Jonathan Edwards

Grace Baptist Church of Cape Coral, Florida (pastored by Tom Ascol) shares on its website the following list of recommended books on and by Jonathan Edwards.

• Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards
• The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
• A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God by Jonathan Edwards
• The Distinguishing Marks of the Work of the Spirit of God by Jonathan Edwards
• Thoughts on the New England Revival: Vindicating the Great Awakening by Jonathan Edwards
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 vol.) by Hendrickson
• God’s Passion for His Glory by John Piper
• Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography by Iain Murray
• Jonathan Edwards by George Marsden
• A Sweet Flame: Piety in the Letters of Jonathan Edwards by Michael Haykin
• Jonathan Edwards: The Holy Spirit in Revival by Michael Haykin
• The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today by Josh Moody

Michael Craven’s Philosophy Recommendations

Michael Craven of the Center For Christ and Culture recommends the following books on Philosophy for equipping the Church to engage the culture with the redemptive mission of Christ:

• Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, by J.P. Moreland & William Lane Craig
• How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy And Art, by Crystal L. Downing
• The Right Darwin?: Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy, by Carson Holloway
• True Truth: Defending Absolute Truth in a Relativistic World, by Art Lindsley
• Faith and Reason, by Ronald H. Nash
• Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship, by Lesslie Newbigin

Apologetics & Evangelism Bibliography

In the General Bibliography of I’m Glad You Asked, Kenneth Boa & Larry Moody recommend the following as books that “cover the whole range of topics related to apologetics and evangelism” in a manner less technical than most philosophy of religion books:

Joseph Aldrich, Lifestyle Evangelism

J.N.D. Anderson, Christianity and Comparative Religion

Kenneth Boa, God I Don’t Understand

Kenneth Boa, Cults, World Religions, and You

James Montgomery Boice, Does Inerrancy Matter?

James Mongomery Boice, ed., The Foundation of Biblical Authority

Colin Brown, ed., History, Criticism, & Faith

F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

Edward John Carnell, The Case for Biblical Christianity

Edward John Carnell, An Introduction to Christian Apologetics

Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion

J.V. Langmead Casserly, Apologetics and Evangelism

Colin Chapman, The Case For Christianity

Colin Chapman, Christianity on Trial

Gordon, H. Clark, ed., Can I Trust My Bible

Robert E.D. Clark, Science and Christianity–A Partnership

James F. Coppedge, Evolution: Possible or Impossible?

William Lane Craig, the Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe

William Lane Craig, the Son Rises: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Bolton Davidheiser, Evolution and Christian Faith

David A. DeWitt, Answering the Tough Ones

David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion

Norman L. Geisler, Apologetics

Norman L. Geisler, ed., Inerrancy

Norman L. Geisler, Philosophy of Religion

Norman L. Geisler an Paul D. Feinberg, Introduction to Philosophy

John Gerstner, Reason for Faith

Jerry H. Gill, the Possibility of Religious knowledge

Michael Green, Man Alive!

Os Guinness, The Dust of Death

Don J. Gutteridge, Jr., The Defense Rests Its Case

Gary R. Habermas, The Resurrection of Jesus

R. Laird Harris, Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible

Arthur F. Holmes, Faith Seeks Understanding

Arlie J. Hoover, The Case for Christian Theism

Arlie J. Hoover, Fallacies of Unbelief

Cedric B. Johnson and H. Newton Malony, Christian Conversion: biblical and Psychological Perspectives

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis, Miracles. A Preliminary Study

C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Gordon R. Lewis, Judge for Yourself

Gordon R. Lewis, Testing Christianity’s Truth Claims

Paul E. Little, How to Give Away Your Faith

Paul E. Little, Know Why You Believe

Wayne McDill, Making Friends for Christ

Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict

Josh McDowell, More Than A Carpenter

Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Answers To Tough Questions

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Reasons Why Skeptics Ought to Consider Christianity

Alan Loy McGinnis, The Friendship Factor

John Warwick Montgomery, ed., Christianity for the Tough Minded

John Warwick Montgomery, Faith Founded on Fact

John Warwick Montgomery, ed., God’s Inerrant Word

John Warwick Montgomery, History and Christianity

Frank Morrison, Who Moved the Stone?

