For those interested in exploring some of the issues I touch on in my book or blog in more depth, below is a list of the books, authors, and websites which have had the most significant influence on my journey thus far. As a theological moderate with both conservative and liberal leanings in different areas, the books below tend to span a wide variety of perspectives and have all shaped my approach to the Christian life and worldview in a tremendous way…

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Bibles & Commentaries

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Theology

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (B/M)
• The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg (B/L)
• The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer (B/C)
• The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard (B/M)
• Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr. (B/L)
• The Christian Agnostic by Leslie Weatherhead (B/L)
• Escaping Fundamentalism by James Barr (B/L)
• Faith and Belief by Wilfred Cantwell Smith (I/L)
• Christian Origins and the Question of God by N.T. Wright (A/M)
• Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (I/C)
• What do Christians Believe by Malcolm Guite (B/M)
• Essential Truths of the Christian Faith by R.C. Sproul (B/C)
• How Jesus Became God by Bart Ehrman (B/NC)
• What is the Trinity? by Dale Tuggy (B/L)
• Small Faith – Great God by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight (B/M)
• Fides et Ratio by Pope John Paul II (I/M)
• Being Christian by Rowan Williams (B/M)
• Who Was Jesus? by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• Systematic Theology by Norman Geisler (I/C)
• Christianity in the Making by James D.G. Dunn (A/M)
• The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer (B/C)
• Creation Out of Nothing by Craig & Copan (I/C)
• Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (I/M)
• The God We Never Knew by Marcus Borg (B/L)
• Fundamentalism by James Barr (I/L)
• Simply Christian by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• Speaking Christian by Marcus Borg (B/L)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell (B/M)
• Knowing God by J.I. Packer (B/C)
• The Anglican Way by Thomas McKenzie (B/M)
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg (B/L)
• Salvation and Sovereignty by Kenneth Keathley (I/C)
• Simply Good News by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• The First Christmas by Borg & Crossan (I/L)
• Desiring God by John Piper (B/C)
• The Evangelical Universalist by Gregory MacDonald (I/M)
• Love Wins by Rob Bell (B/M)
• Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (B/M)
• The Meaning of Jesus by Wright & Borg (I/L)
• The Skeptical Believer by Daniel Taylor (B/M)
• After You Believe by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• Faith Unraveled by Rachel Held Evans (B/M)
• The First Paul by Borg & Crossan (I/L)
• After Christendom by Stanley Hauerwas (I/M)
• You’re Not as Crazy as I Think by Randall Rauser (B/M)
• A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren (B/M)
• Simply Jesus by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns (B/M)
• The Last Week by Borg & Crossan (I/L)
• Classic Christianity by Thomas Oden (I/M)
• Evangelical Theology by Michael Bird (I/M)

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Apologetics

• Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig (I/C)
• The Existence of God by Richard Swinburne (A/M)
• I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Geisler & Turek (B/C)
• The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (B/C)
• Tactics by Greg Koukl (B/C)
• The Reason for God by Tim Keller (B/C)
• On Guard by William Lane Craig (B/C)
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (I/M)
• Letters from a Skeptic by Greg Boyd (B/M)
• Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey (I/C)
• Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler (I/C)
• The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology by Craig & Moreland (A/C)
• Five Views on Apologetics by Steven Cowan (I/C)
• Defending Your Faith by R.C. Sproul (B/C)
• True for You, But Not for Me by Paul Copan (B/C)
• The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel (B/C)
• When Skeptics Ask by Norman Geisler (B/C)
• God is Great, God is Good by William Lane Craig (B/C)
• When God Goes to Starbucks by Paul Copan (B/C)
• The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel (B/C)
• Come, Let Us Reason by Norman Geisler (B/C)
• Without a Doubt by Ken Samples (B/C)
• Classical Apologetics by R.C. Sproul (B/C)
• Is the Bible True? by Josh McDowell (B/C)
• The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens (B/M)
• A Shot of Faith (To the Head) by Mitch Stokes (B/C)
• Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne (B/M)
• Reasons for Faith by Norman Geisler (I/C)
• Questioning the Bible by Jonathan Morrow (B/C)
• Did Jesus Rise from the Dead by William Lane Craig (B/C)
• Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey (I/C)

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Philosophy

• Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by Craig & Moreland (I/C)
• Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga (A/C)
• Love Your God With All Your Mind by J.P. Moreland (B/C)
• Faith and Reason by Richard Swinburne (A/M)
• History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston (I/M)
• How to Think About the Great Ideas by Mortimer Adler (B/M)
• Great Books of the Western World by Mortimer Adler (I/M)
• Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity by Robert McKim (I/NC)
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal (I/M)
• God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga (A/C)
• Time and Eternity by William Lane Craig (I/C)
• Good God by Baggett & Walls (I/C)
• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (I/NC)
• Does God Have a Nature? by Alvin Plantinga (A/C)
• Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes (I/M)
• Epistemology by Richard Feldman (I/NC)
• Walking the Tightrope of Reason by Robert Fogelin (I/NC)
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume (I/NC)
• On the Genealogy of Morality by Frederick Nietzsche (I/NC)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (I/L)
• Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury (I/M)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (I/L)
• The Republic by Plato (I/NC)
• The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (I/NC)
• Inquiry and Essays by Thomas Reid (I/C)
• Where the Conflict Really Lies by Alvin Plantinga (I/C)
• Disagreement by Bryan Frances (I/NC)
• Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga (B/C)
• Religious Belief and the Will by Louis Pojman (I/M)
• The Consequences of Ideas by R.C. Sproul (B/C)
• The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor (B/M)

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Biblical Studies

• Making Sense of the Bible by Adam Hamilton (B/M)
• Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg (B/L)
• The Living Word by James D.G. Dunn (I/M)
• The New Testament in Its World by Wright & Bird (I/M)
• Biblical Inspiration by I. Howard Marshall (B/M)
• Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond Brown (I/M)
• The Lost World by John Walton (I/M)
• What Do We Do With the Bible? by Richard Rohr (B/M)
• The Bible: An Introduction by Jerry L. Sumney (I/M)
• The New Testament: A Historical Introduction by Bart Ehrman (I/NC)
• Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by John Collins (I/L)
• A High View of Scripture? by Craig Allert (I/M)
• How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns (B/M)
• Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• Models of Scripture by John Goldingay (A/M)
• Inspiration and Authority by Paul Achtemeier (I/M)
• Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns (I/M)
• God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks (I/M)
• Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism by Christopher Hays (I/M)
• The Human Faces of God by Thom Stark (B/M)
• Inspired Imperfection by Greg Boyd (B/M)
• The Bible and the Believer by Marc Brettler (I/L)
• How to Read the Bible by John Goldingay (I/M)
• The Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture by William Abraham (I/M)
• Inspired by Rachel Held Evans (B/M)
• What is the Bible? by Rob Bell (B/M)
• Surprised by Scripture by N.T. Wright (B/M)
• The Birth of the Messiah by Raymond Brown (A/M)
• An Adult Christ at Christmas by Raymond Brown (B/M)
• The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns (B/M)
• Sacred Word, Broken Word by Kenton Sparks (B/M)
• The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith (I/M)
• The Nature of Biblical Criticism by John Barton (I/L)
• The Scope and Authority of the Bible by James Barr (I/L)
• The Word of God? by Keith Ward (B/L)
• Evangelical Theories of Biblical Inspiration by Kern Robert Trembath (I/M)
• The Living Word of God by Ben Witherington (I/M)
• Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy by Stanley Gundry (B/C-M)

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Literature

Pretty much everything by C.S. Lewis 🙂