THEOLOGY READING LIST :: The Mountain and the Molehill
Theological Systems
**Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics: A Selection. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1961. His entire work, Church Dogmatics, is being republished at more cost-effective price, 31 volumes from CBD.
Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics. John Bolt, ed. and John Vriend, trans. 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003-2006.
**Blaising, Craig A. and Darrell L. Bock. Progressive Dispensationalism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.
Bright, John. The Kingdom of God. Nashville: Abingdon, 1953.
Brown, Harold O. J. Heresies. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984.
**Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. John T. McNeill, ed. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.
Dempster, Stephen. Dominion and Dynasty: A Biblical Theology of the Hebrew Bible. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
** Feinberg, John S., ed. Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments. Westchester, IL: Crossway, 1988.
**Ford, David F. The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Henry, Carl F. H. God, Revelation, and Authority. Vol. 1. Waco: Word Books, 1976.
**Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Doctrines. Rev. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
**Ladd, George Eldon. A Theology of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.
**Machen, J. G. Christianity and Liberalism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1923.
**Mullins, E. Y. The Christian Religion in its Doctrinal Expression. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, reprint, 2000.
Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology. Vol 1. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
Poythress, Vern. Understanding Dispensationalists. 2nd ed. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1994.
**Schleiermacher, Friedrich. The Christian Faith. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, reprint, 1999.
Vanhoozer, Kevin. Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
Williams, D. H. Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Theological Method
**Allen, Diogenes. Philosophy for Understanding Theology. Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.
Clark, David K. To Know and Love God: Method for Theology. Wheaton: Crossway, 2003.
Erickson, Millard J., Paul K. Helseth, J. Taylor, eds. Reclaiming the Center: Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004.
Frame, John M. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1987.
Grenz, Stanley and John Franke. Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
**Horton, Michael S. Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
Lindbeck, George. The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984.
**Lints, Richard. The Fabric of Theology: Toward an Evangelical Prolegomenon. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.
**McGrath, Alistair E. The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundation of Doctrinal Criticism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
**Vanhoozer, Kevin J. The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.
Bibliology
**Carson, D. A. and John D. Woodbridge, eds. Scripture and Truth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983.
**Carson, D. A. and John D. Woodbridge, eds. Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986.
Geisler, Norman L., ed. Inerrancy. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980.
Harrisville, Roy A. and Walter Sundberg. The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
**Kelsey, David H. Proving Doctrine: The Uses of Scripture in Modern Theology. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999.
**McDonald, H. D. Theories of Revelation: An Historical Study (1700-1960). Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979.
**Nettles, Thomas J. and L. Russ Bush. Baptists and the Bible. 2d ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.
Warfield, B. B. The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1948.
Theology Proper
Augustine. The Trinity. Vol. 5 of The Works of St. Augustine. Brooklyn, NY: New City Press, 1991. (There are several other editions).
**Feinberg, John S. No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2001.
**Frame, John M. The Doctrine of God. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2002.
Helm, Paul. The Providence of God. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1994.
Letham, Robert. The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology and Worship. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2004.
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Trinity and the Kingdom. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1981.
Pinnock, Clark, et. al. The Openness of God. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1994
Piper, John. The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1991.
**Thompson, John. Modern Trinitarian Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
**Ware, Bruce A. God’s Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith. Wheaton: Crossway, 2004.
Anthropology
Berkouwer, G. C. Man: The Image of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.
**Burns, J. Patout, ed. Theological Anthropology. In Sources of Early Christian Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
Cooper, John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
Green, Joel, Kevin Corcoran, and Stuart Palmer, eds. In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-body Problem. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2005
**Hoekema, Anthony A. Created in God’s Image. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.
Moreland, J. P. and Scott B. Rae. Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis of Ethics. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.
Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Nature and Destiny of Man. Two volumes in one. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941.
**Piper, John and Wayne Grudem. Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1993.
Angelology
**Arnold, Clinton. Powers of Darkness: Principalities & Powers in Paul’s Letters. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992.
Boyd, Gregory A. God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1997.
**Green, Michael. I Believe in Satan’s Downfall. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
**Noll, Stephen F. Angels of Light, Powers of Darkness: Thinking Biblically about Angels, Satan, and Principalities. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998.
Russell, Jeffrey Burton. The Devil & Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Unger, Merrill. Biblical Demonology. Wheaton: Scripture Press, 1965.
Wink, Walter. Naming the Powers: the Language of Power in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Hamartiology
**Berkouwer, G. C. Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971.
**Blocher, Henri. Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
**Carson, D. A. How Long O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990.
Feinberg, John S. The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problems of Evil. Revised and expanded edition. Wheaton: Crossway, 2004.