Henry Morris, biblical Cosmology and Modern Science

Henry Morris, Many Infallible Proofs

Jon Tal Murphree, A Loving God and A Suffering World

J.I. Packer, God Has Spoken

Jim Peterson, Evangelism As A Lifestyle

Clark Pinnock, Reason Enough

Clark H. Pinnock, Set Forth Your Case

Mattew Prince, Winning Through Caring

Richard L. Purtill, Reason To Believe

Earl Radmacher, ed., Can We Trust the Bible?

Bernard Ramm, A Christian Appeal to Reason

Robert L. Reymond, The Justification of Knowledge

Don Richardson, Eternity In Their Hearts

Francis Schaeffer, Escape From Reason

Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

Francis Schaeffer, He Is There and he Is Not Silent

Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live

Hugh Sylvester, Arguing With God

James Sire, The Universe Next Door

A.E. Wilder Smith, Man’s Origin, Man’s Destiny

R.C. Sproul, If There Is a God, Why Are There Atheists

R.C. Sproul, Objections Answered

Kenneth E. Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas, Verdict on the Shroud

John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

Merrill C. Tenney, The Reality of the Resurrection

L. Duane Thurman, How to Think About Evolution

Cornelius Van Til, Apologetics

Cornelius Van Til, Christian-Theistic Evidences

Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith

John Wenham, The Goodness of God

Rheinallt Nantlais Williams, Faith, Facts, History, Science–and How They Fit Together

Clifford A. Wilson, Rocks, Relics, and Biblical Reliability

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Reason Within the Bounds of Religion

Barry Wood, Questions Non-Christians Ask

Edwin Yamauchi, The Stones and the Scriptures

Philip Yancey, Where is God When It Hurts?

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More Books of Interest

Animal Rights

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapters “You’re A Speciesist If You Think Humans Are Superior to Nonhuman Animals”, and “Animals Have Rights Just Like People Do” in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

What We Can’t Not Know (J. Budziszewski)

Can We Be Good Without God? (John Hare)

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (Benjamin Wiker)

“Animals”, chapter 3 in Applied Ethics (David S. Oderberg)

Rethinking Peter Singer: A Christian Critique (ed.,Gordon Preece)

Evolution, Animal “Rights,” and the Environment (James B. Reichmann)

The Birds Our Teachers: Biblical Lessons from a Lifelong Bird Watcher (John Stott)

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Science, Verification and Falsification

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapters “Unless You Can Scientifically Verify or Falsify Your Belief, It’s Meaningless”, and “You Can’t Prove That Scientifically” in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

Christianity and the Nature of Science (J.P. Moreland)

The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy (Nancy Pearcey and Charles Thaxton)

Science and Its Limits (Del Ratzsch)

The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)

Science: Christian Perspectives for the new Millennium (eds., Scott Luley, Paul Copan, and Stan Wallace)

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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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Slogans Related To Truth And Reality

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapters on “Slogans Related To Truth And Reality, in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

To Know and Love God: A method for Theology (David K. Clark)

Why Bother With Truth (David K. Clark and Jim Beilby)

The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction (Paul K. Moser)

Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (W. Jay Wood)

Telling The Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (ed., D.A. Carson

Truth: A Primer (Frederick F. Schmitt)

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How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong

The following books are recommended for further reading in the Introduction to How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

On Jesus (Douglas Groothuis)

Love Your God With All Your Mind (J.P. Moreland)

Philosophical Foundations for a Chrstian Worldview (J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig)

Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did ( Randy Newman)

The Divine Conspiracy (Dallas Willard)

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If Jesus Is God, How Could He Really Be Tempted?

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “If Jesus Is God, How Could He Really Be Tempted?”, in That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith, by Paul Copan.

The Presence and the Power (Gerald Hawthorne)

The Logic of God Incarnate (Thomas Morris)

Our Idea of God (Thomas Morris)

Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus (Gerald O’Collins)

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Isn’t The Idea Of God Becoming Man Incoherent?

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Isn’t The Idea Of God Becoming Man Incoherent?”, in That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith, by Paul Copan.

God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Richard Bauckham)

The Presence and the Power (Gerald Hawthorne)

The Logic of God Incarnate (Thomas Morris)

Our Idea of God (Thomas Morris)

“The Incarnation and the Trinity” by Thomas Senor, in Reason for the Hope Within (Michael J. Murray)

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