The books listed in this collection represent some of the most helpful Christian books I have encountered in my reading. These books are mostly drawn from the domain of Church history and historical theology. I hope you enjoy collecting and reading some of the literature recommended below. I consider these to be the best books on their respective subjects. I have graded the books according to difficulty. One * represents the easiest material, two ** the intermediate, and three *** the most difficult.
Systematic Theology
Barth, Karl, Church Dogmatics (1932–1967), 13 vols.***
Barth, Karl, Dogmatics in Outline (London, 1960).*
Bavinck, Herman, Reformed Dogmatics, ed. John Bolt.
Trans. John Vriend (Grand Rapids, MI, 2003 – 2008), 4 vols.***
Berkhof, Louis, Systematic Theology (Edinburgh,
1958).**
Calvin, John, Institutes of the Christian Religion,
ed. by John T. McNeill. Trans. by Ford Lewis Battles (London, 1960), 2 vols.**
Horton, Michael, The Christian Faith: A Systematic
Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (Grand Rapids, MI, 2011).**
Letham, Robert, Systematic Theology (Wheaton, Ill.,
2019).**
Muller, Richard A., Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, ca. 1520–1725 (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2003), 4 vols.***
Shedd, William G. T., Dogmatic Theology, 3rd
ed. (New York, 1891).**
Thiselton, Anthony, Systematic Theology (London,
2015).**
Turretin, Francis, Institutes of Elenctic Theology
(Phillipsburg, NJ, 1992 – 97), 3 vols.***
Watson, Thomas, A Body of Divinity (Glasgow, 1686).*
Webster, John, Kathryn Tanner, and Iain Torrance (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (Oxford, 2007).**
Church History & Historical Theology
Atherstone, Andrew and David Ceri Jones, Engaging with Martyn
Lloyd-Jones: The Life and Legacy of the ‘Doctor’ (Nottingham, 2011).**
Bainton, Roland, Here I Stand: Martin Luther (New York,
1950).*
Bebbington, David, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History
from the 1730s to the 1980s (London and Boston, 1989).**
Beeke, Joel and Mark Jones, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for
Life (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2012).**
Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (London,
1969).**
Dallimore, Arnold, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the
Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival (Edinburgh,
1970, 1980), 2 vols.**
Edwards, Jonathan, The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online (http://edwards.yale.edu/), 73 vols. [Accessed 06/12/2021].***
Evans, Eifion, Bread of Heaven: The Life and Work of William
Williams, Pantycelyn (Bryntirion, 2010).*
Evans, Eifion, Daniel Rowland and the Great Evangelical
Awakening in Wales (Edinburgh, 1985).*
Gordon, Bruce, Calvin (London and Yale, 2009).*
Hindmarsh, D. Bruce, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True
Religion in a Modern World (Oxford and New York, 2017).***
Jones, David Ceri, ‘A Glorious Work in the World’: Welsh
Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival: 1735–1750 (Cardiff,
2004).***
Jones, Paul Dafydd and Paul T. Nimmo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of
Karl Barth (Oxford, 2019).***
Kidd, Thomas S., The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical
Christianity in Colonial America (Yale, 2009).**
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, A History of Christianity: The First Three
Thousand Years (London, 2010).**
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided (London,
2004).**
Maddox, Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s Practical
Theology (Nashville, Tenn., 1994).**
Marsden, George, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, 2003).**
Marsh, Charles, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (New
York, 2014).**
McClymond, Michael J., and Gerald R. McDermott, The Theology of
Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2011).***
Morgan, Densil, The SPCK Introduction to Karl Barth (London,
2010).**
Morgan, Derec Llwyd, The Great Awakening in Wales (London,
1988).**
Muller, Richard, After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a
Theological Tradition (Oxford and New York, 2003).***
Muller, Richard, The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the
Foundation of a Theological Tradition (Oxford and New York, 2000).***
Murray Iain, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith
1939–1981 (Edinburgh, 1990).**
