Authors - Recommended Reading

I wanted to create a simply way to link to the authors, pastors, theologians, philosophers, and other writers that I recommend. This list is in no way complete, nor ordered in any particular way. One of the aspects of education at Fuller Seminary that I learned was the need for dialogue partners, particularly those authors whose views challenge you to think about what you think. You may not agree completely with them, but they pose questions, structure arguments, and present information in a way that challenges you to formulate why you think the way you do on a topic. Sometimes it means you change your mind while other times it simply causes you to better understand why you believe something (and disagree completely with the author). I will try, on this list, to keep these book split into different categories as best I can. In particular, for non-fiction works, whether history, theology, or science I will try to group them as to their accessibility (I'll use the terms Accessible and Academic ). Sometimes an author will have a book on both lists. I'll keep a separate list for fiction writers. 

*This page is a work in progress, so for now I'm putting names down and will work on particular works by them later. This is by no means exhaustive!*

Christianity/Theology/Spirituality

Barth, Karl

Barton, Ruth Haley

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Boyd, Greg

Byas, Jared

Cho, Eugene

Dark, David

Kirk, Daniel

Enns, Peter

Erickson, Millard

Escobar, Kathy

Evans, Rachel Held

Foster, Richard

Gonzalez, Justo

Grenz, Stanley

Keller, Timothy

Kierkegaard, Soren

Ladd, George Eldon

Lewis, C.S.

McGrath, Alister

McKnight, Scot

McManus, Erwin

Miller, Donald

Moltmann, Jurgen

Mouw, Rich

Nee, Watchman

Nouwen, Henri

Olson, Roger

Pinnock, Clark

Rollins, Peter

Smith, Christian

Sweet, Leonard

Stott, John

Viola, Frank

Volf, Miroslav

Willard, Dallas

Wright, Christopher

Wright, N.T.

Zacharias, Ravi

Fiction

Adams, Douglas

Best, James - Tempest at Dawn

Card, Orson Scott

Clancy, Tom

Cline, Ernest

Kroese, Robert

Lewis, C.S.

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Vonnegut, Kurt