Recommended Readings of Christianity and Other Topics
Below are various readings which have shaped my beliefs over time. I do not agree with all perspectives and views within the books but are useful and helpful either way. Books may be added over time.
I have also written a book about the Christian faith which I recommend you purchase at a low price at amazon Kindle, I am in the process of publishing a paperback version too. It is called:
'For a Safer, More Loving and Evolving Christianity' by Giles Pringle
Other books of interest have been included, some of which inspired parts of my book, most of which I have read fully or in part.
God and the Trinity
- The Trinity: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by Scott Swain
- Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
- Why God? Stories to Inspire Faith by Richard Leonard, SJ
- One God, Three Persons, Four Views: A Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Dialogue on the Doctrine of the Trinity (Studies in the Doctrine of God) by C. A. McIntosh
Human Free-Will and God's Sovereignty
- Perspectives on the Doctrine of God: Four Views by Bruce Ware
- The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence by John Sanders
- God and the Problem of Evil: Five Views by Chad Meister and James K. Dew Jr.
- The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God
Christ and His Reconciliation
- The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Plus) by Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright
- The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
- What Jesus Didn't Know: A Defense of Kenotic Christology by James Agnew
- The Nonviolent Atonement, Second Edition by J. Denny Weaving
Evolution and Creation
- Beyond the Evolution Vs. Creation Debate by Denis O. Lamoureux
- Old Earth or Evolutionary Creation? By Kenneth Keathley, J. B. Stump and Joe Aguirre
- Creation and Time by Dr. High Ross
Christian Living
- Searching for Sunday by Rachael Held Evans
- Exploring the Worship Spectrum by Steve B. Cowan
- Why We're Catholic by Trent Horn
Other Religions
- Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
- Introduction to World Religions by Tim Dowley
Heaven and Hell
- Varieties of Christian Universalism by David W. Congdon
- Heaven, Hell and Purgatory by Jerry L. Walls
- Four Views on Heaven by Michael Wittmer
Miscellaneous
- Francis of Assisi in His Own Words: The Essential Writings
- Across the Spectrum by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Surprised By Hope by Tom Wright
- The Time is at Hand by Jay E. Adams
- Nonviolence The Revolutionary Way of Jesus by Preston Sprinkle with Andrew Rillera
- Mere Apologetics by Alister E. McGrath