📚 Apologetics

Books with apologetics on their catalogue record, first published between 1440 and 2000, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject apologetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 16,247 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Orthodoxy	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1874	551
	Pensées	Blaise Pascal	1670	395
	The Everlasting Man	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1925	122
	De civitate Dei	Augustine of Hippo	1440	109
	Mere Christianity	C. S. Lewis	1943	109
	Lucile	Robert Bulwer Lytton	1800	101
	De veritate religionis Christianae	Hugo Grotius	1631	71
	Summa contra gentiles	Thomas Aquinas	1475	53
	Octavius	Marcus Minucius Felix	1631	53
	Theologiae verè Christianae apologia	Robert Barclay	1676	46
	A view of the evidences of Christianity	William Paley	1794	41
	Le drame de l’humanisme athée	Henri de Lubac	1945	33
	The evidences of the Christian religion	Joseph Addison	1730	32
	Attack upon "Christendom"	Søren Kierkegaard	1944	31
	The Case for Faith - A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity	Lee Strobel	2000	28
	Discussions and arguments on various subjects	John Henry Newman	1872	24
	The Weight of Glory	C. S. Lewis	1942	18
	The faith of our fathers	Gibbons, James, 1834-1921	1884	17
	The gospel for an age of doubt	Henry van Dyke	1896	15
	Objections to Roman Catholicism	Michael De La Bedoyère	1964	15
	In Soft Garments	Ronald Arbuthnott Knox	1941	13
	The Hidden Stream	Ronald Arbuthnott Knox	1952	12
	Know why you believe	Little, Paul E.	1967	12
	A Handbook of Christian Apologetics	Alfred Ernest Garvie	1913	9
	Know the truth	Bruce Milne	1982	9
	The return to religion	Henry C. Link	1936	8
	Christian apologetics	Richardson, Alan	1947	8
	Know What You Believe	Paul E. Little	1970	8
	More Than a Carpenter	Josh McDowell	1977	8
	Honest to God	John A. T. Robinson	1963	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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