About

What this is, who it's for, and how it was built.

What this is

Apologia is a scholarly, source-grounded library of apologetics debates. Each poster presents one debate — with two or more competing views, each steelmanned by a scholar holding that position, each claim traceable to a primary source.

It is a Karpathy-style LLM wiki: a plain-markdown knowledge base that is compiled — not retrieved at query-time — into durable, human-readable prose. The site you are reading is a projection of that wiki.

Who it's for

• Seekers — considering whether Christianity is true and wanting to hear the strongest case and its strongest critics.
• Skeptics — wanting to see if Christian philosophers are engaging the real objections or strawmen.
• Pastors, teachers, and students — preparing sermons, lectures, or essays that need sound sourcing.
• Researchers — as a starting map of the literature on any apologetics question.

What it's not

This is not a tract, a devotional, or a marketing site. There is no call to convert, no testimony, no altar call. The tone is that of a research library: sober, scholarly, and allergic to shortcuts.

Who built it

Jason Goldberg, working with Claude (Anthropic's LLM) inside Claude Code. The wiki's architecture, citation discipline, and editorial stance are human-authored; content synthesis is LLM-assisted under strict source-grounding rules. Every citation in a poster points at a file in the underlying corpus; none are invented.

See also

• Methodology — how views are selected, how citations are verified, how steelmanning is enforced.
• Debates — browse the debates.