Francis J. Beckwith
Apologetics
“What a wonderful little book. Johnson and Reynolds offer a clear, readable and intelligent critique of the new atheism. But they offer something more: joy, hope and love. You get both the reason and the romance of the Christian story. So the new atheism comes across not so much as wrong, but as one-dimensional and childish, a sort of intellectual pornography claiming to be true love. Johnson and Reynolds's complementary combination of intellectual and theological virtues is a fire that both warms and purifies.”
An Analytic Theology of Evangelism
Theology
“Tyler McNabb’s analytic theology of evangelism is original, insightful, and illuminating. It is a model of philosophical rigor that provides the tools to help Christian philosophers, clergy, and ordinary believers appreciate why the church has warrant to share the gospel.”
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Although as a Catholic I part ways with the authors on a couple of issues—such as birth control and the use of images—this is an amazingly careful piece of work. Robertson McQuilkin and Paul Copan offer to their readers a clear and compelling account of an evangelical Protestant understanding of biblical ethics, one from which those outside this tradition can learn much. What makes this book historically interesting is that it is a third edition of a classic originally authored by McQuilkin, a legendary figure in American evangelicalism and a pioneer in the field of contemporary biblical ethics. But now it has been revised and authored in collaboration with one of the most prolific Christian philosophers alive today, Copan. As one would expect, this rare combination of talents makes for an important contribution to the study of ethics.”
Chesterton and the Philosophers
Philosophy
“Very few professional philosophers would count G. K. Chesterston as a `philosopher,’ since he believed that true philosophy should be accessible, rooted in common sense, and not merely theorized, but lived. This, in my judgment, is what makes Chesterton a far better guide for pursuing what Socrates called the ‘examined life’ than much of what has found its way into the official journals of the profession. For this reason, Chesterton and the Philosophers is a welcomed contribution to better understanding the importance of Chesterton’s work and why he should be counted as one the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Norman Geisler has provided a compilation and commentary on the issue of evolution, public education, and the courts that will serve as an important resource for decades to come. Dr. Geisler convincingly shows that much of the debate over this issue is a jurisprudential mess resulting from philosophically confused though well-meaning scientists and jurists. He offers just the sort of clarity this debate requires.”
Philosophy
“This is a fine piece of work, one that makes a unique contribution to Christian philosophical reflection. Professor Downey offers an account of the Christian view of life and meaning that has practical implications for politics and what it means to be a follower of Christ in a fallen world. It is one of the best articulations of Christian political philosophy that I have read in quite some time.”
Theology
“This is an amazing book. Professor Echeverria, artfully and persuasively, shows how the Catholic and Reformed traditions can better understand, as well as learn from, each other. This book is a model on how Christians ought to think about the relationship between faith and reason and how that understanding informs ecumenical dialogue.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This wonderful collection of essays clearly shows that Evangelicals, contrary to the conventional wisdom, are fully prepared to enter into serious conversation with each other and their non-Evangelical neighbors on issues of government, religion, and the common good. In an age in which many militant secularists uncharitably paint all serious Christians as closet theocrats, this book shows once and for all that such a portrait is pretentious defamation in the cause of atheocratic utopianism.”
Christian Living
“Monsma is one of the most important scholars writing on church-state issues today. This latest contribution is perhaps his finest work. It brings together his wide-ranging knowledge of the history of politics and jurisprudence with a theological seriousness that is often lacking in church-state scholarship.”
Christian Living
“Jerry Walls shows once again that on the four last things—death, judgment, hell, and heaven—he is by far the most thoughtful evangelical philosopher. His mastery of Scripture, historical theology, and the philosophical literature is unmatched.”
How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps
Theology
“While showing appreciation and respect for his evangelical patrimony, Christian Smith offers a careful, clear, and thoughtful path to the Catholic Church for those evangelicals who are entertaining Catholicism as they seek to walk more authentically in Christ. This is a truly unique contribution to the growing literature authored by former evangelicals who have found their way to St. Peter's barque.”
