Thursday, July 29, 2010

Apologetics and Theology Books

Investing in a good library can help anyone seeking the truth on difficult questions.  With this in mind, I've put together a list of resources to get the budding apologist started.  By no means comprehensive, these books will aid you on your search for the answers to the difficult questions the world offers.

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General Apologetics

  • Why Good Arguments Often Fail

    James W. Sire

  • The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith

    J. P. Moreland, Tim Muehlhoff

  • Heretics for Armchair Theologians

    Justo L. Gonzalez and Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

  • Reasonable Faith

    William Lane Craig

  • Scaling the Secular City

    J.P. Moreland

  • Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics

    Norman Geisler

  • When Critics Ask

    Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe

  • When Skeptics Ask

    Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe

  • 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists

    Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Jr.

  • Evidence That Demands A Verdict Vol 1

    Josh McDowell

  • Evidence That Demands A Verdict Vol 2

    Josh McDowell

  • Jesus Under Fire

    Michael J. Wilkins, J.P. Moreland

  • Faith Has Its Reasons

    Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Jr.

  • Mere Christianity

    C.S. Lewis

  • Know Why You Believe

    Paul Little

  • Who Moved the Stone?

    Frank Morison

Reliability of the Bible

  • The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority

    G. K. Beale

  • The Historical Jesus

    Gary R. Habermas

  • The Case for Christ

    Lee Strobel

  • A General Introduction to the Bible

    Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix

  • The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

    F.F. Bruce

  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels

    Craig L. Blomberg

  • The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel: Issues & Commentary

    Craig L. Blomberg

Bible Difficulties

  • Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible

    John W. Haley

  • New International Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties

    Gleason L. Archer

  • Chosen but Free

    Norman L. Geisler

  • The Only Wise God

    William Lane Craig

Cults and Comparative Religions

  • Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic

    Francis J. Beckwith

  • Kingdom of the Cults

    Walter Martin

  • Jesus Among Other Gods

    Ravi Zacharias

  • New Mormon Challenge

    Francis Beckwith, Carl Moser, Paul Owen, eds.

  • This book is not currently offered at Amazon.com

    Major Problems of Mormonism
    Gerald and Sandra Tanner

  • Mormon America

    Richard J. Ostling

  • This book is not currently offered at Amazon.com

    Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses
    Robert M. Bowman

  • This book is not currently offered at Amazon.com

    Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of John
    Robert M. Bowman

Creation and Evolution

  • Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language

    William A. Dembski and Sean McDowell

  • Darwin on Trial

    Phillip E. Johnson

  • Darwin's Black Box

    Michael Behe

  • Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

    Phillip E. Johnson

  • Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

    William A. Dembski

  • Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

    Michael Denton

Society and Culture

  • Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism

    Ravi Zacharias

  • The God Who Is There

    Francis A.Schaffer

  • How to Stay Christian in College

    J. Budziszewski

Logic/Critical Thinking/Philosophy

  • Come, Let Us Reason

    Norman Geisler

  • Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

    J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig

  • The Universe Next Door

    James W. Sire

  • This book is not currently offered at Amazon.com

    Theory of Knowledge
    Roderick M. Chisolm

  • Questions That Matter

    Ed. L. Miller

  • In Defense of Miracles

    R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas

  • Love Your God With All Your Mind:The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

    J. P. Moreland

  • God, Freedom, and Evil

    Alvin J. Plantinga

  • Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereign

    David Basinger and Randall Basinger, eds.

Dictionaries & Reference

  • Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

    James Strong

  • Systematic Theology

    Wayne Grudem

  • The New Unger's Bible Dictionary

    Merrill F. Unger

  • Basic Theology

    Charles C. Ryrie

  • Major Bible Prophecies

    John F. Walvoord

Languages

  • Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and Eng

    Alfred Marshall

  • Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

    Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich, eds.

  • This book is not currently offered at Amazon.com

    Word Pictures in the New Testament (6 vols.)
    A.T. Robertson

  • Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words

    W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, William White; eds.

  • The Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament

    John R. Kohhlenberger III, ed.

Christian Classics

  • In His Steps

    Charles Sheldon

  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    John Bunyan

  • My Utmost for His Highest

    Oswald Chambers

  • The Screwtape Letters

    C.S. Lewis