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Below are lists of books, articles, and journals that I find
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I hope you find them equally compelling and engaging as you continue your own intellectual and spiritual journeys. Most of the books can be purchased through Amazon by clicking the linked title.
Writing
Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Literature , 9th edition, 2002.
Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age , 2004.
Diana Hacker, A Writer's Reference , 2003.
Richard Lanham, Revising Prose , 4th edition, 1999.
Andrea Lunsford, The St. Martin's Handbook , 2003.
Joseph L. Nancy, Research Writing: Using Traditional and Electronic Sources , 1999.
Strunk and White, Elements of Style , 2000.
Apologetics
J. Budziszewski, How to Stay Christian in College , 1999.
J. Budziszewski, The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man , 2004.
J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know , 2004.
J. Budziszewski, Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law , 1997.
G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man , rpt. 1993.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , rpt. 1995.
Paul Copan, That's Just Your Interpretation , 2001.
Paul Copan, True for You, but Not for Me ,
1998.
William Lane Craig, Hard Questions, Real Answers , 2003.
William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics , 1994.
William Lane Craig and Stan W.
Wallace, eds., Does God Exist: The Craig-Flew Debate , 2003.
Norm Geisler, Christian Apologetics , 1988.
Norm Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist , 2004.
Norm Geisler and Paul Hoffman, Why I Am a Christian: Leading Thinkers Explain Why They Believe , 2001.
Norman Geisler and Peter Bocchino, Unshakable Foundations: Contemporary Answers to Crucial Questions about the Christian
Faith , 2001.
Os Guinness, Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life , 2001.
Os Guinness, Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in Age of Genocide and Terror , 2005.
Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics , 1994.
Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering , 1986.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves , 1977.
C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock , rpt. 1994.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity , rpt. 2001.
C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress ,
rpt. 1992.
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain , rpt. 1996.
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy , 1966.
Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict , 1999.
J. P. Moreland and Kai Nielsen, Does God Exist?: The Debate between Theists and Atheists , 1993.
J. P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind , 1997.
J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity , 1987.
James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog , 4th ed., 2004.
James W. Sire, Why Good Arguments Often Fail: Making a More Persuasive Case for Christ , 2006.
R. C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas , 2000.
R. C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction to Apologetics , 2003.
John Stott, The Cross of Christ , 1986.
John Stott, Why I Am a Christian , 2004.
Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ , 1998.
Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator , 2004.
Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith , 2000.
Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live without God? , 1996.
Ravi Zacharias, Cries of the Heart , 2002.
Ravi Zacharias, Deliver Us from Evil: Restoring the Soul in a Disintegrating Culture , 1996.
Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message , 2000.
Ravi Zacharias, Light in the Shadow of Jihad , 2002.
Ravi Zacharias, The Lotus and the Cross: Jesus Talks with Buddha , 2001.
Ravi Zacharias, The Lamb and the Fuhrer: Jesus Talks with Hitler , 2005.
Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism , 2004.
Ravi Zacharias and Norm Geisler, Who Made God: And Answers to over 100 Other Tough Questions of Faith , 2003.
Integrating Science and Theology
Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution , 1998.
Michael J. Behe, et. al. , Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe , 2000.
Neil Broom and William Dembski, How Blind is the Watchmaker?: Nature's Design and the Limits of Naturalistic Science , 2001.
William Dembski, The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design , 2004.
William Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology , 2002.
William Dembski, et. al. , Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design , 2001.
William Dembski, ed. Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing , 2004.
William Dembski and Jonathan Wells. The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems , 2008.
Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis , 1996.
Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery , 2004.
Phillip Johnson, Darwin on Trial , 1993.
Phillip Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism , 2000.
J. P. Moreland, ed. The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer , 1994.
John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science , 2003.
John Polkinghorne, Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion , 2006.
John Polkinghorne, Faith, Science, and Understanding , 2001.
John Polkinghorne, One World , 1987.
Geoffrey Simmons, What Darwin Didn't Know: A Doctor Dissects the Theory of Evolution , 2004.
Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth , 2002.
Larry Witham, By Design: Science and the Search for God , 2003.
Romanticism
M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp , 1953.
M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism ,
1971.
Harold Bloom, ed., Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism , 1970.
Harold Bloom, Visionary Company , rev. 1971.
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 , 1981.
The Coleridge Bulletin
Stuart Curran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism , 1993.
Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism , 1986.
Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer, eds. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism , 1986.
European Romantic Review
Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism: The Human Context , 1988.
J. F. C. Harrison, Common People of Great Britain: A History from the Norman Conquest to the Present , 1985.
E. J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire , 1968.
E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 , 2nd edition, 1994.
Daniel G. Hoffman and Samuel Hynes, English Literary Criticism: Romantic and Victorian , 1963.
David S. Hogsette,
"Coleridge as Victorian Heirloom: Nostalgic Rhetoric in the Early Victorian Reviews of Coleridge's Poetical Works." Studies in Romanticism 37 (Spring 1998): 63-75.
David S. Hogsette, "Eclipsed by the Pleasure Dome:
Poetic Failure in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan.'" Romanticism on the Net 5 (1997).
David S. Hogsette, "Textual
Surveillance, Social Codes, and Sublime Voices: The Tyranny of Narrative in Caleb Williams and Wieland ." Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005).
David S. Hogsette, Romantics Unbound .
Kenneth Johnston and Gene Ruoff. The Age of William Wordsworth: Critical Essays on the Romantic Tradition , 1987.
Kenneth R. Johnston, et al. Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory , 1990.
Sheila M. Kearns, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography: Reading Strategies of Self-Representation , 1995.
Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830 , 1989.
Jon P. Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 , 1987.
Marjorie Levinson, The Romantic Fragment Poem , 1986.
Ian McCalman, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age , 2001.
Jerome McGann, The Romantic Ideology , 1983.
Anne Mellor, Romanticism and Feminism , 1988.
Anne Mellor,