"First we had to be persuaded how much God loved us, in case out of sheer despair we lacked the courage to reach up to him. Also we had to be shown what sort of people we are that he loves, in case we should take pride in our own worth, and so bounce even further away from him and sink even more under our own strength. So he dealt with us in such a way that we could progress rather in his strength...
So we needed to be persuaded how much God loves us, and what sort of people he loves; how much in case we despaired, what sort in case we grew proud."
- Augustine, "On the Trinity" (Book IV, Ch 1)
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- Adler, Mortimer J - "How to Read a Book" (1972)
- Anderson, Walter Truett - "The Truth About the Truth (New Consciousness Reader)" (1995)
- Anselm of Canterbury - "Cur Deus Homo {Why God Became Man}" (ca 1100)
- Anyabwile, Thabiti - "The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Puritans" (2007)
- Aquinas, Thomas - "Summa Theologiae selections" (ca 1270)
- Arendt, Hannah - "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1973)
- Aristotle - "Poetics and Rhetoric" (mid 3rd Century BC)
- Athanasius of Alexandria - "On the Incarnation" (ca 325)
- Augustine of Hippo - "City of God" (circa 510 AD)
- Augustine of Hippo - "The Confessions of St. Augustine" (ca 397)
- Augustine of Hippo - "The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love" (ca 430)
- Balfour, Arthur James - "Theism and Humanism: The Book that Influenced C.S. Lewis" (1915)
- Bawer, Bruce - "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" (2004)
- Bessenecker, Scott A. - "The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor" (2006)
- Blamires, Harry - "Where Do We Stand? An Examination of a Christian's Position in the Modern World" (1980)
- Bloom, Allan - "The Closing of the American Mind" (1988)
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - "Letters & Papers from Prison" (1953)
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - "Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community" (1943)
- Boswell, James - "Boswell's Life of Johnson" (2007)
- Bowman, Robert - "Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ" (2007)
- Boyle, Kevin - "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" (2005)
- Bronte, Charlotte - "Jane Eyre" (1847)
- Bruce, F.F. - "The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?" (1943)
- Buckley Jr, William F - "Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches with New Commentary by the Author" (2000)
- Buckley Jr, William F - "Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith" (1997)
- Bunyan, John - "The Pilgrim's Progress, Accurate Revised Text Edition" (1999)
- Calvin, John - "The Institutes" (ca 1559)
- Carey, William - "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens" (1791)
- Chesterton, G.K. - "The Everlasting Man" (1993)
- Claiborne, Shane - "The Irresistable Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical" (2006)
- Clarke, Peter - "The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana" (2008)
- Collins, Francis S. - "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" (2007)
- Colson, Charles - "How Now Shall We Live?" (1999)
- Conrad, Joseph - "Heart of Darkness" (1899)
- Conway, David - "The Rediscovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Quest of 'Sophia'" (2000)
- Cyril of Alexandria - "On the Unity of Christ" (ca 440)
- Danby, John - "William Wordsworth: The Prelude and Other Poems"
- Dawkins, Richard - "The God Delusion" (2006)
- De Bracton, Henry - "De Legibus et Consuetudinibus (On the Laws and Customs of England)" (1250)
- de Zengotita, Thomas - "Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It" (2006)
- Deibler Rose, Darlene - "Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II" (1990)
- DeYoung, Kevin - "Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be" (2008)
- Donne, John - "The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne" (2001)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - "The Brothers Karamazov" (1879)
- Douglass, Frederick - "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855)
- Douthat, Ross and Salam, Reihan - "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" (2008)
- Dungy, Tony - "Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life" (2007)
- Duriez, Colin - "Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship" (2003)
- Edwards, Jonathan - "Religious Affections" (1961)
- Ellul, Jacques - "The Technological Society" (1967)
- Friedman, Milton - "Capitalism and Freedom" (1962)
- Friedman, Thomas L - "The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization" (2000)
- Geisler, Norman L. - "I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist" (2004)
- George, Robert P. - "Embryo: A Defense of Human Life" (2008)
- Gide, Andre - "The Immoralist" (1984)
- Gilles, D.B. - "The Screenwriter Within: How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay" (2000)
- Gish, Duane T. - "Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!" (1995)
- Goffman, Erving - "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" (1959)
- Goleman, Daniel - "Emotional Intelligence" (1996)
- Grant, George - "Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations" (1999)
- Green, Richard H. - "The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius" (1962)
