Finding Truth – Helpful Books
This last week we talked about truth in our newest message series True[ish]. What is truth and what is true-ish? We can all find ourselves living in the gray areas of life. This message series has opened up some great conversation around truth, and many of you have asked about getting more information about foundational truths for Christianity. I have put together some great books that I think will be a helpful start dealing with the tough questions around our faith. All of them are from a Christian perspective except for The World Religions by Smith (second from the bottom), which I believe does a good job of being unbiased. Happy Reading! (the small book with small text is History, Law, and Christianity by Montgomery)
One more book that should be added to your list is "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" by Norm Geisler and Frank Turek.
Hands down one of the best books I've ever read.
That book sounds amazing – hadn't heard of it before.
Very cool! Norman Geisler is an incredible author around these subjects. I have his "When Skeptics Ask" (co-written with Ron Brooks). Thanks for the letting us know.
I definitely have a lot to learn in this area – heading to my Amazon wish list now!
Thank you so much for this book list! Always be ready to give a reason why we believe-
Thanks again!!
The book "The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They believe it and why it matters by Chuck Colson is one I would have everyone read. It is consise, informative and has a great DVD study that goes along with the book
Your books are very good, I have read each of them.
May I be bold and suggest a few others that I found very interesting.;
1. The Jewish New Testament Commentary (Since Christianity is a Sect of Judaism, this would be a good read for all Christians)
2. The Faith of the Early Fathers by William A Jurgens
3. Philokalia Series by G.E.H. Palmer, Philip SHerrard
4. The Illumined Heart by Frederica Mathewes-Green
5. Christian Thought a Brief History by Adrian Hastings
6. The Wound Of Knowledge by Rowan Williams
7. The Lost Gospel of Mary, The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts by Frederica Mathewes-Green
8. 20th Century Catholic Theologian by Fergus Kerr
9. Evgartinos Compendium of Books written by Early Church Monastic Fathers.
10. The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware
So…are you a fan of Strobel then???
Yeah, I think Strobel is the best at taking some of this intellectual knowledge and writing it in such a way that most can understand and actually enjoy. I always recommend him to the masses because he will be an easier read yet still solid content.
I personally enjoy some of the academic stuff, so I enjoy some of the books written by the experts that Strobel has interviewed in his books. William Lane Craig is brilliant and has a great scholarly book on the historicity of resurrection of Jesus…awesome (and it hurts my head). There is a book called the Privileged Planet that talks about some incredible finds in cosmology (Strobel gets much of his information in Case for Creation from there). Any of the experts Strobel interviews has written there own books that dive much deeper in those areas. So Strobel is a great starting point.
Yeah, I think Strobel is the best at taking some of this intellectual knowledge and writing it in such a way that most can understand and actually enjoy. I always recommend him to the masses because he will be an easier read yet still solid content.
I personally enjoy some of the academic stuff, so I enjoy some of the books written by the experts that Strobel has interviewed in his books. William Lane Craig is brilliant and has a great scholarly book on the historicity of resurrection of Jesus…awesome (and it hurts my head). There is a book called the Privileged Planet that talks about some incredible finds in cosmology (Strobel gets much of his information in Case for Creation from there). Any of the experts Strobel interviews has written there own books that dive much deeper in those areas. So Strobel is a great starting point.
Strobel is one of many writers that I enjoy. I don't consider myself a fan of anyone, but rather, a student of all.
Actually, I was being sarcastic, but clearly it didn't come across in my comment. Sorry about that.
I was wondering, do you think that the whole "truth" thing can sometimes become an opportunity for Christians who like to argue to just waste time debating this or that. I agree that Christianity has fundamentals – and that's why we have Orthodoxy. But let's not get caught up in the whole '6 Days of Creation' or whatever the latest argument going around is.
I'll admit I haven't read every book in your list, but is it really our job to 'defeat Darwinism'. As far as I'm aware Charles Darwin was a confessing Christian.