Just a reminder, this list does not include classic works like the Summa, the Bible, or magisterial texts. It's more focused on recent apologetic works and just because someone isn't included doesn't mean I dislike their work. Finally, I will do a separate episode on books critiquing specific non-Catholic religions, churches, and ecclesial communities, however in prepping this list I will say we need more works addressing those specific areas (e.g. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, etc.).

@keepingitcatholic

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Trent! Can you please make a video refuting Sedevacantism. A concerning number of Catholics are turning to it and other heretical things in order to feel better about the state of the Church. Even some of my friends.

@bobthebuildest6828

Жыл бұрын

me, a thomist: but but muh summa

@rooforlife

Жыл бұрын

Any books to recommend on the Trinity and the Real Presence in the Eucharist

@christophersnedeker

Жыл бұрын

Would you consider responding to Dimond's rebuttal to your rebuttal to the points made in the sedevacantism debate? kzread.info/dash/bejne/godr08mmqJvRYLA.html

@keepingitcatholic

Жыл бұрын

@@rooforlife Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Dr Brant Pitre!

As a person from the "Loves buying books for the shelf, but rarely reads them" community! This video is the best ever!! Jokes aside, I'm aiming to read more this year so please pray for me.

@connorfitzpatrick622

Жыл бұрын

As someone who left that community I recommend starting to get very short books and increasing the page count after you get more comfortable reading.

@HodgePodgeVids1

Жыл бұрын

Same, I made a dent in my reading list last year, but I still have 100+ books I want to read. Some I bought more than 3 years ago. I tried for a book a week last year, but this year I trying for a book every two weeks.

@HodgePodgeVids1

Жыл бұрын

@@DudeNamedDuncanWe plan to read them, but then we don’t have time or find a new book that steals out attention

@PolishSoccerFifteen

Жыл бұрын

I'm a mix of that community and the "walking through libraries/bookstores and browsing books but never actually reading/buying them" club

I know this one didn't make it but I absolutely love Brant Pitre's, "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah." It was the first apologetic book I ever read and that book and attending Mass with my grandmother was what convinced me to become Catholic, three years ago at 14 years old. Still have it and going to be baptized and Confirmed this Easter as a Catholic. Thanks Trent for all the work you do! Major part of my conversion.

@anthonymarchetta8796

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. All due respect to Tim Staples but I found this book way more profound and convincing personally.

@katien3022

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been meaning to check that one out. I have a friend who recommended that too

@melissat9120

Жыл бұрын

I almost read that one, but I ended up ordering Scott Hahn’s Hail, Holy Queen instead. After having finished it, I still was left with some unanswered questions. Anyone have any thoughts? Maybe I should order Pitre’s book, too.

@anthonymarchetta8796

Жыл бұрын

Hail Holy Queen is fine but more of a quick sketch. Pitre's book is better.

@_kidtripp7772

Жыл бұрын

@@melissat9120 Definitely go with Pitre's book. Much better and more in-depth.

Thanks, Trent, for the mention of "One Less God Than You" -- It's an honor to be on the list.

@joziti

Жыл бұрын

Hey John! I just heard about you yesterday when searching for a catholic review of WLC's book on the historical Adam! I'm so grateful I found that article! Then I went and subscribed to your podcast and I'm loving it!

@JohnDeRosa1990

Жыл бұрын

@@joziti , thanks Jose for subscribing. I hope the podcast/articles serve you in your apologetics and evangelism.

@sandraelder1101

Ай бұрын

Haha. That one bugs me because I want to say, “It’s fewer.” 😂

Let's go, perfect way to start the morning

@VinnyZoomer

Жыл бұрын

Also first

Let me add the greatest book on Mary I have ever read: "Behold Your Mother: Jesus and The Jewish Roots of the Virgin Mary" by Dr. Brant Pitre. That book changed my life.

Thank you so much for the mention!!

While out of scope for this list, Fulton Sheen’s “The Mystical Body of Christ” is another great treatment of the Communion of Saints, if you’re looking for more on that topic. Thanks for the Madrid recommendation!

