opium Campaign in China," "Work Among the Negroes," and "The Pioneer Woman Physician." Cf. American Periodicals, 1741-1900.

• O.U.I. Reply to Mr. Hume's Argument About Miracles. Christian Observer, Conducted By Members of the Established Church (1802-1842). Boston: May 1802. Volume 1, n. 5; p. 292.
• W. T. On the Sun and Moon Standing Still, Joshua 10:13. Christian Observer, August 1809, pp. 479-480. Writer postulates that the miracle was observed and noted by the Chinese.
• Paulinus. Remarks on Mr. O'Callaghan's Attack on the Bible Society. From Christian Observer, March 1817. Response to Thoughts on the Tendency of Bible Societies, as affecting the Established Church and Christianity Itself, as a Reasonable Service by the Rev. A. O'Callaghan.
• A. Converse and F. Bartlett, editors. Necessity of Miracles. Christian Observer, December 10, 1841.
• Nittany. Miracles and Mesmerism. Christian Observer, July 21, 1843, p. 116.
• Richard Whately. Napoleon's Life, Doubtful?. Christian Observer, May 10, 1844, p. 76. Extract from Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte.
• "Death of the Rev. George Chandler" and "The Probability of Miracles". From Christian Observer, February 23, 1860, p. 30.
• R. H. W. Limits of Science, or, Miracles in Confirmation of the Truth. Christian Observer, August 23, 1860.
• Must We Expect Miracles Now?. From Christian Observer, April 6, 1898, p. 2.
• The Place of Miracles in the Holy Scriptures. Christian Observer, March 28, 1906, pp. 2-3.
• Albert L. Berry. The Wisdom of an Infidel. Christian Observer, December 19, 1906, p. 5. Response to Robert Ingersoll.
• William J. Bryan. Bryan on Belief. Christian Observer, June 19, 1907, p. 8.
  "I do not understand all the mysteries of the Bible, but if we live up to all the things in the Bible we can understand we will be kept so busy that we will not have time to worry over the mysterious. My observation is that the people who are all the time worrying about the mysterious things are mighty little concerned about the plainest things in the Bible, that they could apply with profit to themselves. Living in the midst of mystery, I shall not for that reason refuse to accept a religion that will mould our lives for good."
• William J. Bryan. Miracles, Atonement, and the Fact of Christ. Christian Observer, November 27, 1907, pp. 5-6.
• William Frost Bishop. The Miracles of Christ. Christian Observer, October 14, 1908, pp. 4-5.
• Walter M. Langtry. Has the Supernatural Ceased?. Christian Observer, October 20, 1909, pp. 4-5.

Published in London, England. Conducted by members of the established Church of England. Merged with: Christian advocate and review to form: Christian observer and advocate.

• Reviews of Paley's Natural Theology and Leslie's Short and Easy Method with the Deists. From The Christian Observer, London edition, v. 2, n. 3. March 1803, pp. 163-169.
• C. E. P.On LaPlace's Algebraical Argument Against Miracles. From The Christian Observer, London edition, October 1838, pp. 617-620. This essay is referenced by Harvard law professor Simon Greenleaf in Testimony of the Evangelists. Editor's note: "There is an able reply to Hume's argument in Dr. Chalmers's Evidences of Christianity, lately reprinted in the third volume of his collected works. It contains some points not included in the reasonings of Campbell, Paley, &c. Mr. Babbage also, in what he calls The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, has adduced some very striking mathematical arguments to demonstrate that testimony is adequate to the proof of miracles; and that the largest induction which can be made, is not sufficient to shew that a deviation from what are considered the laws of nature may not take place, as in the case of the scriptural miracles of raising the dead to life, however improbable such an event antecedently appeared."
  Extract includes Preface by editor and essay by U. U. S., "On the Credulity of Some Religious Persons," pp. 620-621.

Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. Vol. 1-v. 28 = no. 1 (Mar. 1836)-no. 114 (Oct. 1863) 28 volumes; 22-29 cm. Editors: 1836-37, J.D. Knowles.--1838, J.D. Knowles, Barnas Sears.--1839-41, Barnas Sears.--1842-48, S.F. Smith.--1849. E.G. Sears.--1850-52, S.S. Cutting.--1853-55, Robert Turnbull, J.N. Murdock.--1856, J.J. Woolsey, W.C. Ulyat.--1857-58, Franklin Wilson, G.B. Taylor.--1859, E.G. Robinson, V.R. Hotchkiss.--1860-1863, E.G. Robinson./ Imprint varies: 1836-49, Boston, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln: [etc., etc.,]--1850-56, New-York, L. Colby and J. Ballard [etc.]--1857-58, Baltimore [35c.]--1859-60, New-York, Sheldon & Co.--1861-63, Rochester, N.Y., Benton & Andrews.

• S. F. Smith, editor. Advantages of the Baptist Church Polity. The Christian Review, v. 11, May 1846, Contents, pp. 64-87.
  
  "An Historical Discourse, delivered at the celebration of the Second Centennial Anniverseary of the First Baptist Church in Providence," by William Hague.
  "A Discourse, delivered at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the Baldwin Place Baptist Church," by Baron Stow, Pastor.
  "A Pure Christianity the World's Only Hope," by R. W. Cushman, Pastor of the Bowdoin Square Church, Boston.
  "A Discourse, delivered at the Dedication of the New Church Edifice of the Baptist Church and Society in Warren, R. I., May 8, 1845," by Josiah P. Tustin, Pastor.
  "A Discourse, delivered at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the First Baptist Church in North Stonington, Ct.," by Albert G. Palmer.
  "The Position and Peculiarities of the Baptists, defined and illustrated," by Sewall S. Cutting.
  "A Discourse, embracing the History of the Baptist Church of Christ in Homer, N. Y., for about thirty years from its commencement," by Rev. Alfred Bennet.
  
  • ARTICLE IV; ADVANTAGES OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH POLITY, An Historical Discourse, delivered at the celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Providence. The Christian Review (1836-1863), Boston: May 1, 1846. Vol. 11, Iss. 41; pp. 64-87.
    

• A Discourse delivered before the Georgia Historical Society on the occasion of its 6th anniversary, on Wednesday, 12th Feb., 1845. Savannah [Ga.]: The Society, (Athens, Ga.: "Southern Whig," Print.) 1845. 34, 6 pp.; 22 cm.

Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.

• An Analysis of the Philosophical Works of the Late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

• Life Sketches of Eminent Lawyers: American, English, and Canadian: to which is added thoughts, facts and facetiae. Kansas City, Mo.: Lawyers' International Pub. Co., 1895. 2 vol.: ports.; 20 cm.
  • Abraham Lincoln.
  • Benjamin Butler.
  • Daniel Webster.
  • David Schenk.
  • Horace Binney.
  • James Campbell.
  • John Campbell.
  • Joseph Bradley.
  • Joseph Brown.
  • Joseph Story.
  • Lord Erskine.
  • Morrison Waite.
  • William Evarts.
  • William Wirt.

• Sermon on the Death of William Patterson.
• Evidences of the Christian religion, designed chiefly for the rising generation. Compiled by Joseph Clark. [One line from John]. [4], 118, [2] pp. 18 cm.

Modern author. Read about Clark here.

