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CORE MODULE REFERENCE WORKS
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Week 1
Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization III: Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
Week 2
Clark, David C. Dialogical Apologetics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.
Grenz, Stanley. A Primer on Postmodernism. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996.
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.
_____. Essays and Treaties on Several Subjects, vol.2 – “Of Miracles.” London: T. Cadell, 1784.
Kreeft, Peter and Ronald K. Tacelli. Handbook of Christian Apologetics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
Lewis, C. S. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 1970.
_____. “Is Theology Poetry?” Oxford: Socratic Club, 1944.
_____. Miracles. London: Collins, 1947.
Meek, Esther Lightcap. Longing to Know. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2003.
Newbigin, Lesslie. Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. London: SPCK, Holy Trinity
Church, Marylebone Road, 1995.
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Week 3
Berger, Peter L., editor. The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics. Grand Rapids, MI:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999.
Chesterton, G. K. The Thing. London: Sheed & Ward, 1929.
Dawkins, Richard. River Out of Eden. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
Guinness, Os. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. Nashville, TN: W. Publishing
Group, 2003.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Lewis, C. S. God in the Dock. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1970.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21(1984): 90.
Russell, Bertrand. Why I Am Not a Christian, ed. P. Edwards. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.
Sheldrake, Rupert. Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions
and Bear & Co., 2009.
Wright, N. T. The Challenge of Jesus. Downers Grove: IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999.
Zacharias, Ravi. The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008.
Zacharias, Ravi. The Real Face of Atheism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004.
Week 4
Albert, David. "On the Origin of Everything,” New York Times (March 23, 2012).
Atkins, Peter. Creation Revisited. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
Augustine. The Trinity. New York: New City Press, 1991.
Bray, Gerald Lewis. God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012.
Browne, Malcolm. "Clues to the Universe’s Origin Expected,' The New York Times (12 March 1978).
Calvin, Melvin. Chemical Evolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Devlin, Hannah. “Hawking: God Did Not Create Universe.” The Times (4 September 2010).
Harrison, Edward. Masks of the Universe. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Krauss, Lawrence. A Universe from Nothing. New York: Free Press, 2012.
Lewis, C. S. Miracles. London: Collins, 1947.
Lloyd-Jones, Martyn. Great Doctrines of the Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012.
Medawar, Peter. Advice to a Young Scientist. London: Harper and Row, 1979.
Polkinghorne, John. One World. London: SPCK, 1986.
Reeves, Michael. The Good God: Enjoying Father, Son and Spirit. United Kingdom: Paternoster Press, 2012.
Sandage, Allan. “Sizing Up the Cosmos: An Astronomer’s Quest.” Posted by John Noble Wilford. New
York Times (12 March 1991).
Vilenken, Alex. Many Worlds in One. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
Ward, Keith. God, Chance, and Necessity. Oxford: One World Publications, 1996.
Wheeler, J. M. and G. W. Foote. Voltaire. London: R. Forder, 1894.
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Week 5
Athanasius, Four Discourses Ag. Arians II.16, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the
Christian Church, eds. H. Wace and P. Schaff, Series 2 Book IV. New York: Christian, 1887-1900.
Berlinski, David. The Devil’s Delusion. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Borne, Etienne. Atheism. New York: Hawthorn, 1961.
Coupland, Douglas. Life After God. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Durant. Will. On the Meaning of Life. New York: R. Long & R. R. Smith, Inc., 1932.
Edwards, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol 1. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Frankl, Viktor. The Doctor and the Soul: Introduction to Logotherapy. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Mowrer, O. Hobart. “Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,” American Psychologist 15 (1960): 301-304.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 90.
Nietzsche, Frederick. “The Madman,” in The Portable Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann, ed. New York: Viking, 1954.
Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, 2d edition. MacDonald, Scherf, eds. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999.
Zacharias, Ravi. Can Man Live Without God? Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1994.
Week 6
Adams, Robert Merrihew. Finite and Infinite Goods. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Albright, William F. Archaeology and the Religion of Israel. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1968.
Copan, Paul. “Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites,” Evangelical Philosophical Society available at
https://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=63; accessed May 13, 2014.
Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, 3d. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008.
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998.
