Why Some People Hate America

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

Cloning of the American Mind ( B.K. Eakman)

Life at the bottom: The Worldview that makes the Underclass (Theodore Dalrymple)

Poverty and Wealth: Why Socialism Doesn’t Work (Ronald Nash)

You Can Trust The Communists [to be Communists] (Fred Schwarz)

Postmodern Times (Gene Edward Veith)

Mixing Religion And Politics

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

The Law (Frederic Bastiat)

The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man (J. Budziszewski)

Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education ( B.K. Eakman)

In Defense of Natural Law (Robert George)

Clergy In the Classroom: The Religion of Secular Humanism (David Noebel, J.F. Baldwin, and Kevin Bywater)

Democracy and the Renewal of Public Education (Richard John Neuhaus)

Evolving Ideas In Science

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

Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Michael Behe)

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Richard Dawkins)

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology (William Dembski)

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Michael Denton)

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong (Jonathan Wells)

By Design: Science and the Search for God (Lary Witham)

The Real World of Secular Humanism

The following books are recommended in the chapter on “The Real World of Secular Humanism” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for a New Planetary Humanism (Paul Kurtz)

Body & Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics (J.P. Moreland and Scott Rae)

Clergy in the Classroom: The Religion of Secular Humanism (David Noebel, J.F. Baldwin, and kevin Bywater)

The Intellectuals Speak Out About God (Roy Varghese)

The Theology Of Secular Humanism

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

Answers for Atheists, Agnostics, and Other Thoughtful Skeptics: Dialogs About Christian Faith and Life (Calvin Beisner)

Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity (Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman)

Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (Norman Geisler)

God–The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World (Patrick Glynn)

The Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)

Scaling the Secular City (J.P. Moreland)

Does God Exist? (J.P. Moreland and Kai Nielsen)

Why I am not a Christian: And other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Bertrand Russell)

Worldviews Seeking To Capture You

The following books are recommended resources in the chapter on “Worldviews Seeking To Capture You” in Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, written by David Noebel and Chuck Edwards.

Thieves of Innocence: Protecting Our children From New Age Teachings and Occult Practices (John Ankerberg, Craig Branch, and John Weldon)

Apologetics in the New Age ( Norman Geisler and David Clark)

Humanist Manifesto I and II (Paul Kurtz)

Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for a New Planetary Humanism (Paul Kurtz)

The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in teh New Millenium (Tim LaHaye and David Noebel)

Understanding the Times: The Religious Worldviews of Our Day and the Search For Truth

Engaging Our Post-Christian Culture

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

How Now Shall We Live? (Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey)

Children at Risk: The Battle For the Hearts and Minds of Our Kids (James Dobson and Gary Bauer)

How Should We Then Live? (Francis Schaeffer)

Boundless Relativism

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

Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Frank Beckwith and Greg Koukl)

True For You, But Not For Me: Deflating The Slogans that Leave Christians Speechless (Paul Copan)

That’s Just Your Interpretation (Paul Copan)

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (Benjamin Wiker)

Competing Worldviews – Book Recommendations

In his Facts & Trends article “Unchurched Americans Turned Off By Church, Open To Christians”, Mark Kelly recommends the following books:

The Apologetics Study Bible

When Worldviews Collide, by Ergun Caner

Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews, by Chuck Edwards and David Noebel

Alternatives To Christian Faith – Texts Recommended by James Sire

In his book Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All, James Sire recommends the following books on Alternatives to Christian Faith:

Christianity and World Religions, by Norman Anderson

Disarming the Secular Gods
, by Peter Moore

Christian Faith and Other Faiths, by Stephen Neill

Dissonant Voices, by Harold A. Netland

The Universe Next Door
, by James Sire