• Man and Woman in Christ. Servant Books, 1980.
• Articles in Living Bulwark Magazine.

British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar. Read about Clarke here and here.

• The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments; the text carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present authorized translation including the marginal readings and parallel texts with a commentary and critical notes, designed as a help to a better understanding of the sacred writings. New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings, 1856.
  Online work, text-searchable.
  Volume 1 of 4. Also here. Genesis to Esther.
  But was it not a cruel thing to destroy forty-two little children, who, in mere childishness, had simply called the prophet bare skull, or bald head? I answer, Elisha did not destroy them; he had no power by which he could bring two she-bears out of the wood to destroy them. It was evidently either accidental, or a divine judgment; and if a judgment, God must be the sole author of it. Elisha's curse must be only declaratory of what God was about to do. See on [2 Kings] i.10. "But then, as they were little children, they could scarcely be accountable for their conduct; and consequently, it was cruelty to destroy them." If it was a judgment of God, it could neither be cruel nor unjust; and I contend that the prophet had no power by which he could bring these she-bears to fall upon them. But were they little children? for here the strength of the objection lies. Now I suppose the objection means children from four to seven or eight years old; for so we use the word: but the original נערים קטנים nearim ketannim, may mean young men, for קטן katan signifies to be young, in opposition to old, and is so translated in various places in our Bible; andנער naar signifies, not only a child, but a young man, a servant, or even a soldier, or one fit to go out to battle; and is so translated in a multitude of places in our common English version. I shall mention but a few, because they are sufficiently decisive: Isaac was calledנער naar when twenty-eight years old, Genesis xxi. 5-12 And Joseph was so called when he was thirty-nine, Genesis xli. 12. Add to these 1 Kings xx. 14. And Ahab said, By whom? [shall the Assyrians be delivered into my hand] Thus saith the Lord, by the YOUNG MEN (בנערי benaarey) of the princes of the provinces. That these were soldiers, probably militia, or a selection from the militia, which served as a body-guard to Ahab, the event sufficiently declares; and the persons that mocked Elisha were perfectly accountable for their conduct. -- pp. 838-839.
  Volume 2 of 4. Also here. Job to Malachi.
  Volume 3 of 4. Also here. Matthew to Acts.
  Volume 4 of 4. Also here. Romans to Revelation.
  
• Joseph Butterworth Bulmer Clarke. An account of the infancy, religious and literary life, of Adam Clarke. written by one who was intimately acquainted with him from boyhood to the sixtieth year of his age. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1833. v. 12mo.
• With Claude Fleury (1640-1723) Adam Clarke (1762-1832) and Bernard Lamy (1640-1715). Manners of the Ancient Israelites, ... With a Short Account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. Carlton & Phillips, 1852. 386 pp. : portrait ; 17 cm. From the Second London Edition. Translation of Moeurs des Israelites./ Written originally in French by the Abbe Fleury. Much enlarged from the Apparatus biblicus of Pere Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by Adam Clarke.
• Works

• A Summary of the evidences of natural and revealed religion. 1814. 24 pp.

English lawyer and politician. Read more about Clarke here.

• The Story of My Life. London: J. Murray, 1923. 445 pp.
• Selected Speeches: with introductory notes. London, 1908. 503 pp. Extracts: "The Church and Its Work: An Address to Men," Delivered at the Mass Meeting of the Church Congress, at the Albert Hall, October 13, 1899: and "Charles Dickens: Speech In Proposing the Toast Of 'he Immortal Memory of Charles Dickens' "at the Annual Dinner of the 'Boz' Club, February 7, 1908.

  The Church has done, and is doing, as we all know, splendid work. In the darker times that have gone by the Church has been the only teacher of the people. It is to-day the teacher of the larger part of the children that are being brought up; and, while it has secured to the great majority of our children the blessing of a Christian atmosphere and Christian teaching in the schools, it has given to them -- hundreds and thousands and millions of them -- the higher privilege and blessing of which the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke to-night -- the Christian home, with the mother's teaching and the father's guidance. The Church is one of the greatest -- I think the greatest -- of the missionary societies of the world. The Church is not actually the greatest, but it is one of the greatest, temperance societies to be found amongst us. The Church is sometimes -- I wish it were always -- the greatest peace society of the world, proclaiming in season and out of season the lessons and teachings of its Divine Master in the unwilling ears of a passionate and covetous world.

Minister of a church in Boston.

• An Answer to the Question, Why are You a Christian?. Third edition. Boston: J. Schultz & A. Lott, at the New-Windsor Press, 1798. 54 pp. "Not because I was born in a Christian country, and educated in Christian principles; -- not because I find the illustrious Bacon, Boyle, Lock, Clarke and Newton, among the professors and defenders of Christianity; -- nor meely because the system itself is so admirably calculated to mend and exalt human nature: but because the evidence accompanying the Gospel, has convinced me of its truth. The secondary causes, assigned by unbelievers, do not, in my judgment, account for the rise, progress, and early triumphs of the Christian religion. Upon the principles of scepticism, I perceive an effect without an adequate cause. I therefore, stand acquitted to my own reason, though I continue to believe and profess the religion of Jesus Christ."

English philosopher and divine. Read more about Clarke here and here.

• A Discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the Christian revelation: Being sixteen sermons preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St Paul, in the years 1704 and 1705, By Samuel Clarke, D.D. The fifth edition, corrected. To which are added several letters to Dr Clarke from a gentleman in Glocestershire, with the Drs answers. London, 1719. 572 pp.
• The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity, Wherein Every Text in the New Testament relating to that Doctrine, is distinctly considered; and the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour according to the Scriptures, proved and explained. The Third Edition, Corrected. London: Printed by W. Botham, for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1782. 513 pp.

  Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864: "In the course of my inquiries, I met with the work upon the Trinity, by Dr. Samuel Clarke. This I carefully examined, and although very far from being satisfied, I ceased from further inquiry. This change arose probably from my having acquired the much more valuable work of the same author, on the Being and Attributes of God. This I studied, and felt that its doctrine was much more intelligible and satisfactory than that of the former work. I may now state, as the result of a long life spent in studying the works of the Creator, that I am satisfied they afford far more satisfactory and more convincing proofs of the existence of a supreme Being than any evidence transmitted through human testimony can possibly supply."

Modern physicist. Learn more about Clausen at his entry in the scientists of Christian faith project.

• Christianity Aiding the Development of Science.

Church of Ireland bishop of Clogher and religious controversialist.

• Answer to Lord Bolingbroke.
• A Vindication of the histories of the Old and New Testament. In answer to the objections of the late Lord Bolingbroke. In two letters to a young ... [London], 1753. 148 pp.

American President. Read more about President Cleveland here and here.

• McElroy, Robert McNutt. Grover Cleveland, the Man and the Statesman: An Authorized Biography. New York, 1923. 433 pp. Volume 2 of 2. Extract.

• Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of brilliant orations by the most eminent statesmen, divines, etc. of Great Britain of the last four centuries: with biographical and critical notices and index. London: W.P. Nimmo, 1877. 544 pp., [1] leaf of plates: ports.; 23 cm.
  Opening and Biographical Notices
  • Isaac Barrow
  • Thomas Chalmers
  • Charles Dickens
  • Phillip Doddridge
  • John Donne
  • John Eliot
  • Lord Erskine
  • Joseph Hall
  • Richard Hooker
  • Edward Irving
  • John Knox
  • Hugh Latimer
  • Norman MacLeod
  • Charles Spurgeon
  • Dean Stanley
  • Jonathan Swift
  • John Tilotson
  • John Wesley

Clergyman. Read more about Cogswell here.

• A Treatise on the Necessity of Capital Punishment. Hartford [Conn.], 1843. 58 pp.

Boston clergyman. Read more about Colman here.

• Ebenezer Turell.The Life and Character of the Reverend Benjamin Colman, D.D.: late Pastor of a church in Boston New-England, who deceased August 29th 1747. Boston, 1749. 256 pp.
• Government the Pillar of the earth: A Sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, before His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; captain general and commander in chief, &c. August 13th 1730.
• Government the Pillar of the Earth: A Sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, before His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq, captain general and Commander in Chief, &c. Boston, in New-England, 1730. 21 pp.

  3. Are rulers the pillars of the earth; are they the Lord's? And has He set the world upon them? Let all that are in public offices consider their obligations to be PILLARS in the places wherein Providence has set them.

  Let rulers consider what they owe to God, who has reared and set them up, and to the public which God has set upon them. Let them seek wisdom and strength, grace and conduct from God, that they may answer the title given them in my text. Let them stand and bear and act for God, whose they are and who has set them where they are. Let the public good be their just care, that it may be seen that God has set the world in their hearts as well as laid it on their shoulders. Let them act uprightly, that they may stand secure and strong. Let them fear God and rule by His Word, that they may be approved by God and accepted always by men with all thankfulness.

  As government is the pillar of the earth, so religion is the pillar of government. Take away the fear of God's government and judgment, and human rule utterly falls or corrupts into tyranny. But if religion rules in the hearts and lives of rulers, God will have glory, and the people be made happy.

  FATHERS of our country, let me freely say to you that the devotion and virtue [morality] of our humble, but illustrious ancestors (the first planters [settlers] of New England), laid the foundation of our greatness among the provinces: And it is this that must continue and establish it under the Divine favor and blessing. Emulate their piety and godliness and generous regards to the public, and be acknowledged the pillars, the strength and ornament of your country!

• Dr. Benjamin Colman, Christ Standing for an Ensign of the People (1738).
• Christ standing for an ensign of the people: A Sermon preached at the Honourable and Ancient Artillery Company in Boston, June 5. 1738. Boston, 1738. 35 pp.
• The Credibility of the Christian doctrine of the resurrection: A Sermon preached (in part) at the publick lecture in Boston, July 24th 1729. Boston, 1729. 36 pp.
• The Government & improvement of mirth according to the laws of Christianity: In three sermons. I. Of civil & natural II. Of carnal & vicious mirth III. Of spiritual & holy joy.
• A Devout Contemplation on the meaning of Divine Providence, in the early death of pious and lovely children . Preached upon the sudden and and lamented death of Mrs. Elizabeth Wainwright. Who departed this life, April the 8th. 1714. Having just compleated [sic] the fourteenth year of her age. Boston, 1714. 35 pp.
• A Brief dissertation on the three first chapters of Genesis. Giving some of the evident signatures of the inspiration of God in those first pages. Boston, 1735. 65 pp.
• The Rending of the vail of the temple at the crucifixion of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. Consider'd in a sacramental discourse had in Boston. The second edition. Boston [Mass.], 1722. 32 pp.
• The Fast which God hath chosen: A Sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, March 21, 1734, preparatory to an appointed day of publick fasting. Boston, 1734. 25 pp.
• The Religious Regards we owe to our country and the blessings of heaven assured thereunto: A Sermon preached before His Excellency Samuel Shute, Boston, 1718. 62 pp.
• A Sermon preach'd at Boston in New-England on Thursday the 23d. of August. 1716. Being the day of publick thanksgiving, for the suppression of the late vile and traiterous rebellion in Great Britain. Boston, 1716. 27 pp.
• A Sermon preach'd at the ordination of Mr. William Cooper, in Boston, N.E. May 23, 1716. By Benjamin Colman. Boston, 1716. 66 pp.

Modern apologist. Read more about Colson here.

• "Three Died that Day".
  Through his specifically Christian writings, Lewis used logic to explore the meaning of Christianity. In Mere Christianity--which played a decisive role in my conversion to Christ--Lewis cogently explains in simple language original sin, the transcendent Creator God, and the transforming work of Jesus Christ.
  ... In 1973, in the midst of the Watergate crisis, I visited the home of a friend who read to me from Mere Christianity. In that book, I encountered a formidable intellect and a logical argument that I found utterly persuasive. That night in the driveway of my friend's home I called out to God in a flood of tears and surrendered my life to Christ.
  Since November 1963, the years have diminished both John Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. Later disclosures about Kennedy's habitual immorality have diminished his place in history. Toward the end of his life, Huxley retreated into drugs. He urged his followers, "Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma."
  By contrast, Lewis offered a muscular faith. "In Christ," he said, "a new kind of man appeared; and the new kind of life which began in Him is to be put into us."

  "God," he contended, "cannot give us peace and happiness apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
  Today, because of Lewis, there are millions of readers like me who can attest that they too have found God. And Lewis's influence in the marketplace of ideas spreads daily. Of him it can be truly said: "Now he belongs to the ages."

• "God vs. Darwin".
• "The Problem of Ethics"

American clergyman. Learn more about Colton here.

• History and character of American revivals of religion. London: F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1832. 294 pp. Also here.
• Tour of the American lakes and among the Indians of the North-West territory in 1830: disclosing the character and prospects of the Indian race. London: 1833. Volume 1 of 2. 347 pp. Volume 2 of 2. 393 pp.
• Manual for Emigrants to America. London: 1832. 213 pp.
  "Those, who do not respect the Christian religion, in its own proper garb, and in the legitimate administration of its ordinances, will be little welcome, and find little sympathy in the United States. Christianity there has found its own proper basis in the respect and affections of the respectable portion of the community -- and the enemyof the country, and will in vain assert his claims to respect and confidence, so long as such is known to be his character. And the Christian religion is every day acquiring a stronger hold on the mind of the American public; -- and he who does not like such an atmosphere may be warned before-hand to keep away. He will not be esteemed an acquisition to American society.
  "In a word--he, who loves liberty without licentiousness--who indulges reasonable and chastened expectations--who is as willing to be industrious, as he is to be rich--whose virtue is equal to his desire of respectability--and who is resolved to maintain a good conscience in the sight of God, as well as of man--such a person, from whatever part of the world, would be welcomed in the United States,--and would be likely to prosper and be happy there. And so far as the Author is concerned, he can neither desire, nor recommend any others to go."

American surgeon and writer. Learn about Comstock here.

