Book (Etc.) Recommends

A piece back a reader wrote to suggest that I do a permapost on book recommendations drawing together the various recommends I’ve made from time to time (a la what I do with Lent questions in Annual Lent Fight). I’ve decided to do so, so here goes.

(I’m not sure if I’ve got all the recommends, so if anybody finds ones that I’ve missed in the archives, e-mail me. Thanks!)

This list will become more organized over time.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

13 thoughts on “Book (Etc.) Recommends”

  1. Speaking of preterism, I gather that Ken Gentry will be coming out with a commentary on Revelation. It should be better than Chilton’s.
    He has written many good books from a preterist and postmillenial perspective.

  5. An excellent and related book by Louis Bouyer: The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism. In the first half he praises the positive principles of the Reformation, showing how they are truly Catholic. In part two he shows how those great principles have been continuously and inevitably undermined among the Reformers (and their heirs) as a result of Protestantism’s failure to properly critique and throw off the nominalistic framework of the late medieval period. He clearly explains how the positive principles of the Reformation and Protestantism can only be sustained and flourish within the Catholic Church.

  6. I’m amazed that there are no G.K. Chesterton books in your list. I’m sure you’ve read them, but I would think that an author who is quoted by so many apologists would have made your list, at least with “Orthodoxy: the Romance of Faith” or “The Everlasting Man”.
    Just an observation.

  7. When a Catholic or a non-Catholic asks me for some book that might introduce the Catholic faith, I always recommend “The Teaching of Christ” by Wuerl.
    It’s well-rounded and intellectually accessible to most adults.
    I even recommended it to Catholics who are devoutly practicing but have never read something catechetically formative for adults (most of whom left catechism behind sometime in high school).

  8. Jimmy,
    You forgot to list ‘Everlasting Man’. G.K.’s
    great work should be read by everyone.

  11. Catholic Home was recently recommended by you. I couldn’t remember the title and looked here first. Was recommended on post Dec. 1, 2006.

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