These are perhaps my favorite defences of the faith: Jewel's Apology of the Church of England http://anglicanhistory.org/jewel/apology/ John of Damascus' Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith http://www.orthodox.net/fathers/exactidx.html Do any of you have defences near to your heart? If so please share them.
Jewell's Apologia was the first reason & catalyst for my movement to the Anglican Communion. Thanks for posting it! Here is Cranmer's Defence of the theology of a "spiritual" Real Presence in the Holy Communion. There are several "Vindication"s as well as "Defences" and "Apologies" for the Anglican Faith, from the 17th & 18th centuries. One of my favourites is "Evangelical and Catholick Unity, maintained in the Church of England" by William Saywell. I loved the work by A.P. Perceval, a chaplain to the King in the 1830s, writing an Apologia of Apostolic Succession.
Saint Justin the Philosopher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Apology (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Apology_of_Justin_Martyr (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0127.htm) Origen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_Celsum (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0416.htm) Eusebius of Caesarea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praeparatio_Evangelica (http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_de_03_book1.htm)