Welcome! The purpose of the Postfundamentalist Forum is to promote serious and disciplined thought about the world from a Christian and biblical perspective, and in so doing to worship God with our minds.
This is a brief bibliography of books and other resources that I have found useful and apropos to the cultivation of the Christian mind. It comprises only books that I have read personally. Since I am still reading and hunting down a lot more books, this should be taken as a sort of "working draft" reading list for now.
If you have something you'd like to recommend along the same lines, feel free to forward a title and a brief description of the book. I may consider putting up a "Recommendations from other sources" listing as well. Heck, I may even read it!
Blamires, Harry. The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? Ann Arbor, MI: Vine, 1997.
In this book, which was written back in the 60s but is still quite current, Blamires laments that "there is no longer a Christian mind." His thesis is that distinctive Christian models of thinking have been replaced by secular models.
Guinness, Os. The Dust of Death. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1972.
Guinness critiques pre-1960s humanism and the post-1960s counterculture and their failure, and argues for the Third Way: a living out of a compassionate Christian faith.
Noll, Mark A. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
This excellent book tracks the decline of Christian thought in the 20th century, tracing it to the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment, Higher Life anti-intellectualism and Fundamentalist theology. Noll holds out hope that an intellectual renaissance is under way.
Walsh, Brian and J. Richard Middleton. The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984.
This is one of my favourite books on the Christian worldview. Walsh and Middleton describe how this worldview should be outlined—based in Creation, corrupted by the Fall, and redeemed by Christ—and critique the modern idolatry of economics, science, and technology. This book is particularly geared toward university and college students, and includes an extensive bibliography of "required reading" in a number of academic disciplines.
Wells, David F. No Place for Truth: Or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.
Wells argues that modern evangelicalism, in its quest to be relevant to the world, has become too worldly, resulting in watered-down theology and the secularization of the church.
Modern Reformation is the journal of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Most back issues are on the Net. Several of these deal with the issue of culture or the Christian mind. In particular, I direct your attention to the July/August 1994 and March/April 1992 numbers, "Wanted: Thinking Christians" and "Christ and Culture," respectively.
This excellent Web site, brought to you by the Society of Classical Protestants, has tons and tons of links to Reformed thought and theology. For the purposes of this discussion, see the links to the works of J. Gresham Machen, John Calvin, and Michael Horton.
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