Reading List

I thought it might be useful to create a reading list for various areas of systematic and pastoral theology. My hope is that this list will have something of an organic life, being edited from time to time as I come across various texts (and suggestions by others) that warrant inclusion. While I hope that the list betrays theological discernment and acumen, I’m not interested in developing a list that pleases any one theological camp in particular … though my biases will be obvious enough. It is hoped that the list will reflect the best and most important texts of a tradition unashamedly ecumenical, catholic and apostolic. The kind of thing I have in mind is a reading list and resource for English-speaking undergraduate theology students. Of course, in good blogging style, I also welcome suggestions … and please let me know if any of the links no longer work.

A few things to note:

Many books elude easy categorisation. In such cases I have placed it where I think if belongs best and sometimes in multiple places. If you think it ought to be somewhere else, suggest somewhere.

I haven’t read everything. That’s why I’m asking for your help.

In due course, I may add further categories. But for now, I have decided on the following 22:

 

1. Theological Method and Prolegomena

2. Systematics/Dogmatics

3. Biblical Theology

4. Theology Proper

5. Patriology

6. Christology

7. Pneumatology

8. Revelation

9. Creation

10. Soteriology

11. Ecclesiology

12. Anthropology

13. Prayer

14. Missiology

15. Ethics

16. Worship

17. Pastoral Ministry

18. Preaching

19. Theology and the Arts

20. Eschatology

21. Introduction to the Old Testament

22. Introduction to the New Testament

 

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I. Theological Method

Anthony C. Thiselton, New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading

Arthur C. McGill, Suffering: A Test of Theological Method

Avery Dulles, The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System

David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction

Donald G. Bloesch, A Theology of Word and Spirit: Authority and Method in Theology

Donald MacKinnon, Borderlands of Theology

Eberhard Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World

Ellen T. Charry, By the Renewing of Your Minds: the Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine

George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age

Gerhard O. Forde, On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, 1518

Gerhard O. Forde, Theology is for Proclamation

Helmut Thielicke, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians

Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Philosophical Theology

John Howard Yoder, Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method

John Webster, Confessing God

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Drama Of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach To Christian Theology

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks

Paul McGlassen, Invitation to Dogmatic Theology: A Canonical Approach - (reviewed here)

Peter T. Forsyth, The Principle of Authority: In Relation to Certainty, Sanctity and Society

Trevor A. Hart, Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology

Vern Poythress, Symphonic Theology

 

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II. Systematics/Dogmatics

Alister E. McGrath (ed.), The Christian Theology Reader

Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson (Eds.), Christian Dogmatics (2 vols)

Catherine M. Lacugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life

Clive S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Colin E. Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine

Daniel Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding

Donald G. Bloesch, Christian Foundations (7 vols)

Donald G. Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical Theology (2 vols)

Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse

Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her

Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith

Geoffrey Wainwright, Doxology

Georg W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

Gerrit C. Berkouwer, Studies in Dogmatics (14 vols)

Heinrich Heppe, Reformed Dogmatics

Helmut Thielicke, The Evangelical Faith (3 vols)

Hendrikus Berkhof, The Christian Faith

James William McClendon, Doctrine

Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition (5 vols)

John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (13 vols)

Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline

Karl Barth, The Göttingen Dogmatics

Mike Higton, SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine (reviewed here)

Origen, Origen De Principiis

Otto Weber, Foundations for Dogmatics (2 vols)

Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology (3 vols)

Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology (2 vols)

Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology

Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief

Stanley Grenz, Theology for the Community of God

Ted Peters, God – the World’s Future: Systematic Theology for a New Era

Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica

Thomas C. Oden, Systematic Theology (3 vols)

Thomas Erskine, The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel

Thomas F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith

Tyron Inbody, The Faith of the Christian Church

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology (3 vols)

 

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III. Biblical Theology

Adolf Schlatter, The History of the Christ: the Foundation for New Testament Theology

Adolf Schlatter, The Theology of the Apostles: The Development of New Testament Theology

Charles E. B. Cranfield, The Epistle to the Romans (2 vols)

Donald A. Carson, The Gagging of God

Gordon D. Fee, Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study

N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God

N.T. Wright, The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology

N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God

N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God

Rudolph Bultmann, Theology of the New Testament (2 vols)

Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

William J. Dumbrell, Covenant and Creation: A Theology of the Old Testament Covenants

William J. Dumbrell, Search for Order: Biblical Eschatology in Focus

 