• Outlines of Geology: intended as a popular treatise on the most interesting parts of the science. Together with an examination of the question, whether the days of creation were indefinite periods. Designed for the use of schools of general readers. Third edition. New York, Robinson, Pratt, & Co., 1836. 384 pp. illus. 18 cm.
• Elements of Geology: Including Fossil Botany and Palaeontology: a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science: Designed for the Use of Schools and General Readers. Published by Pratt, Woodford, 1847. 432 pp.
• A History of the Precious Metals, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time: With Directions for Testing Their Purity, and Statements of Their Comparative Value, Estimated Cost, and Amount at Different Periods; Together with an Account of the Products of Various Mines; a History of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Companies. Published by Belknap and Hamersley, 1849. 222 pp.
• Elements of Chemistry: In which the Recent Discoveries in the Science are Included and Its Doctrines Familiarly Explained: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings and Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies. Published by D. F. Robinson, 1832. 356 pp.
  "The discovery of the laws of definite proportions is one of the most important and wonderful among the great and brilliant achievements of modern chemistry. It is sufficient of itself to convince any reasoning mind, that order and system pervade the universe, and that the minutest atoms of matter, and the vast orbs that move round the heavens are equally under the control of the invariable laws of the creator." --p. 84.

  "And it is earnestly recommended to the pupil, that he should not only regard this subject as one of great importance in a scientific relation, but also, when viewed in a different light, as one that tends directly to impress the mind with the mosfserious conviction, that nothing in nature has been left to chance, but that the Almighty Creator has left a witness of himself, even in the proportions, and arrangement of the atoms of matter. Nothing, perhaps, even the sublimest works of nature, are more calculated to elicit the wonder and astonishment of a reflecting mind, than the fact that substances combine with each other in exact, and definite quantities, and that these quantities or proportions, are the same in relation to the same substance throughout the world, and have been so ever since the creation. This discovery may be considered as a new proof, directed expressly to the present age, that the most minute works of what we call nature, do indeed bear the most indubitable marks of divine agency and design." --p. 114.

George Goodwin (1757-1844), publisher. Published in Hartford, Connecticut, Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. Vol. 27, no. 1365 (Mar. 21, 1791)-v. 109, no. 542,085 (Jan. 3, 1874) ; v. 109, no. 2 (Jan. 10, 1874)-v. 149, no. 86 (Oct. 29, 1914).; v. ; 45-51 cm.

• Philadelphia in Congress, July 4, 1776, A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, July 15, 1776, p. 2.
  • Richard Price. Of the Importance of the Revolution which has Established the Independence of the United States. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, January 25, 1785, pp. 2-3.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of the means of Promoting Human Improvement and Happiness in the United States. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, February 1, 1785, p. 2.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of Peace, and the Means of Perpetuating It. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, February 8, 1785, pp. 1-2.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of Liberty of Discussion. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, February 15, 1785, pp. 1-2.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of Liberty of Conscience, and Civil Establishment of Religion. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, February 22, 1785, pp. 1-2.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of Education. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, March 1, 1785, pp. 1-2, 4.
  • Richard Price. Dr. Price's Observations, continued. Of Trade, Banks, and Paper Credit; Of OATHS Of the Negro Trade and Slavery CONCLUSION. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, March 8, 1785, pp. 1-2.
• New Haven, November 9; By His Excellency Matthew Grisworld, Esq., a Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, November 14, 1785, p. 3.
• To George Washington. Letter exchange between Samuel Huntington and George Washington. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, October 26, 1789, p. 2.
• Address of the Committee of the United Baptist Churches, in Virginia, Assembled in the City of Richmond, August 8, 1789, to the PResident of the United States of America. With response by George Washington. Also, "On Religion" from Rudiments of Taste. The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, November 8, 1790, p. 3.
• By His Excellency Samuel Huntington, Esquire, A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, March 14, 1791, p. 3.
• By His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Esq., a Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, v. 31, November 14, 1796, p. 1.
• By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, November 5, 1798, p. 3.
• By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, October 26, 1801, p. 3.
• From the National Intelligencer; Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States. Also, "From the Centinel" and "Paine's Piety," essays critical of Paine, plus other mentions of Paine on the page. The Connecticut Courant, December 1, 1802, p. 2.
• By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, March 5, 1806, p. 3. Also, "District of Connecticut" article acknowledging Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.
• Biographical Sketch of the Character of Governor Trumbull, By His Excellency John Treadwell, Esq. A Proclamation, By His Excellency Christopher Gore, Governor and Commander in Chief, A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, November 1, 1809, p. 2.
• Love of Country, n. II. The Tendency of Christianity in Favour of Equal Rights, and to Generate an Enlightened and Genuine Patriotism. The Connecticut Courant, August 11, 1818, p. 2.
  Also "Extract, From 'A Series of Letters on the Establishment of the Worship of the Deity as Essential to National Happiness, Published in 1789" republished from the Salem Gazette, and "At a Meeting of the Baptist Society in Hartford, and Others Friendly to Civil and Religious Freedom, Holden by Adjournment, 4th August, 1818," by Benjamin Fowler, Moderator and Jeremiah Brown, Clerk; and "To the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Now in Session" by Oliver Ellsworth.
  
• By His Excellency John Treadwell, Esquire, A Proclamation. The Connecticut Courant, March 21, 1810.
• Connecticut Bible Society. The Connecticut Courant, January 30, 1811, p. 2.
• Address of the Corresponding Committee to the Agents and Members of the Bible Society. Connecticut Courant, October 11, 1814, p. 1.
• Religious Intelligence: Conversion to Christianity of an eminent Priest of Budhu. The Connecticut Courant, v. 51. January 9, 1816, pp. 1-2.

Atmospheric chemist. Learn more about Cooke here.

• Religion and Chemistry; or, Proofs of God's plan in the atmosphere and its elements. Ten lectures delivered at the Brooklyn institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the Graham foundation. New York: C. Scribner, 1865.

Clergyman.

• The True Principles of Civil Government. A Sermon Preached at Cambridge, in the Audience of His Honor Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief; The Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 30th, 1770. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Said Province. (Boston: Edes and Gill, Printers to the Honorable House of Representatives, 1770).

  " From this [2 Sam. 23:3, 4] and many other passages in the sacred oracles, it is evident that the Supreme Ruler, though he has directed to no particular mode of civil government, yet allows and approves of the establishment of it among men. "The ends of civil government, in divine revelation, are clearly pointed out, the character of rulers described, and the duty of subjects asserted and explained; and in this view civil government may be considered as an ordinance of God, and, when justly exercised, greatly subservient to the glorious purposes of divine providence and grace: but the particular form is left to the choice and determination of mankind."

American President. Read more about President Coolidge here and here.

