Book Recommendations from Worldview/Apologetics Teacher, Or, Mount Calvary Baptist Church Usher Reads The Following Books When Not Ushing

My friend Brent Cook, BJU apologetics and worldview teacher, gave me permission to post the following list. This is what he wrote to introduce it:

Several have asked for book recommendations related to the classes I’ve taught this semester. Here is a partial list I threw together last night. (“Recommendation” does not imply endorsement of all content.) I’ve also include a general section of fun reads. —B. Cook

All of the following links go to Amazon except the ten or so which were carried by Westminster Books.

Apologetics, Science, and Worldview

• Alfred Hoerth, Archaeology and the Old Testament
• Andrew Hoffecker, Revolutions in Worldview
• Antony Flew, There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
• Beauregard & O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain
• C.S. Lewis, Miracles
• C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
• David Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept
• Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great about Christianity
• Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics
• Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay
• Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
• Francis Schaeffer, Trilogy
• G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
• Gavin Hyman, A Short History of Atheism
• Geisler & Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
• James Sire, The Universe Next Door
• John Byl, The Divine Challenge
• John McRay, Archeology and the New Testament
• Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box
• Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
• N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God
• Philip Johnson, Darwin on Trial
• Robert Spencer, The Truth about Muhammad
• Roger Lewin, Bones of Contention
• Ron Horton, Mood Tides
• Ronald Numbers, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
• Ronald Numbers, The Creationists
• Thomas Woodward, Doubts about Darwin
• William Dembski, Uncommon Dissent
• Winfried Corduan, Neighboring Faiths
• Ed.: How John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God or Apologetics to the Glory of God were left off this list, I am not sure. Perhaps Dr. Cook is saying that Frame transcends this list.

Philosophy

• Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy.
• Bryan Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher
• David Fischer, Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
• Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy (8 vols.)
• Neil Postman, The End of Education
• Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
• Roger Scruton, A Short History of Modern Philosophy
• Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Church History

• Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore
• David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
• Earle Cairns, Christianity through the Centuries
• Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity
• George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards
• George Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism
• Herman Selderhuis, John Calvin
• Horton Davies, Worship and Theology in England (3 vols.)
• Joseph Pearce, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
• Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
• Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity
• Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church (8 vols.)
• Roland Bainton, Here I Stand
• Thomas Kidd, The Great Awakening
• Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church

General

• Alex Kershaw, The Envoy
• Alfred Lansing, Endurance
• Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Charles Mann, 1491
• Dan Porat, The Boy: A Holocaust Story
• David Howarth, We Die Alone
• Diana Preston, A First Rate Tragedy
• Edward Champlin, Nero
• Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers
• Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail
• Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• James Bradley, Flyboys
• James Hornfischer, Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
• Jeff Shaara, The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
• Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
• Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
• Levitt and Dubner, Freakonomics
• Mark Lee Gardner, To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett…
• Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea
• Neal Bascomb, Hunting Eichmann
• Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
• Philip Freeman, Julius Caesar
• Stanley and Danko, The Millionaire Next Door
• Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat
• Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki