Books I Plan to Finish Someday...

[These are now sorted into a list of abbreviations that I use in the CTT writings...hope it helps. I have also begun filing previous years books in their own file--to shorten file access times. I have all of 1998, 1997, 1996, and most of 1995 books. I have added a small Recommended Books table, as well.]

• [WR:ARMI] Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues, Paul G. Hiebert, Baker:1994.
• [WR:GG] The Global God: Multicultural Evangelical Views of God, Aida Besancon Spencer and William David Spencer (eds.), Baker:1998.
• [WR:QR] The Quiet Revolution: The Story of a Living Faith around the World, Robin Keeley (ed.), Eerdmans:1985.
• [HI:RFCW] Readings from the First-Century World, Walter A. Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough (eds.), Baker:1998. [Good one-volume collection of relevant background quotes-organized well.]
• [NT:JMW] Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical and Theological Study, Graham H. Twelftree, IVP:1999.
• [OT:TAE] Temples of Ancient Egypt, Byron E. Shafer (ed.), Cornell:1997.
• [HI:PGPR] The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East, Javier Teixidor, Princeton:1977. [Out of print]
• [HI:Ginz] The Legends of the Jews (multivols), Louis Ginzberg, John Hopkins paperbacks of JPS editions:1966.
• [TH:BMR] Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity be Afrocentric? Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener, IVP:1996]

• [PH:RHW] Reason for the Hope Within. Michael Murray (ed.). Eerdmans:1999. [Absolutely the best book I have read on philosophical apologetics ever! EVERY Christian college student should read this book carefully.]
• [PH:GAE] God and Evil: An Introduction to the Issues. Michael L. Peterson. Westview:1998. [An excellent technical book on the POE in its various forms.]
• [PH:POER] The Problem of Evil (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams (eds.). Oxford:1990.
• [PH:HEGG] Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God. Marilyn McCord Adams. Cornell:1999.

• [NS:TBW] The Blind Watchmaker. Richard Dawkins. Norton:1996.
• [NS:TSG] The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins. Oxford:1989.
• [NS:DBB] Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. Michael J. Behe. Touchstone:1996. [by a professor of biochem]
• [NS:ND] Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology reveal Purpose in the Universe. Michael J. Denton. Free Press:1998. [MD, PhD, research fellow in human molecular genetics]
• [NS:NBC] Not by Chance!--Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution. Lee Spetner. Judaica Press:1997. [by a biophysicist...E. Simon (prof. of biology at Purdue: "certainly the most rational attack on evolution that I have ever read")...information vs. randomness approach]
• [NS:IBWI] In the Beginning was Information. Werner Gitt. Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung e.V.:1997. [information science approach to the origin of life]
• [NS:PHE] Principles of Human Evolution--A Core Textbook. Roger Lewin. Blackwell Science:1998 (rev.ed.).
• [NS:TMM] The Meme Machine. Susan Blackmore. Oxford:1999. [forward and recc. by R. Dawkins...has a chapter on religion as memplex]
• [NS:PM] The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art and Science. Steven Mithen. Thames and Hudson:1009.
• [PH:APJ] Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Michael Martin. Temple:1990.

• [NS:IRH] Induced Responses to Herbivory. Richard Karban and Ian T. Baldwin. UChicagoPress:1997.
• [NS:BPS] The Biology Problem Solver. M. Fogiel. REA:1998.
• [NS:SOB] Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Biology (2nd ed). George Fried and George Hademenos. Schaum's:1999.
• [HI:DSS50B] The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years (vol 2). Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam (eds). Brill:1999.
• [OT:FSN] The Final Sack of Nineveh. John Malcolm Russell. Yale:1998.
• [TH:DBF] Defending Black Faith: Answers to Tough Questions about African-American Christianity. Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry, IVP:1997.
• [HI:ELAR] Everyday Life in Ancient Rome. Lionel Casson. Johns Hopkins:1998 (rev. ed.)
• [CS:WEW] When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. Jeffrey Masson and Susan McCarthy. Dell:1995.
• [HI:HOS] History of the Samaritans. Nathan Schur. Peter Lang:1992 (rev.ed).
• [NT:NTWICA] The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology. Bruce J. Malina. WJK:1993 (rev.ed).
• [NS:TC] The Carnivores. R.F.Ewer. Cornell:1973.
• [NS:RHLP] The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators. Gordon Grice. Dell:1998.
• [NS:AWB] Animals without Backbones. R. Buchsbaum, M. Buchsbaum, J. Pearse, V. Pearse. Uchicago:1987 (3rd ed.)
• [PH:POP] The Problem of Pain. C.S. Lewis. Simon/Schuster:1962. (gave away my earlier copy; needed for animal suffering)
• [TH:HLD] Hell: The Logic of Damnation. Jerry L. Walls. UofNotreDame:1992. [very, very good. Wesleyan approach.]
• [NT:CTENTM] The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett (eds.). Baker:1999.
• [HI:NJBC] The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Raymond Brown, Joseph Fitzmyer, Roland Murphy. Prentice Hall:1990. [Big names from the moderate-to-liberal Catholic scholarly community, but somehow still carries the imprimatur and nihil obstat...]
• [PH:DNNHE] Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil. Lyall Watson. Harper:1995.
• [I also got Rashi's commentary and the NIDNTT on CD-rom.]
• [NS:AAA] Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals. Robert Mitchell, Nicholas Thompson, H Lyn Miles (eds.). SUNY:1997.
• [NS:DLO] The Diversity of Living Organisms. R.S.K. Barnes (ed). Cambridge/Blackwells:1998.
• [NS:EOI] The Ecology of Insects: Concepts and Application. Martin Speight, Mark Hunter, and Allan Watt. Blackwell:1999.

 

 

[Some of these books I have had on order for almost a year, and would not have bought this month otherwise, given my financial strictures at this point! ]

• [WR:OK] The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book, Ibn Warraq (ed.), Prometheus:1998. [Interesting collection of essays by early scholars on the textual variants, both ancient and modern, of the Qur'an. Also contains chapters on Quranic borrowing from Judaism and Christianity.]
• [HI:HCA] A History of Christianity in Asia: Volume I, Beginnings to 1500, Samuel Hugh Moffett, Orbis:1998 (2nd rev).
• [WR:RICQ] Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers, Mohammed Arkoun (trans. Robert D. Lee), Westview:1994. [by a "liberal" Muslim, professor at the Sorbonne.]
• [WR:ISM] In Search of Muhammed, Clinton Bennett, Cassell:1998. [good critical analysis of the sources of M's life]
• [PH:EBIV] Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous, W. Jay Wood, IVP:1998. [In the Contours of Christian Philosophy series]
• [WR:WATNH] What About Those Who have Never Heard? Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized. John Sanders (ed). IVP:1995.[good debate]
• [TH:TGWR] The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence, John Sanders, IVP:1998. [outstanding explication, and partial defense of the "openness of God" movement]

Feb 13, 1999

• Professors Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Christian Faculty, Paul Anderson (ed), IVP:1998. [Wonderful stories--amazing testimonies to the varied dances of God]
• [TH:NDET] New Dimensions in Evangelical Thought: Essays in Honor of Millard J. Erickson, David Dockery (ed), IVP:1998. [Interesting book--covers the thought trends in most of the major categories of theology and practice.]
• [HI:HHMBI] Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, Donald McKim (ed), IVP:1998.
• [HI:PQ] The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus, Ben Witherington III, IVP:1998.

 

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