Recommended Books

Understanding the Biblical Storyline
  • The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative – Christopher J.H. Wright
  • The Message of Mission – Howard Peskett & Vinoth Ramachandra
Technology
  • Christian Ethics in a Technological Age – Brian Brock
  • Choices at the heart of Technology: A Christian perspective – Ruth Conway
Computer Science
  • Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age – Craig Detweiler
  • Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age – Sherry Turkle
  • You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto – Jaron Lanier
  • Surveillance after Snowden – David Lyon
Law
  • Christianity and Law: An Introduction – eds. John Witte Jr., Frank S. Alexander
  • Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction – eds. John Witte Jr., Frank S. Alexander
  • One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality – Jeremy Waldron
Political and Moral Philosophy
  • Justice: Rights and Wrongs – Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • A Secular Age – Charles Taylor
  • How (Not) to be Secular – James K.A. Smith
  • The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the roots of Political Theology – Oliver O’Donovan
  • Augustine and the Limits of Politics – Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Behaving in Public: How to do Christian Ethics – Nigel Biggar
  • Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology – James K.A. Smith
  • Equality, Freedom and Religion – Roger Trigg
  • Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning – Jonathan Chaplin
Natural Sciences
  • Is there purpose in Biology?: The Cost of Existence and the God of Love – Denis Alexander
  • The Faith of a Physicist – John Polkinghorne
  • Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life – Alister McGrath
  • The Faraday Institute – https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/
  • The Biologos Foundation – https://biologos.org/
Medicine
  • Matters of Life and Death: Human Dilemmas in the light of the Christian Faith – John Wyatt
  • Bioethics: A Primer for Christians – Gilbert Meilaender
  • Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
Economics
  • Phising for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception – George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
  • 23 things they don’t tell you about Capitalism – Ha-Joon Chang
  • Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen
Psychology
  • Psychology, Religion and Mental Health – Montagu G. Barker
  • Absence of Mind – Marilynne Robinson
  • Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship – Paul C. Vitz
Music
  • Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music – Jeremy S. Begbie
  • Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts – Jeremy S. Begbie
Art
  • The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts – eds Mark Husbands, Roger Lundin and Daniel J. Treier
  • Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding – Richard Harries
Literature
  • How to Think: A Guide for the Perplexed – Alan Jacobs
  • Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling – Alan Jacobs
  • C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing – Corey Latta
Post Modernism / Post Colonialism
  • Religion versus empire?: British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914 – Andrew Porter
  • Missions, Nationalism and the End of Empire – Brian Stanley
  • Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues shaping our World – Vinoth Ramachandra
History
  • Ronald A. Wells, History through the Eyes of Faith (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1989)
  • Ronald A. Wells, ed., History and the Christian Historian (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998)
  • John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, eds., Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
  • John Fea, Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past (Grand Rapids, IL: Baker Academic, 2013)
  • Carl R. Trueman, Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010)