 | The Nature of Necessity (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) by Alvin Plantinga
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £23.67 An astonishing book. Gets you thinking about God in new ways, yet always faithful to the God of the Bible. If you've not read it, do so. It's far from easy, but it pays off.
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 | God, Freedom and Evil by Alvin Plantinga
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £7.47 A brilliant exposition of the free-will defence of God's goodness. Analytic theology, but very readable.
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 | God and Other Minds: Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (Cornell Paperbacks) by Alvin Plantinga
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 | Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £19.46 The culmination of Plantinga's work on religious epistemology, finally applied to specifically Christian belief. Thankfully not overly technical, humorous, and packed with thought-provoking ideas.
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 | Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £17.99 Scripture: How is it the Word of God? An application of speech-act theory to biblical interpretation, with interaction with key postmodernists. Brilliant and influential.
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 | Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism - Omniscience (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) by William Lane Craig
Buy new: £84.65 / Used from: £104.99 A comprehensive case for the Molinist view of God's omniscience. The theoretical underpinnings of much of Craig's work.
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| The Logic of God Incarnate by Thomas V. Morris
Buy used from: £23.48 Eat your heart out John Hick. A must read. Jesus, God and man? Incoherent? No. Morris demonstrates.
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 | An Essay on Free Will by Peter van Inwagen
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £20.00 Is compatibilism coherent? No, says Van Inwagen. Only true libertarian freedom is adequate to the theistic worldview.
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 | The Coherence of Theism (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) by Richard Swinburne
Buy new: £21.29 / Used from: £23.66 A treasure-trove of theistic argument.
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 | The Emergent Self (Cornell studies in the philosophy of religion) by William Hasker
Buy new: £20.50 / Used from: £20.53 Dualism outdated? Hardly.
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 | Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science by Angus Menuge
Buy new: £26.55 / Used from: £21.24 A vigorous attack on reductionists. Intelligent Design theorist with much to contribute to the ID movement, and to the philosophy of mind.
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 | No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased without Intelligence by William A. Dembski
Buy new: £27.95 / Used from: £24.63 Dembski's case for Intelligent Design expanded from the Design Inference. Can evolutionary algorythms give us the information we need for biology. No. There's no free lunch.
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 | Nature, Design and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Del Ratzsch
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £15.70 An alternative voice on ID scene. Ratzsch is not fully convinced by irreducible complexity (yet), but makes a brilliantly clear case for legitimacy of the place of supernatural design within science.
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 | Darwin's Black Box: Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Buy used from: £1.20 The ID book of all time.
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 | Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism & the Question of Truth by Harold A. Netland
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £11.24 Excellent argument for Christian particularism.
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 | The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview by Francis A. Schaeffer
Buy used from: £76.34 A total style of looking at the world - Christian - intellectual - deeply concerned.
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 | A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan
Buy new: £18.13 / Used from: £15.67 Perhaps the best alternative to fashionable minimalist OT historians. Perhaps the OT has something real to say after all!
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 | On the Reliability of the Old Testament by K.A. Kitchen
Buy used from: £22.67 Kitchen puts the lie to minimalists, and does so with lofty condescension.
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 | Historical Reliability of Gospels by Craig L. Blomberg
Buy used from: £15.95 Blomerg's classic defence of the NT's reliability. Not a fundamentalist rant - a careful work by a world-class scholar.
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 | Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd. 25.) by Evans
Buy new: £62.00 / Used from: £58.29 Helps you understand Jesus better. Much material on the Dead Sea Scrolls, to paint a clearer picture of Jesus' background. All-in-all he really was much like the NT says! Good heavens, really?!!
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 | Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity by Larry W. Hurtado
Buy used from: £22.02 Jesus' divinity is no late invention. The life of the early Christians reveals a devotion, the logical extension of which is the God-Man.
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 | The Christology of Jesus by Ben Witherington III
Buy used from: £15.75 A brilliant look into what Jesus might have thought of Himself and His mission.
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 | Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham
Buy used from: £24.50 Can the Gospel traditions really be based on eyewitness testimony? Bauckham says Yes.
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| The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History by Colin J. Hermer
Buy used from: £62.94 The late Oxford scholar Colin Hemer assembles a truly astonishing body of evidence to demonstrate the factual accuracy of Luke's Acts. If you doubt NT history, this book will change your mind.
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 | The Paradoxes of Paul: 2 (Justification and Variegated Nomism)
Buy new: £33.25 / Used from: £30.76 Antedote to the extremes of the 'New Perspective on Paul' . See volume 1 for fresh exploration of variety in Jewish literature.
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