Suggested Readings
Books in Response to the New Atheists: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
Berlinsky, David. The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. New York Basic Books, 2009.
Copan, Paul, and William Lane Craig, eds. Contending with Christianity’s Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors. Nashville, Tenn.: B. & H. Academic, 2009.
Craig, William Lane, and Chad Meister, eds. God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable & Responsible. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2009.
Eberstadt, Mary. The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010. A humorous satire in the tradition of the Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.
Feser, Edward. Five Proofs of the Existence of God. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017. Gives an updated defense of the classic proofs of God’s existence and convincingly answers the common objections to them.
Flew, Anthony, with Roy Abraham Varghese. There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
Geisler, Norman, and Frank Turek. I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway books. 2004.
Hahn, Scott, and Benjamin Wiker. Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road Publishing, 2008.
Hitchens, Peter. The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2010. Written by the brother of Christopher Hitchens, one of the New Atheists.
Johnson, Philip E. and John Mark Reynolds. Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong About the New Atheism. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2010.
Markham, Ian S. Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
McGrath, Alister. Why God Won’t Go Away: Is the New Atheism Running on Empty. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2011.
McGrath, Alister, and Joanna C. McGrath. The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
Meyer, Stephen C. Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2021. The author has his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. An excellent read for those investigating the hypothesis that God exists . Meyer proposes that hypothesis best explains the evidence we have concerning cosmological and biological origins.
Mohler, R. Albert. Atheism ReMix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2008.
Poole, Michael. The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2009.
Spitzer, Robert J. New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2010.
The author is the president of Gonzaga University.
Other General Works on the Existence of God:
Craig, William Lane. The Kalam Cosmological Argument. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2000.
Craig, William Lane, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Layman, C. Stephen. Letters to Doubting Thomas: A Case for the Existence of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Moreland, J. P. Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1987.
Overman, Dean L. A Case for the Existence of God. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008
Pantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
(also Warrant and Proper Function; Warrant: The Current Debate, both 1993).
Swinburne, Richard. Is There a God. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Swinburne, Richard. The Existence of God. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.