Resources

Study tools

Bible training memory verse tools

Audio Bible

Bible.is provides a good dramatized ESV audio Bible. When listening to this and other audio lectures I highly recommend listening at a faster speed, which you can do on mobile devices using an app like VLC for Android.

The Bible Project

Though The Bible Project videos are already required for some Bible Training course, they are still useful for courses where they aren't explicitly assigned (e.g. Old Testament Survey).


Books for self-study

Nearly all of the following books are read as part of Biola's Masters of Arts in Christian Apologetics program.

General Apologetics

  • When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences (Norman Geisler & Ron Brooks)
  • Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (William Lane Craig)
  • History, Law and Christianity (John Warwick Montgomery)
  • Intellectuals Don't Need God and Other Modern Myths (Alister McGrath)

Relativism

  • Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Francis Beckwith & Greg Koukl)
  • True for You, But Not For Me: Overcoming Objections to Christian Faith (Paul Copan)

Resurrection of Jesus

  • The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Michael Licona)
  • The Resurrection of the Son of God (N.T. Wright)

Reliability of the Bible

  • Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible's Authority (Jonathan Morrow)
  • Can We Trust the Gospels: Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (Mark Roberts)
  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (Craig Blomberg)
  • The Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible (Paul Wegner)

Church History / Historical Theology

  • Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Mark Noll)
  • Church History in Plain Language (Bruce Shelley)
  • The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries (Rodney Stark)

Philosophy

  • Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (William Lane Craig & J.P. Moreland)

Problem of Evil

  • Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)
  • When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty (Joni Eareckson Tada)
  • Why Does God Allow Evil?: Compelling Answers for Life's Toughest Questions (Clay Jones)

Islam

  • No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity (Nabeel Qureshi)
  • Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Nabeel Qureshi)

Issues in Theology

  • Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views (multiple authors)
  • The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation (multiple authors)

Intelligent Design

  • Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Michael Behe)
  • Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (Stephen Meyer)
  • Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science & Theology (William Dembski)