Recommended Books by Evangelical Scholars

The following are books written by evangelical scholars that I, as a religious skeptic, highly recommend to evangelical Christians. Obviously I will not agree with everything written but these authors demonstrate the many problems with evangelical views of the Bible and the natural world.

• Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament.

• Kenton Sparks, God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship.

• Vincent Bacote, Laura Miguelez, Dennis Okholm, eds., Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics.

• John H. Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.

• Paul Seely, Inerrant Wisdom: Science and Inerrancy in Biblical Perspective.

• John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate.

• Craig Bartholomew, C. Stephen Evans, Mary Healy, Murray Rae, eds., "Behind" the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation.

• Darrel R. Falk, Coming to Peace With Science.

• Stephen J. Godfrey and Christopher R. Smith, Paradigms on Pilgrimage: Creationism, Paleontology and Biblical Interpretation.

• Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth.

• Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

• Alan G. Padgett & Patrick Keifert, eds., But is It All True? The Bible and the Question of Truth.

• Ruth A. Tucker, Walking Away from Faith: Unraveling the Mystery of Belief and Unbelief.

• Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey, Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy.