Books I have read about Chrisitainity and other religions/philosophy

Hi readers,

Over the years, I have been reading a lot of books about Christianity. Although I am Christian, in a way I am interested in finding out what others view about religion/philosophy and Christianity in general.

So here's a list of the books I read so far, and a short review of them.

A) About Christianity
1) Mere Christianity
By C.S. Lewis

Even as Lewis speaks from the grave, his ideas were not outdated, leaving me speechless about Christianity. He presents Christianity without all its bells and whistles, muisc and lights, smoke and mirrors, and makes it clear, concise and reasonable.

This book is abptly named "Mere Christianity". I enjoyed the book, and appreciated his intelluctual honesty in his journey in coming Christian.

2) Reason for God
By Timothy Keller

This book is inspiring, and again presents the case of Christianity in a simple way.

Although not as extenisve on philosophy as Mere Christianity, it is simple and easy to read.

B) Science and Christianity

1) Finding Darwin's God
By Kenneth R. Miller

This book is more of a defence of Monotheism, rather than mainstream Christianity. It is an exciting read, especially if you are a science student.

That said, I didn't quite understand about the use of quantum theory in free will. The argument sounds like a God-of-the-gaps argument, which his book argues against throughout.

2) God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
By John Lennox

A philosopher and mathematician, John Lennox handles the limits of science and religion, and the relations the two have.

It is quite a fair and balanced book, as he handles misconceptions thrown out by the New Atheists.

3) The Language of God
By Francis Collins
A nice, honest and personal view of God from the ex-head of the Human Genome Project. I appreciate Professor Collins's bravery in standing up for his faith to be counted.

That said, he struggles with some aspects of philosophy. For instance, his argument for morality sounds as if it is an argument from ignorance.

C) Atheism

1) God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By Christorpher Hitchens

This book was puzzling to me. At first it starts out as a platform than discussion, and then wraps the chracteristics of religion so bad, that I do not recognise it. For instance, the author makes it sound as if all bad things come from religion, and for the good things that happen, the religious people used secular principles for them. Case close. No further discussion needed.

That said, he makes good arguments against the participants of religion, rather than religion itself. For instance, how religion resulted in the War on Terror and the Crusades.

D) Islam

1) The Myth of the Cross
By A.D. Ajjola

This book examines the central claims of Christianity, but the version I borrowed from the library is riddled with many grammatical errors, making it a hard read.

Nevertheless, I did read it through and was appalled by the line of logic it makes. For example, it says that Jesus claiming to be the Son of Man does not make him divine, as Ezekiel was also called "son of man" in the book of Ezekiel. However, he does not bother to observe the differences of language (the captial letters, for one), the context, the audience and so on. Even if he could not bother to check the original Greek/Hebrew Bible manuscript, he could at least cite someone, which he does not either.

That said, it does give a rough explanation why my Muslim friends do not except Jesus as God.

The future?

Currently I am reading Can a Darwinian be a Christian? by atheist philosopher Michael Ruse. Unfortunately, I have yet to read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (because it's on loan in the library). I have read about it (and a lot of other books) though.

I need to read up more about other religions, so if anybody can recommend me anything, go ahead.