Three years ago I posted Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics.
In light of the fact that Black Friday was yesterday I thought I add a few more books to that lists of books I recommend if you are looking for gifts for those who are curious about Presuppositional apologetics or getting more into it. Of course, if it’s someone who is intensely into Van Til’s apologetics, it doesn’t hurt to ask whether or not they have it already.
Here are a few that I think I can recommend with links to my review:
1.) Christian Apologetics by Dr. Cornelius Van Til
Note: For some reason I really enjoyed the format of this book more than Van Til’s Defending the Faith.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
Note: Found this helpful for apologetics discipleship with the format though not without concern (see comment section of the review).
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
3.) Persuasion
Note: Good sketches of what apologetics and evangelism conversation with a Van Tillian bent looks like with different folks.
Purchase: Amazon
4.) Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality
Note: This spiritual biography is authored by a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary. A good devotional and spiritual read for an apologist, to keep one’s life spiritually balance and not just “head knowledge.”
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
Note: 25th Anniversary edition. I think it’s important for Presuppositionalists to also really know their Scriptures and their Old Testament Messianic prophecies pointing towards Jesus Christ. If one claims to be driven by Scripture in apologetics (where the Word sets the framework for apologetics) I think it’s also important to know how the Old Testament prophesied about Jesus as the Messiah.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
Another book to add to your wishlist is, Reformed Theological Seminary professor, James N. Anderson’s upcoming book “What’s Your Worldview.”
Check it out on Amazon…
Amen! I’m going to try to finish it and post a review either next week or two…thanks for bringing that up!
Thanks for dropping by, by the way
Great recommendations SLIIMJIM. I really liked Clowney’s “The Unfolding Mystery”. I agree with your assertion that those who claim to derive their apologetic methodology from Scripture, need to be well-acquainted with Christ in the O.T. That would be useful to anyone and everyone in everything! We could never get too much Christ!…btw Have you read Walter Kaiser’s book “The Messiah in the Old Testament”?
I have only thumbed through Kaiser’s book on the Messiah for a paper; did you finish reading it? What’s your impression? I love Kaiser’s work.
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