I recently wanted to link to some of my listings of good books on apologetics, atheism and the like, but I noticed that the last time I wrote articles on those topics was quite some time ago. A bibliography I did on apologetics was in fact posted back in February 2008, and the last atheism biblio I did was in April 2010.
Thus it is clearly time for an update! Dozens of new books appear every year on Christian apologetics, and I have bought and read most of them, so they are well worth listing here. I will break this bibliography down into four main parts: general works; philosophy of religion; the importance of the mind; and the new atheism.
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/13/the-christian-apologetics-arsenal-a-select-bibliography/
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2010/04/01/what-to-read-about-the-new-atheism/
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2001/02/24/the-crisis-of-truth/
Here then are over 90 new titles you should be aware of. Yes, so many books might be rather overwhelming for some, so let me try to narrow things down a bit. Perhaps the best way I can do that is to name some of the authors you MUST read in the area of apologetics.
Many could be mentioned here, but these six apologists all deserve careful attention: Ravi Zacharias, Paul Copan, Norm Geisler, Bill Craig, J. P. Moreland, and Nancy Pearcey. And don’t forget two earlier authors not listed here: C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer.
General works
Blomberg, Craig, Can We Still Believe the Bible? Brazos, 2014.
Boot, Joe, How Then Shall We Answer? New Wine Press, 2008.
Buesnitz, Nathan, Reasons We Believe. Crossway, 2008.
Chatraw, Joshua and Mark Allen, Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness. Zondervan, 2018.
Clark, Mark, The Problem of God. Zondervan, 2017.
Copan, Paul, When God Goes to Starbucks. Baker, 2008.
Copan, Paul and William Lane Craig, eds., Come Let Us Reason. B&H Academic, 2012.
Copan, Paul and William Lane Craig, eds., Contending with Christianity’s Critics. B&H Academic, 2009.
Craig, William Lane and Joseph Gorra, A Reasonable Response. Moody, 2013.
Davis, Stephen, Disputed Issues. Baylor University Press, 2009.
Dembski, William and Thomas Schirrmacher, eds., Tough-Minded Christianity. B&H Academic, 2008.
Feinberg, John, Can You Believe It’s True? Christian Apologetics in a Modern & Postmodern Era. Crossway, 2013.
Frame, John, A History of Western Philosophy and Theology. Presbyterian and Reformed, 2015.
Geisler, Norman and Patrick Zukeran, The Apologetics of Jesus. Baker, 2009.
Groothuis, Douglas, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith. IVP, 2011.
Hindson, Ed and Ergun Caner, eds., The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics. Harvest House, 2008.
House, H. Wayne and Dennis Jowers, Reasons For Our Hope. B&H Academic, 2011.
Howard, Jeremy Royal, ed., The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible. B&H, 2013.
Keener, Craig, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. Baker, 2011.
Koukl, Greg, The Story of Reality. Zondervan, 2017.
Koukl, Greg, Tactics. Zondervan, 2009.
McDowell, Sean and Jonathan Morrow, Is God Just a Human Invention? Kregel, 2010.
McGrath, Alister, Mere Apologetics. Baker, 2012.
McGrath, Alister, The Passionate Intellect. IVP, 2010.
Markos, Louis, Apologetics for the 21st Century. Crossway, 2010.
Mittelberg, Mark, The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask. Tyndale, 2010.
Moreland, J. P., The God Question. Harvest House, 2009.
Moreland, J. P., and Tim Muehlhoff, The God Conversation. IVP, 2007.
Orr-Ewing, Amy, But is it Real? Answering 10 Common Objections to the Christian Faith. IVP, 2008.
Ots, Michael, What Kind of God? Responses to 10 Popular Accusations. IVP, 2008.
Pearcey, Nancy, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning. B&H, 2010.
Russell, Jeffrey Burton, Myth Busted! 145 Myths about Christianity Debunked. Paternoster, 2012.
Wallace, J. Warner, Cold-Case Christianity. David C. Cook, 2013.
Wallace, J. Warner, Forensic Faith. David C. Cook, 2017.
Wallace, J. Warner, God’s Crime Scene. David C. Cook, 2015.
Willard, Dallas, ed., A Place for Truth. IVP, 2010.
Zacharias, Ravi, ed., Beyond Opinion. Thomas Nelson, 2007.
Zacharias, Ravi and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods. FaithWords, 2017.
