Clark's books include God and the Brain, Strangers, Neighbors, Friends, Religion and the Sciences of Origins, Abraham’s Children, Return to Reason, The Story of Ethics, When Faith Is Not Enough, and 101 Key Philosophical Terms of Their Importance for Theology, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. In 1995, his book Philosophers Who Believe was named one of Christianity Today’s Books of the Year.[4] That book detailed the spiritual and intellectual autobiographies of philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Basil Mitchell, Mortimer Adler, Richard Swinburne, Frederick Suppe, Linda Zagzebski, and Nicholas Rescher.
Interfaith work
Clark is an international advocate for interfaith cooperation, focusing on the Abrahamic religions. As of October 2016, he is project director for “Abrahamic Reflections on Science and Religion” a Templeton Foundation project which brings together 36 scholars from 14 countries to reconcile issues in the fields of science and religion. Scholars include Nidhal Guessoum, Rana Dajani, Nathan Aviezer, & Robert Koons, among others.[5][6][7]
Clark has lectured around the world and has served as director for international conferences on science and religion, interfaith cooperation, & Chinese philosophy. He has worked extensively with the John Templeton Foundation, organizing many interfaith symposiums, notably “Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict” at Georgetown University on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.[8] That conference inspired a book of the same name in which fifteen influential practitioners of the Abrahamic religions argued for religious liberty and tolerance from their own faith traditions. Contributors included former United States president Jimmy Carter, Indonesia's first democratically elected president Abhurrahman Wahid, Rabbis for Human Rights co founder, Rabbi Arik Asherman, Rana Husseini, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff & theologian Miroslav Volf. The book earned praise from pioneers for peace such as Bishop Desmond Tutu.[9]
He also writes a regular column for the Huffington Post which confronts Islamophobia and antisemitism while also combating religious extremism.
Strangers, Neighbors, Friends. Cascade Books, 2018. Co-written with Aziz Abu Sarah and Rabbi Nancy Kreimer.[11]
Readings in the Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2017.[12]
The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.[13]
Religion and the Sciences of Origins. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014.[14]
Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an age of Religious Conflict. Yale University Press, 2012[15]
Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga, Oxford University Press, 2012. Co-edited with Michael Rea.[16]
Evidence and Religious Belief. Oxford University Press, 2011. Co-edited with Ray VanArragon.[17]
Faith, Knowledge and Naturalism, Peking University Press, 2007. Co-edited with Xing Taotao.
Ethics, Religion and Society (Christian Academics, Fifth Volume). Co-edited with Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie. Shanghai Guji Press, 2007.
Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, co-edited with Chen Xia. Sichuan University Press, 2005.
101 Key Philosophical Terms and Their Importance for Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. Co-authored with James K.A. Smith and Richard Lints.[18]
A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, co-edited with Mel Stewart and Zhou Zhianzang. Xiamen University Press, 2004.
The Story of Ethics: Human Nature & Human Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, 2003. Co-authored with Anne Poortenga.[19]
^Clark, Kelly James, 1956- (2019). God and the brain : the rationality of belief. Grand Rapids, Michigan. ISBN9780802876911. OCLC1100426577.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Clark, Kelly James, 1956- (2018-08-06). Strangers, neighbors, friends Muslim-Christian-Jewish reflections on compassion and peace. Abu Sarah, Aziz., Fuchs, Nancy. Eugene, Oregon. ISBN9781498246125. OCLC1050133305.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^A Blackwell companion to naturalism. Clark, Kelly James, 1956-. Chichester, West Sussex, UK. 2016-02-15. ISBN9781118657607. OCLC941430935.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^Clark, Kelly James (21 May 2014). Religion and the sciences of origins : historical and contemporary discussions (First ed.). Basingstoke. ISBN9781137414809. OCLC881445888.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Reason, metaphysics, and mind : new essays on the philosophy of Alvin Plantinga. Plantinga, Alvin., Clark, Kelly James, 1956-, Rea, Michael C. (Michael Cannon), 1968-. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. ISBN9780199766864. OCLC707023054.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Evidence and religious belief. Clark, Kelly James, 1956-, VanArragon, Raymond J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN9780199603718. OCLC707267277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Clark, Kelly James (2004). 101 key terms in philosophy and their importance for theology. Lints, Richard., Smith, James K. A., 1970- (1st ed.). Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN9780664225247. OCLC53331725.
^Clark, Kelly James (2003). The story of ethics : fulfilling our human nature. Poortenga, Anne. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN9780130978400. OCLC48906637.
^Five views on apologetics. Cowan, Steven B., 1962-, Craig, William Lane., Frame, John M., 1939-, Clark, Kelly James, 1956-, Feinberg, Paul D. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub. House. 2000. ISBN9780310224761. OCLC42680575.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Philosophers who believe : the spiritual journeys of 11 leading thinkers. Clark, Kelly James, 1956-. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press. 1993. ISBN9780830815432. OCLC28926479.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Clark, Kelly James (1990). Return to reason : a critique of Enlightenment evidentialism, and a defense of reason and belief in God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans. ISBN9780802804563. OCLC21044063.
^Our knowledge of God : essays on natural and philosophical theology. Clark, Kelly James, 1956-. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1992. ISBN9780792314851. OCLC25281594.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)