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Philosophy
“This is a clearly written, wonderfully engaging account of Aristotelianism for our contemporary world. It is, in short, a defense of `first philosophy,' the idea that philosophy and philosophical reflection is the starting point of, and that which illuminates and clarifies, all that we believe that we know in the other disciplines in the university, especially the hard sciences. I applaud Professor Machuga for this outstanding book.”
New Proofs for the Existence of God
Apologetics
“A most original and insightful case for the existence of God. . . Fr. Spitzer's new proofs pose a serious and compelling challenge to the unconscious hegemony of naturalism in the worlds of both philosophy and the sciences.”
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
Philosophy
“Addressing some of the most important questions concerning the relationship between faith and reason, Craig and Moreland provide the serious student of philosophy a coherent and tightly argued account of the intellectual credentials of Christian belief. Although I sometimes find myself disagreeing with them (e.g., on divine simplicity and timelessness), their mastery of philosophical argument is impressive.”
Philosophy
“In an age in which being a 'Professional Philosopher' has eclipsed the actual practice of philosophy—pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful so that one may live well—Doug Groothuis's Philosophy in Seven Sentences is a breath of fresh air. Too often those of us who identify as philosophers think of our craft as an exercise in intellectual gamesmanship with its own toolkit and narrow list of 'problems' with which we are supposed to deal. In this small though powerful book, Groothuis reminds us that when Socrates said that 'the unexamined life is not worth living,' he was doing something much more important than just publishing a career-making breakthrough in metaethics. He was actually doing philosophy.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Political Thought is a wonderful introduction to the study of politics. Hunter Baker writes as a true teacher, offering not only rigor and clarity but also a personal touch. He shows his reader that the study of political thought is not just an abstract exercise for dreary academics, but an application of practical reason to the question of how we are to live together in freedom and order to advance the common good. While introducing the student to the greatest political philosophers in history, Professor Baker takes great care in showing the indelible marks these thinkers have left on our civilization, and how they, for good or ill, have shaped the way Christians should critically assess their place in civil society and its political institutions.”
Apologetics
“Craig's work is philosophically and theologically first rate, though accessible to the educated layman. All Christians-Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox-can gain so much from reading and mastering Craig's 3rd edition of Reasonable Faith.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Hunter Baker is a gifted writer who knows how to communicate the issue of secularism to an audience that desperately needs to hear a critical though winsome voice on this matter. In many ways, the book is a twenty-first-century sequel to the late Richard John Neuhaus's classic, The Naked Public Square. Baker understands the issues that percolate beneath the culture wars. They are not merely political but theological and philosophical, and they are rarely unpacked in an articulate way so that the ordinary citizen can gain clarity. Baker offers his readers that clarity.”
The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Steven D. Smith is arguably the most important scholar on religion and American Constitutional Law today. With the disposition of Socrates or Lieutenant Columbo, Smith interrogates—with wit, insight, and good humor—the platitudes, just-so stories, and truisms that have dominated law and religion scholarship and Supreme Court jurisprudence since the middle of the twentieth century. Although The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic has much to commend it as a work of scholarship, it is also accessible for anyone interested in the relationship between religion and the Constitution in both history and the courts.”
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Theology
“This is an amazing piece of work. Blending social commentary with an insightful history of ideas as well as keen philosophical and theological analyses, Carl Trueman has given us what is undoubtedly the most accessible and informed account of the modern self and how it has shaped and informed the cultural battles of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. It is a fair-minded, carefully wrought diagnosis of what ails our present age. This book is essential reading for all serious religious believers who rightly sense that the ground is shifting underneath their feet, that the missionaries for the modern self are not content with simply allowing believers to practice their faith in peace but see these believers and their institutions as targets for colonization and involuntary assimilation. For this reason, every president of a faith-based college or university should read The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self more than once.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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