 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.91 An indispensible classic, especially strong on conscience as a proof of God
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 | In God We Doubt: Confessions of a Failed Atheist by John Humphrys
Buy new: £6.30 / Used from: £1.48 Urbane, open-minded discussion by a thoughtful agnostic of the arguments for and against the existence of God
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 | Jesus by A.N. Wilson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.27 A brilliant modern writer (and a sceptic of things supernatural) brings the character of Jesus to life
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 | Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £2.09 Like a densely-plotted detective novel; written in 1930 by an English lawyer who set out to disprove the Resurrection but became convinced the event really happened
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 | The Gospels and Jesus (Oxford Bible) by Graham N. Stanton
Buy used from: £1.40 A tightly-argued exposition of the Gospels by an eminent specialist in the field
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 | What Jesus Meant by Garry Wills
Buy used from: £0.76 A totally original, idiosyncratic, yet compelling study of Jesus's central message
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 | God's Politics: Why the American Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it by Jim Wallis
Buy used from: £18.95 Groundbreaking defence of Christianity from (to generalise) the left of politics
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 | The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage by Paul Johnson
Buy used from: £0.01 Highly readable account of an eminent historian's 'personal pilgramage'
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 | The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
Buy new: £9.15 / Used from: £3.02 The head of the Human Genome Project explains why modern science points towards God
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 | Jesus: A Short Life by John Dickson
Buy new: £16.95 / Used from: £9.45 A rigorous, beautifully presented biography of Jesus, complete with colour photos of important evidence about His life
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 | The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
Buy new: £18.70 / Used from: £11.95 Utterly fascinating explanation by a distinguished science-writer (who is not a believer in God) of the many amazing ways in which the Universe is 'just right for life'
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| Christianity And History
Buy used from: £2.00 A neglected masterpiece, explaining why Christianity is pre-eminently an historical religion, testable by historical methodology
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 | The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
Buy used from: £12.94 A cogently-argued, rational defence of traditional faith by one of America's most respected evangelical Christians
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 | Christian Theology: An Introduction by Alister E. McGrath
Buy new: £17.88 / Used from: £16.93 Superbly accessible exposition of all the main doctrines of the Christian faith
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £2.80 The modern-day atheist's bible, and a must-read, but weak on every subject except evolutionary biology
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 | God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £3.85 Second only to The God Delusion in atheists' esteem, an elegantly written but intemperate diatribe against religion
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 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.79 The American version of The God Delusion, a readable but shallow polemic
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 | Why I am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £6.19 Bertrand Russell was the mid-twentieth century equivalent of Richard Dawkins; his highly-influential essays are eloquent, but surprisingly thin.
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 | Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.40 A fascinating up-to-date discussion of consciousness and free will by one of the more civil and eloquent atheist writers today
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 | God, Actually: Why God Probably Exists and Why Jesus Was Probably Divine by Roy Williams
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £4.65 My attempt to explore the arguments and counter-arguments in these (and many other) books, and to explain my own personal journey from near-atheist to faith, in one convenient volume.
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