**Murray, John. The Imputation of Adam’s Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959.
**Plantinga, Cornelius. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
Ramm, Bernard. Offense to Reason: The Theology of Sin. Waco: Word, 1985.
Smith, David. With Willful Intent: A Theology of Sin. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.
Tennant, F. R. The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.
Christology
Anselm. Why God Become Man. Albany: Magi Books, 1969. (There are several other editions.)
**Harris, Murray J. Jesus As God: The NT Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.
**Letham, Robert. The Work of Christ. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1993.
**Macleod, Donald. The Person of Christ. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998.
McDonald, H. D. The Atonement of the Death of Christ: In Faith, Revelation, and History. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985.
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
**Morris, Leon. The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965.
Morris, Thomas V. The Logic of God Incarnate. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Owen, John. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. Carlisle: The Banner of Truth Trust, reprint, 1967.
**Stott, John R. W. The Cross of Christ. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1986.
Wright, N. T. The Resurrection of the Son of God. Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 2003.
Pneumatology
**Badcock, Gary D. Light of Truth & Fire of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
Dunn, James D. G. Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in Relation to Pentecostalism Today. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970.
**Dunn, James D. G. Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament. 2nd edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
**Ferguson, Sinclair B. The Holy Spirit. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1996.
Hamilton, James. God’s Indwelling Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006.
Hawthorne, Gerald. The Presence and the Power: The Significance of the Holy Spirit in the Life and Ministry of Jesus. Thomas Nelson, 1991
Kuyper, Abraham. The Work of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.
Pinnock, Clark H. Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1996.
Ramm, Bernard. The Witness of the Spirit: An Essay on the Contemporary Relevance of the Internal Witness of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959.
Turner, Max. The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts In the New Testament Church and Today. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998.
Yong, Amos. The Spirit Poured Out On All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.
Soteriology
Berkouwer, G. C. Faith and Sanctification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
**Brand, Chad, ed. Perspectives on Election: Five Views. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006.
**Carson, D. A., Peter O’Brien, and Mark Seifrid, eds. Justification and Variegated Nomism. Vol. 2. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.
**Demarest, Bruce. The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation. Wheaton: Crossway, 1997.
Hoekema, Anthony A. Saved by Grace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
**Marshall, I. Howard. Kept by the Power of God. Minneapolis: Bethany, 1969.
McGrath, Alister E. Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification. 3rd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
**Murray, John. Redemption Accomplished and Applied. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955.
Ockholm, Dennis L. and Timothy R. Phillips, eds. Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995.
**Pinnock, Clark H., ed. The Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.
**Schreiner, Thomas R. and Bruce A. Ware, eds. Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspctives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.
Schreiner, Thomas R. and Ardel B. Caneday. The Race Set before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance and Assurance. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2001.
Strickland, Wayne G., ed. The Law, the Gospel, and the Modern Christian: Five Views. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.
Warfield, B. B. The Plan of Salvation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, n. d.
Ecclesiology
The Didache. In Documents of the Christian Church, 2nd ed. Henry Bettenson, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
**Beasley-Murray, George R. Baptism in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973.
Brand, Chad and R. Stanton Norman, eds. Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views of Church Polity. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2004.
Carson, D. A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.
Carson, D. A., ed. From Sabbath to Lord’s Day: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Investigation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.
**Clowney, Edmund. The Church. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1995.
**Dagg, John L. Manual of Church Order. Charleston: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1858.
**Hammett, John S. Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2005.
Luther, Martin. Three Treatises. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1970.
Marshall, I. Howard. Last Supper and Lord’s Supper. Send the Light, Inc., 2002
McLaren, Brian D. A Generous Orthodoxy. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.
Schreiner, Thomas and Shawn Wright, eds. Believer’s Baptism: The Covenant Sign of the New Age in Christ. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007.
Eschatology
Archer, Gleason L. et al. Three Views on the Rapture: Pre; Mid; Or Post-Tribulation? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.
Augustine. The City of God. Abridged version. Vernon J. Bourke, ed.. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
**Bock, Darrell L., ed. Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999.
Conyers, A. J. The Eclipse of Heaven: Rediscovering the Hope of a World Beyond. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992.
**Hoekema, Anthony A. The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979.
Ladd, George Eldon. The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.
**Moore, Russell D. The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004.
**Peterson, Robert A. and Edward William Fudge. Two Views on Hell: A Biblical and Theological Dialogue. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.
Vos, Geerhardus. The Pauline Eschatology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961.
(The double-asterisked books are those to be read first).
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