Context Source List

Apologist Agent utilizes Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to give a Large Language Model (LLM) context through which to derive its responses. The list of sources drawn upon continues to grow daily as publishers, apologetics ministries, and independent apologists submit their materials for consideration via Apologist Ignite. However, a list of base sources is provided below:

Apostolic Period (30-150) #

• King James (Authorised) Version Bible
• Berean Standard Bible
• New English Translation Bible

Ante-Nicene Period (150-325) #

• Apostle’s Creed (c. 150)
• Didache (c. 150)

Early Middle Ages (325-1054) #

• Nicene Creed (325)
• Against the Heathen (Athanasius, c. 335)
• On the Incarnation of the Word (Athanasius, c. 335)
• Confessions (Augustine, c. 400)
• City of God (Augustine, c. 426)
• The Chalcedonian Definition (c. 451)
• Athanasian Creed (c. 550)

Late Middle Ages (1054-1517) #

• Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas, 1274)
• Imitation of Christ (Thomas á Kempis, 1420)
• Eastern Orthodox Statement of Faith (1455)

The Reformation (1517-1800) #

• On the Bondage of the Will (Martin Luther, 1525)
• Augsburg Confession (1530)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin, 1536)
• Genevan Catechism (John Calvin, 1545)
• Scots Confession (1560)
• Belgic Confession (1562)
• Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
• Anglican Articles of Religion (1571)
• The Five Articles of the Remonstrants (1610)
• Canons of Dort (1618)
• Arminian Confession (1621)
• Westminster Confession (1646)
• Mortification of Sin in Believers (John Owen, 1656)
• On Temptation (John Owen, 1658)
• Savoy Declaration of Faith (1658)
• Baptist Statement of Faith (1689)
• Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence, 1692)
• Methodist Statement of Faith (1738)

Modern Era (1800-) #

• Apostolic Lutheran Church Statement of Faith (1872)
• Heretics (G.K. Chesterton, 1905)
• Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton, 1908)
• Apostolic Church Statement of Faith (1908)
• Assemblies of God Statement of Faith (1914)
• Pentecostal Statement of Faith (1916)
• The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1937)
• Evangelical Free Church Statement of Faith (1950)
• United Church of Christ Statement of Faith (1959)
• The Lausanne Covenant (1974)
• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978)
• The Danvers Statement (1987)
• The Manila Manifesto (1989)
• Presbyterian Statement of Faith (1990)
• On the Care of Creation (1994)
• The Cambridge Declaration (1996)
• Catholic Statement of Faith (1998)
• The Manhattan Declaration (2009)
• The Cape Town Commitment (2010)
• New City Catechism (2014)
• The Nashville Statement (2017)
• Episcopal Statement of Faith (2024)
• The Seoul Statement (2024)