The God and Culture 2008 Summer Reading Menu

Memorial Day weekend seems the appropriate time to release a recommended list of books for your summer reading. 

  1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  2. A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger Than You by Paul David Tripp
  3.  For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church by Sephen J. Nichols
  4. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George
  5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  6. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
  7. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  8. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O’Connor
  9. Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11) by P. D. James
  10. Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
  11. The Innocence of God by Udo Middelmann
  12. Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
  13. Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ by Stephen J. Nichols
  14. The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Early American Studies) (Early American Studies) by John Fea
  15. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
  16. The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World by David Wells
  17. Christ and Culture Revisited by D. A. Carson
  18. The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
  19. The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright by John Piper
  20. In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement by J. I. Packer and Mark Dever