Blackstone - Legal Fellowship - An Alliance Defense Fund Ministry

Ideas may have consequences, as Richard Weaver remarked, but people change cultures. For that reason, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship seeks to identify and train leaders who passionately demonstrate truth. They will Learn, Lead, and Defend all to God’s glory alone.

The Blackstone Legal Fellowship promotes this by providing numerous reading resources. These resources are selected with an eye not toward simply buying books, but rather toward building libraries. As you seek to obey the greatest commandment, loving the Lord your God with your entire mind (Matt 22:37), ADF encourages you to cultivate a learner’s attitude.  
 
It is likely that you may not concur with every assertion contained in every reading; neither does ADF. Some materials may even contain assertions that may be construed (or misconstrued) to be unnecessarily sectarian, or even offensive to one’s particular theological or ecclesiastical tradition. No offense and certainly, no proselytizing, is intended. Rather, ADF seeks to recover the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries. This is catholic, universal orthodoxy and it is desperately crucial for cultural renewal.  Christians must strive to build glorious cultural cathedrals, rather than shanty tin sheds.

Suggested Reading List:

History

America’s Christian History - DeMar, Gary
Sir William Blackstone & the Common Law - Stacey, Robert D. 
Victory of Reason - Stark, Rodney
Vindicating the Founders - West, Thomas G.
What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? - Kennedy, Dr. D. James

Formational Orthodoxy

Confessions - St. Augustine
The Cruelty of Heresy - Allison, C. FitzSimons
Desiring God - Piper, John
Don't Waste Your Life - Piper, John
How to Manage Your Money - Burkett, Larry
Humility: True Greatness - Mahaney, C.J.
Orthodoxy - Chesterton, G.K.
The Peacemaker (3rd Ed.) - Sande, Ken
Wanted: Radical Christians - Sandlin, P. Andrew
When I Don't Desire God - Piper, John

Cultural Engagement and Critique

ACLU vs. America - Sears, Alan & Craig Osten
Architects of the Culture of Death - De Marco, Donald & Benjamin D. Wiker
The Cathedral Builder - Ventrella, Jeffery J.
Christ and Culture - Niebuhr, H. Richard
The City of God - St. Augustine
The Cube and the Cathedral - Weigel, George
Darwin Day in America - West, John G.
Defending Life: A Moral & Legal Case Against Abortion Choice - Beckwith, Francis J.
The Good of Affluence: Seeking God in a Culture of Wealth - Schneider, John R.
The Homosexual Agenda (2nd Ed.) - Sears, Alan & Craig Osten
How to Win the Culture War - Kreeft, Peter
Idols for Destruction - Schlossberg, Herbert
Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World - Roback Morse, Jennifer
Truth and Tolerance - Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal

Natural Law

Natural Law for Lawyers - Budziszewski, J.
The Summa of the Summa - Kreeft, Peter
Theology of the Body Explained - West, Christopher
What We Can't Not Know - Budziszewski, J.
Written on the Heart - Budziszewski, J.

Constitutionalism

Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges - Bork, Robert H.
Originalism: A Quarter Century of Debate - Calabresi, Steven G.
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution - Meese III, Edwin

Apologetics

The Abolition of Man - Lewis, C.S.
Always Ready:  Directions for Defending the Faith - Bahnsen, Greg L.
Apologetics to the Glory of God - Frame, John M.
No Other God: A Response to Open Theism - Frame, John M.
Pushing the Antithesis - Bahnsen, Greg L.
Thinking Straight in a Crooked World - DeMar, Gary
What's So Great About Christianity - D'Souza, Dinesh