- Gregory of Nazianzus - "The Five Theological Orations" (ca 381)
- Guinness, Os - "God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt" (1996)
- Hammond, Peter - "The Greatest Century of Missions" (2002)
- Harris, Brett and Alex - "Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations" (2008)
- Heidelberd, Katechismus - "The Heidelberg Catechism with Scripture Texts" (ca 1563)
- Henry, Carl FH - "The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism" (1947)
- Herbert, George - "The Poetry of George Herbert" (2001)
- Hirshfeld, Alan - "The Electric Life of Michael Faraday" (2006)
- Hobbes, Thomas - "Leviathan" (1651)
- Hosseini, Khaled - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (2007)
- Howe, Daniel Walker - "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" (2007)
- Iggulden, Conn - "The Dangerous Book for Boys" (2007)
- Imhoff, Daniel - "Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill" (2007)
- Irenaeus of Lyon - "On the Apostolic Preaching" (ca 150)
- Isaacson, Walter - "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (2007)
- Jackson, Jeremy C. - "No Other Foundation" (1980)
- James, William - "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902)
- Jaworski, Leon - "Crossroads" (1982)
- Johnson, Paul M - "A History of the American People" (1999)
- Johnson, Paul M. - "The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830" (1992)
- Johnson, Phillip E. - "Darwin on Trial" (1993)
- Johnson, Phillip E. - "Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education" (1998)
- Kaufman, Robert Gordon - "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine" (2007)
- Keller, Timothy - "The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism" (2008)
- Kogan, Rick - "A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream" (2006)
- Kreeft, Peter J. - "Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing" (1989)
- Kuhn, Thomas S. - "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1996)
- Kuttner, Robert - "Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets" (1999)
- Larsen, Scott - "Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss the Books That Shape Their Faith" (2003)
- Leftow, Brian - "Time and Eternity" (1991)
- Lennox, John - "God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?" (2007)
- Leslie, John - "The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction" (1996)
- Lewis, C.S. - "George MacDonald" (1978)
- Lewis, C.S. - "The Abolition of Man" (2001)
- Lewis, C.S. - "The Weight of Glory" (2001)
- Lewis, CS - "Poems" (2002)
- Lonnrot, Elias - "The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot" (1999)
- Lucian (C.D.N. Costa - Translator) - "Lucian: Selected Dialogues" (2006)
- Lungu, Stephen - "Out of the Black Shadows: The Amazing Transformation of Stephen Lungu" (2001)
- Luther, Martin - "Basic Theological Writings", edited by Timothy F. Lull (2005)
- Luther, Martin - "Selections" (ca 1530)
- MacDonald, George - "Phantastes" (1981)
- Mahaney, CJ - "Humility: True Greatness" (2005)
- Malone, Michael - "Handling Sin" (2001)
- Manguel, Alberto - "A History of Reading" (1997)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (2003)
- Marshall, Rosalind - "John Knox" (2001)
- Marx, Karl - "Das Kapital" (1957)
- Mason, Mike - "The Gospel According to Job: An Honest Look at Pain and Doubt from the Life of One Who Lost Everything" (2002)
- Matar, Hisham - "In the Country of Men" (2007)
- Mcdougall, Walter A. - "Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877" (2008
- McDowell, Josh - "Evidence for Christianity" (2006)
- Mead, Walter Russell - "God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World" (2007)
- Melville, Herman - "Moby-Dick" (1851)
- Millard, Candice - "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" (2006)
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent - "Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay" (1981)
- Mohler, Dr. Robert R. - "Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth (Today's Critical Concerns)" (2008)
- Moore, Kenny - "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder" (2007)
- More, Thomas - "Utopia" (1516)
- Moreland, J.P. - "Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation" (1999)
- Muggeridge, Malcom - "The End of Christendom" (2003)
- Muhammed, Yunus - "Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty" (2003)
- Murray, Iain - "Jonathan Edwards-A New Biography" (1996)
- Nicholls, Bruce - "Contextualization: A Theology of Gospel and Culture" (1979)
- Nichols, Stephen J - "The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World" (2007)
- Origen - "Against Celsus" (circa 235 AD)
- Orr, James - "The Christian View of God and the World" (1963)
- Otto, R. - "The Idea of the Holy" (1923)
- Owen, John - "Communion with the Triune God" (1657)
- Packer, J.I. - "A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life" (1994)
- Pagden, Anthony - "Worlds At War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West" (2008)
- Pascal, Blaise - "Pensees" (1669)
- Paton, John Gibson - "John G. Paton, D.D., Missionary to the New Hebrides. An Autobiography" (1891)
- Peters, Charles - "How Washington Really Works" (1993)
- Piereson, James - "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism" (2007)
- Piper, John - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright" (2007)
- Piper, John - "When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy" (2006)
- Plantinga, Alvin - "God, Freedom, and Evil" (1977)
- Plantinga, Alvin - "Warranted Christian Belief" (2000)
- Plato - "Republic" (ca. 360 BC)
- Polanyi, Michael - "Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy" (1974)
- Postman, Neil - "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" (1986)
- Reichley, James - "Religion in American Public Life" (1985)
- Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik - "Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times" (1952)
- Roberts, Andrew - "Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe" (2005)
- Robertson, David - "Awakening: The Life and Ministry of Robery Murray McCheyne" (2004)
- Russo, Gus - "The Outfit" (2003)
- Rutherford, Samuel - "Lex, Rex" (1644)
- Rutledge, Howard - "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" (1968)
- Sayers, Dorothy - "Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe)" (1943)
- Sayers, Dorothy L - "The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays" (1987)
- Schaeffer, Francis - "He Is There and He Is Not Silent" (1972)
- Schaeffer, Francis A - "How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture" (1976)
- Schaeffer, Francis A - "The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century" (1985)
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich - "On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers" (1799)
- Schmemann, Alexander - "For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy" (1997)
- Service, Robert - "Comrades!: A History of World Communism" (2007)
- Shaver, Jessica - "Gianna" (1998)
- Sheehan, James J. - "Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe" (2008)
- Sheldon, Charles - "In His Steps" (1896)
- Shlaes, Amity - "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" (2007)
- Sinclair, Upton - "The Jungle" (1906)
- Sire, James W. - "Why Good Arguments Often Fail: Making a More Persuasive Case for Christ" (2006)
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - "The Cancer Ward" (1968)
- Sowell, Thomas - "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" (2006)
- Stackhouse, John G. - "Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil" (2000)
- Steele, Shelby - "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.)" (2007)
- Stott, John - "Why I Am A Christian" (2004)
- Strauss, Leo - "The City and Man" (1978)
- Strobel, Lee - "The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity" (2000)
- Sun Tzu - "The Art of War" (6th Century BC)
- Swinburne, Richard - "Is There A God?" (1997)
- Swinburne, Richard - "The Coherence of Theism" (1993)
- Synder, Howard - "The Radical Wesley" (1980)
- Tait, L. Gordon - "The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit, and Public Forum" (2000)
- Thompson, Francis - "The Hound of Heaven" (ca. 1905)
- Thoreau, Henry David - "Walden" & "Civil Disobedience" (1854 & 1849)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Children of Húrin" (2007)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Silmarillion" (1951)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Tolkien Reader" (1986)
- Tolstoy, Leo - "Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales" (2003)
- Ursinus and Olevianus - "The Heidelberg Catechism" (ca 1563)
- Ury, Allen B. - "Secrets of the Screen Trade: From Concept to Sale" (2004)
- Valladares, Armando - "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life In Castro's Gulag" (1987)
- Varghese, Roy Abraham - "The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God" (2003)
- Virgil - "The Aeneid" (ca 10 BC)
- Vitz, Paul C. - "Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism" (2000)
- Volf, Miroslav - "The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World" (2007)
- Walls, Andrew F - "The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in Transmission of Faith" (1996)
- Wangerin Jr., Walter - "Mourning Into Dancing" (1996)
- Ward, Michael - "Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S.Lewis" (2008)
- Watson, Francis - "Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith" (2004)
- Weigel, George - "Faith, Reason, and The War Against Jihadism" (2007)
- Wells, David F. - "Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World" (2005)
- West, Bing - "No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallaujah" (2006)
- Whitehead, John W. - "The Second American Revolution" (1981)
- Wiesenthal, Simon - "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" (1998)
- Wilbur, Richard - "Collected Poems 1943-2004" (2006)
- Williams, Charles - "Descent Into Hell, a Novel" (1999)
- Winik, Jay - "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" (2007)
- Witham, Larry - "By Design: Science and the Search for God" (2004)
- Wolfe, Gregory - "Malcom Muggeridge: A Biography" (2003)
- Woodmorappe, John - "Mythology of Modern Dating Methods" (1999)
- Woods, David Walker - "John Witherspoon" (1906)
- Wright, N.T. - "Paul: In Fresh Perspective" (2006)
- Zacharias, Ravi - "Deliver Us From Evil" (1998)
- Zacharias, Ravi - "Sense and Sensuality: Jesus Talks to Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure" (2006)
- Zwemer, Samuel M - "Raymond Lull: First Missionary to the Moslems" (2007)
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