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Hess, Richard S. "Early Israel in Canaan: A Survey of Recent Evidence and Interpretations," Palestinian Exploration
Quarterly 125 (1993): 125–42.
Lennox, John C. “Challenges from Science” in Beyond Opinion: Living The Faith That We Defend, Ravi Zacharias, ed.
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009.
Mackie, J. L. The Miracle of Theism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 90.
Volf, Miroslav. Free of Charge. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lecture on Ethics. Cambridge University: Heretics Society, 1929.
Zacharias, Ravi. The End of Reason. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008.
Week 7
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: T. Egerton, 1813.
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Chesterton, G. K. Tremendous Trifles. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920.
Keller, Tim. The Reason for God. New York: Penguin Group, 2008.
Kessler, Edward. What Do Jews Believe?: The Customs and Culture of Modern Judaism. New York: Walker
Publishing Company, 2007.
Marcin, Raymond B. In Search of Schopenhauer’s Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Quantum-Mystical Theory of
Justice. Washington, DC: Catholic University of American Press, 2006.
Nietzsche, Friedrich W. and Francis Golffing (translator). The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Piper, John. God is the Gospel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005.
Rockwell, F. A. How to Write Nonfiction that Sells. Washington, DC: H. Regnery Company, 1975.
Schaeffer, Francis. Escape from Reason. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
Sherman, David. Camus. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Ueda, Makoto. Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa Leiden. Netherlands: Brill, 2004.
Yount, David. Be Strong and Courageous: Letters to My Children about Being Christian. Franklin, WI: Sheed &
Ward, 2000.
Zagzebski Linda and Timothy D. Miller. Readings in Philosophy of Religion: Ancient to Contemporary. Oxford,
UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009.
Week 8
Baggini, Julian. “Hope against Hope,” UK: New Humanist (2 July 2012): available at
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/2828/hope-against-hope
Coles, Richard. Review of Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists. Available at http://www.theguardian.com/
books/2012/jan/22/religion-atheists-de-botton-review.
Grayling, A. C. “Euphoria Will Fade, But Hope Springs Eternal,” Reader in Philosophy London: Birkbeck College
(9 November 2008): available at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/a-c-grayling-euphoria-will-fade-but-hope-springs-eter- nal-1003448.html.
Guinness, Os. Unspeakable. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Valedictory Address to Medical Graduates at Harvard University (10 March 1858);
published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. LVIII, No. 8, (25 March 1858).
Lapide, Pinchas. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective, trans. Wilhelm C. Linss. London: SPCK, 1983.
McGrath, Alister. Christian Theology: An Introduction. West Sussex, UK: Wiley & Blackwell, 2011.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, trans. Helen Zimmern and Paul V. Cohn.
Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2012.
Robinson, J. Armitage, and Montague Rhodes James. The Gospel According To Peter, And The Revelation of
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Peter. London: Cambridge University Press, 1892.
Stott, John R. W. The Cross of Christ. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006.
Strauss, David Frederick. The Life of Jesus for the People, 2d ed., Vol. 1. London: Williams and Norgate, 1879.
Wright, N. T. Surprised By Hope. New York: Harper One, 2008.
_____. Reflecting the Glory. Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 1998.
Wright, Willard H. What Nietzsche Taught. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917.
Week 9
Badawi, Zaki. Islam in Britain. London: Ta-Ha Publishers, 1981.
Geisler, Norman and Winfried Corduan. Philosophy of Religion, 2d ed. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock
Publishers, 2003.
Lesser, Elizabeth. The New American Spirituality: The Seeker's Guide. New York: Random House, 1999.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossain. Ideals and Realities of Islam. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Lectures to My Students. Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1990.
Zacharias, Ravi. Why Jesus? New York: Faith Words, 2012.
_____. Can Man Live Without God? Nashville, TN: W. Publishing Group, 1994.
Week 10
Atkins, Peter. “The Limitless Power of Science,” in Nature’s Imagination, John Cornwell, ed. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
_____. “Growing Up in the Universe.” London: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 1991.
_____. "Religion's Misguided Missiles," in The Guardian, (15 September 2001); available at
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/15/september11.politicsphilosophyandsociety1
_____. River Out of Eden. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
_____. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Eagleton, Terry. Reason, Faith, and Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Einstein, Albert. “Physics and Reality" (1936), in Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann. New York: Bonanza, 1954.
