This gallery highlights books written or edited by current and former Cedarville University faculty members. It does not represent a comprehensive list of books by Cedarville faculty, but rather includes only those which have been brought to the attention of the University Archivist. Please contact the library to suggest additional titles.
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Sports: A Reference Guide and Critical Commentary, 1980-1999
Donald L. Deardorff
This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history.
This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.
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The Image of God in the Human Body: Essays on Christianity and Sports
Donald L. Deardorff II and John White
This work uses sports as a metaphor for humanity itself. Using a biblical structure: creation, fall, and redemption, the editors show how God may have intended us to enjoy sport, how we have corrupted sports, and how we might reattach ourselves to God's original purposes through sport.
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Problem Solving with Code: C# Programming through the Eyes of Faith
John D. Delano
Are you ready to take your first steps into the world of programming while learning how to solve problems effectively? Problem Solving with Code provides a clear, structured, and approachable guide to learning the C# programming language—while encouraging you to develop your problem-solving skills through a biblical lens.
In this book, you’ll follow the journey of Alex Garcia, a passionate student who is eager to build his own game world. Through his experiences, you’ll learn the core principles of programming and how to use C# to solve problems in real-world scenarios. With each chapter, you'll explore important concepts like variables, object-orientation, decision structures, and loops, gaining the skills needed to tackle increasingly complex challenges.
What sets Problem Solving with Code apart is its integration of biblical principles. As Christian programmers, we are called to reflect God’s character in everything we do—including problem-solving. This book helps you approach programming through the lens of stewardship, integrity, and purposeful decision-making, while also teaching you technical skills. By the end of this journey, you’ll understand how to write clean, efficient code that solves problems in a way that honors God.
What you’ll learn:- The fundamental steps of problem-solving, applied both to programming and to real-life challenges.
- Key C# concepts, including variables, decision-making, and methods, explained in an easy-to-understand way.
- How to design structured, efficient solutions using pseudo-code before diving into real code.
- How to write simple C# programs to solve problems, and how to test, refine, and optimize your code.
- How biblical principles of stewardship, wisdom, and creativity can shape your approach to programming.
Features:
- Practical exercises and coding challenges at the end of each chapter to help you solidify your understanding.
- Real-world programming scenarios that walk you through the problem-solving process from start to finish.
- A unique, faith-based perspective that ties programming concepts to biblical truths.
Whether you're a beginner learning programming for the first time or someone looking to integrate your faith into your technical skills, Problem Solving with Code will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to succeed. Embark on this journey with Alex, and discover how you can use programming to solve problems, honor God, and reflect His creativity in your work.
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A Guide to Evangelism
Dan DeWitt
A Guide to Evangelism, edited by Dan DeWitt, will equip Christians and churches with the tools they need for more faithful evangelism. With chapters focusing on the role that a church’s preaching and polity can play in the task of evangelism, as well as chapters with practical advice for Christians engaging different groups, such as Muslims, skeptics and nominal Christians, this book will help Christians fulfill their role in spreading the gospel so that grace extends to more people to the glory of God.
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Christ or Chaos
Dan DeWitt
Is Christianity irrational?
Atheists often say that it is. But does such a charge really stand up to close scrutiny? This book follows the story of Thomas, a junior in college, as he wrestles with the claims of those who think the Christian faith is nothing more than a collection of ancient myths with little connecting to reality.
Whether you are facing objections to your faith for the first time, discussing your faith with unbelieving friends, or doubting your faith altogether, you might be surprised to discover that Christianity actually provides a more compelling explanation of what it means to be human than atheism could ever hope to offer.
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Clerihews: Sketches & Free Verse
Dan DeWitt
Over a century ago, the jolly British journalist G.K. Chesterton and his best friend published a book that changed the way authors describe human life and permanently established a new literary genre.
Maybe that's a little too epic. But it's mostly true.
In 1905 E.C. Bentley's book "Biography for Beginners" went to print with short verses accompanied by illustrations from G.K.C.
Each poem begins with a person's name. The second line rhymes with the first, then another couplet sheds some light on the individual — usually in a comical way. Bentley’s style caught on and the poetic form “Clerihew,” taken from his middle name, was born.
This short booklet is my attempt to continue this tradition.
The man who was Edmund
Lived across the Big Pond
He liked to write poetry
To be illustrated by G.K.C.
Hopefully this example adequately lowers your expectations.
The book includes "Clerihews" and sketches of Francis Schaeffer, Russell Moore, John Calvin, Charles Darwin, Chuck Colson, Sam Harris, and others. -
Jesus or Nothing
Dan DeWitt
It’s time to make a choice.
Many young adults are abandoning the Christian faith, convinced that it's an outdated and uneducated belief system. Dan DeWitt counters these misconceptions and challenges us to think carefully about the choice between Jesus and nothing by comparing the Christian worldview with the notion of a godless universe devoid of true goodness and ultimate significance.
This winsome book describes the rock-solid foundation for life that Christians enjoy in and through the gospel—offering an explanation for our existence, grace for our guilt, and meaning for our mortality.
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Life in the Wild: Fighting for Faith in a Fallen World
Dan DeWitt
"Life sucks! What are you going to do about it?",
We see Jesus, we believe in Jesus and we wait for Jesus, yet still we suffer. This book offers real and rugged answers in life's dark places. Discover how to live with hope in a fallen world and be encouraged.
Walking through Genesis 3, Dan DeWitt shows us how we can look at this world realistically but without despairing, as we wait for God to keep his promise to bring us out of the wild and into his new creation. It's the contrast between Eden, where everything reflects God s perfection, and exile, where everything is spoiled by sin. The book helps us survive living in exile - Life in the Wild - until "the glorious day when God will welcome us home, out of the wild."
This book holds dark and light in balance. It shows how we are living with the effects of the fall (we are messed-up people living in a messed-up place) - but God's promise, made in Eden, serves as a beacon of light to guide our steps in this fallen world.
