Why Christian Belief Is Rational

+ On Faith and Reason

• Christian Smith, Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver, (Yale, 2018).

• J.P.Moreland, Scientism and Secularism (Crossway, 2018)

• James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, (Yale University Press, 2018)

• Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist, NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, (Oxford University Press, 2012).

• G.K. Chesterton, Chapter 3 - “The Suicide of Thought” in Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith (Doubleday, 1990).

• Also in Francis S. Collins, Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (HarperOne 2010), pp. 281-288.

• John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002).
  [Unlike other books in this reading list, Gray takes a sharply anti-Christian position. But like Christians, he makes a strong case that without belief in anything beyond the natural world it is impossible to talk about human rights, freedom, morality, or justice.]

• Aldous Huxley, “Excerpt from Ends and Means” in G. Koloszyc, The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning (NavPress, 2001), pp. 214-216.

• Michael J. Murray, “Reason for Hope (in the Postmodern World)”, and Caleb Miller “Faith and Reason”, in Reason for the Hope Within, Michael J. Murray ed. (Eerdmans, 1999).

• Blaise Pascal, “The Wager” in G. Koloszyc, The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning (NavPress, 2001), pp. 186-196.

• Alvin Plantinga, Knowledge and Christian Belief, (Eerdmans, 2015)

• Alvin Plantinga, “Evolution vs. Naturalism”, and Anthony Flew “A Pilgrimage of Reason”, in Francis S. Collins, Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (HarperOne 2010), pp. 299-312.

• Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, Oxford, 2011.