Gray, John. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson. Possible Worlds. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Hess, John C. "French Nobel Biologist Says World Based On Chance." New York Times (15 March 1971).
Hitchens, Christopher. “Religion Kills” in God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Toronto, Canada:
Emblem Editions, 2007.
Klein, George. The Atheist in the Holy City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Kurtz, Paul. In Defense of Secular Humanism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1983.
_____. Philosophical Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Lennox, John C. Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing the Target. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2011.
_____. “How do I Account for the Existence of Consciousness, Thought, and the Human Self?” in The
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Missing Link,
ed. Roy Abraham Varghese. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013.
Lewis, C. S. Miracles. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
_____. The Abolition of Man. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
_____. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. New York: Macmillan Publishing, Co., 1980.
Lewontin, Richard. “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books (9 January 1997).
Micklethwait, John. "In God's Name." The Economist (1 November 2007).
Nagel, Thomas. Mind and Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Plantinga, Alvin. Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2011.
Sagan,, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980.
Wolf, Gary. "The Church of the Non-Believers.” WIRED, Issue 14.11 (November 2006).
Wright, N. T. “Can We Believe In The Resurrection,” ABC Religion And Ethics (last modified 4 August 2011);
available at http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/04/22/3198806.htm.; accessed June 12, 2014.
Week 11
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Ehrman, Bart. “From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity,” in Lecture 4: Oral and Written
Traditions about Jesus. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2003.
_____. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary
Magdalene, and Constantine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Flew, Antony with Roy Abraham Varghese. There is a God. New York: HarperOne, 2007.
Guinness, Os. God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1996.
_____. In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt and How to Resolve It. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1976.
Hummel, Charles. E. Doubters Welcome. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1964.
Lecky, W. E. H. A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne 11. London: Longmans Green & Co., 1869.
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
_____. They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves. New York: Collier Books, 1986.
Naxir-Ali, Michael. Frontiers in Muslim-Christian Encounter. Oxford: Regnum Books, 1987.
Schaff, Philip. The Person of Christ. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1866.
Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998.
Wells, George Herbert. A Short History of the World. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
Yancey, Philip. Reaching for the Invisible God. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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Core Module Recommended Reading
These resources represent a recommended reading list associated with Core Module lectures to help you continue studying in specific areas of interest beyond the Core Module. Some resources could be found at the RZIM Bookstore while other resources may be found through other book distributors.
Week 1
Norman L. Geisler, Christian Apologetics, 2d ed.
Ravi Zacharias, Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality
Ravi Zacharias, “The Church’s Role in Apologetics and the Development of the Mind” in Beyond
Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend, Ravi Zacharias, editor
John Njoroge, Apologetics: Why Your Church Needs It
James W. Sire, Naming the Elephant: Worldview As a Concept
Week 2
Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks, Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical
Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
Esther Lightcap Meek, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People
Frederick F Schmitt, Truth: A Primer
George I. Mavrodes, Belief in God: A Study in the Epistemology of Religion
Paul K. Moser, Dwayne H. Mulder, and J.D. Trout, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
Esther Lightcap Meek, Loving to Know: Covenant Epistemology
Dan Scott, Faith to Faith: A Conversation about Christianity and World Religions
Mary Poplin, Is Reality Secular?: Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews
Week 3
James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of The Christian Message
Abdu H. Murray, Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
Norman L. Geisler and William D. Watkins, Worlds Apart: A Handbook of World Views, 2d ed.
Dean C. Halverson, ed., The Compact Guide to World Religions
Michael R. Lincona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A Historiographical Approach
Andy Bannister, et al. Short Answers; available at https://www.solas-cpc.org/category/video/shortanswers/
Week 4
Gerald L. Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible
William A. Dembski, ed., Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design
James Porter Moreland and John Mark Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution
William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
Colin E. Gunton, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Toward a Fully Trinitarian Theology
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Saint Augustine, The Trinity (De Trinitate)
C.J. Collins, Science and Faith
Edgar Andrews, Who Made God? (3rd edition)
William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith
David Glass, Exploring and Exposing the Claims of the New Atheists
John Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything
John Lennox, God and Stephen Hawking (2nd edition)
John Lennox, Seven Days that Divide the World (2nd edition)
Week 5
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Paul K. Moser, Why Isn’t God More Obvious? – Finding the God Who Hides and Seeks
Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias, Cries of the Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far
Thomas V. Morris, Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life
John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs, ‘Misapprehensions about the fine-tuning argument,’ Religious Epistemology, Volume 81 (October 2017): 133-55.
