The Literary Apologetic

The primary text behind everything on this site. Available in every major translation through Bible Gateway, and in print through any library or bookstore. The translations listed here represent the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions.

Protestant

English Standard Version

ESV — 2001

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Protestant

King James Version

KJV — 1611

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Protestant

New International Version

NIV — 1978

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Catholic

New American Bible Revised

NABRE — 2011

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Catholic

Douay-Rheims Bible

DRB — 1610

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Orthodox

Orthodox Study Bible

OSB — 2008

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George MacDonald

Most of MacDonald's work is in the public domain and freely available through Project Gutenberg and Open Library.

Phantastes 1858
The Princess and the Goblin 1872
Lilith 1895
The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture 1867

G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton's major works are in the public domain. Gutenberg has excellent editions of Orthodoxy and Heretics.

Heretics 1905
Orthodoxy 1908
The Man Who Was Thursday 1908
The Everlasting Man 1925
Charles Dickens 1906

C.S. Lewis

Lewis's works remain under copyright. Find them through your library via WorldCat or Open Library's lending program.

Mere Christianity 1952
The Screwtape Letters 1942
That Hideous Strength 1945
Surprised by Joy 1955
Till We Have Faces 1956
An Experiment in Criticism 1961

Dorothy L. Sayers

Sayers's theological essays and some fiction are available through Open Library's lending program.

The Mind of the Maker 1941
Creed or Chaos? 1947
Gaudy Night 1935

Charles Williams

Some of Williams's novels are available through Open Library. The Descent of the Dove is his most accessible theological work.

Descent into Hell 1937
The Descent of the Dove 1939
He Came Down from Heaven 1938

H.G. Wells

Wells's major fiction is in the public domain. All of it is freely available through Project Gutenberg.

The Time Machine 1895
The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896
The Invisible Man 1897
The War of the Worlds 1898
The New Machiavelli 1911

Peter Kreeft

Orthodoxy (ed. Kreeft) 1908/1994
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas 1988
The Philosophy of Tolkien 2005
How to Think: A Survival Guide 1994

Alan Jacobs

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis 2005
How to Think 2017
Breaking Bread with the Dead 2020
The Year of Our Lord 1943 2018

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead 2004
The Death of Adam 1998
Absence of Mind 2010

Ron Hansen

Mariette in Ecstasy 1991
Atticus 1996
A Stay Against Confusion 2001

Eudora Welty

The Golden Apples 1949
The Optimist's Daughter 1972
The Eye of the Story 1978
One Writer's Beginnings 1984

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man 1952
Shadow and Act 1964

Richard Matheson

The Shrinking Man 1956
I Am Legend 1954
What Dreams May Come 1978