In dealing with arguments against the Christian faith in his book The Philosophy of Religion, Bavinck uses a series of argumentative strategies. One of these strategies is the apologetics of despair. This study tries to figure out whether this strategy tends to be observed in most essays of the book or its use is only circumstantial. Bavinck does not reject at once and for all the ideas that may be detrimental to the faith, but instead, he engages with them in order to discover if they can offer some truth worth noting. In this respect, in the three essays discussed …