Tim Mawson, ‘Explaining the fine tuning of the universe to us and the fine tuning of us to the universe.’ Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Volume 68 (2011): 25-50.
Week 6
Paul K. Moser and Thomas L. Carson, Moral Relativism: A Reader
Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser, Morality and the Good Life
J. Budziszewski, Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition Man
Arthur F. Holmes, Fact, Value, and God
Paul Chamberlain, Can We Be Good Without God?: A Conversation About Truth, Morality, Culture & a Few Other Things That Matter
Week 7
John G. Stackhouse Jr., Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil
R. Douglas Geivett, Evil And The Evidence For God
Henri Blocher, Evil and The Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain
Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out Of Suffering
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil
Daniel Howard-Snyder, ed., The Evidential Argument From Evil
Week 8
Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland, eds., Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the
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Historical Jesus
Lee Strobel, The Case For Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
John Wenham, Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts in Conflict?
John R. W. Stott, The Cross Of Christ
N. T. Wright, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N. T. Wright, The Resurrection Of The Son Of God (Christian Origins And The Question Of God, Vol. 3)
Week 9
Abdiyah Akbar Abdul-Haqq, Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim
Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
Norman L. Geisler and Abdul Saleeb, Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of The Christian Message
Dean C. Halverson, ed., The Compact Guide to World Religions
Rabi R. Maharaj, Death of a Guru: A Remarkable True Story of One Man’s Search for Truth
David K. Clark and Norman L. Geisler, Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism
Ravi Zacharias, New Birth or Rebirth? Jesus Talks with Krishna
Richard Shumack, Jesus Through Muslim Eyes
Andy Bannister, Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? (published by InterVarsity Press and available March 2021)
Week 10
Alvin Plantinga, Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting The Foundations of Naturalism
Phillip E. Johnson, Reason In The Balance: The Case Against Naturalism In Science, Law, And Education
Thomas Nagel, Mind And Cosmos: Why The Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
John C. Lennox, Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing The Target
John C. Lennox, Has Science Buried God?
Alister E. McGrath, The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise And Fall Of Disbelief In The Modern World
Ravi Zacharias, The End Of Reason: A Response To The New Atheists
Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist
C. S. Lewis, Miracles
Week 11
Alister McGrath, Doubting: Growing Through The Uncertainties Of Faith
Gary R. Habermas, The Thomas Factor: Using Your Doubts To Draw Closer To God
Os Guinness, In Two Minds: The Dilemma Of Doubt And How To Resolve It
Os Guinness, God In The Dark: The Assurance Of Faith Beyond A Shadow Of Doubt
Paul Moser, Why Isn’t God More Obvious?: Finding The God Who Hides And Seeks
Philip Yancey, Reaching For The Invisible God: What Can We Expect To Find?
F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
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Jeffrey L. Sheler, Is The Bible True?: How Modern Debates And Discoveries Affirm The Essence Of The Scriptures
Week 12
Naomi Zacharias, The Scent of Water: Grace for Every Kind of Broken
Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through The Events of Our Lives
Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?
Additional Readings in Science and Religion (History)
E. Bernard Cohen, editor. Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science
James Hannam, God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion
David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science, 2nd edition
Ronald L. Numbers, editor. Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
Core Module
Recommended Resources
FREE RZIM RESOURCES
Resources are available through the RZIM website to support further exploration of topics associated with evangelism undergirded by apologetics. RZIM provides three categories of FREE resources under the tabs – Listen, Read, and Watch.
LISTEN to Podcasts. You may subscribe to any of the RZIM podcasts for continuous access to content. Or, you may select a podcast and use the “Filter” feature to narrow the episode selection to more specific topics of interest. “Apply” the filters and select the episode to listen.
