Pro-Life Apologetics:
SCOTT KLUSENDORF is the president of Life Training Institute, where he trains pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views.
He recommends the following lists.
Relating to Pro-Life Apologetics:
1. Randy Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?
Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated by Randy Alcorn
2. Peter Kreeft, The Unaborted Socrates
3. Greg Koukl, Precious Unborn Human Persons
4. Greg Koukl, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
5. Ramesh Ponnuru, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life
6. Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
7. Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life
8. Francis J. Beckwith, Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice
9. Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose:
10. Patrick Lee, Abortion and Unborn Human Life
Christian World View in General (defense of):
1. Ken Boa & Rob Bowman, 20 Compelling Evidences that God Exists
2. Nancy Pearcy, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
3. Greg Koukl & Francis J. Beckwith, Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
4. R. Scott Smith, Truth and the New Kind of Christian
5. Ken Samples, A Worldview of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test
6. James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catolog:
7. W. Phillips, W. Brown, and John Stonestreet, Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview
8. Tim Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
9. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
Reading Aids:
Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life here.
Koukl's Tactics is reviewed here.
George & Tollefsen's Embryo is summarized here.
Beckwith's Defending Life is discussed in the following links:
#1 Overview of major themes
#2 The nature of moral reasoning
#3 What Roe said and did, part 1
#4 Roe, part 2: Blackmun undercuts his own case
#5 Roe, part 3: Blackmun's viability errors
#6 Metaphysics and abortion debate
#7 Thomson's 'Equal Reasonableness' Isn't Reasonable
#8: Science and the Unborn
And more:
10. Steve Wagner's Common Ground without Compromise?
11.Making Peace in the Abortion War by Rachel McNair. (Major advantage -- you can read it online!
12. Mark Crutcher's "Lime 5" is an ugly snapshot of abortion as it's actually practiced in America, and how the abortion lobby and the CDC conspire to keep Americans in the dark about it.
13. "In Necessity and Sorrow" by Magda Denes is an irrefutable, because "prochoice" look at typical, non-malpractice abortion. Pretty damning.
14. Marvin Olasky's "Abortion Rites" looks at how we squashed abortion the first two times, giving insights on what we can try again.
15. Bernard Nathanson's "Aborting America", written while Nathanson was still a queasy prochoicer and part-time abortionist, is an eye opening look into how the abortion lobby gained the political and PR upper hand.
16. "Surprise Child" by Leslie Leyland Fields, is a must for CPCs and ordinary folk. It's how women work through the normal ambivalence of early pregnancy.
17. "The American Way of Death", by Jessica Mitford, is an expose of the American funeral industry, and the specifics are out of date, but she does an excellent job of looking at the dynamics of selling YOURSELF on the "necessity" of a "service" that you're selling to stressed-out people at a vulnerable moment when time is of the essence. Most of the lessons from this book apply to abortion as well.
18. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War online.
19. The House of Atreus: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue by James Bohan. And of course the various pro-life feminism books.
http://lti-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/smart-pro-lifer-reading-list-sk.html
He recommends the following lists.
Relating to Pro-Life Apologetics:
1. Randy Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?
Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated by Randy Alcorn
2. Peter Kreeft, The Unaborted Socrates
3. Greg Koukl, Precious Unborn Human Persons
4. Greg Koukl, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
5. Ramesh Ponnuru, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life
6. Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
7. Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life
8. Francis J. Beckwith, Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice
9. Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose:
10. Patrick Lee, Abortion and Unborn Human Life
Christian World View in General (defense of):
1. Ken Boa & Rob Bowman, 20 Compelling Evidences that God Exists
2. Nancy Pearcy, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
3. Greg Koukl & Francis J. Beckwith, Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
4. R. Scott Smith, Truth and the New Kind of Christian
5. Ken Samples, A Worldview of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test
6. James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catolog:
7. W. Phillips, W. Brown, and John Stonestreet, Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview
8. Tim Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
9. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
Reading Aids:
Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life here.
Koukl's Tactics is reviewed here.
George & Tollefsen's Embryo is summarized here.
Beckwith's Defending Life is discussed in the following links:
#1 Overview of major themes
#2 The nature of moral reasoning
#3 What Roe said and did, part 1
#4 Roe, part 2: Blackmun undercuts his own case
#5 Roe, part 3: Blackmun's viability errors
#6 Metaphysics and abortion debate
#7 Thomson's 'Equal Reasonableness' Isn't Reasonable
#8: Science and the Unborn
And more:
10. Steve Wagner's Common Ground without Compromise?
11.Making Peace in the Abortion War by Rachel McNair. (Major advantage -- you can read it online!
12. Mark Crutcher's "Lime 5" is an ugly snapshot of abortion as it's actually practiced in America, and how the abortion lobby and the CDC conspire to keep Americans in the dark about it.
13. "In Necessity and Sorrow" by Magda Denes is an irrefutable, because "prochoice" look at typical, non-malpractice abortion. Pretty damning.
14. Marvin Olasky's "Abortion Rites" looks at how we squashed abortion the first two times, giving insights on what we can try again.
15. Bernard Nathanson's "Aborting America", written while Nathanson was still a queasy prochoicer and part-time abortionist, is an eye opening look into how the abortion lobby gained the political and PR upper hand.
16. "Surprise Child" by Leslie Leyland Fields, is a must for CPCs and ordinary folk. It's how women work through the normal ambivalence of early pregnancy.
17. "The American Way of Death", by Jessica Mitford, is an expose of the American funeral industry, and the specifics are out of date, but she does an excellent job of looking at the dynamics of selling YOURSELF on the "necessity" of a "service" that you're selling to stressed-out people at a vulnerable moment when time is of the essence. Most of the lessons from this book apply to abortion as well.
18. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War online.
19. The House of Atreus: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue by James Bohan. And of course the various pro-life feminism books.
http://lti-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/smart-pro-lifer-reading-list-sk.html
Reference Guides:
Please get these into the lobby rack at your church! Buy copies to give away!
1. Pro-Life ANSWERS" by Mark Crutcher (Life Dynamics + Priests for Life) 1.800.401.6494 / www.ProLifeAmerica.com /www.LifeDynamics.com
2. "Sharing the Pro-Life Message" by Joe & Ann Scheidler and company
(Pro-Life Action League) 1.773.777.2900 / www.ProLifeAction.org
1. Pro-Life ANSWERS" by Mark Crutcher (Life Dynamics + Priests for Life) 1.800.401.6494 / www.ProLifeAmerica.com /www.LifeDynamics.com
2. "Sharing the Pro-Life Message" by Joe & Ann Scheidler and company
(Pro-Life Action League) 1.773.777.2900 / www.ProLifeAction.org
Pro-Life Non-Fiction and Biography:
Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death
Joseph M. Scheidler
https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/racketeer-for-life-fighting-the-culture-of-death-2155.htmlAbandoned: The Untold St
Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars by Monica Migliorino Miller Ph.D.
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey… by Abby Johnson
Joseph M. Scheidler
https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/racketeer-for-life-fighting-the-culture-of-death-2155.htmlAbandoned: The Untold St
Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars by Monica Migliorino Miller Ph.D.
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey… by Abby Johnson
Pro-Life Fiction:
A Matter of Inches by Tom Cavenagh
God's Avenger: Michael, the Imprecatory Angel Apr 7, 2010
by Daniel John Gura
God's Avenger: Michael, the Imprecatory Angel Apr 7, 2010
by Daniel John Gura