Recommended Books

Please feel free to let us know of any other apologetics based books that you have found helpful and we will add them to our list.
If you are a Christian and you don't really know what apologetics is then I will recommend six very good books that will help equip you to be prepared to share the gospel in a secular culture. These books will get you excited about how and why Christianity makes sense and how you can be equipped to share the gospel persuasively, lovingly and reasonably.

1. The Case for Christ + The Case for Faith - By Lee Strobel
2. The Dawkins Letters - By David Robertson
3. On Guard - By William Lane Craig
4. TACTICS: A Game Plan for Discussing you Christian Convictions - By Greg Koukl
5. The Reason for God - By Timothy Keller
6. The Case for Life - By Scott Klusendorf *If you are a Christian in the Western world you can't afford not to read this book.

The above books will introduce you into some of the intellectual support for following Jesus, they will help you work through doubts and demonstrate how you can be better prepared to offer responses to friends when you try to talk about Jesus.

If you manage to work your way through those five books then I suggest moving onto some of the ones below and if there is any particular area of interest that you feel led to explore, whether that be Medicine, Philosophy or the Arts I will hopefully get round to some suggested reading as-well.


1. True for you but not for me - By Paul Copan
2. Confident Christianity - By Chris Sinkinson
3. Letters from a Sceptic: A son wrestles with his Father's questions about Christianity - By Gregory Boyd
4. Vintage Jesus - By Mark Driscoll
5. When God goes to Starbucks - By Paul Copan
6. Mere Christianity - By CS Lewis
7. Fabricating Jesus - By Craig Evans
8. I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist - By Norman Geisler and Frank Turek
9. Can we trust the Gospels - By Mark Roberts
10. Is God a Moral Monster? - By Paul Copan
11. The God i Don't Understand - By Christopher Wright
12. Reasonable Faith - By William Lane Craig
13. Christian Apologetics - By Douglas Groothuis
14. Covenantal Apologetics - By Scott Oliphant
15. Mere Apologetics - Alister McGrath
16. Jesus Among Other Gods - By Ravi Zacharias
17. The Rise of Christianity - By Rodney Stark
18. The Twilight of Atheism - By Alister McGrath
19. A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism - By Peter S Williams
20. Hard Questions Real Answers - William Lane Craig

As Christians it's also important to understand what those who are critical of Christianity are saying so that we can be best prepared to respond and understand their positions rather than basing them on hearsay. With this in mind it may be helpful to read the following books.

1. The God Delusion - By Richard Dawkins
2. God is not Great - By Christopher Hitchens
3. The Christian Delusion - By John Loftus
4. Religion for Atheists - By Alain de Botton
5. Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism - By David Mills



Still in the Process of Updating 18/8/13 - Daniel

Middle Ground


God's Undertaker Has Science buried God - John Lennox

Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics -  William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, N. T. Wright and Norman Geisler

Faith and Reason - Ronald Nash

Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer

Advanced

The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology - William Lane Craig (Editor), J. P. Moreland
The Existence of God - Richard Swinburne

The Jesus Legend - Gregory Boyd

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - Richard Bauckham

The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach - Mike Licona

The Resurrection of the Son of God - NT Wright