READ RZIM Articles. You can browse articles produced by our late founder, Ravi Zacharias and RZIM’s team of speakers and writers (or filter the articles by selecting specific topics.)
WATCH RZIM Videos. You can watch videos produced by our late founder, Ravi Zacharias and RZIM’s team of speakers and writers (or filter the videos by selecting specific topics).
CORE MODULE REFERENCE WORKS
These resources are not required for completion of the Core Module and only represent some of the titles referenced in specific Core Module lectures. Titles by RZIM speakers could be found at the RZIM Bookstore while other resources may be found through other book distributors.
Week 1
Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization III: Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
Week 2
Clark, David C. Dialogical Apologetics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.
Grenz, Stanley. A Primer on Postmodernism. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996.
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.
_____. Essays and Treaties on Several Subjects, vol.2 – “Of Miracles.” London: T. Cadell, 1784.
Kreeft, Peter and Ronald K. Tacelli. Handbook of Christian Apologetics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
Lewis, C. S. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 1970.
_____. “Is Theology Poetry?” Oxford: Socratic Club, 1944.
_____. Miracles. London: Collins, 1947.
Meek, Esther Lightcap. Longing to Know. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2003.
Newbigin, Lesslie. Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. London: SPCK, Holy Trinity
Church, Marylebone Road, 1995.
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Week 3
Berger, Peter L., editor. The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics. Grand Rapids, MI:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999.
Chesterton, G. K. The Thing. London: Sheed & Ward, 1929.
Dawkins, Richard. River Out of Eden. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
Guinness, Os. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. Nashville, TN: W. Publishing
Group, 2003.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Lewis, C. S. God in the Dock. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1970.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21(1984): 90.
Russell, Bertrand. Why I Am Not a Christian, ed. P. Edwards. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.
Sheldrake, Rupert. Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions
and Bear & Co., 2009.
Wright, N. T. The Challenge of Jesus. Downers Grove: IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999.
Zacharias, Ravi. The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008.
Zacharias, Ravi. The Real Face of Atheism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004.
Week 4
Albert, David. "On the Origin of Everything,” New York Times (March 23, 2012).
Atkins, Peter. Creation Revisited. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
Augustine. The Trinity. New York: New City Press, 1991.
Bray, Gerald Lewis. God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012.
Browne, Malcolm. "Clues to the Universe’s Origin Expected,' The New York Times (12 March 1978).
Calvin, Melvin. Chemical Evolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Devlin, Hannah. “Hawking: God Did Not Create Universe.” The Times (4 September 2010).
Harrison, Edward. Masks of the Universe. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Krauss, Lawrence. A Universe from Nothing. New York: Free Press, 2012.
Lewis, C. S. Miracles. London: Collins, 1947.
Lloyd-Jones, Martyn. Great Doctrines of the Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012.
Medawar, Peter. Advice to a Young Scientist. London: Harper and Row, 1979.
Polkinghorne, John. One World. London: SPCK, 1986.
Reeves, Michael. The Good God: Enjoying Father, Son and Spirit. United Kingdom: Paternoster Press, 2012.
Sandage, Allan. “Sizing Up the Cosmos: An Astronomer’s Quest.” Posted by John Noble Wilford. New
York Times (12 March 1991).
Vilenken, Alex. Many Worlds in One. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
Ward, Keith. God, Chance, and Necessity. Oxford: One World Publications, 1996.
Wheeler, J. M. and G. W. Foote. Voltaire. London: R. Forder, 1894.
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Week 5
Athanasius, Four Discourses Ag. Arians II.16, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the
Christian Church, eds. H. Wace and P. Schaff, Series 2 Book IV. New York: Christian, 1887-1900.
Berlinski, David. The Devil’s Delusion. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Borne, Etienne. Atheism. New York: Hawthorn, 1961.
Coupland, Douglas. Life After God. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Durant. Will. On the Meaning of Life. New York: R. Long & R. R. Smith, Inc., 1932.
Edwards, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol 1. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Frankl, Viktor. The Doctor and the Soul: Introduction to Logotherapy. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Mowrer, O. Hobart. “Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,” American Psychologist 15 (1960): 301-304.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 90.
Nietzsche, Frederick. “The Madman,” in The Portable Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann, ed. New York: Viking, 1954.
Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, 2d edition. MacDonald, Scherf, eds. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999.
Zacharias, Ravi. Can Man Live Without God? Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1994.
Week 6
Adams, Robert Merrihew. Finite and Infinite Goods. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Albright, William F. Archaeology and the Religion of Israel. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1968.
Copan, Paul. “Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites,” Evangelical Philosophical Society available at
https://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=63; accessed May 13, 2014.
Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, 3d. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008.
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998.
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Hess, Richard S. "Early Israel in Canaan: A Survey of Recent Evidence and Interpretations," Palestinian Exploration
Quarterly 125 (1993): 125–42.
Lennox, John C. “Challenges from Science” in Beyond Opinion: Living The Faith That We Defend, Ravi Zacharias, ed.
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009.
Mackie, J. L. The Miracle of Theism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879.
Nielson, Kai. “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 90.
Volf, Miroslav. Free of Charge. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lecture on Ethics. Cambridge University: Heretics Society, 1929.
Zacharias, Ravi. The End of Reason. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008.
Week 7
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: T. Egerton, 1813.
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Chesterton, G. K. Tremendous Trifles. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920.
Keller, Tim. The Reason for God. New York: Penguin Group, 2008.
Kessler, Edward. What Do Jews Believe?: The Customs and Culture of Modern Judaism. New York: Walker
Publishing Company, 2007.
Marcin, Raymond B. In Search of Schopenhauer’s Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Quantum-Mystical Theory of
Justice. Washington, DC: Catholic University of American Press, 2006.
Nietzsche, Friedrich W. and Francis Golffing (translator). The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Piper, John. God is the Gospel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005.
Rockwell, F. A. How to Write Nonfiction that Sells. Washington, DC: H. Regnery Company, 1975.
Schaeffer, Francis. Escape from Reason. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
Sherman, David. Camus. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Ueda, Makoto. Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa Leiden. Netherlands: Brill, 2004.
Yount, David. Be Strong and Courageous: Letters to My Children about Being Christian. Franklin, WI: Sheed &
Ward, 2000.
Zagzebski Linda and Timothy D. Miller. Readings in Philosophy of Religion: Ancient to Contemporary. Oxford,
UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009.
Week 8
Baggini, Julian. “Hope against Hope,” UK: New Humanist (2 July 2012): available at
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/2828/hope-against-hope
Coles, Richard. Review of Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists. Available at http://www.theguardian.com/
books/2012/jan/22/religion-atheists-de-botton-review.
Grayling, A. C. “Euphoria Will Fade, But Hope Springs Eternal,” Reader in Philosophy London: Birkbeck College
(9 November 2008): available at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/a-c-grayling-euphoria-will-fade-but-hope-springs-eter- nal-1003448.html.
Guinness, Os. Unspeakable. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Valedictory Address to Medical Graduates at Harvard University (10 March 1858);
published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. LVIII, No. 8, (25 March 1858).
Lapide, Pinchas. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective, trans. Wilhelm C. Linss. London: SPCK, 1983.
McGrath, Alister. Christian Theology: An Introduction. West Sussex, UK: Wiley & Blackwell, 2011.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, trans. Helen Zimmern and Paul V. Cohn.
Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2012.
Robinson, J. Armitage, and Montague Rhodes James. The Gospel According To Peter, And The Revelation of
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Peter. London: Cambridge University Press, 1892.
Stott, John R. W. The Cross of Christ. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006.
Strauss, David Frederick. The Life of Jesus for the People, 2d ed., Vol. 1. London: Williams and Norgate, 1879.
Wright, N. T. Surprised By Hope. New York: Harper One, 2008.
_____. Reflecting the Glory. Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 1998.
Wright, Willard H. What Nietzsche Taught. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917.
Week 9
Badawi, Zaki. Islam in Britain. London: Ta-Ha Publishers, 1981.
Geisler, Norman and Winfried Corduan. Philosophy of Religion, 2d ed. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock
Publishers, 2003.
Lesser, Elizabeth. The New American Spirituality: The Seeker's Guide. New York: Random House, 1999.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossain. Ideals and Realities of Islam. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Lectures to My Students. Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1990.
