Resources on World Religions
Resources on World Religions
Tools for Conversing with World Religions
Intro
Greg Koukl. Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (2019).
James Sire, The Universe Next Door (2009).
Atheism
Intermediate
David Berlinski. The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (2008).
John Lennox. God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009).
Edward Feser. The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (2010).
Christian Smith. Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver (2018).
Advanced
Alistair McGrath. The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (2007); Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things (2011).
David Bentley Hart. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2010).
Roman Catholcisim
Intro
R. C. Sproul. Are We Together?: A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism (2012); Getting the Gospel Right (2003).
Leonardo De Chirico. Same Words, Different Worlds: Do Roman Catholics and Evangelicals Believe the Same Gospel? (2021).
Gregg Allison. Roman Catholic Theology and Practice: An Evangelical Assessment (2014).
Intermediate
James White. The Roman Catholic Controversy (1996); Mary-Another Redeemer? (1998).
William Webster. Church of Rome at the Bar of History (1997); The Matthew 16 Controversy: Peter and the Rock (1996); The Old Testament Canon and the Apocrypha (2002); The Gospel of the Reformation: Salvation from the Guilt and Power of Sin (1997).
Eric Svendsen. Who Is My Mother?: The Role and Status of the Mother of Jesus in the New Testament and Roman Catholicism (2007).
James McCarthy. The Gospel According to Rome: Comparing Catholic Tradition and the Word of God (1995).
Advanced
Leonardo De Chirico. Evangelical Perspectives on Post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism (2003).
Michael Whelton. Two Paths: Orthodoxy & Catholicism: Rome’s Claims of Papal Supremacy in the Light of Orthodox Christian Teaching (2020).
Alexander Hislop. The Two Babylons (1998).
New Age & "Spirituality"
Intro
Alisa Childers. Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity (2020).
Johanna Michaelson. The Beautiful Side of Evil (1982)
Warren Smith. The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace (2022).
Bancarz & Peck. The Second Coming of the New Age: The Hidden Dangers of Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America and Its Churches (2018).
Costi Hinn. God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies (2019); Defining Deception: Freeing the Church from the Mystical-Miracle Movement (2018).
Doreen Virtue. Deceived No More: How Jesus Led Me out of the New Age and into His Word (2020).
Douglas Groothuis. Unmasking the New Age ().
Advanced
Michael Horton. Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” in Antiquity, 3 vols. (2024).
Islam
Intermediate
Norman Geisler & Abdul Saleeb. Answering Islam (2002).
James White. What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur’an (2013).
Nabeel Qureshi. No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity (2016).
Nabeel Jabbour. The Crescent through the Eyes of the Cross: Insights from an Arab Christian (2008).
Kenneth Bailey. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels (2008).
Beverly & Evans. Getting Jesus Right: How Muslims Get Jesus and Islam Wrong: How Muslims get Jesus and Islam Wrong (2015).
Advanced
Gordon Nickel. The Gentle Answer to the Muslim Accusation of Biblical Falsification (2015).
Gabriel Reynolds. The Emergence of Islam: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective (2012).
Mormonsim & Jehovah's Witness
Intro
James White. Is the Mormon My Brother?: Discerning the Differences Between Mormonism and Christianity (2008); Letters to a Mormon Elder (2007).
James Beverley. Crisis of Allegiance (1986); Mormon Crises: Anatomy of a Failing Religion (2013).
Intermediate
Stephen Bedard. The Watchtower and the Word (2014).
Ron Rhodes. Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah's Witnesses (1993).
Robert M. Bowman Jr. Jesus’ Resurrection and Joseph’s Visions: Examining the Foundations of Christianity and Mormonism (2020).
Bowman & Komoszewski. Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ (2025).
Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (1965).
Judaism
Intermediate
Eitan Bar. Refuting Rabbinic Objections to Christianity and Messianic Prophecies (2019).
Michael L. Brown. Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, 5 vols. (2009).