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I'd recommend checking these out:
Plantinga, Alvin. God and Other Minds. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Feser, Edward. The Last Superstition: a Refutation of the New Atheism. St. Augustine's Press, 2011.
Plantinga, Alvin. Knowledge and Christian Belief. Eerdmans, 2015.
Pitre, Brant. The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ. Image, 2016.
Feser, Edward. Five Proofs of the Existence of God. Ignatius Press, 2017.
Further on 10: Here are some resources that I think you may find helpful.
Historicity of the Bible
An article by Peter S. Williams
Article On the Historicity of the New Testament By J.P. Moreland
Audio Resources By Dr. Timothy McGrew (analytic philosopher and historical apologist)
An essay on the historically and historiographically corroborated resurrection of Jesus Christ, explicated by the Bayesian Theorem of probabilities
In determining whether there is a true religion or not, I had to look to history. All other religions can be dismissed as nonfalsifiable for lacking an equally strong case, as analytic philosopher and NT Scholar William Lane Craig said.
Natural Theology • Contemporary Advanced Formulations + Extra Philosophy
Websites:
Dr. Alexander Pruss's Blog, Dr. Edward Feser's Blog,Reasonablefaith.org, DesiringGod.org
Essays and a Few Short Writings:
Christianity as a Properly Basic Belief
A Distinction Between Faith and Credence?
On the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Philosopher Robert Koons' Version
Appealing to the Sciences in Assessing a Kalam Cosmological Argument
On The Contemporary Cosmological Arugments Appealing to Plausible Causal Principles, and The Liebnizian Explanatory Principle
Moral Arguments--An Overview
Another Perspective on Arguments appealing to Our Moral Experience (first essay on evaluating moral antirealism as an extension of naturalism, the second on rejecting all other non-theistic accounts of morality with human dignity as the primary example)
An Argument From Reason
From Consciousness, + another consideration
Essays by Mathematician/Analytic Philosopher Alexander Pruss (see his work on the modal ontological arguments appealing to the unique and, as he argues, coherent concept of God. Additionally, his extensive work on the contemporary Liebnizian Cosmological Argument is, to my studied opinion, compelling--but that's up for you to conclude. His forthcoming collaborative book endeavors to substantiate theses regarding the existence of a necessary being.)
From Beauty
From Simplicity--Meta-aesthetics, See Plantinga's lecture notes at the bottom for another argument from Simplicity as A Theoretical Virtue for the Evaluation of a Hypothesis
Two arguments similar to the argument from fine tuning: The Applicability of Mathematics to the Physical World + A Simple Inference From Entropic Diminutiveness
Inferring from Instantiations of Biological Complexity to an Intelligent Source (the sort of thing that convinced Antony Flew of deism, world's most prominent and contributive atheist philosopher of religion in that recent generation...I'm not talking about the so called "ID Theory")
Search Robin Collins' website for his design arguments from the laws of nature and the "fine tuning" of the universe for the development of intelligent life. (forthcoming, tentatively titled book: A Well Tempered Universe)
From the Normative Status of Altruism
On How Religious Experiences Substantiate Theism
Essay By C.S. Lewis on Christ's Radical Personal Claims
The Laws of Logic<--interesting, maybe promising, but needs work
Answering a Few Objections
Atheistic Arguments from Evil: a long, thorough answer, + a short (but simplistic) answer
Can a Moral God and Hell Coexist?--see Dr. William Lane Craig debate this topic + Edward Feser's recent three blog posts on this topic.
Typical Objections to a Cosmological Argument Feser's specifically considering that of Thomism
Don't confuse the work of analytic philosophers with that of philosophically naive theologians debating philosophically naive popularizers of atheism
One resource won't likely do it for all your investigation in coming to an informed opinion on these subjects, I'm afraid.
I think an honest assessment of each of these reveals each at least raises the probability that God exists.
But don't forget one more thing: these arguments should be put together. A hypothesis that solves 24+ problems has significant evidence in its favor--especially when it serves to explain much of the most fundamental data in human experience. In the interest of objectivity and the pursuit of truth in general, try not to think of this as evaluating each argument aspiring to establish a theologically significant conclusion respectively--rather, determine whether each essay/article/etc is on to something or not. i.e. For quite a while I thought there could not possibly be a coherent formulation of an ontological argument, but now I can see that I would have done better to reject a particular defender's presentation of such an argument rather than throw it out as a whole. That's the most extreme example, of course, as ontological arguments for theism are notoriously controversial--in large part due to, I suspect, the conflation of Anselm's controversial argument from conceptuality with the modern ones from modality/potentiality.
There's much more I'm forgetting, but there's a place to start. I hope that helps, God bless! In honer of Alvin Plantinga
Here’s a decent collection of his essays:
http://www.andrewmbailey.com/ap/
Several of them are shorter. I’d just find one with a title that interests me.
And though I haven’t read it, this looks to be a more accessible presentation of his Warrant works:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802872042/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_NUMTCbJCJ7Q1Y
If I were getting into Plantinga now, I’d probably start with this book and go from there.
>I believe that Christianity is rationally defensible, that religious experiences are valid, and that belief in God enjoys proper basicality--as Alvin Plantinga has defended
I think Plantinga, Alston and Wolterstorff's reformed epistemology is one of the most convincing defenses of rational belief that has hence been devised.
Warranted Christian Belief is an extraordinarily good read. There is an updated, condensed version also: Knowledge and Christian Belief.