Bookshelf

I started making a serious effort to read apologetics over Spring Break of 2010. This summer, I’ll be working my way through a number of other christian or atheist works and blogging my thoughts and reactions.

I’d love to be part of any impromptu book club, so if you are reading/reviewing any of the below, I’d love to chat and/or have you over for a guest post. If you have recommendations, please let me know in a comment below.

At the beginning of 2011, I solicited reading suggestions from the readers of this blog as part of an New Year’s Challenge. You can browse the complete list of their suggestions.

Read and reviewed:

When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God – T.M. Luhrmann

Quasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians (4/18/12)

“What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard” (4/21/12)

Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

When Do You Reject Your Intuitions? (4/16/12)

Irrational with Respect to What? (4/19/12)

New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza — David Ives

Caution! Philosophy in Progress (3/16/12)

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the Last Atheism — Edward Feser

Trying to Have Aristotle Without Aquinas (1/16/12)

Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion — Sara Miles

Reading a Book I’d Never Write (1/15/12)

Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life — Father James Martin

A Good Humored Review (12/29/11)

Freud’s Last Session — Mark St. Germain

Made for Another World? (11/6/11)

Lewis Trounces Freud (1/22/12)

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage — Stephanie Coontz

Meeting Mr. Wrong (Book) (9/25/11)

The Problem of Pain — C.S. Lewis

Who Get’s to Use Lewis’s Excuse? (5/29/11)

The Social Animal — David Brooks

David Brooks and the Social Automaton (3/13/11)
[note: post based on except of book, not full reading]

The Euthyphro Strikes Back (3/6/11)

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible — Robert Alter/The Political Brain — Drew Westen

Two (Much Caveated) Recommendations (2/27/11)

Orthodoxy — G.K. Chesterton

“I was born and bred in a paradox patch!” (2/13/11)
Testing the Truth-Telling Thing (2/1/11)

The Case for Faith/The Case for Christ — Lee Strobel

Strobel’s One-Sided Cases (1/23/11)

The Moral Landscape — Sam Harris

Taking a Wrong Turn on the Moral Landscape (1/18/11)

Spiritual Atheism — Steve Antinoff

Ethics Without Other People are Empty (1/9/11)

The Closing of the American Mind — Allan Bloom

All the interesting values are universal values (8/22/10)

Flatland — Edwin A. Abbot

“From Dreams I Proceed to Facts” (8/1/10)

David v. God — Mary E. Pearson

A Parable of Talents (7/25/10)

Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis

“Here I am, dressing up as Christ” (7/11/10)
Morality in Multiple Dimensions (4/12/12)

The Flight of Peter Fromm — Martin Gardner

The Anthropomorphization of God (7/4/10)

Coming Soon!

To be blogged:

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years — Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Everlasting Man — G.K. Chesterton
Girl Meets God: A Memoir — Lauren Winner
The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America — Hanna Rosin
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ — Philip Pullman
The Great Divorce — C.S. Lewis
I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist’s Eyes — Hemant Mehta
The Impossibility of God — ed. Michael Martin
Leaving Fishers — Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Man Who Was Thursday — G.K. Chesterton
The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces — C.S. Lewis

To be read:

Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years — John Philip Jenkins
Miracles — C.S. Lewis
“Theology and Falsification” — Antony Flew
“Why I am not a Christian” — Bertrand Russell