Murray, Iain, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years
1899–1939 (Edinburgh, 1982).**
Murray, Iain, The Puritan Hope: A Study in Revival and the
Interpretation of Prophecy (London, 1971).*
Packer, J. I., Among God’s Giants: The Puritan Vision of the
Christian Life (Eastbourne, 1991).**
Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition: A History of the
Development of Doctrine (London and Chicago, 1971–1989), 5 vols.***
Rack, Henry D., Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise
of Methodism (London, 1992).**
Reeves, Michael, Introducing Major Theologians: From the Apostolic
Fathers to the Twentieth Century (Nottingham, 2015).*
Reeves, Michael, The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing the
Reformation (Nottingham, 2009).*
Ryken, Leland, Worldly Saints: The Puritans as they really were (Grand
Rapids, 2010).*
Ryrie, Alec, Protestants: The Radicals who made the Modern World (London,
2017).**
Stout, Harry, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the
Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, Mich. 1991).**
Sweeney, Douglas A., and Jan Stievermann (eds), The Oxford Handbook
of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2021).***
Tudur, Geraint, Howell Harris: From Conversion to Separation 1735–1750 (Cardiff,
2000).**
Wright, Tom, Paul: A Biography (London, 2018).**
Zaspel, Fred G., The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic
Survey (Nottingham, 2010).**
Apologetics and Philosophy
Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist
Presents Evidence for Belief (New York, 2006).*
Craig, William Lane, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Wheaton, Ill., 1994).**
Keller, Timothy, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of
Scepticism (London, 2009).*
Lewis, C. S., Mere Christianity (1952).*
Lewis, C. S., Miracles (1947, 1960).*
Moreland, J. P. Scaling the Secular City: A Defence of
Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI., 1987).**
Plantinga, Alvin, Knowledge and Christian Belief (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2015).*
Plantinga, Alvin, Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford,
2004).***
Schaeffer, Francis, Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy: The
God Who is There, Escape From Reason, He is There, and He is Not Silent
(Nottingham, 2018).**
Schaeffer, Francis, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and
Decline of Western Thought and Culture (London, 1976).**
Swinburne, Richard, Are we Bodies or Souls? (Oxford,
2019).**
Swinburne, Richard, Is there a God? (Oxford, 2010).**
Swinburne, Richard, The Existence of God (Oxford,
2004).***
Swinburne, Richard, The Resurrection of God Incarnate
(Oxford, 2004).**
Miscellaneous Topics
Athanasius, On the Incarnation (c. 318).*
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (c.397–400).**
Barth, Karl, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
(Grand Rapids, Mich., 1979).**
Barth, Karl, The Epistle to the Romans, 6th
ed. (Oxford, 1928).***
Boston, Thomas, Human Nature in its Fourfold State
(Edinburgh, 1720).**
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678).*
Kuyper Abraham, Common Grace (Bellingham, WA, 2016–2020),
3 vols.***
Kuyper, Abraham, Lectures on Calvinism (Peabody, Mass,
2008).**
Letham, Robert, The Holy Trinity in Scripture, History,
Theology, and Worship (Phillipsburg, NJ, 2004).**
Machen, J. Gresham, Christianity and Liberalism
(Grand Rapids, Mich., 2009).**
Macleod, Donald, A Faith to Live By: Understanding Christian
Doctrine (Fearn, 2010).*
McGrath, Alister E., Iustita Dei: A History of the
Christian Doctrine of Justification (Cambridge, 1998).***
Milton, John, Paradise Lost (1667).***
Murray, John, Redemption Accomplished and Applied
(Grand Rapids, 1955).**
Murray, John, The Collected Writings of John Murray
(Edinburgh, 1982), 4 vols.***
Packer, J. I., Knowing God (London, 2011).*
Stott, John, The Cross of Christ, centennial ed. (London,
2021).*
Williams, Rowan, Christ: The Heart of Creation (London,
2018).***
Wright, N. T., Jesus and the Victory of God (London,
1996).***
Wright, N. T., Paul and the Faithfulness of God (London, 2013), 2 vols.***
Wright, N. T., The New Testament and the People of God
(London, 1992).***
Wright, N. T., The Resurrection of the Son of God (London,
2003).***
Wright, Tom. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (London, 2007).**
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