• Inaugural Address of President Coolidge March 4, 1925. "America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."
• Authority and Religious Liberty. Address delivered to the Holy Name Society, Washington, D. C. September 21, 1924.
• Presidential speech in Philadelphia commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926. Also here (scroll half-way down the page). Also published in San Antonio Express, July 6, 1926.
  "We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the fourth day of July. Whatever may have been the impression created by the news which went out from this city on that summer day in 1776, there can be no doubt as to the estimate which is now placed upon it. At the end of 150 years the four corners of the earth unite in coming to Philadelphia as to a holy shrine in grateful acknowledgement of a service so great, which a few inspired men here rendered to humanity, that it is still the preeminent support of free government throughout the world.
  ... "About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
  "In the development of its institutions America can fairly claim that it has remained true to the principles which were declared 150 years ago. In all the essentials we have achieved an equality which was never possessed by any other people. Even in the less important matter of material possessions we have secured a wider and wider distribution of wealth. The rights of the individual are held sacred and protected by constitutional guaranties, which even the Government itself is bound not to violate. If there is any one thing among us that is established beyond question, it is self-government--the right of the people to rule. If there is any failure in respect to any of these principles, it is because there is a failure on the part of individuals to observe them. We hold that the duly authorized expression of the will of the people has a divine sanction. But even in that we come back to the theory of John Wise that 'Democracy is Christ's government.' The ultimate sanction of law rests on the righteous authority of the Almighty."
• Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC, October 15th, 1924. "Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness, the other rests on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism. The history of government on this earth has been almost entirely a history of the rule of force held in the hands of a few. Under our constitution, America committed itself to the practical application of the rule of reason, with the power held in the hands of the people."
• Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum.
• Supplement to the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Covering the Second Administration of Calvin Coolidge, March 4, 1925 to March 4, 1929. New York: Bureau of National Literature. Extracts.

Pastor of Brattle Street Church in Boston. Read about Cooper here

• The Crisis: [One line of Latin quotation] [Boston ? : s.n.], Printed in June 1754. 15, [1] pp.; 19 cm. (8vo)
  • The Crisis: Or, a full defence of the colonies. In which it is incontestibly proved that the British constitution has been flagrantly violated in the late Stamp Act, and rendered indisputably evident, that the mother country cannot lay any arbitrary tax upon the Americans, without destroying the essence of her own liberties. London: printed for W. Griffin, 1766. [2], 30 pp.; 8^(0)
• The Necessity and Duty of the early instruction of children, in the Christian religion, evinced, and enforced: in a sermon, preached in the parish church of Great Yarmouth, on Sunday, June the 20th, 1790; ... By Samuel Cooper, D.D. Yarmouth: printed by Downes and March; and sold by Messrs. Robinsons, and Becket, London, 1790. [2],23,[3]pp. ; 4^(0)
• A Sermon preached in the audience of His Honour Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant governor and commander in chief; the Honourable His Majesty's Council; and the Honourable House of Representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 26th. 1756. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the said province. By Samuel Cooper, A.M. Pastor of the church in Brattle-Street, Boston. Boston; New-England: Printed by Green and Russell, by order of the Honourable House of Representatives, M.DCC.LVI. [1756] 43, [1] pp.; 22 cm. (8vo)
• A Sermon preached in Boston, New-England, before the Society for Encouraging Industry, and Employing the Poor; August 8. 1753. By Samuel Cooper, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, for D. Henchman, 1753. [1], 38 pp.
• Erroneous opinions concerning providence refuted, - the true notion stated, - and illustrated by the events which have lately happened to this nation: in a sermon, preached in the parish church of Great Yarmouth, on Friday February the 8th, 1782, being the day appointed for a general fast; and published by request.(To which, are added notes.) By Samuel Cooper, D.D. Yarmouth: printed by J. March, for the benefit of the Charity School, and sold by Eaton and Boulter, and all the book-sellers in Norfolk and Suffolk; Merrill, at Cambridge; Becket and Cadell, J. Fiske, and S. Crowder, London, 1782. [2],iv, 24,[2] pp.; 4^(0)
• The First Principles of civil and ecclesiastical government, delineated (in two parts,) in letters to Dr. Priestley, occasioned by his to Mr. Burke. By Samuel Cooper, D. D. Minister of Great Yarmouth. Yarmouth, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]. 280 pp.
• The Consistency of man's free-agency, with God's Fore-Knowledge in the Government of the World, proved and illustrated: in a discourse, preached in the parish church of Great Yarmouth, on Thursday, April the 23d, 1789; being the day of general thanksgiving, for His Majesty's happy recovery. By Samuel Cooper, D.D. Yarmouth, M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]. 29 pp.
• The Necessity and truth of the three principal revelations demonstrated from the gradations of science, and the progress of the mental faculties, in a sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, June XXIX, M.DCC.LXXVII. By Samuel Cooper, D. D. Formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, now rector of Morley and Yelverton in Norfolk, and Chaplain to the King's own regiment of dragoons. Cambridge, M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]. 26 pp.
• Consolation to the mourner, and instruction both to youth and old age, from the early death of the righteous: in two discourses by Samuel Cooper. Yarmouth, 1786. 184 pp.
• A Sermon preached before His Excellency John Hancock, Esq; governour, the Honourable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780. 59 pp.
• William Allen. Biographies of William Cooper and His Son Samuel Cooper (includes William Cooper's Preface to Jonathan Edwards' Work The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God which describes the Great Awakening). From American Biographical and Historical Dictionary [...] and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and the United States (William Hilliard, 1809), pp. 223-226 (slightly edited and abridged).

English chartist and writer. (TM): There is a standard image of the 19th century as the era when educated Christians lost their faith. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892), a self-educated cobbler with a prodigous thirst for knowledge, was one of those Christians; having been prepared for the Methodist ministry as a young man, he read David Strauss's Life of Jesus and became a "freethinker." But a few decades later, he rethought the objections that had caused him to abandon Christianity and returned to the faith. Cooper spent the last three decades of his life traveling the length and breadth of England and Scotland giving lectures and preaching sermons--by Timothy Larsen's count, 4,292 lectures and 2,568 sermons in 545 different cities, towns, or other distinct localities from Inverness to Jersey--in defense of Christianity.
... The story of Cooper's loss of faith and his subsequent reconversion is well told both in Cooper's own autobiography, The Life of Thomas Cooper (1871; 4th ed. 1873), and in Timothy Larsen's important historical study Crisis of Doubt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Read more about Cooper here.

• The Bridge of history over the gulf of time: A Popular view of the historical evidence for the truth of Christianity. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. vii, 162 pp.; 17 cm.
  (TM): The Bridge of History over the Gulf of Time is a work born from those lectures, and it gives a good sense of Cooper's lively lecture style, aimed at holding the attention of the working man. Cooper takes his audience on an idiosyncratic and entertaining tour, century by century, moving back from the nineteenth century to the first. Though he stops frequently to explore interesting byways, he always comes back to the main path with one question in mind: where did Christianity come from? Though the lectures are not deeply scholarly, they reveal Cooper's intimate familiarity with the objections to Christian belief that he himself once thought decisive. In the opening paragraphs he expresses his hope that those who read his "light thoughts" may be motivated to take up a deeper study of the evidences for Christianity in the more scholarly works of Lardner, Paley, Horne, and Westcott.
• The Life of Thomas Cooper. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1872. viii, 400 pp. illus. 19 cm.
• The Verity of Christ's Resurrection from the Dead. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1875.
  "I do not imagine, or expect, that I can win over, at once, to Christianity, the minds of sceptical workingmen, who may be listening to me. I know too well, by personal experience, how hard it is to part with sceptical convictions--how difficult it is to bring a mind, which has become strongly warped in the direction of unbelief, to enter upon a determined, steady, and persevering consideration of the Christian Evidences. And without this--without an earnest and devoted study of Christian Evidences--no thinking skeptic (for I am not addressing vulgar scoffers) can ever become a real Christian.

