Tullian Tchividjian has compiled a nice list of books on church and culture.
- No Place for Truth by David Wells
- God in the Wasteland by David Wells
- Losing our Virtue by David Wells
- Above all Earthly Powers by David Wells
- Engaging God’s World by Cornelius Plantinga
- Not the Way it’s Supposed to be by Cornelius Plantinga
- Heaven is a Place on Earth by Michael Wittmer
- Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper
- The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin
- Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon
- Where Resident Aliens Live by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon
- American Evangelicalism by James Davison Hunter
- The Transforming Vision by Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton
- He Shines in all That’s Fair by Richard Mouw
- The Gravedigger File by Os Guinness
- Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
- Rumor of Angels by Peter Berger
- A Peculiar People by Rodney Clapp
- Being the Body by Charles Colson
- Chameleon Christianity by Dick Keyes
There are some books I am quite familiar with, including those by Wells, Kuyper, Newbigin, Plantinga, Guinness, Mouw, Pearcey, and Colson. But I must say there are quite a few I have never heard of(!), such as Clapp, Keyes, Walsh, and Wittmer. Some that come to my mind that were not mentioned include:
H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture
George Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture
Kevin Vanhoozer’s Everyday Theology
Os Guinness’ Prophetic Untimeliness
Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Henry Van Til’s The Calvinistic Concept of Culture
Any other good books on church/Christianity and culture that you can think of?
I really appreciated The World According to God by Greg Johnson (IVP). My RUF minister at University of Kentucky, tries to get the freshman students to read it and talk about it.
Two I would recommend are “The Church Between Gospel and Culture” edited by George Hunsberger and Craig Van Gelder and Cofident Witness Changing World by Craig Van Gelder.
He Shines in all That’s Fair by Richard J. Mouw
Heaven is Not My Home by Paul Marshall.
Creation Regained by Wolters.
I would also recommend Mike Wittmer’s book. I think he did his doctoral work at Calvin on culture. He is publishing a book next year on post-modernism.
Thanks guys for your contributions and book recommendations. Ya’ll have mentioned some more that I have not read, and I am glad you have pointed me to them.
Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism
T. M. Moore, Redeeming Pop Culture: A Kingdom Approach
Bill Romanowski, Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture
Nathan,
Thanks for the contributions. I trust the C.S. Lewis conference went well. Man, you guys are doing some great stuff over there. 🙂