Denver Seminary

Since some students like a head start on the reading for my notoriously reading-heavy courses, here is a list of the textbooks I am using for the fall term at Denver Seminary.

PR 501: Defending Christian Faith

Required:

1. D. Groothuis, Truth Decay
2. D. Groothuis On Jesus
3. William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God? A Debate
4. J. Sire, The Universe Next Door, 4th ed.
5. F. Beckwith, et al, To Everyone An Answer
6. D. Groothuis, On Pascal
7. F. Schaeffer, The God Who is There
8. D Groothuis, Are All Religions One? Booklet. 

Recommended:

1. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (Penguin)
2. Os Guinness, Unspeakable
3. D. Groothuis, Jesus in an Age of Controversy
4. J. Sennett, D. Groothuis, eds. In Defense of Natural Theology
5. WL Craig, Resonable Faith, 3rd ed.
6. F. Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live?

PR664: Religious Pluralism

Required

1. Steven Prothero, Religious Literacy
2. Win Corduan, Neighboring Faiths
3. Van Voorst, Anthology of Religious Scripture, most recent edition
4. Harold Netland, Encountering Religious Pluralism
5. Mark Gabriel, Jesus and Mohammad

Recommended:

1. Win Corduan, The Tapestry of Faiths
2. Harold Netland, Dissonant Voices
3. Phillip Jenkins, The Next Christendom;  The New Faces of Christianity
4. Bart Gruzalski, On The Buddha
5. Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism; Islam and the Jews

Dynamics of Faith and Doubt

Required:

1. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality.
2. Os Guinness, God in the Dark.
3. Ajith Fernando, Through Joy and Pain. Discovery House
4. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.

Book report book (student picks one)

1. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
2. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
3. Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow