How Christianity Makes Cultural Sense

• Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (Allen Lane, 2014).

• Charles Taylor, A Secular Age Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007 and Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity Harvard University Press, 1992.

• Kyle Harper, “Christianity and the Roots of Human Dignity in Late Antiquity”, in Shah and Hertzke, Christianity and Freedom , pp.123-148

• Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights. Studies on Nat Rights, Natural Law and Church Law Atlanta, GA: Emory University Press, 1997

• W.H. Auden, “The Fatal Flaw of Liberalism”, in G. Koloszyc, The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning (NavPress, 2001), pp.75-78.

• Luc Ferry, Chapter 3 – “The Victory of Christianity over Greek Philosophy” in A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living (Harper, 2010).

• David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (Yale, 2009).

• Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, in G. Koloszyc, The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning (NavPress, 2001), pp.125-131.

• C.S. Lewis, “The Poison of Subjectivism”, in Christian Reflections, W. Hooper, ed. (Eerdmans, 1967).

• C. John Sommerville, The Decline of the Secular University (Oxford, 2006).

• Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity, (Harper, 1997).

• Rodney Stark, Chapter 2 – “God’s Handiwork: The Religious Origins of Science”, and Chapter 4 – “God’s Justice: The Sin of Slavery”, in For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (Princeton, 2004).

• Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996).