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IV. Theology Proper

Adrio König, Here Am I: A Believer’s Reflection on God

C. Norman Kraus, God our Savior

Colin E. Gunton, The Triune Creator

Donald G. Bloesch, God the Almighty: Power, Wisdom, Holiness, Love

Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse

John D. Zizioulas, Being As Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

Jung Young Lee, The Trinity in Asian Perspective

Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II/1-2

Kazoh Kitamori, Theology of the Pain of God

Nicholas Lash, Holiness, Speech and Silence: Reflections on the Question of God

Peter T. Forsyth, The Justification of God

Robert Jenson, The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel

Thomas F. Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God

Thomas F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith

 

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V. Patriology

Geoffrey Bingham, Father! My Father! 

Helmut Thielicke, The Waiting Father 

J. Scott Lidgett, The Fatherhood of God 

Peter T. Forsyth, God the Holy Father 

Thomas Smail, The Forgotten Father

 

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VI. Christology

C. Norman Kraus, Jesus Christ Our Lord: Christology from a Disciple’s Perspective

Donald G. Bloesch, Jesus Christ: Saviour and Lord

Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean

Isaac A. Dorner, History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ

James , D. G. Dunn, Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry Into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation

John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

Jon Sobrino, Jesus the Liberator

Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth

Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God

Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

Kathryn Tanner, Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity

Leonardo Boff, Jesus Christ, Liberator

Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

Peter T. Forsyth, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ

Peter T. Forsyth, The Preaching of Jesus and the Gospel of Christ

Richard Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament

Thomas F. Torrance (ed.), The Incarnation: Ecumenical Studies in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed

Thomas F. Torrance, Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ

Thomas F. Torrance, The Mediation of Christ

Thomas Smail, Once and For All: A Confession of the Cross

Trevor A. Hart and Daniel Thimell (eds.), Christ in Our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World: Essays Presented to Professor James Torrance

Walter Kasper, Jesus the Christ

Walter Wink, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus – God and Man

 

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VII. Pneumatology

Donald G. Bloesch, The Holy Spirit: Work and Gifts

Gordon Fee, God’s Empowering Presence

James D.G. Dunn, Jesus and the Spirit

John A. Studebaker Jr., The Lord Is the Spirit: The Authority of the Holy Spirit in Contemporary Theology and Church Practice (Eugene: Pickwick, 2008).

John V. Taylor, The Go-Between God

John Webster, Holiness

Jürgen Moltmann, The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation

Molly T. Marshall, Joining the Dance: A Theology of the Spirit

Thomas Smail, The Giving Gift

Yves Congar, I Believe in the Holy Spirit, Vol. 1

 

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VIII. Revelation

Colin Gunton, A Brief Theology of Revelation (reviewed here)

Donald G. Bloesch, Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration and Interpretation

Emil Brunner & Karl Barth, Natural Theology: Comprising ‘Nature and Grace’ by E. Brunner & the reply ‘No!’ by Karl Barth

Gerrit C. Berkouwer, Holy Scripture

John Webster, Holy Scripture

 

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IX. Creation

Colin E. Gunton, Christ and Creation

Colin E. Gunton, The Triune Creator

David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall

Geoffrey C. Bingham, Creation and the Liberating Glory

Jonathan Edwards, Concerning the End for Which God Created the World

Joseph Ratzinger, In the Beginning

Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation

Langdon Gilkey, Maker of Heaven and Earth

 

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X. Soteriology

Albrecht Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation: The Positive Development of the Doctrine

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo?

Athanasius, On the Incarnation

Colin E. Gunton, The Actuality of Atonement

David Peterson, Possessed by God: A New Testament Theology of Sanctification and Holiness

Douglas Knight, The Eschatological Economy: Time and the Hospitality of God

Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ: The Experience of Jesus as Lord

Geoffrey C. Bingham, Christ’s Cross Over Man’s Abyss

Gregory MacDonald, The Evangelical Universalist (reviewed here)

Gustaf Aulén, Christus Victor

Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? With a Short Discourse on Hell (reviewed here)

James Denney, The Christian Doctrine of Reconciliation

James Denney, The Death of Christ

John McLeod Campbell, The Nature of the Atonement

John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ

John Webster, Holiness

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV/1

Kenneth Grayston, Dying, We Live: A New Enquiry into the Death of Christ in the New Testament

Leon Morris, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross

Michelle A. Gonzalez, Created in God’s Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology

Molly T. Marshall, What It Means to Be Human

Nigel M. de S. Cameron (ed.), Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell

Paul Fiddes, Past Event and Present Salvation: The Christian Idea of Atonement

Peter T. Forsyth, The Cruciality of the Cross

Peter T. Forsyth, The Work of Christ

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol. 1: Human Nature

Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement

Stephen C. Barton (ed.), Holiness: Past and Present

Stephen R. Holmes, The Wondrous Cross: Atonement and Penal Substitution in the Bible and History (reviewed here)

Thomas F. Torrance, The Mediation of Christ

Thomas Smail, Once and For All: A Confession of the Cross

Thomas Talbott, The Inescapable Love of God (reviewed here)

 

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XI. Ecclesiology

Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.) Marks of the Body of Christ

Colin E. Gunton (ed.), Trinity, Time, and Church: A Response to the Theology of Robert W. Jenson

Colin E. Gunton and Daniel W. Hardy (eds.), On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community

Colin E. Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine, Chapter 7

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

Donald G. Bloesch, The Church: Sacraments, Worship, Ministry, Mission

Eduard Schweizer, Church Order in the New Testament

Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Children of Promise

Hans Küng, The Church

John D. Zizioulas, Being As Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

Jürgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit

Jürgen Moltmann, The Open Church: Invitation to a messianic life-style

Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity

Nicholas M. Healy, Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology

Peter Leithart, Against Christianity

Peter T. Forsyth, The Church and the Sacraments

Peter T. Forsyth, The Church, The Gospel and Society

Thomas F. Torrance, Conflict and Agreement in the Church (2 Vols)

 

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XII. Anthropology

Alan Torrance, Persons in Communion: an Essay on Trinitarian Description and Human Participation

Christoph Schwobel & Colin Gunton (eds), Persons, Divine and Human

F. LeRon Shults, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Gustaf Wingren, Man and the Incarnation: A Study in the Biblical Theology of Irenaeus

Harry R. Boer, An Ember Still Glowing: Humankind as the Image of God

Helmut Thielicke, Being Human … Becoming Human: An Essay in Christian Anthropology

John D. Zizioulas, Being As Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

John Paul II, The Theology of the Body: Human Love in the Divine Plan

John Webster, ‘The Human Person’, pp. 219-34 in The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology

Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

Randall C. Zachman, The Assurance Of Faith: Conscience in the Theology Of Martin Luther and John Calvin

Ray S. Anderson, On Being Human: Essays in Theological Anthropology

Stanley Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei

Thomas Smail, Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in our Humanity

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Anthropology in Theological Perspective

 

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XIII. Prayer

Augustine, Confessions

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

Donald G. Bloesch, The Struggle of Prayer

Eugene H. Peterson, Answering God: The Psalms As Tools for Prayer

Graham Redding, Prayer And The Priesthood Of Christ: In The Reformed Tradition

John Calvin, On Prayer: Conversation with God

John Owen, Communion with God

Karl Barth, Prayer

Peter Adam, Hearing God’s Words: Exploring Biblical Spirituality

Peter T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer

Tom Smail, Praying with Paul

Walter Brueggemann, Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

 

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XIV. Missiology

David Bosch, Believing in the Future: Towards a Missiology of Western Culture

David Bosch, Transforming Mission

Howard A. Snyder, Liberating the Church: The Ecology of Church and Kingdom

Jens Christensen, Mission to Islam and Beyond

Leslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, The Gospel and Western Culture

Leslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Leslie Newbigin, The Open Secret

Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century

Michael Frost, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

Vincent J. Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai

 

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XV. Ethics

Alan J. Torrance and Michael Banner (eds.), The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics

Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics

Benedict De Spinoza, Ethics

Daniel Keown, The Nature of Buddhist Ethics

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

Emil Brunner, Justice and the Social Order

Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative

Georg W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right

Gordon R. Preece (ed.), Rethinking Peter Singer: A Christian Critique

Helmut Thielicke, Ethics (3 Vols)

Immanuel Kant, The Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals

James M. Gustafson, Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume One: Theology and Ethics

John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

John Howard Yoder, When War Is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking

John Stott, New Issues Facing Christians Today

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Karl Barth, Ethics

Karl Marx, Marx On Religion

Martin Luther, A Treatise on Christian Liberty

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Michael Hill, The How and Why of Love: An Introduction to Evangelical Ethics

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Oliver O’Donovan, Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics

Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics

Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life

Peter T. Forsyth, The Christian Ethic of War

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics

Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas, Character and the Christian Life: A Study in Theological Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas, Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas, Truthfulness and Tragedy: Further Investigations into Christian Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas, Vision and Virtue: Essays in Christian Ethical Reflection

Stanley J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective

 

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XVI. Worship

Allen P. Ross, Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation

Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Discerning the Spirits: Understanding and Evaluating Contemporary Worship Practices

David F. Ford and Daniel W. Hardy, Living in Praise: Worshipping and Knowing God

David Peterson, Engaging With God: A Biblical Theology of Worship

Geoffrey Wainwright, Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life: A Systematic Theology

Graham Redding, Prayer And The Priesthood Of Christ: In The Reformed Tradition

Harold M. Best, Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts

Henri J. M. Nouwen, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life

James B. Torrance, ‘The Place of Jesus Christ in Worship’, in Ray S. Anderson (ed.), Theological Foundations for Ministry, pp. 370-389.

James B. Torrance, Worship, Community & The Triune God of Grace

Mark Ashton, R. Kent Hughes, Timothy J. Keller, and D. A. Carson (eds.), Worship by the Book

Noel Due, Created for Worship: From Genesis to Revelation to You

Ralph P. Martin, The Worship of God

Robin Parry, Worshipping Trinity: Coming Back to the Heart of Worship

Thomas F. Torrance, ‘The Mind of Christ in Worship: The Problem of Apollinarianism in the Liturgy’, in Theology in Reconciliation, pp. 139-214.

 

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XVII. Pastoral Ministry

Andrew Purves, Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition

Andrew Purves, Reconstructing Pastoral Theology: A Christological Foundation

Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

Christian D Kettler and Todd H. Speidell (eds.), Incarnational Ministry: The Presence of Christ in Church, Society, and Family: Essays in Honor of Ray S. Anderson

Eduard Thurneysen, A Theology of Pastoral Care

Eugene H. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Eugene H. Peterson, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work

Eugene H. Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness

Eugene H. Peterson, Working The Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity

Eugene Peterson & Marva Dawn, Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call

George Herbert, The Country Parson and the Temple

Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Creative Ministry

John E. Paver, Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry: The Search for Integration in Theology

Kenneth Pohly, Transforming the Rough Places: The Ministry of Supervision

Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son

Ray S. Anderson (ed.), Theological Foundations for Ministry

Ray S. Anderson, The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry With Theological Praxis

Ray S. Anderson, The Soul of Ministry: Forming Leaders for God’s People

Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor

Thomas Oden, Pastoral Theology

Walter C. Wright, Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Influence and Service

 

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XVIII. Preaching

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

Deane Meatheringham, Gospel Incandescent

Dietrich Ritschl, A Theology of Proclamation

Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Geoffrey C. Bingham, The Preacher and the Parrot

Geoffrey C. Bingham, True Preaching: the Agony and the Ecstasy

George Whitefield, The Sermons of George Whitefield 

Gerhard O. Forde, Theology is for Proclamation

Graeme Goldsworthy, Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching

Gustaf Wingren, The Living Word

Helmut Thielicke, How to Believe Again

Helmut Thielicke, What’s Wrong with the Church?

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

James Denney, ‘Preaching Christ’, in Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels (ed. J. Hastings), 393-403

John Chrysostom, On Wealth and Poverty

John Stott, I Believe in Preaching

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics Index With Aids for the Preacher 

Karl Barth, Homiletics

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Michael J. Quicke, 360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word

Michael Jinkins, In the House of the Lord: Inhabiting the Psalms of Lament 

Paul Scott Wilson, The Four Pages of the Sermon: A Guide to Biblical Preaching 

Peter Adam, Speaking God’s Words: A Practical Theology of Preaching

Peter T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind

R.W.L. Moberly, The Bible, Theology, and Faith: A Study of Abraham and Jesus

Robert Smith, Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life

Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method

Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature

Thomas F. Torrance, Preaching Christ Today: The Gospel and Scientific Thinking

Thomas G. Long and Cornelius Plantinga Jr. (eds.), A Chorus of Witnesses: Model Sermons for Today’s Preacher

Thomas G. Long, The Witness of Preaching, Second Edition

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Walter Brueggemann, Finally Comes The Poet 

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

William H. Willimon, Acts (Interpretation Bible Commentary Series)

William H. Willimon, Conversations With Barth on Preaching

William Perkins, The Art of Prophesying

 