Philosophy and Christianity, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, competing worldviews, religious pluralism
Chamberlain, Paul, Why People Don’t Believe. Baker, 2011.
Copan, Paul, Is God a Moral Monster? Baker, 2011.
Copan, Paul, A Little Book for New Philosophers. IVP, 2016.
Copan, Paul, Loving Wisdom: Christian Philosophy of Religion. Chalice Press, 2007.
Cowan, Steven and James Spiegel, The Love of Wisdom: A Christian Introduction to Philosophy. B&H, 2009.
Craig, William Lane and Chad Meister, eds., God is Great, God is God: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible. IVP, 2009.
Douglas Groothuis, Philosophy in Seven Sentences. IVP, 2016.
Gumbel, Nicky, Is God a Delusion? Alpha, 2008.
Keller, Timothy, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. Dutton, 2008.
Lamb, David, God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? IVP, 2011.
Meister, Chad, Introducing Philosophy of Religion. Routledge, 2009.
Mittelberg, Mark, Choosing Your Faith. Tyndale, 2008.
Moser, Paul, The Evidence for God. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Murray, Abdu, Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews. IVP, 2014.
Overman, Dean, A Case for the Existence of God. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
Pasquini, John, The Existence of God. University Press of America, 2010.
Pate, C. Marvin, From Plato To Jesus. Kregel, 2011.
Pearcey, Nancy, Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes. David C. Cook, 2015.
Poythress, Vern, Logic. Crossway, 2013.
Spitzer, Robert, New Proofs for the Existence of God. Eerdmans, 2010.
Ward, Keith, God and the Philosophers. Fortress Press, 2009.
Ward, Keith, Is Religion Irrational? Lion, 2011.
Wilkens, Steve and Alan Padgett, Christianity and Western Thought, vol. 3. IVP, 2009.
Williams, Peter, A Faithful Guide to Philosophy: A Christian Introduction to the Love of Wisdom. Authentic Media, 2013.
Wood, W. Jay, God. Acumen, 2011.
The importance of truth, the mind, and reason
Bock, Darrell, Andreas Kostenberger and Josh Chatraw, Truth Matters. B&H, 2014.
Green, Bradley, The Gospel and the Mind. Crossway, 2010.
Jacobs, Alan, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Currency, 2017
McAndrew, Stephen, Why It Doesn’t Matter What You Believe If It’s Not True. DeepRiver Books, 2012.
Murray, Abdu, Saving Truth. Zondervan, 2018.
Piper, John, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God. Crossway: 2010.
Critiques of atheism
Averick, Moshe, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist. CreateSpace, 2011.
Bannister, Andy, The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist. Monarch, 2015.
Barnett, Paul, Gospel Truth: Answering New Atheist Attacks on the Gospels. IVP, 2013.
Blanchard, John, Dealing With Dawkins. Evangelical Press, 2010.
Blanchard, John, Does God Believe in Atheists? 2nd rev. ed. Evangelical Press, 2000, 2011.
Eberstadt, Mary, The Loser Letters. Ignatius Press, 2010.
Geisler, Norman and Daniel McCoy, The Atheist’s Fatal Flaw. Baker, 2014.
Glass, David, Atheism’s New Clothes. Apollos, 2012.
Hart, David Bentley, The Experience of God. Yale, 2013.
Haught, John, God and the New Atheists. Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.
Johnson, Phillip and John Mark Reynolds, Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong About the New Atheism. IVP, 2010.
Keller, Tim, Making Sense of God. Hodder & Stoughton. 2016.
Lennox, John, Gunning for God: A Critique of the New Atheism. Lion, 2011.
McDowell, Sean and Jonathan Morrow, Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised By the New Atheists. Kregel, 2010.
McFarland, Alex, 10 Answers for Atheists: How to Have an Intelligent Discussion About the Existence of God. Bethany House, 2012.
McGrath, Alister, Why God Won’t Go Away: Engaging with the New Atheism. SPCK, 2011.
Markham, Ian, Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Poole, Michael, The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water. Lion, 2009.
Robertson, David, Engaging with Atheists. The Good Book Company, 2014.
Spencer, Nick, Atheists: The Origin of the Species. Bloomsbury, 2014.
Spiegel, Jim, The Making of an Atheist. Moody Press, 2010.
Turek, Frank, Stealing from God. NavPress, 2014.
Williams, Peter, C.S. Lewis vs the New Atheists. Paternoster, 2013.
Happy reading and happy studying!
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