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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• Tom Ascol’s book recommendations on Christianity & Culture
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Christianity and Culture

Grace Baptist Church (Cape Coral, Florida), pastored by Tom Ascol, lists on its website the following list of recommended books in the area of “Christianity and Culture”:

• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch
• unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
• They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations by Dan Kimball
• The Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith by Thom Rainer
• Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson
• Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ by Stephen Nichols
• Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth by R. Albert Mohler

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Naturalism Is A Simpler Explanation Than Theism

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Naturalism Is A Simpler Explanation Than Theism”, in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

To Everyone an Answer: A Case For The Christian Worldview ( Francis Beckwith, William Lane Craig, and J.P. Moreland)

Compelling Evidences That God Exists (Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman)

The Rationality of Theism (Paul Copan and Paul K. Moser)

Does God Exist? The Great Debate (J.P. Moreland and Kai Nielson)

Does God Exist? the Craig-Flew Debate (Stan Wallace)

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That’s Just Your Interpretation

The following books are recommended for further reading in the Introduction to That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith, by Paul Copan.

How To Stay Christian in College (J. Budziszewski)

True For You, But Not For me: Deflating the Slogans That Leave Christians Speechless (Paul Copan)

Finding God At Harvard (Kelly Monroe)

Why Isn’t God More Obvious (Paul Moser)

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Why Not Believe In Reincarnation

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Why Not Believe In Reincarnation”, in That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith, by Paul Copan.

Reincarnation: A Christian Appraisal (Mark Albrecht)

The Reincarnation Sensation (Norman Geisler and J. Yutaka Amano)

Oriental Philosophy (Stuart Hackett)

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Challenges To Truth and Reality

The following books are recommended for further reading in “Challenges To Truth and Reality”, Part One in That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith, by Paul Copan.

Why Bother With Truth? Finding Knowledge in a Skeptical Society (Jim Beilby and David Clark)

True For You, But Not For me: Deflating the Slogans That Leave Christians Speechless (Paul Copan)

Is Everything Really Relative (Paul Copan)

The Last Word (Thomas Nagel)

Truth Decay (Douglas Groothuis)

Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Midair (Francis Beckwith and Greg Koukl)

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Self Esteem For A New Age

The following books are recommended reading in the chapter on “Self Esteem For A New Age” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs (John Ankerberg and John Weldon)

See The Gods Fall (Francis Beckwith and Stephen Parrish)

The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview (John Newport)

The God Of Our Choosing

The following books are recommended reading in the chapter on “The God Of Our Choosing” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)

The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social transformation In Our Time (Marilyn Ferguson)

Living in the Light (Shakti Gawain)

The New Age Movement an the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue

Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred (David Spangler)

Political Power Plays

The following books are recommended reading in the chapter on “Political Power Plays” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

America’s Real War: An Orthodox Rabbi Insists that Judeo-Christian Values are Vital for our Nation’s Survival (Daniel Lapin)

Death By Government ( R.J. Rummel)

The Quest For Cosmic Justice (Thomas Sowell)

America’s 30 Years War (Balint vazsonyi)

Class Warfare For The 21st Century

The following books are recommended reading in the chapter on “Class Warfare For The 21st Century” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (D.A. Carson)

Feminism and the Bible: An Introduction to Feminism for Christians (Jack Cottrell)

The Feminist Gospel: The Movement to Unite Feminism with the Church (Mary Kassian)

Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (George Grant)

The Death of Truth (Dennis McCallum)

The Menace of Multiculturalism (Alvin Schmidt)

The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially (Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher)

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