  "I seek no flighty converts from your ranks--no sudden passing over to our side from yours, of some hot, excitable partisan, who is incapable of thinking. I seek to lead you to accept what I believe to be Truth, by inducing you to practise the daily reflection, the steady conning over and over again of each item of the Christian Evidences, which effectually cured my doubts, and rendered me a settled and grateful believer. I would not lift up my finger, or stir a straw, to make a sudden and spasmodic conversion of any one of you, which would leave you helpless in your new belief, and incapable of giving a reason of the hope within you. Such a convert would be a very useless one. I want to enlist real soldiers for my Master."--pp. 131-32.

Clergyman. Read more about Cooper here.

• The Honours of Christ demanded of the Magistrate: A sermon preach'd in the audience of His Excellency the governour, the honourable the Council and Representatives, of the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, May 28. 1740. The day for the election of His Majesty's Council there. / By William Cooper, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston.; [Two lines from John] Boston: N.E. : Printed by J. Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council, for J. Edwards and H. Foster, in Cornhil, 1740. 55 pp.
• Christ the true messiah. A sermon, preached, at Sion-Chapel, Whitechapel, to God's ancient Israel, the Jews, on Sunday, August 28, 1796. The second edition. [London], 1796. 36 pp.
• Daniel's seventy weeks. A sermon preached at Sion-Chapel, on Sunday afternoon, September 18, 1796, to the Jews. The fourth edition. London, 1798. 32 pp.
• The Genuine and correct sermon, as preached to the ancient people of God, the Jews, at Sion Chapel, Union Street, Whitechapel. London, 1796. 31 pp.
• The Promised seed. A Sermon, preached to God's ancient Israel, the Jews, at Sion-Chapel, Whitechapel, on Sunday afternoon, August 28, 1796. The fourth edition. London, [1796?]. 41 pp.
• The Wisdom and necessity of the Mosaic revelation, a sermon preached at the cathedral church of York, June 20, 1772. Cambridge, 1773. 14 pp.

Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. He is currently a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics. Read about Dr. Copan here and at his website.

• Did New Testament Writers Misquote the Old Testament?
• "'My Genes Made Me Do It': Is Ethics Based on Biological Evolution?."
• "'The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number'? Assessing Utilitarianism."
• "'It's All Relative' and Other Such Absolute Statements: Assessing Relativism." Published in Enrichment Journal (Winter 2014): 24-29.
• "Is It Wrong To Believe Without Evidence?." Published in Enrichment Journal.
• "Atheism and the Burden of Proof." Published in Enrichment Journal.
• "Did the New Testament Writers Misquote the Old Testament?." Published in Enrichment Journal.
• "Why the World Is Not Religiously Ambiguous" in a newly published book edited by Robert Stewart, Can Only One Religion Be True? Published by Fortress Press.
• "If God's Creation Was 'Very Good,' How Could Evil Arise?".
• "Is Religious Belief Just a Brain Function?"
• "A Roundtable Discussion with Michael Licona on the Resurrection of Jesus," Southeastern Theological Review 3/1 (2012). Posted by permission.
• "Is the Old Testament God Evil?"
• "Is God Just a Psychological Crutch for the Weak?"
• "Evil and Justice" - a talk given at Boston College Law School (March 19, 2012)?
• If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?
• Questioning Presuppositionalism
• Is Naturalism a Simpler Explanation Than Theism?
• Why Is the New Testament Silent on Slavery - or Is It?
• Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery (Part 2)?
• Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?
• Hateful Vindictive Psalms? Interpreting the Imprecatory Psalms
• What the Bible Doesn't Say About Sex
• "How Could God Command the Killing of the Canaanites?" Enrichment Journal (Fall 2010): 138-43.
• With William Lane Craig. "Trajectories in Philosophy and Apologetics".
• "Are Old Testament Laws Evil?" from God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible, eds. William Lane Craig and Chad V. Meister. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. Posted by permission.
• "Is God Arrogant and Egotistical?" Chapel message at Columbia International University, Columbia, SC, April 2009.
• "If You Cannot Scientifically Prove Your Belief, Is It Meaningless?" Enrichment Journal (Spring 2010).
• "The Christian and Homosexuality"
• "Does Religion Originate in the Brain?"
• "Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites: Divinely-Mandated Genocide or Corporate Capital Punishment?"
• "Is the Trinity a Logical Blunder? God as Three and One." Published in Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, eds., Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering the New Atheists and Other Objectors. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2009. Posted by permission.
• "Did God Become a Jew? A Defense of the Incarnation." Published in Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, eds., Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering the New Atheists and Other Objectors. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2009. Posted by permission.
• "What's Wrong With Gay Marriage?" Chapter 10 of Paul Copan's new book When God Goes to Starbucks: A Guide to Everyday Apologetics. Posted by permission of Baker Books, copyright © 2008.
• "How Do You Know You're Not Wrong?" A Response to Skepticism. This essay was published in the Oct.-Dec. 2008 issue of Engage Journal (India).
• “Following a Unique Christ in a Pluralistic Society".
• "God-The Best Explanation" taken from Loving Wisdom: Christian Philosophy of Religion.
• "Comments and Questions on Evil and the Justice of God" A Friendly Response to N. T. Wright Permission has been granted by the editorial office of Philosophia Christi to post this contribution. Subscribe to Philosophia Christi.
• “Rediscovering Apologetics"
• "God, Naturalism, and the Foundations of Morality," in The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue, ed. Robert Stewart. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. Posted with permission from Fortress Press.
• Why Science Can't Explain Morality a book review of The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule, by Michael Shermer.
• “Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? The New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics” Philosophia Christ New Series 10 (2008): 7-27. Posted with permission from Philosophia Christi.
• “Apologist: Objective moral values evidence of God's existence” an interview by Marilyn Stewart.
• “Divine Narcissism? A Further Defense of God's Humility” Published in Philosophia Christi New Series 8 (January 2006): 313-325. Posted by permission.
• “The Necessity of God: A Book Review of The Impossibility of God”
• “Creation ex Nihilo or ex Materia?” A Critique of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation by Paul Copan. Published in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9/2 (Summer 2005): 32-54. Posted with permission.
• “That's True for You, But Not for Me"” A Brief Response to Relativism.
• “You Christians Are So Narrow-minded!” A Brief Response to the Charge of Intolerance.
• “If You Were Born in India, You Would Be a Hindu” A Brief Response to Religious Pluralism.
• “God Can't Possibly Exist Given the Evil and Pain I See in the World!"” A Brief Response to the Problem of Evil.
• Postmodernism: "What Is Postmodernism?"
• "What Is Wrong (and Right) With Postmodernism?".
• “The Moral Argument for God's Existence”.
• “The Days of Genesis: An Old-Earth View” Paul Copan (Written in dialogue with Dr. John MacArthur, who takes the young-earth view). Areopagus Journal 5/2 (March-April 2005): 15, 17, 19. Posted with permission from Areopagus Journal.
• Morality and Meaning Without God: Another Failed Attempt ” A Review Essay on Atheism, Morality, and Meaning Published in
• Philosophia Christi New Series 6/2 (2004): 295-304. Posted by permission.
• ” Christophobia: Confronting the Problem of Religious Discrimination on Campus.
• "Original Sin and Christian Philosophy" Published in Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 5/2 (2003): 519-41 Posted by permission.
• "Whose Land?." Having coedited Who Was Jesus? A Jewish Christian Dialogue, I was asked to contribute to the discussion on the conflict in the Middle East in the *Baptist Standard*. I offer the perspective that the Jewish-Gentile Christian church in Jesus Christ is the new Israel, the people of God. As I weigh Scripture, I myself do not see a political future for national Israel; rather, any theologically significant future for individual ethnic Jews is bound up with their incorporation into the church.
• "Who Are You to Judge Others?." In Defense of Making Moral Judgments
• "St. Augustine and the Scandal of the North African Catholic Mind."
• "The Presumptuousness of Atheism."
• "Can Michael Martin Be A Moral Realist?: Sic et Non," Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 1/2 (1999): 45-72. Posted by Permission.
• Jesus, Religions, and Just War. CDC Panel Discussion.
• "Jesus' Followers Fabricated the Stories and Sayings of Jesus"
• Jonathan Edwards' Philosophical Influences: Lockean Or Malebranchean?

