Reading List – Compiled by Matthew Ritchey

Overall

  • The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on Itby Os Guinness
  • Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldviewby Michael W. Goheen and Craig G. Bartholomew
  • Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictionsby Gregory Koukl
  • Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Graceby Miroslav Volf
  • The Gospel in a Pluralist Societyby Lesslie Newbigin

Culture

  • The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister Mcgrath
  • The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out by Mark Driscoll
  • Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture by David J. Bosch
  • The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World by David Wells
  • The Gravedigger Fileby OS Guinness

Philosophy

  • Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga
  • Philosophy and the Christian Faith: A Historical Sketch from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Colin Brown
  • Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul by James Porter Moreland
  • Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thoughtby W. Andrew Hoffecker
  • Life’s Ultimate Questions by Ronald H. Nash

Sanctification

  • You Can Change: God’s Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behaviour and Negative Emotionsby Tim Chester
  • When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage by Dave Harvey
  • The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges
  • How People Change by Timothy S. Lane and Paul D. Tripp

Theology

  • Knowing Godby J. I. Packer
  • What Is Faith?by J. Gresham Machen
  • How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evilby D. A. Carson
  • Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (Re:Lit)by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears
  • The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform by Roger E. Olson

Worldview

  • Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldviewby Albert M. Wolters
  • Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition) by Nancy R. Pearcey
  • Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This Worldby J. Mark Bertrand

Science

  • The Science Of God: An Introduction To Scientific Theology by Alister E. McGrath
  • Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach by Vern Sheridan Poythress
  • The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy by Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, and Marvin Olasky

Gospel

  • What's So Amazing About Grace?by Philip Yancey
  • God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himselfby John Piper
  • Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Storyby Christopher J. H. Wright
  • God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Story-Line of the Bible by Vaughan Roberts
  • The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faithby Timothy Keller

General Apologetics

  • Faith and Reason by Dr. Ronald H. Nash
  • Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity by Kenneth D. Boa
  • Unshakable Foundations: Contemporary Answers to Crucial Questions about the Christian Faith by Norman L. Geisler
  • Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions by Kenneth R. Samples

Historical Apologetics

  • Is The New Testament Reliable?by Paul Barnett
  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig L. Blomberg
  • Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimonyby Richard Bauckham
  • Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus by Mr. Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland
  • On the Reliability of the Old Testament by K. A. Kitchen