I’m especially excited to present our annual Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional apologetics and Van Til’s apologetics. That is because this is our blog’s eleventh year in which we post our recommendations of books as Christmas gifts on the subject of Presuppositional apologetics or the Christian worldview!
Below are links to the recommendations from previous years, and if you are new to the whole thing with Presuppositional apologetics and want something introductory I highly recommend the first two books we recommend this year along with the listing from 2014 which we highlighted in bold:
- Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics (2010)
- Christmas Gift Book Lists on Christian Worldview and Apologetics Discipleship 2011 (2011)
- More Christmas Gift Book Lists on Christian Worldview and Apologetics Discipleship (2012)
- More Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics (2013) (2013)
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2014
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2015
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2016
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2017
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2018
- Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2019
This year list’s of recommended books on Presuppositional apologetics is listed below. Each work will have a link to my fuller review and also links to where one can purchase the book.
Here’s this year’s recommendations:
Against All Opposition: Defending the Christian Worldview by Greg Bahnsen
Description: This is the apologetics book I most recommend that I read this year. Its refreshing to read something from Greg Bahnsen, who is my favorite Christian apologist who sadly died very young. This book is an adaptation from an apologetics’ conference he taught. Excellent material. My Review can be found by clicking HERE.
Purchase: American Vision
Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian
Description: The author is a graduate of Westminster’s Theological Seminary’s PhD program. He wrote this as an introduction to apologetics and I really appreciate his effort to make things easy for the layman and also be practical. Love the book’s humble spirit which an apologist should cultivate. If you want something easier than the book by Bahnsen above, this would be it. My Review can be found by clicking HERE.
Purchase: Amazon
We Are All Philosophers by John Frame
Description: This short book on philosophy was surprisingly very good despite its compact size. I’ve benefited a lot over the years from the author John Frame. My Review can be found by clicking HERE.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
David Hume by James Anderson
Description: When surveyed most philosophers today identify more with David Hume than any other famous philosophers. So in this light this book would be important in critiquing philosopher David Hume. Author James Anderson does a very good job refuting David Hume and I learned some new things in this work. My Review can be found by clicking HERE.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
Answers for Kids Box Set
Description: Good for young kids: Answers Books for Kids Box Set. There’s eight volumes total. In my review I link to the reviews of each individual books. My Review can be found by clicking HERE.
Purchase: Answers in Genesis | Amazon
Thank you very much, Jim, for this set of overwhelming lists. GOD bless you, Nancy, and kids!
Thank you for reading this! And also for looking at the 2010 listing. I appreciate that. Every year making this list motivates me to continue to read book on Presuppositional apologetics! Also apologetics in general. I’m reading my library books of City of Bane Part 1 and realized both part 1 and part 2 are overdue! So glad you brought it up as I forgot about it! Hope to finish and return it tomorrow and write a review for Saturday…I’m almost done with part 1. When did you read part 1?
Looking forward to this Saturday for your review, Jim! I watched it via Youtube months ago.
Thanks so very much. I see I’ve got a lot of reading to do in 2021.
Blessings to you and your family. I pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Blessings.
Thanks, brother! I appreciate this good listing of presup resources!
You’re welcome! Continuing my “Black Friday” tradition of posting these yearly recommendations for the last 11 years! Did you stayed up later than usual yesterday? I stayed up reading Batman comics, a break from theological reading lol
RE: Batman
Ah, looking forward to the review! That’s a coincidence because I read the latest LSH last night. Then the dog woke me up at 2 a.m. and I wrote the review. Went back to sleep at 4 and woke up at 6:30. Not exactly a restful night.
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Thanks for this list!
You’re welcome! Just ordered your gift and let me know when it arrive from Amazon yeah? Hope your Thanksgiving yesterday was a blessing!
Thank you so much! I sure will!!! How was your duck?! Please don’t take this the wrong way but I am terrified to eat duck. When we first arrived in Beijing the first we had was duck and me and even more so my brother got sick. We have been scared to try it again ever since and that was in 1996!
Were you able to see your family and Nancy’s. I am praying for you guys! Nathan says, “Hey, Jim!” He took off today!
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Thank you.
You’re welcome! How was yesterday for you?
Very nice.:)
I want to get Bahnsen’s book and “Every Believers Confidence” both for myself and for a friend
global extermination by 2025 – And I’ve sent this & messaged DOD & military base’s in new mexico re: Dulce’s military base as well; It’s gonna be a literal, human incomprehensible global bloodbath massacre & not even the word nightmare nor Crime’s against humanity can scratch the surface. Including those fool’s (devil court jester’s) – The ‘Utah Data Center’, code-named “Bumblehive”. And the Multiprogram Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
ALL $ bought & sold out your humanity & NON-SELF owned Soul (as solely God owns ALL), but re: Even with & like THOSE upon indian reservation (no respect for THE LAND) = New Mexico’s 7 mile’s down Dulce military base (& their just ONE amidst USA, despite global elsewhere), but press – on your computer keyboard key’s Ctrl & ‘F’ & search / find keyword – type in: Level 6 & see thereof text wordage around thereof
Do your own research, come to your own conclusion’s, but DON’T deem vast that they have been doing & are (tick tock ‘time’, right now) aren’t even worse so: global extermination by 2025, & whom TOP Power deem that 9-1-1 was JUST a TEST, to see just how the global masses would react & respond.
Globalist’s, misc aren’t really doing what they plan on, their really just passing the time, evil – senselessly, & their talk of reducing 7 billion plus down to 500 million, huh, OH don’t think it’ll stop there, oh no, just so Satan who solely started this Holy War against God, can eventually ‘spite’ God with exhibited all human eventually narrowed down & killed, like Satan’s timeless laughing off it’s ass at us (having put on a clueless humor show for that beast) & deeming to God, “LOOK AT THEM ALL, YOUR SO-CALLED PRIDE & JOY, THEIR SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT YOU?!”
