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This week we return to our Come, Let Us Reason Together series. In this episode Dave Swanson walks us through some of his favorite authors and books dealing with a broad range of subjects. If you are a reader, you need to be a listener today!
Recommended Resources:
Favorite Authors
Wright, Witherington, and Wright
N.T. Wright
Ben Witherington III
Christopher J.H. Wright (The Mission of God)
Literature and Christianity:
C.S.Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dorothy Sayers (The Mind of the Maker, Lord Peter Whimsey, A Man Born to Be King)
Charles Williams (metaphysical thrillers)
George McDonald (Phantasties and Lilith, other Fairy tales)
G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy)
Alister McGrath
Gregory K. Beale (Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, We Become What We Worship, The Book of Revelation (New International Greek Testament Commentary))
Kenneth Bailey (Jesus Through Mediterranean Eyes, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes)
Sociology:
Christopher Smith (National Study of Youth and Religion "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism", Passing the Plate, Atheist Overreach, Why Religion Went Obsolete)
James Davison Hunter (Science and the Good, To Flourish or Distruct, To Change the World "Faithful Presence", Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis)
Philosophy of Science:
Karl Popper (Realist)
Thomas Kuhn (Anti-realist)
Imre Lakatos (The Methodology of Scientific Research, Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge)
Michael Polanyi (Personal Knowledge)
Hermeneutics:
Kevin Vanhoozer
Anthony Thistleton
Craig Bartholomew
Worldview:
Thomas Nagel (Worldview)
Steve Wilken and Mark L. Sanford (Hidden Worldviews)
1. Individualism: l Am the Center of the Universe
2. Consumerism: l Am What I Own
3. Nationalism: My Nation, Under God
4. Moral Relativism: The Absolute Truth About Relativism and Something Like Relativism
5. Scientific Naturalism: Only Matter Matters
6. The New Age: Are We Gods or Are We God's.
7. Postmodern Tribalism: My Tribe/My Worldview.
8. Salvation by Therapy: Not as Good as It Gets
Image of God:
Carmen Joy Imes (Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters, Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters, Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters an October Release)
J. Richard Middleton (The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1, A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology)
Apologetics
William Lane Craig (Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview)
Paul Copan
John H Walton (The Lost World series on the OT)
Christian History:
Mark Noll
David F. Wells
Os Guiness
New Studies in Biblical Theology Series
J. Gary Miller (Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer (New Studies in Biblical Theology Book 38))
David G. Firth (Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets (New Studies in Biblical Theology Book 50))
Gregory K. Beale (The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God (New Studies in Biblical Theology Book 17))
Human Trafficking:
Louise Shelley (Human Trafficking)
Victor Malarek (The Johns)
Kevin Bales
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