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Why Didn't You Have To Go To Vietnam, Daddy? Once Upon A Time In A Dream
Steve Wilken

Outskirts Press, 2007

The Vietnam Story You've Never Been Told Before In the tradition of Catch 22 and MASH comes the most honest, refreshing story about the Vietnam era that's ever been written. This book may change everything you thought you knew about a generation torn apart by the war in Vietnam and the military draft. Read the poignant, irreverent story of one GI who hated the war, and later suffered the scorn of those who connived to avoid military service. A ...

Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 2: Faith & Reason in the 19th Century
Alan G. Padgett; Steve Wilkens

InterVarsity Press, 2000

Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 2: Faith & Reason in the 19th Century

1 review
Alan G. Padgett, Steve Wilkens

InterVarsity Press, 2000

An excellent survey.
The 19th century is profiled in a sequel to the first volume on the topic: this following the story of interactions between Christianity and philosophy through the changing world of the 1800s. Chapters consider Hegel and Marx, Darwin's influence, and the social and political changes which influenced Christianity's progress. An excellent survey.

Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right & Wrong

10 reviews
Steve Wilkens

InterVarsity Press, 1995

You should know this!
If you never heared about most influential Ethical/Moral theories, then buy this book and read it. If you already know some stuff about Ethics, then buy it and read it anyways. If you don't care about Ethics, still you have to read it. You have NO choice. You OUGHT to read it! :D

Good Ideas from Questionable Christians and Outright Pagans: An Introduction to Key Thinkers and Philosophies

2 reviews
Steve Wilkens

InterVarsity Press, 2004

A Fine Introduction
In this entertaining volume, Wilkens portrays the thought and work of ten well-known philosophers (the Greeks, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kieerkegard, Nietzsche, Marx and Sartre), and interprets some of their ideas in the light of the Christian truth. Although I have always believed that it is better to read directly an author than a book dissecting that author's work, this book delivers a ...

The Original Dr. Steve's Almanac of Christian Trivia: A Miscellany of Oddities, Instructional Anecdotes, ...
Steve Wilkens

IVP Books, 2007

Why isn't Easter on the same day every year? Where did the song "Kum Ba Yah" come from and what exactly does it mean? Why don't we know exactly how to pronounce God's name? What's the definition of those theological words like eschatology? hermeneutics? supralapsarianism? Can I join the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys? Who was St. Patrick and is it true he wasn't Irish? How is it that nearly every hotel room has a Gideon's Bible? Steve Wilkens ...