Zacharias, Ravi. Why Jesus? New York: Faith Words, 2012.
_____. Can Man Live Without God? Nashville, TN: W. Publishing Group, 1994.
Week 10
Atkins, Peter. “The Limitless Power of Science,” in Nature’s Imagination, John Cornwell, ed. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
_____. “Growing Up in the Universe.” London: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 1991.
_____. "Religion's Misguided Missiles," in The Guardian, (15 September 2001); available at
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/15/september11.politicsphilosophyandsociety1
_____. River Out of Eden. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
_____. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Eagleton, Terry. Reason, Faith, and Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Einstein, Albert. “Physics and Reality" (1936), in Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann. New York: Bonanza, 1954.
Gray, John. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson. Possible Worlds. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Hess, John C. "French Nobel Biologist Says World Based On Chance." New York Times (15 March 1971).
Hitchens, Christopher. “Religion Kills” in God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Toronto, Canada:
Emblem Editions, 2007.
Klein, George. The Atheist in the Holy City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Kurtz, Paul. In Defense of Secular Humanism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1983.
_____. Philosophical Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Lennox, John C. Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing the Target. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2011.
_____. “How do I Account for the Existence of Consciousness, Thought, and the Human Self?” in The
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Missing Link,
ed. Roy Abraham Varghese. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013.
Lewis, C. S. Miracles. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
_____. The Abolition of Man. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
_____. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. New York: Macmillan Publishing, Co., 1980.
Lewontin, Richard. “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books (9 January 1997).
Micklethwait, John. "In God's Name." The Economist (1 November 2007).
Nagel, Thomas. Mind and Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Plantinga, Alvin. Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2011.
Sagan,, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980.
Wolf, Gary. "The Church of the Non-Believers.” WIRED, Issue 14.11 (November 2006).
Wright, N. T. “Can We Believe In The Resurrection,” ABC Religion And Ethics (last modified 4 August 2011);
available at http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/04/22/3198806.htm.; accessed June 12, 2014.
Week 11
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Ehrman, Bart. “From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity,” in Lecture 4: Oral and Written
Traditions about Jesus. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2003.
_____. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary
Magdalene, and Constantine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Flew, Antony with Roy Abraham Varghese. There is a God. New York: HarperOne, 2007.
Guinness, Os. God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1996.
_____. In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt and How to Resolve It. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1976.
Hummel, Charles. E. Doubters Welcome. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1964.
Lecky, W. E. H. A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne 11. London: Longmans Green & Co., 1869.
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
_____. They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves. New York: Collier Books, 1986.
Naxir-Ali, Michael. Frontiers in Muslim-Christian Encounter. Oxford: Regnum Books, 1987.
Schaff, Philip. The Person of Christ. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1866.
Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998.
Wells, George Herbert. A Short History of the World. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
Yancey, Philip. Reaching for the Invisible God. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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These resources represent a recommended reading list associated with Core Module lectures to help you continue studying in specific areas of interest beyond the Core Module. Some resources could be found at the RZIM Bookstore while other resources may be found through other book distributors.
Week 1
Norman L. Geisler, Christian Apologetics, 2d ed.
Ravi Zacharias, Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality
Ravi Zacharias, “The Church’s Role in Apologetics and the Development of the Mind” in Beyond
Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend, Ravi Zacharias, editor
John Njoroge, Apologetics: Why Your Church Needs It
James W. Sire, Naming the Elephant: Worldview As a Concept
Week 2
Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks, Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical
Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
Esther Lightcap Meek, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People
Frederick F Schmitt, Truth: A Primer
George I. Mavrodes, Belief in God: A Study in the Epistemology of Religion
Paul K. Moser, Dwayne H. Mulder, and J.D. Trout, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
Esther Lightcap Meek, Loving to Know: Covenant Epistemology
Dan Scott, Faith to Faith: A Conversation about Christianity and World Religions
Mary Poplin, Is Reality Secular?: Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews
Week 3
James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of The Christian Message
Abdu H. Murray, Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
Norman L. Geisler and William D. Watkins, Worlds Apart: A Handbook of World Views, 2d ed.
