Christian History Book Recommendations

Michael Craven of the Center For Christ and Culture recommends the following books on Christian History;

• Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity, by S. Michael Craven
• Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce L. Shelley
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, by Jacques Barzun
• Readings in Christian Thought, edited by Hugh T. Kerr
• The Confessions of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century
• The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a’Kempis
• The Protestant Reformation: Major Documents, edited by Lewis W. Spitz
• Christianity Through the Centuries
• The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church, by Paul McKechnie
• How Christianity Changed the World, by Alvin J. Schmidt

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Christian Worldview Recommendations of Michael Craven

Michael Craven of the Center For Christ and Culture recommends the following books on understanding and developing a Christian Worldview;

• Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity
• Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
• Christ and Culture
• The Opening of the Christian Mind: Taking Every Thought Captive to Christ
• Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
• How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
• What Is Truth?: A Comparative Study of the Positions of Cornelius Van Til, Francis Schaeffer, Carl F. H. Henry, Donald Bloesch, Millard Erickson
• Building a Christian Worldview
• Clash Of Orthodoxies: Law Religion & Morality In Crisis
• How Now Shall We Live?
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It
• Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth
• The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia–and How It Died

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Belief Matters, by Pete Briscoe

Looking for a good book for helping new believers to be rooted and established in the faith? Check out Belief Matters: Grappling with the Essentials of the Christian Faith, by Pete Briscoe.  Tammy Hilyer recently reviewed the book and I share the first paragraph of her review here,

In our present culture, there are many choices of who or what to believe in. It’s important that we as Christians know Who and what we believe in and why it is necessary to live out that faith in our everyday lives and be prepared to share it with others. To help us in our understanding of our beliefs, Pete draws from the Apostles Creed, a great statement of faith memorized and recited by many for hundreds of years. Included in Belief Matters is the history and relevance of this creed, not only for the past generations, but for us today. Pete divides the Apostles Creed into 16 key phrases and provides an explanation of each point. Each chapter contains quotes, definitions, stories, and Scripture that enhance and support each key phrase. For individual or group study, Pete provides verses to contemplate, questions for reflection, and other meaningful verses and passages to encourage the reader to dig deeper into God’s Word. Each chapter concludes with the following method: Meditate, Apply, Plot, and Speak (MAPS). Using this method solidifies and expands the reader’s understanding of their beliefs and challenges them to take action on what they have learned. Pete takes the often incomprehensible points of the Apostles Creed along with the verses that support the phrases and makes them easier for the reader to understand and remember. He speaks honestly about his own struggles in understanding and living out his faith, which is encouraging for the reader. (click here to read more)

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