Great list Trent!

Thanks for putting this list out!

Another great video. Always appreciate book recommendations

I read a few books I got from off of your 2016 list, so I’m excited for this video!

Let’s go!!! Thanks Trent! 😄

Thanks for the book recommendations, Trent!

Thanks for doing this! I am constantly searching for these types of books!

THANK YOU for this video. And thank you to all those in the comments who recommended other titles. I have my reading for the next several years lined up for me!

One correction, it's "You're tearing me apart *LISA*". not Linda.

@TheCounselofTrent

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction!

@ironymatt

Жыл бұрын

This is of the utmost importance

Wow. This is just the list I was waiting for. Ever consider adding influencer purchase links to your description lists to add another way to support the channel?

Great. Thank you Sir Trent.

I think when it comes to classics like Denzinger, even in the English Translation (synopsis) such as The Church Teaches, one has to learn to think with, "the mind of the Church." An example of this would be the Council of Trent's Decision on Baptism and it's necessity. Many Protestants and Fundamentalist Catholics will go straight to the decree, and quote it the same way that Protestants use "Proof Texts." in the Case of the book, The Church Teaches, one has to read the pages leading up to the Decrees, and see that the Council Fathers were not ignoring or denying the Baptism of Blood or Desire, but rather they were addressing the heretical teaching that Baptism is never necessary for our salvation, but merely an affirmation of our salvation because we are a believer as Baptists, and at the time Anabaptists of the day were asserting. So while it is a good source of Catholic Dogma, one must understand the context in which such decrees were formulated what they were limited to, and what errors they were addressing. I've not read Jimmy Aiken's book teaching with Authority, but it does sound like he deals with this issue.

Awesome! My pile of purchased but not read books will grow from about 25 to 35.

Good morning, Trent!

I have been gathering many books for my upcoming retirement, including many you recommend. I have a few of yours in my collection. I hope to live a long enough life to read them all. For out of print books a place to look is the internet archive, I have found many books that are made expensive by their rarity there. I found tradition and traditions there

Just got Behold Your Mother for my own research into Catholicism so I’m glad to see it on this list

Book recommendations begin at 3:53

@thecrusaderofchrist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

My book list just grew big time! If a book is out of print and there is a PDF version online, then you should access it, 100% agree. But you can always leave a financial donation to the author for what you think the book is worth if you are able.

Someone suggested Library '58 with books printed before 1958. Thank you for sharing your list.

Thanks Trent!

I love to have all your books I am from the Philippines and learning myself how to defend my catholic faith here in the Philippines🇵🇭sir

Great list!

Introductory Books About The Symbiotic History Between Christianity And Science: 1. Galileo Goes To Jail And Other Myths About Science And Religion (Ronald L Numbers) 2. The New Atheism, Myth, And History (Nathan Johnstone) 3. God's Philosophers (James Hannam) 4. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Seb Falk) 5. Dominion (Tom Holland)

I started a list of Catholic recommended reading a few years back and add new titles as I hear about them. I'm excited to go through both this and your 2016 lists to see which titles are already on my list and which titles I want to add. I appreciate that you identify the more introductory texts from the advanced. Also - thanks for the heads up on Jimmy Akin's - The Daily Defense. I was excited to find that the companion podcast started January 1, so I started listening today.

Love this! I've been wanting to grow deeper and faith and have become interested in apologist ^_^❤

Dr Robert Haddad Defending the Faith is indispensable. An absolute must have. I wish it was bigger and covered more subjects.

@oswaldomaldonado1051

5 ай бұрын

I wish @trenthorn would make a book just like Haddads book but that covers everything the way Kreeft attempted to do in his handbook. But if Trent does it it will be Catholic from front to back.

I really love Defending the faith by Robert Haddad. Great Australian apologist.