Dean C. Halverson, ed., The Compact Guide to World Religions
Michael R. Lincona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A Historiographical Approach
Andy Bannister, et al. Short Answers; available at https://www.solas-cpc.org/category/video/shortanswers/
Week 4
Gerald L. Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible
William A. Dembski, ed., Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design
James Porter Moreland and John Mark Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution
William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
Colin E. Gunton, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Toward a Fully Trinitarian Theology
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Saint Augustine, The Trinity (De Trinitate)
C.J. Collins, Science and Faith
Edgar Andrews, Who Made God? (3rd edition)
William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith
David Glass, Exploring and Exposing the Claims of the New Atheists
John Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything
John Lennox, God and Stephen Hawking (2nd edition)
John Lennox, Seven Days that Divide the World (2nd edition)
Week 5
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Paul K. Moser, Why Isn’t God More Obvious? – Finding the God Who Hides and Seeks
Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias, Cries of the Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far
Thomas V. Morris, Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life
John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs, ‘Misapprehensions about the fine-tuning argument,’ Religious Epistemology, Volume 81 (October 2017): 133-55.
Tim Mawson, ‘Explaining the fine tuning of the universe to us and the fine tuning of us to the universe.’ Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Volume 68 (2011): 25-50.
Week 6
Paul K. Moser and Thomas L. Carson, Moral Relativism: A Reader
Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser, Morality and the Good Life
J. Budziszewski, Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition Man
Arthur F. Holmes, Fact, Value, and God
Paul Chamberlain, Can We Be Good Without God?: A Conversation About Truth, Morality, Culture & a Few Other Things That Matter
Week 7
John G. Stackhouse Jr., Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil
R. Douglas Geivett, Evil And The Evidence For God
Henri Blocher, Evil and The Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain
Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out Of Suffering
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil
Daniel Howard-Snyder, ed., The Evidential Argument From Evil
Week 8
Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland, eds., Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the
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Historical Jesus
Lee Strobel, The Case For Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
John Wenham, Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts in Conflict?
John R. W. Stott, The Cross Of Christ
N. T. Wright, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N. T. Wright, The Resurrection Of The Son Of God (Christian Origins And The Question Of God, Vol. 3)
Week 9
Abdiyah Akbar Abdul-Haqq, Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim
Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
Norman L. Geisler and Abdul Saleeb, Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of The Christian Message
Dean C. Halverson, ed., The Compact Guide to World Religions
Rabi R. Maharaj, Death of a Guru: A Remarkable True Story of One Man’s Search for Truth
David K. Clark and Norman L. Geisler, Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism
Ravi Zacharias, New Birth or Rebirth? Jesus Talks with Krishna
Richard Shumack, Jesus Through Muslim Eyes
Andy Bannister, Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? (published by InterVarsity Press and available March 2021)
Week 10
Alvin Plantinga, Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting The Foundations of Naturalism
Phillip E. Johnson, Reason In The Balance: The Case Against Naturalism In Science, Law, And Education
Thomas Nagel, Mind And Cosmos: Why The Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
John C. Lennox, Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing The Target
John C. Lennox, Has Science Buried God?
Alister E. McGrath, The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise And Fall Of Disbelief In The Modern World
Ravi Zacharias, The End Of Reason: A Response To The New Atheists
Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist
C. S. Lewis, Miracles
Week 11
Alister McGrath, Doubting: Growing Through The Uncertainties Of Faith
Gary R. Habermas, The Thomas Factor: Using Your Doubts To Draw Closer To God
Os Guinness, In Two Minds: The Dilemma Of Doubt And How To Resolve It
Os Guinness, God In The Dark: The Assurance Of Faith Beyond A Shadow Of Doubt
Paul Moser, Why Isn’t God More Obvious?: Finding The God Who Hides And Seeks
Philip Yancey, Reaching For The Invisible God: What Can We Expect To Find?
F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
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Jeffrey L. Sheler, Is The Bible True?: How Modern Debates And Discoveries Affirm The Essence Of The Scriptures
Week 12
Naomi Zacharias, The Scent of Water: Grace for Every Kind of Broken
Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through The Events of Our Lives
Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?
Additional Readings in Science and Religion (History)
E. Bernard Cohen, editor. Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science
James Hannam, God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion
David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science, 2nd edition
Ronald L. Numbers, editor. Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
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