And you gonna tell me (fellow human’s) THAT no bothers you? OH it will, upon Coming Judgment Day before Jesus per / via your Heaven Life Record (everyone has one, even Adam & Eve), OH . . . I ‘GET’ much BECAUSE I chose to SELF denyingly Holy Warrior rise up for solely Holy Trinity. You (CARE?) to read – hear more? Huh, fine, it’s NOT my Holy intel & I’m no threat nor lone wolf (as lone wolf is NOT in nor of Holy Trinity). Men in Black? Crime’s against humanity NO even begin to scratch the surface.
Like judge Marshall (“Time Cop”) said, “The sentence is DEATH, to be carried out IMMEDIATELY!” NO waiting around for the right cocktail, & thereof WATCH & WITNESS just how fast 6′ x 9′, misc tier’s would be cleared & emptied!
Know that it was Adam that sinned first, NOT Eve BUT old men long ago would have vast past since – to date believe otherwise, & why would anyone think? YEAH, huh, right.
Here’s another one: When satan got defeated re: Jesus’s testing in the desert, Satan just deemed (BECAUSE of ‘?’, ROGUE us all as a whole FROM Holy Trinity), “Fine Satan would just go after Jesus’s next best thing, HIS Little One’s ‘children / kids’ through the adult’s”.
Humanity could & should have SELF denyingly chosen to Holy Warrior rise up & represent solely Holy Trinity – as to why we were created & thought up in the first with WITH all we’d ever need ie: gift’s, talent’s, skill’s & free will, NOT EVER to exhibitedly deem (UGH) that God is somehow a maid & janitor for us?
Uh, NOT HE wouldn’t even have to exhale & we’d go out quicker than a candle & think NOT fellow humanity why Jesus REALLY came, huh, there’d be WHAT? Animatedly White streak’s down all adult’s back in fear & terror finding out the REAL Truth, with that we were solely created to self denyingly care take of each & Earth, NOTHING off!
And the dying Earth? Try: The Natural balance is off – once like a force field shielding, like a computer firewall going down, thus, having allowed in, because of Adam first & THEN Eve, which Satan seeing Adam failing God priorly THEN did God allow Satan to try testing Eve.
And re: children / kid’s, Jesus: “If any adult’s keep any of these Little one’s from me, they will NEVER see my Father”. MUCH has been changed, suppressed, misc by whether the Vatican, fill in the blank’s over centuries, even destroyed so that later humanity would NOT know of the truth or say that – to do such, simply would have been purposely not been recorded so as to deem that it just never happened & thus, later humanity would not know.
Yeah, I know much BUT it AIN’T me, it’s Holy Trinity, per / via HIm ‘touching’ me, knowing I’d be shunned but I don’t care because I will die for Jesus & have past since – to date until my eventual death, SELF denied voluntary & chosenly Holy Warrior for Jesus Holy Trinity.
Huh two thing’s: THEY of whether globalist’s, etc or TOP – down globally deem cluelessly that – 1) Satan started this nevertheless 70 century – to date Holy War against God, 2) Adam FIRST, NOT Eve, sinned & then Eve of course but old men long ago changing writing’s would have any & all believe otherwise, & SO . . . what then? Satan wins? YEAH, NOT! THINK AGAIN!
And THEN, there’s this – THEY of globalist’s, etc TOP – down, globally are gonna take out ALL humanity IN, whether clueless or on purpose, accordance WITH this Holy War that Satan solely started against God 70 centuries ago, voluntary & NON-voluntary suicide / murder, just so Satan can apparently SPITE God that & with, “LOOK AT THEM ALL, THEIR ALL GONE, THEIR (were) SUPPOSE TO HAVE BEEN YOUR / YOU’RE PRIDE & JOY . . .”
And plus there’s then the – THEIR really not doing – all that they have done & do – do for really no reason, THEIR really just doing it to pass the tick tock ‘time’ . . .
And worth noting, when Satan got defeated in the desert amidst Jesus’s testing, Satan just deemed, “Fine, I’ll just go after Jesus’s next best thing, HIS Little One’s (children / kid’s) THROUGH the adult’s.
God gave us all each – embedded within all we’d ever need to self denyingly Holy Warrior rise up & represent Holy Trinity, as we were created to solely do so & THAT of care take of each & Earth, NOTHING off, EVER! THIS PLANET, Earth! It’s like One who goes after dessert before eating the main meal or like human evil weed’s overtaking the garden that is all else . . . PONDER THAT!
Huh, LISTEN . . . to our fellow human Brother, just another Son of Adam & Eve, Steven Frederic Seagal’s word’s very carefully & TAKE IT TO HEART!
Los Angeles County (California, USA), 88 cities & 20 + year’s = vast dead & killed fellow homeless human’s;
Author: Paul L. Williams.
Huh, TRY THIS on for size per / via you’re brain = global extermination by 2025, & whom TOP Power deem that 9/11/01 was JUST a TEST to see just how the global masses would react & respond.
Deborah Tavares, (she lives in Sonoma County – Northern California), & is a activist with a research team
This doesn’t sound like its related to the topic on this post…spamming?
These are scary times we are living in
Thank you for sharing your list. The answer books for kids looks like something I may like to have on hand for our grandchildren. The sad thing is….I never hear them asking any questions….maybe because they are so young. That happens more when our lives are almost over…..perhaps!
I like your Christmas book list. Thank you for posting this SlimJim ☺️
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