Co-edited with Tremper Longman III, Christopher L. Reese, Michael Strauss. Dictionary of Christianity and Science, The Definitive Reference for the Intersection of Christian Faith and Contemporary Science. Zondervan, April 25, 2017, 704 pp.
"Quick Overview: The relationship between Christianity and science, and between competing philosophies of science, has become one the most important areas of study today. Featuring the work of over 140 scholars, the Dictionary of Christianity and Science provides a thorough introduction to this intersection between science and Christian belief."

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Cothran, Martin

Logician.

WORKS

• "Reason and imagination: G.K. Chesterton's case for Christianity with a Chesterton bibliography". Simon Greenleaf Law Review, n. 7. 1987. pp. 199-227.

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Cox, Francis Augustus (1783-1853)

Baptist minister. Read about Cox here and in The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4.

WORKS

• Female Scripture biography: Including an Essay on what Christianity has done for women. New-York: James Eastburn & Co., at the literary rooms, 1817 (New-York: Abraham Paul). 2 vol.; xii, 342; vi, lxii, 305 pp. 19 cm. Volume 2, page 68 wrongly numbered 86.
  
  • Volume 1 of 2.
  • Volume 2 of 2.
  • Volume 1 of 2. Google Books.
  • Volume 2 of 2. Google Books.
  • Volume 1 of 2. Project Gutenberg.
  • Volume 2 of 2. Project Gutenberg.

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Craig, William Lane (1949- )

American philosopher, theologian, New Testament historian, and Christian apologist. Read about Craig here and here.

WORKS

• The existence of God. Articles on natural theology, featuring defenses of the cosmological, teleological, and axiological arguments and responses to critics of those arguments.
• God's Omniscience. Articles in defense of God's being omniscient, with a focus on His foreknowledge of future contingents and middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom.
• Divine Aseity. Articles exploring God's attribute of self-existence and the challenge posed to God's unique aseity by Platonism, the view that there are mind-independent abstract objects.
• Divine Eternity. Articles exploring God's relationship to time with a view toward determining whether divine eternity should be construed timelessly or temporally.
• Christian Doctrines. Articles exploring various Christian doctrines such as the Trinity, Incarnation, Providence, and so forth.
• The Historical Jesus. Articles on Jesus of Nazareth as a historical figure, focusing on the historicity of his resurrection from the dead.
  • Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar. "In this first part of a two-part article, the presuppositions and pretentions of the Jesus Seminar are exposited and assessed. It is found that the principal presuppositions of (i) scientific naturalism, (ii) the primacy of the apocryphal gospels, and (iii) the necessity of a politically correct Jesus are unjustified and issue in a distorted portrait of the historical Jesus. Although the Jesus Seminar makes a pretention of speaking for scholarship on the quest of the historical Jesus, it is shown that in fact it is a small body of critics in pursuit of a cultural agenda."
  • Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: The Evidence for Jesus. "Five reasons are presented for thinking that critics who accept the historical credibility of the gospel accounts of Jesus do not bear a special burden of proof relative to more skeptical critics. Then the historicity of a few specific aspects of Jesus' life are addressed, including his radical self-concept as the divine Son of God, his role as a miracle-worker, his trial and crucifixion, and his resurrection from the dead."
  • Visions of Jesus: A Critical Assessment of Gerd Lüdemann's Hallucination Hypothesis. "Gerd Lüdemann's provocative hypothesis that early Christian belief in Jesus' resurrection was the product of hallucinatory experiences originally induced by guilt-complexes in Peter and Paul is assessed and contrasted with the traditional resurrection hypothesis in terms of the usual standards of hypothesis testing: explanatory power, explanatory scope, plausibility, ad hoc-ness, accord with accepted beliefs, and superiority to rival hypotheses."
  • Reply to Evan Fales: On the Empty Tomb of Jesus. From Philosophia Christi, n. 3 (2001): pp. 67-76. "Evan Fales' curious hypothesis that the gospel narratives of the empty tomb are of the genre of mythology and so were not taken to be historical accounts by either their purveyors or their recipients is critically examined. Then Fales's responses to eleven lines of evidence supporting the historicity of the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb are considered."
  • From Easter to Valentinus and the Apostles' Creed Once More; Examination of James Robinson's Proposed Resurrection Appearance Trajectories. "James Robinson argues that parallel trajectories, springing from primitive Christian experiences of post-resurrection appearances of Christ as a luminous bodily form, issued in the second-century Gnostic understanding of the appearances as unembodied radiance and in the second-century orthodox view of the appearances as non-luminous physical encounter. Examine his four arguments in support of these hypothesized trajectories and find them unconvincing. There is no reason to think that the primitive experiences always involved luminosity or that if they did, this was taken to imply non-physicality. Nor does the evidence support the view that Gnostics rejected corporal or even physical resurrection appearances of Christ."
  • The Guard at the Tomb. "Matthew's story of the guard at the tomb of Jesus is widely regarded as an apologetic legend. Although some of the reasons given in support of this judgement are not weighty, two are more serious: (1) the story is found only in Matthew, and (2) the story presupposes that Jesus predicted his resurrection and that only the Jewish leaders understood those predictions. But the absence of the story from the other gospels may be due to their lack of interest in Jewish-Christian polemics. There are no good reasons to deny that Jesus predicted his resurrection, in which case the second objection becomes basically an argument from silence. On the positive side, the historicity of the story is supported by two considerations: (1) as an apologetic, the story is not a fail-safe answer to the charge of body-snatching, and (2) a reconstruction of the history of tradition lying behind Jewish-Christian polemic makes the fictitiousness of the guard unlikely."
  • The Problem Of Miracles; Historical And Philosophical Perspective. "Modern skepticism concerning the gospel miracles first asserted itself by denying the miraculous nature of the events. Soon, however, the historicity of the events themselves was denied. Behind this skepticism lay the broad conception of a Newtonian world-machine, the arguments of Spinoza against the possibility of miracles, and the arguments of Hume against the identification of miracles. Counterpoised to these attacks were the defenses of miracles written by Le Clerc, Clarke, Less, Paley, and others. An assessment of the debate shows that, contra the Newtonian conception, miracles should not be understood as violations of the laws of nature, but as naturally impossible events. Contra Spinoza, admission of miracles would not serve to subvert natural law, and the possibility that a miracle is a result of an unknown natural law is minimized when the miracles are numerous, various, momentous, and unique. Contra Hume, it is question-begging or invalid to claim that uniform experience is against miracles."
  • The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus. "An examination of both Pauline and gospel material leads to eight lines of evidence in support of the conclusion "that Jesus's tomb was discovered empty: (1) Paul's testimony implies the historicity of the empty tomb, (2) the presence of the empty tomb pericope in the pre-Markan passion story supports its historicity, (3) the use of 'on the first day of the week' instead of 'on the third day' points to the primitiveness of the tradition, (4) the narrative is theologically unadorned and non-apologetic, (5) the discovery of the tomb by women is highly probable, (6) the investigation of the empty tomb by the disciples is historically probable, (7) it would have been impossible for the disciples to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem had the tomb not been empty, (8) the Jewish polemic presupposes the empty tomb."
  • Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. "After an appraisal of recent scholarship on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Professor William Craig contends that 'the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith - all point unavoidably to one conclusion: the resurrection of Jesus'."
  • The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. "It has been argued on the basis of Paul's testimony that Jesus's resurrection body was spiritual in the sense of being unextended, immaterial, intangible, and so forth. But neither the argument appealing to the nature of Paul's Damascus Road experience nor the argument from Paul's doctrine of the resurrection body supports such a conclusion. On the contrary, Paul's information serves to confirm the gospels' narratives of Jesus's bodily resurrection. Not only is the gospels' physicalism well- founded, but it is also, like Paul's doctrine, a nuanced physicalism."
  • The Disciples' Inspection of the Empty Tomb. "There are three alternatives concerning the relation of Luke and John's stories of the disciples' inspection of Jesus's empty tomb: (1) Luke is dependent upon John, (2) John is dependent upon Luke, or (3) Luke and John are dependent upon a common tradition. (1) is not a plausible hypothesis because in light of Luke 24:24, a later scribe borrowing from John would have had another disciple accompany Peter. (2) is not plausible in view of the non-Lukan elements in 24:12 which are characteristic of Johannine tradition. Moreover, good grounds exist for positing pre-Lukan tradition. (3) is most plausible in view of its ability to explain all the relevant data, the improbability of Luke's dependence on John, and the improbability of John's dependence on Luke."
• Christian Particularism. Articles in defense of the biblical teaching that Christ is the only way of salvation along with responses to critics of Dr. Craig's proposal.
• Popular articles.
• The Resurrection of Jesus.
• Video presentation. Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus. Published on Nov 11, 2015. Abstract: The week following Easter in 2015, Dr Craig flew to Dallas, Texas, where he spoke in a downtown bar for the Bible and Beer Consortium. This ministry holds outreach events in this large, dark Dallas bar on a regular basis. Apparently, the bar is only too happy to do so because of the large crowds the events attract. There were several hundred who came out to hear Dr Craig give a talk on the resurrection of Jesus as an event of history. It was a delightful time defending the heart of the Gospel, and Dr Craig really liked the way the BBC is taking the Gospel to where the people really are.