On the reliability of the NT - I would add two. "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" by the great Protestant scholar Richard Bauckham. This book is very persuasive over and against the assessments of say, Bart Ehrman. I would also add "Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament- The Evidence for Early Composition" by Jonathan Bernier. I had previously read a couple French scholars in this area but their English translations are now out of print and very expensive. But Bernier pulls together many of the same arguments and evidence (as well others) and does it in a clear systemic fashion. The case is better than you might think it is. I was convinced many years ago and was glad to see this book appear - especially since it was so well done. Finally, although not strictly apologetic and also "advanced", the following two works can really provide a strong foundation in two key areas. They are both by Dr. Lawrence Feingold. One is "Touched by Christ- The Sacramental Economy". "The other is The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion." These are used in the seminary he teaches in. So they can be used as reference books but they are also quite readable. Dr. Feingold has the invaluable teaching gift of bringing clarity to complex subjects. He is a great combination of being a learned Thomist and someone with devotional warmth and zeal.. It really comes through. He has lectures based on both books that can be found online. Touched by Christ was aired largely during 2020(18 lectures). The Eucharist is being covered now. and for what its worth, I also agree with those who loved Pitre's "Jesus and The Jewish Roots of Mary"

I might add two Steve Ray books (Crossing The Tiber -and- Upon This Rock), these are more of a conversion story but steeped in great apologetics and excellent for starting out.

Thanks for the video Trent. What book would you recommend for someone who is trying to decipher whether Oriental Orthodoxy or Catholicism is the true faith and also one on the Filoque?

Plantinga's Justified Chistian Belief is another powerful addition. Some of us have been having this conversation for so long that we could recite every argument and refutation by rote, but Plantinga comes at the debate from a novel and more fundamental angle.

Somewhere, these books were recommended: The Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta, and the Mystical City of God by Maria de Agreda ... they are on my to read list. Today just saw that our church is purging many books and I'm hoping to find these amongst them.

@phil7055

Жыл бұрын

I love The Mystical City of God. It is 4 volumes and I’m reading it for the 2nd time. I’m about halfway through volume 3. It is excellent.

For an insanely deep dive into the papacy in the Bible and Early Church Fathers, I cannot recommend Steve Ray's "Upon This Rock" enough. It is absolutely insane how detailed the footnotes are!

@namapalsu2364

Жыл бұрын

Erick Ybarra's book that Trent mentioned is way deeper than that.

24:26 I gotta mention this too: Jimmy Akin's Daily Defense Podcast!! Another commenter mentioned it on here, but it's like a companion to the book but in podcast format. Especially if you enjoy Bible/Catechism in a Year, you're probably gonna love this too. I haven't even listened to it yet but I'm just so excited to have discovered it completely by accident while browsing through the Catholic Answers Shop website. Completely free too!!

22:04 As far as I know the book "Not By Scripture Alone" is not out of print, but can be ordered via Robert Sungenis' website in hardback, paperback as well as a PDF.

@mklarson169

5 ай бұрын

I bought my copy on Amazon for $19.00

Great List! But I missed books on Mariology

Could you do a list of general catholic books, and include categories as prayer/spirtuality?

In response to Dr. John Bergsma's brick of a book, I want to recommend his other books with stick figures-- the small one "Yes There Is A God" especially for the trip from Atheism to Catholicism in a way you could read off the pages to say to others in conversation. One future list suggestion is best books for kids (there's even fabric baby books these days)

Trent horn is awesome!

Any suggestions what are the best books to learn the history of the Church? like an overview from the early Church to modern times, or at least until the reformation etc.?

God bless you

It made me smile how he added books from protestant writer too. Maybe we are not united by tradition or mass but we are united in Christ. Different approaches (Protestants or Catholic) same destination (Christ).

I recommend the book by David Conway "Rediscovery Of Wisdom" which is one of the best books on the topic of proofs of the existence of God (cosmological and teleological). Conway in his book provided answers to the objections of Hume and Kant. Be sure to read it.

