Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trent podcast. I'm your host, Catholic

Answers Apologist and Speaker Trent Horn. And today on my desk you can see I

have stacks of books because I want to share with you my recommended reading

for growing as an apologist. If you want to learn how to better defend the

Catholic faith or better defend the Christian fundamentals of our faith like

the existence of God, the reliability of Scripture, these are the books I want

to share with you. In fact, I wrote out a list that's going to be published soon

on the Catholic Answers online magazine. It's actually a revision of an older

list that I wrote in 2016. So I made an ultimate apologetics reading list in

2016. And what's cool is if you googled ultimate apologetics reading list, it

would come up even without adding Catholic in it. So I'm sure there were a lot of

non-Catholic Christians looking for these kind of reading lists and came

across the list at Catholic.com. So this is a revision of that. I'm including

books and titles that were released after that. I'm also changing it up because

I'm going to take I'm taking down that list and replacing it with multiple lists.

So today I'm just focusing on specific books written on apologetic subjects

that are more recent. So these are books probably written in the last 30, 40

years at the latest. So this list I'm going to share with you today does not

include classics. So I don't have stuff from Chesterton or Frank Sheade or

St. Francis DeSales, Catholic controversy. There's a lot of great Catholics.

I'm sorry, a lot of great classics in Catholic apologetics that you can read

and learn a lot from. So I'm not covering the classics in this episode. I want

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