My friend Brent Cook, BJU apologetics and worldview teacher, gave me permission to post the following list. This is what he wrote to introduce it:
Several have asked for book recommendations related to the classes I’ve taught this semester. Here is a partial list I threw together last night. (“Recommendation” does not imply endorsement of all content.) I’ve also include a general section of fun reads. —B. Cook
All of the following links go to Amazon except the ten or so which were carried by Westminster Books.
Apologetics, Science, and Worldview
- Alfred Hoerth, Archaeology and the Old Testament
- Andrew Hoffecker, Revolutions in Worldview
- Antony Flew, There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- Beauregard & O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain
- C.S. Lewis, Miracles
- C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
- David Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept
- Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great about Christianity
- Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics
- Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay
- Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
- Francis Schaeffer, Trilogy
- G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
- Gavin Hyman, A Short History of Atheism
- Geisler & Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
- James Sire, The Universe Next Door
- John Byl, The Divine Challenge
- John McRay, Archeology and the New Testament
- Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box
- Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
- N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God
- Philip Johnson, Darwin on Trial
- Robert Spencer, The Truth about Muhammad
- Roger Lewin, Bones of Contention
- Ron Horton, Mood Tides
- Ronald Numbers, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
- Ronald Numbers, The Creationists
- Thomas Woodward, Doubts about Darwin
- William Dembski, Uncommon Dissent
- Winfried Corduan, Neighboring Faiths
- Ed.: How John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God or Apologetics to the Glory of God were left off this list, I am not sure. Perhaps Dr. Cook is saying that Frame transcends this list.
Philosophy
- Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy.
- Bryan Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher
- David Fischer, Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
- Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy (8 vols.)
- Neil Postman, The End of Education
- Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
- Roger Scruton, A Short History of Modern Philosophy
- Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Church History
- Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore
- David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
- Earle Cairns, Christianity through the Centuries
- Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity
- George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards
- George Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism
- Herman Selderhuis, John Calvin
- Horton Davies, Worship and Theology in England (3 vols.)
- Joseph Pearce, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
- Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
- Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity
- Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church (8 vols.)
- Roland Bainton, Here I Stand
- Thomas Kidd, The Great Awakening
- Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church
General
- Alex Kershaw, The Envoy
- Alfred Lansing, Endurance
- Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Charles Mann, 1491
- Dan Porat, The Boy: A Holocaust Story
- David Howarth, We Die Alone
- Diana Preston, A First Rate Tragedy
- Edward Champlin, Nero
- Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers
- Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail
- Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- James Bradley, Flyboys
- James Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- Jeff Shaara, The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
- Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
- Levitt and Dubner, Freakonomics
- Mark Lee Gardner, To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett…
- Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea
- Neal Bascomb, Hunting Eichmann
- Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
- Philip Freeman, Julius Caesar
- Stanley and Danko, The Millionaire Next Door
- Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat
- Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki
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