Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial. It purports to cover all the bases, from the evidence or lack of evidence for Darwinism to Darwinism as a religion and philosophy, and does very well. I'd vote for Johnson, even if wrong, because he's a good writer whose words need little quotations from authors to make their point. This must be evolutionists' number-one book they need to refute.
Rene Denfeld's The New Victorians. Denfeld is a feminist but not one who shares the belief that we are in a patriarchy-ruled society where women are suppressed. Rather, she critiques those who hold such a belief and covers feminist ideology from many different angles.
Ravi Zacharias's Can Man Live Without God. This is the best of his three books I own, the one I will keep while selling the rest. His books highlight the effects of disbelief in a god, especially the Judeo-Christian God, and become boring for repeating the same themes over and over.
Joseph Sobran's Single Issues. Sobran covers the abortion movement early in this book and digs into the philosophy of it deeper than I have ever done. He also speaks about homosexuality and pornography and his philosophy there too is refreshingly deep.
Francis Beckwith's Politically Incorrect Death. Beckwith, I guess, covers virtually every pro-abortion argument and refutes each one.
Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl's Relativism - Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air. Probably the best treatment of relativism I know.
Kelly Nicholson's Body and Soul - The Transcendence of Materialism. Nicholson is no fundamentalist arguing against some sort of crass naturalism. Nicholson covers the arguments against materialism and argues for some sort of spiritualism embracing some sort of dualism.
Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. A great summary of many of the great thinkers (and not so great) from Sartre to Marx to Bertrand Russell.
William Donahue's The New Freedom. What has the new sexual freedom wrought? Donahue's reveals the many faces of the new freedom.
Brad Scott's Embraced by the Darkness. Scott is a former New Ager and takes issue at New Age philosophical beliefs about god and their arguments for reincarnation.
Ronald Bailey's EcoScam. Bailey refutes so many doomsday prophets' faulty scenarios and shows the sky is not yet falling.
Jeffrey Stueber
jstueber@globaldialog.com