Milbank 2012, p. 19 "[T]he apophatic Christian apologia, out of its own internal structure, always makes room for the counter-apologetics for the quotidian ... since Christianity is not Gnosticism or Marcionism, its qualified world refusal will, even at the eschaton, allow the world a place..." Milbank, John (2012), "Foreword: An apologia for apologetics", in Davison, Andrew (ed.), Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition, Baker Books, p. 19, ISBN9781441238771
Alexander 1999, p. 24 "...Luke-Acts contains too many counter-apologetic features to impress a Roman reader ... and therefore proposes a reverse reading of the narrative as an apologia pro imperio: it embodies a pro-Roman perspective to a church harboring anti-Roman sentiment..." Alexander, Loveday (1999), "The Acts of the Apostles", in Mark J. Edwards; Martin Goodman; Simon Price; Chris Rowland (eds.), Apologetics in the Roman Empire : Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Clarendon Press, ISBN9780191544378
