Reddit mentions: The best adult christian education books

Okay... larger list:

So the 39 Articles sketch out a good view of baptism, justification, salvation, etc.

• The Study of Anglicanism, especially Louis Weil's essay "The Gospel in Anglicanism".
  
  
• The Anglican Spirit - Michael Ramsey
  
  
• Works from this list. Good variety of patristic, early medieval, Reformation, and contemporary works (including The Anglican Spirit).
  
  
• Not for Anglicans specifically, but Rowan Williams' short work Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer is really enlightening for its size. Likewise, his series of lectures on the Apostles' Creed, Tokens of Trust, is very good.
  
  
• Didn't read this but this catechism centered around the Decalogue/Lord's Prayer/Apostles' Creed looks awesome. It's from the ACNA (if that matters to you) but reading the description it looks like they did a good job. (C'mon Episcopal Church, step up your game...)
  
  
  
  

John Esposito! This book is focused a little more politically than theologically, but is overall really, really helpful. The title What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam is wonderfully accurate.

EDIT: Also I really like the method used by this book to teach about world religions. I think the author's idea about "ultimate concerns" will be helpful to you. The book is really brief but infinitely useful.

>I'm looking for books or articles that are accessible to the educated non-specialist, and I would like them to be heavily sourced/footnoted so I can identify further reading.

These two:

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Catholicism-Religion/dp/0521608554

https://www.amazon.com/Catholicism-Short-Introduction-Gerald-OCollins/dp/019954591X


At the end they offer lot of further reading material divided in topics.

>The Nature of God - especially as it relates to refutations of atheist arguments

Second one is written by Anglican priest, third one is more advanced.

https://www.amazon.com/God-New-Atheism-Critical-Response/dp/066423304X

https://www.amazon.com/Why-There-Almost-Certainly-God/dp/0745953301

https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Reason-Existence-Denys-Turner/dp/0521602564

>Philisophical/logical arguments for the existence of God. I find the cosmological arguments (at least at the basic level) the most compelling and interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Philosophy-Religion-Cambridge-Introductions/dp/0521619556

>Catholic moral philosophy. I understand this will be related to Natural Law

http://www.staugustine.net/our-books/books/morality-the-catholic-view/

Anglican? Alright.

Catechism online.
http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/catechism

A Catechism to your home.
https://www.amazon.com/Be-Christian-Anglican-Catechism/dp/0986044121

I read the book God and the New Atheism about a year ago. It did a good job of showing how Dawkins and kin haven't done a very good job of dismantling Christianity but gave just knocked down a poorly represented version. I disagreed with some the author's stuff on science, it was lacking much understanding of the philosophy of science.

But if you want just plain theism, there are a whole host of philosophers who attempted to argue for God as an objective truth. You could start with Aquinas or Augustine.

For what it's worth, I've read most of the major arguments for and against the existence God. They all seem to fall short in different ways.

The catechism explicitly teaches that the seventh day is Saturday, the Sabbath. So if your "2 billion" figure is the Roman Catholic Church, then you might want to ask someone with knowledge there just what happened.

Letter from C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons on October 28, 1895:

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (to sunday) was her act… And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters. (clarity supplied)

We published a much lengthier catechism titles To Be a Christian published in a separate volume.

You're looking for Gospel Shaped Outreach.

You could take a look at You Cannot Escape from God

I actually just got this book today on the recommendation of this guy I talked to at an interfaith meeting. I've barely gotten through the first chapter so I can't give my full opinion, but the introduction did not impress me.

OK, so, here's what I did. I did some searching around and found that the essay is included in the book In the World: Reading and Writing as a Christian.

I then did some digging and found that my university's library has a copy in their archives. So I ran over there and found it. After some failures with scanners and pdfs, here's what the book says in the blurb before the essay:

"While many complain about the low quality of the language of American culture, few offer standards for its improvement. Henry Zylstra is one who does. A literary critic who until his death in 1956 wrote widely in Reformed and evangelical publications, Zylstra here treats two issues that he valued highly and wrote about often: language and the Christian life. In this essay we can see his endeavor, in the words of one biographer, 'to make all things subservient to the mind of Christ.'"

I have to run to class, but I'll be out soon. Let me know if that's not enough, and I'll figure out something else!