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Where we offer an almost comprehensive listing of books that we would recommend, all nicely categorized by topic and rated by accessibility. Books with 1-star are popular-level books, while 3-star books are academic. Two-star books float somewhere in between. We are seeking to live into the call put forth by Alan Hirsch & Mark Nelson in Reframation: Seeing God, People, and Mission through Reenchanted Frames. (100 Movements Publishing, 2019)
Greenwood, Kyle. Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015. **
Harris, Mark. The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science. Bristol: Acumen, 2013.**
Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009. **
--------------------. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015. **
Walton, John H. & Tremper Longman III. The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology and the Deluge Debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2018. **
Hiestand, Gerald and Todd Wilson, eds. Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God’s Good World. Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, 2018. **
Polkinghorne, John. The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. ***
------------------------. Belief in God in an Age of Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. **
------------------------. The God of Hope and the End of the World. New Haven: Yale University, 2002. **
------------------------. Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion. New Haven: Yale University, 2005. **
------------------------. Science and Religion in Quest of Truth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. **
Russell, Robert John. Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. ***
Walsh, Andy. Faith Across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Science. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2018. **
Cavanaugh, William T., and James K. A. Smith, eds. Evolution and the Fall. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017. ***
Collins, Francis S. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York: Free Press, 2006. *
Giberson, Karl W. Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. New York: HarperOne, 2008. *
Glass, Bruce. Exploring Faith and Reason: The Reconciliation of Christianity and Biological Evolution. Houston: DBG, 2012. **
Osborn, Ronald E. Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2014. **
Rosenberg, Stanley P., Michael Burdett, Michael Lloyd, and Benno van den Toren, eds. Finding Ourselves After Darwin: Conversations on the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2018. ***
Southgate, Christopher. The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. ***
Lindberg, David C., and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. ***
Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. ***
Here are some helpful books that don’t directly address issues of faith and science, but do offer helpful background information in areas of Christian theology, reading the Bible, philosophical frameworks, etc.
Enns, Peter. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It. New York: HarperOne, 2014. *
----------------. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How an Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers-and Why That’s Great News. New York: HarperOne, 2019.*
Fretheim, Terence E. God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. ***
Gunton, Colin E. The Triune Creator: A Historic and Systematic Study. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. ***
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. **
---------------. Miracles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. ***
Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. **
Keller, Timothy. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. *
Noll, Mark A. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. **
Smith, James K. A. How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.**