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XIX. Theology and the Arts

Aidan Nichols, The Art of God Incarnate, Theology and Symbol from Genesis to the 20th Century

Bridget Nichols, Literature in Christian Perspective: Becoming Faithful Readers

Calvin Seerveld, Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves

Calvin Seerveld, Rainbows for a Fallen World

Calvin Seerveld, Voicing God’s Psalms

Christopher Deacy, Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film

David Bailey Harned, Theology and the Arts

David Brown, Signs of Grace: Sacraments in Poetry and Prose

David Thistlethwaite, The Art of God and the Religions of Art

Dorothy L. Sayers, Mind Of The Maker

E. John Walford, Jacob Van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape

Edward Farley, Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic

Flannery O’Connor, Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters

Frank Burch Brown, Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Frank Burch Brown, Religious Aesthetics: A Theological Study of Making and Meaning

Gabriele Finaldi, The Image of Christ: The Catalogue of the Exhibition Seeing Salvation

Gaye W. Oritz and Clive Marsh (eds.), Explorations in Theology and Film: An Introduction

Gene Edward Veith, Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

Gene Edward Veith, Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature

Georg W. F. Hegel, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume I

George Pattison, Art, Modernity and Faith: Restoring the Image

George Steiner, Grammars of Creation

George Steiner, Real Presences

Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, Theological Aesthetics: A Reader

Hans R. Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture

Hans Rookmaaker, The Creative Gift: Essays on Art and the Christian Life

Henri Nouwen, Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying With Icons

Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Hilary Brand & Adrienne Chaplin, Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts

Jaroslav Pelikan, Bach Among the Theologians

Jeremy Begbie, ‘Christ and the Cultures: Christianity and the Arts,’ in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine, ed. Colin Gunton

Jeremy Begbie, ‘The Gospel, the Arts and Our Culture,’ in Credible Christianity: The Gospel in Contemporary Culture, ed. Hugh Montefiore, 1992, 58-83.

Jeremy S. Begbie (ed.), Beholding the Glory: Incarnation through the Arts

Jeremy S. Begbie, Theology, Music and Time

Jeremy S. Begbie, Voicing Creations Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts

John De Gruchy, Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice

John Dillenberger, A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and the Church

John Drury, Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings

John Newport, Christianity and Contemporary Art Forms

Karl Barth, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Kathleen Powers Erickson, At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision Of Vincent Van Gogh

Larry J Kreitzer, Pauline Images in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow

Larry J Kreitzer, The New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow

Larry J Kreitzer, The Old Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow

Leland Ryken, Culture in Christian Perspective: A Door to Understanding and Enjoying the Arts

Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts

Leonid Ouspensky & Vladimir Lossky, The Meaning of Icons

Margaret Miles, Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture

Ned Bustard, It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God

Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic

Nigel Forde, The Lantern and the Looking Glass

Patrick Sherry, Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological Aesthetics

Paul Corby Finney, Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition

Paul Corby Finney, The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art

Paul S. Fiddes (ed.), The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture: Eight Novelists write about their Craft and their Context

Paul S. Fiddes, Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine

Paul S. Fiddes, The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature

Peter Fuller, Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace

Peter T. Forsyth, Christ on Parnassus: Lectures on Art, Ethic, and Theology

Peter T. Forsyth, Religion in Recent Art: Expository Lectures on Rosetti, Burne Jones Watts, Holman Hunt and Wagner

Richard Harries, Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding

Richard Harries, The Passion in Art

Richard Viladesau, Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art

Robert Jewett, Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle’s Dialogue With American Culture

Robert Johnston, Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue

Roger Lundin, The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

Roland Delattre, Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards: An Essay in Aesthetics and Theological Ethics

Rowan Williams, Grace And Necessity: Reflections on Art And Love

Roy Kinnard & Tim Davis, Divine Images: A History of Jesus on the Screen

Simon Jenkins, Windows into Heaven: The Icons and Spirituality of Russia

St John of Damascus, On the Divine Images: Three Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Holy Images

Stanley Porter et al, eds., Images of Christ: Ancient and Modern

Stephen May, Stardust and Ashes : Science Fiction in Christian Perspective

Steve Scott, Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

T.R. Wright, Theology and Literature

Trevor A. Hart and Steven R. Guthrie (eds.), Faithful Performances

Trevor A. Hart, A Poetics of Redemption Volume 1: Creation, Creatureliness and Artistry (forthcoming)