Aye Parthenos by Fr. Lawrence Cleanwork. Have I spelt any of that right? Can't find him, only cleaning products come up lol

@TheCounselofTrent

Жыл бұрын

Here is the book: www.amazon.com/Aiparthenos-Ever-Virgin-Understanding-Orthodox-Catholic/dp/1507798377

I've tried to find the second edition of Persuasive Prolife but to no success. Does anybody know if it actually made it and if so where to buy it?

Was not expecting a quote from The Room. Hahahahaha

I wish we had more such books in our small country in Europe, because ordering from Amazon is quite expensive if you live here 😅

@HodgePodgeVids1

Жыл бұрын

Kindle

@taemi5507

Жыл бұрын

update I just found what looks like to be a decent alternative: book depository

Are you familiar with William Lane Craig’s children’s book series on the attributes of God? It seems like a good resource, but l’m not sure if I should trust it as a catholic mom.

@alithea9510

Жыл бұрын

Well, William Lane Craig is a neoclassical theist. That means his beliefs about God's attributes differ from Catholic doctrine. Divine simplicity and the doctrine of analogy make understanding the attributes of God very difficult.

It would be worth supplementing this list with books on some specific historical issues often raised as an argument against the Church such as the Inquisition or the Crusades.

@animalcart4128

5 ай бұрын

Introductory Books About The Symbiotic History Between Christianity And Science: 1. Galileo Goes To Jail And Other Myths About Science And Religion (Ronald L Numbers) 2. The New Atheism, Myth, And History (Nathan Johnstone) 3. God's Philosophers (James Hannam) 4. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Seb Falk) 5. Dominion (Tom Holland)

Only commenting this for the algo but we can't see the stacks of books on your desk at the start. We can only see the stacks of books... no table in sight. God bless ♥

Hi Trent you should take a look at Rabbi Tovia Singers videos on Isaiah 53 Id be interested to see your take on it!

@1517the_year

Жыл бұрын

Rabbi singer is an incredible character. Has shook me a few times.

I want to reccomend "Keys Over the Christian World" by Scott Butler and John Collorafi Subtitled "Evidence for Papal Authority [33 A.D.- 800 A.D.] from Ancient Latin, Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian, Coptic and Ethiopian documents"

7:20 "God to Lead Can Reason How"

How about finding the book that explains a methodology of determining which revelations come from God and which revelations come from the "lying sprirt" recruited by Yahweh in 1 Kings 22? I would love to read that one!

is there any recent book on iconodulia?

Robert Spitzer is a good one too

Good List, and if you are adding books by Protestant and even Atheist why not "the work of Human Hands" by Father Cedeka. You might not agree with his Sede conclusions but he lays out a convincing case for the V2 changes in the Mass.

Can anybody recommend a good book or set of books on the history of the Protestant reformation? I enjoy doing a lot of apologetics and want to learn more about the Protestant reformers, about their backgrounds, the movements, the immediate outcomes

@namapalsu2364

Жыл бұрын

There's a peculiar book by Brad S. Gregory. The Unitented Reformation. It's about the unintended consequences of the reformation movement. If you want a snippet, just do a search on youtube when he gave talk on the subject.

Kenneth Kitchen was the teacher of one David Falk.

Thank you. I read several apologetic books many years ago and I'm not up on the current ones. By the way, you can't reason with a sedevacantist!

How about books on the relationship/history of science and religion?

@animalcart4128

5 ай бұрын

1. Galileo Goes To Jail And Other Myths About Science And Religion (Ronald L Numbers) 2. The New Atheism, Myth, And History (Nathan Johnstone) 3. God's Philosophers (James Hannam) 4. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Seb Falk) 5. Dominion (Tom Holland)

Any apologetics books for debating with Muslims or Mormons or Jehovah witnesses?

Someone should write a book entitled something like "The Veracity and Limits of the New Testament," which both defends the reliability of the New Testament against atheists and the like that argue against the existence and resurrection of Christ and the like, while also pointing out how it does not teach and actually goes against Sola Scriptura and what Protestants claim about it. I'd write it myself, but I'm already taking forever with working on the two books I'm currently writing.

Need books defending new testament writers

Goody gumdrops! 📚

Not a book, but have you read the writings of Dr Tomas Bogardus? He has several philosophy papers published on gender and transgenderism

Can I just buy your books and since you use all those books? HAHA Thanks for all you do.

Did the bible make the list of books? Paul is off the hook!

❤

I put together a Habermas minimal facts arguement for the Pentateuch's veracity.

Oh no... I made a promise to my wife I would stop buying books for a whole year. I have so many! I don't trust myself to listen to this list haha. Too tempting...

I’ve got at least one from each category! One I would add is “Jesus, Interpreted: Benedict XVI, Bart Ehrman, and the Historical Truth of the Gospels” by Matthew Ramage. It gives Ehrman a fair read and takes him seriously, and then shows how Benedict XVI approaches certain problems. As a bonus, it shows how Benedict XVI more or less grappled with certain Magisterial decisions and demonstrates how to do that well. It’s challenging in the sense you might feel unsettled at certain points yet it is an ultimately freeing read as you learn how to retain the Patristic faith while embracing the positive elements of historical criticism. It’s a sequel to Dark Passages of the Bible by the same author.

Ah yes, another video for me to enable my book buying problem. I’ll take a side of fries with that please

*runners up, Trent. Not runner ups

22:00 Even though I agree you can download a PDF of an out-of-print book, I'm not sure it's legal tho...

@JohnVianneyPatron

Жыл бұрын

In many cases the copyright of out of print books have expired, so it is legal.

50 Books and only 3 of them are Trent's. I know he has more books than that.

Yves Congar, like many of the other nouvelle théologie theologians, is extremely suspect. It's better to just read Newman on tradition

The entire world has just been given access to Trent Horn's full apologetics gun rack......look out, skeptics ;)

Humanae Vitae

I'd be interested in the best atheist books you've read too. Know your enemy?

Ok i just gave this video its 999th thumbs up. Will somebody hit the button to get to a 1000?

If God exists (assuming belief in the existence of God), the best way to communicate with humanity would be through incarnation. . If God created the world, and did not communicate with it, that would be immoral, because for every lost son who wants to know the father who begot him, it would be immoral for God to do so. Well, a personal moral God must communicate with humanity, but how? If he communicates by sending revelations to people, there are many problems here. First, why these people in particular? Secondly, if you do not believe in the infallibility of the recipient of divine messages, then there will be a problem: how does God entrust the task of knowing Him to a human being who makes mistakes and perhaps sabotages the entire message? Is God unwise? But if you believe in the infallibility of the recipient of divine messages, here too there will be a problem, which is the fallacy of fatalism and taking away a person’s free will for the sake of a message. You will tell me that he accepted it, but this is not a point of truth. Being infallible for something he did not know is immoral and irrational. There remains only one option, incarnation, for God to come in a human body on Earth. Here, the two problems of taking away free will and protecting his message will be solved, as God is free from error and does not make mistakes. It will certainly be a more responsible matter to deliver his message.

Pls rebutt the wmscog or the truthunedited channel

It was actually Lisa… not Linda

Not everyone who watches wants to be an apologist....

@alexs.5107

Жыл бұрын

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect” 1 Peter 3:15

The waffle house has found its new host

Have you actually read true or false pope? It is not a serious work, its full of misquotes, bad citations, and doesn't even address the core sedevacantist issue.

You are tearing me apart Lisa! NOT You are tearing me apart Linda! You are a noob Trent!

bros even copying Ortlund now but had to make his list bigger 💀

@TheCounselofTrent

Жыл бұрын

This is an update of a list I originally compiled in 2016. www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-ultimate-apologists-reading-list

@alexs.5107

Жыл бұрын

This is fanatism toward Ortlund , No one you need to become someone.

@NoOneInParticular88

Жыл бұрын

@@alexs.5107 rather sensitive bunch, just a good-spirited jest! they both released book/list videos recently. trents has wayyy more. theyre about to have a discussion in a month or two, just a joking competitive remark, lighten up guys!