Even though I don’t think that we can have all the growing list of books at ESN’s Urbana09 table, please keep the recommendations coming as we can provide provide a handout with ‘additional recommendations’ on specific topics AND refer those who swing by the table to the blog ;-)

1. Henri Blocher’s “In The Beginning.” Comment from a friend, “Evangelical enlightenment starts with Blocher.” I also find Blocher’s work excellent, particularly “Evil & the Cross,” http://groshlink.net/archives/2005/12/09/evil_and_the_cross

2. Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation,” “The Myth of a Christian Religion,” “Satan and the Problem of Evil,” “Letters from a Skeptic,” http://www.gregboyd.org/ FYI: “Letters from a Skeptic,” http://groshlink.net/archives/2007/10/06/c.-s.-lewis-seminar

3. Richard Dawkins’s “The God Delusion” as part of an apologetics class. FYI: “The Dawkins Delusion,” http://groshlink.net/archives/2007/03/20/the-dawkins-delusion

4. J.I. Packer’s “Knowing God,” http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=1651 — mentioned 2x. One alum noted as “most influential book for me in college.”

5. John Piper’s “Desiring God,” available on-line at http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/OnlineBooks/ByTitle/1594_Desiring_God/

6. John Polkinghorne, http://www.polkinghorne.net

7. Ben Witherington, http://www.benwitherington.com/

8. N.T. Wright, http://www.ntwrightpage.com/
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PS. Here’s a few books which a friend wanted to make sure we didn’t miss …

-Waging Peace on Islam, Mallouhi, http://www.biblio.com/books/252945702.html

-Economics as Religion, Nelson, http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02095-4.html

-Technopoly, Postman, http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/2058368/Neil_Postman.html

-Neither Poverty Nor Riches, Blomberg, http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=2607

-Paradigms on Pilgrimage, Godfrey & Smith, http://www.biblio.com/books/283313539.html

-The Christian in Complete Armor, Gurnall, http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4451 Note: mentioned above by Miller.

So many books, so little time! :)

(1) The Christian in Complete Armour..three volumes, small paperback abridgment of the Puritan classic by William Gurnall..pub. Banner of Truth Trust…stirs me to prayer and repentance

(2) Long Journey Home, Os Guinness, pub. Doubleday Waterford Press…directs serious seekers through stories of those who struggled…Bertrand Russell searched for love in a universe he declared to be without point or purpose..in “A Free Man’s Worship”, he asks us to create our own meaning since there is no God…late in life he said he was a coward when he wrote this book.

(3) “Reason for God”, Tim Keller…if you haven’t already heard him speak, or read this book a good introduction would be to watch this youtube of his university talk in CA: he wants skeptics to learn to “doubt their doubts”…his spoken presentations are better than his written… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxup3OS5ZhQ … the influence of CS Lewis and Francis Schaeffer are evident.

(4) “The question of God: CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex, and the meaning of life”…Armand Nicholi..this is the textbook for Prof. Nicholi’s very popular class at harvard. PBS produced a television series based on this book, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/ … the DVD is available.

(5) Henri Nouwen, any of his journals that search our hearts deeply…he taught spiritual formation at harvard and yale before he found a home at L’Arche community in Toronto, where he cared for the profoundly disabled Adam, who became the Christ child to him….he’s often painfully confessional…

Before they graduate:
Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Wolters, Creation Regained: The Biblical Basis for a Reformational Worldview
Veith, God at Work
Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Willard, Renovation of the Heart
Greene, The Power and the Glory