• Video presentation. Is the Oral Tradition Comparable to the Telephone Game? Published on Nov 20, 2015.

• Video presentation. Should We Expect More Extra-Biblical Sources For Jesus? Published on Nov 23, 2015.

• Video presentation. The Historical Achilles' Heel of Islam. Published on Feb 16, 2016.

• Video presentation. How Christianity Is Unique Among the World Religions Published on Feb 29, 2016.

• Video presentation. Given the Evidence for the Resurrection, Why Don't More Jews Believe? Published on Jan 4, 2016.

• Video presentation. Was Jesus Buried for Three Days? Published on Feb 22, 2016.

• Video presentation. How Do the Claims of Christianity Compare to the Claims of Joseph Smith? Published on Dec 4, 2015.

• Video presentation. What About Matthew's Guard Story? Published on Dec 14, 2015.

• Nathan Schneider. 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher.

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Croly, George (1780-1860)

British divine and author. Read more about Croly here.

WORKS

• A Memoir of the political life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with extracts from his writings. Volume 1. Edinburgh; (Edinburgh), 1840. 345pp. 2 vols.

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Cullen, Charles David (1951- )

American educator.

WORKS

• "C. S. Lewis and the search for rational religion". Simon Greenleaf Law Review, n. 5. 1985. pp. 206-211.
• C. S. Lewis, Christian apologist; his struggle against the secularizing effects of materialism and naturalism. Thesis (doctoral)--Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg, 1987.

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Curteis, Thomas (c. 1660-1747)

WORKS

• A Dissertation of the Unreasonableness, Folly, and Danger of Infidelity; Occasion'd by a late virulent book [by Anthony Collins], intutui'd A discourse on the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion. London, R. Wilkin, Year: 1725. 216 pp.

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Curtiss, Samuel Ives (1844-1904)

Educator. Read about Curtiss here.

WORKS

• Ingersoll and Moses: a reply, with notes and appendices. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1880, (c)1879. 118 pp.; 19 cm. OCLC: 3417001
• IN the literary columns to-day large space is given to the review of Judge Waite's new book, "History of the Christian Religion to the Year Two Hundred". From The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), Saturday, February 12, 1881; pg. 4; Issue 280; col B. Referenced by Charles Robert Morrison in The Proofs of Christ's Resurrection; From a Lawyer's Standpoint.
• A Scripture Champion; Judge Waite's "History of the Christian Religion to the Year Two Hundred". From The Daily Inter Ocean, Saturday, February 12, 1881; pg. 16; Issue 280; col A.
• Words of Wisdom; Many Were Spoken Yesterday from the Pulpits in This City; The Question, "When Were Our Gospels Written?" the Subject of a Powerful Lection by Professor Samuel Ives Curtiss at the First Congregational Church Last night.. From The Daily Inter Ocean, Monday, March 07, 1881; pg. 2; Issue 299; col G. Also, Professor {David] Swing's Sermon at Central Church Treats of the Enemies of Man; "Agnosticism" the Theme of Dr. H. W. Thomas' Discourse at the People's Church.
• Literary Life of George the Fourth -- English Men of Letters #8212; Date of Our Gospels. From The Daily Inter Ocean, Saturday, April 23, 1881; pg. 11; Issue 27; col A.
• Final Mission of the Jews; Professor Samuel Ives Curtiss' Lecture at the First Congregational Church. From The Daily Inter Ocean, Monday, September 24, 1888; pg. 6; Issue 183; col D.
• Literary Review; The Humiliation of Christ. Review from The Congregationalist. (Boston, MA), Wednesday, July 26, 1876; pg. 6; Issue 30; col A.

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Cuvier, Georges / Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert (1769-1832)

French naturalist. Read about Cuvier here, here, here, hereand at Scientists of the Christian Faith.

WORKS

• [Discours sur les revolutions. English.] Essay on the theory of the earth. With mineralogical notes, and an account of Cuvier's geological discoveries, by Professor Jameson. To which are now added, Observations on the geology of North America; illustrated by the description of various organic remains, found in that part of the world. By Samuel L. Mitchill. New York, Kirk & Mercein, 1818. xxiii, [1], [25]-43l p. VIII pl. (incl. front.) 22 cm. Also here.

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