Trevor A. Hart, A Poetics of Redemption Volume 2: Incarnation, Embodiment, and Art (forthcoming)

Trevor A. Hart, A Poetics of Redemption Volume 3: Holy Spirit, Imagination and the Salvation of Humanity (forthcoming)

William Dyrness, Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards

William Dyrness, Rouault: a vision of suffering and salvation

William Dyrness, The Earth Is God’s: A Theology of American Culture

William Dyrness, Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue

 

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XX. Eschatology

Adrio König, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology: Toward a Christ-Centered Approach

Alister McGrath, A Brief History of Heaven

Anthony Hoekema, The Bible and the Future

Ben Witherington III, Jesus, Paul and the End of the World: A Comparative Study in New Testament Eschatology

Brian Hebblethwaite, The Christian Hope

David Powys, Hell: A Hard Look at a Hard Question: The Fate of the Unrighteous in New Testament Thought

Donald G. Bloesch, The Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory

Edward Fudge, Fire that Consumes, The: The Biblical Case for Conditional Immortality

Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

Geerhardus Vos, The Eschatology of the Old Testament

Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz, The Kingdom and the Power: The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann (reviewed here)

Gregory MacDonald, The Evangelical Universalist (reviewed here)

Hans Schwarz, ‘Eschatology’, in Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Christian Dogmatics, Volume 2

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? With a Short Discourse on Hell (reviewed here)

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory : The Last Act (Vol 5)

Helmut Thielicke, The Evangelical Faith, Volume 3: The Holy Spirit, the Church, Eschatology

Herman Ridderbos, Coming of the Kingdom

James Wm. McClendon, Jr., Systematic Theology, Vol. 2: Doctrine

John F. Walvoord, Zachary J. Hayes, and Clark H. Pinnock, Four Views on Hell

John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World

Jürgen Moltmann, Coming of God: Christian Eschatology

Jürgen Moltmann, In the End – The Beginning: The Life of Hope

Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope

Lindsey Hall, Swinburne’s Hell and Hick’s Universalism: Are we free to reject God? (reviewed here)

Michael S. Horton, Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, ed., Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell: Papers Presented at the Fourth Edinburgh Conference on Christian Dogmatics, 1991 (reviewed here)

Peter T. Forsyth, This Life and the Next

Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart, Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium(reviewed here)

Richard Bauckham, God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann

Robin A. Parry and Christopher H. Partridge, ed., Universal Salvation? The Current Debate (reviewed here)

Thomas Talbott, The Inescapable Love of God (reviewed here)

Wayne Martindale, Beyond the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell

William H. Katerberg and Miroslav Volf (eds.), The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity

 

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XXI. Introduction to the Old Testament

Adrio König, Here Am I: A Christian Reflection on God

Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture

Brevard S. Childs, Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context

Christopher J. H. Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments

Gerhard Von Rad, Old Testament Theology: The Theology of Israel’s Traditions

John Goldingay, Old Testament Theology (3 vols)

Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

Walter Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament (2 vols)

William J. Dumbrell, Covenant & Creation: A Theology of Old Testament Covenants

William J. Dumbrell, Search for Order: Biblical Eschatology in Focus

William J. Dumbrell, The Faith of Israel. A Theological Survey of the Old Testament

William Sanford La Sor, David Allan Hubbard, Frederic William Bush, and Leslie C. Allen, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament

 

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XXII. Introduction to the New Testament

Adolf Schlatter, The Theology of the Apostles

David Arthur Desilva, An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation

Donald A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo, Introduction to the New Testament

Donald A. Carson, The Gospel According to John: An Introduction and Commentary

E.P. Sanders and Margaret Davies, Studying the Synoptic Gospels

George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament

Herman Nicolaas Ridderbos, Paul: An Outline of His Theology

J. Christiaan Beker, Paul The Apostle

Joel B. Green (ed.), Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation

John H. Hayes, Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner’s Handbook

Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation

Michael J. Gorman, Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters 

Michael J. Gorman, Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross

Michael J. Gorman, Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology

Michael J. Gorman, Reading Paul

N.T. Wright, The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology

Philip E. Hughes, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews

Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament

Richard B. Hays, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul As Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture

Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics

Richard Bauckham, James: Wisdom of James, Disciple of Jesus the Sage

Richard Bauckham, The Theology of the Book of Revelation

Robert H. Gundry, Survey of the New Testament