I sent out to this tweet a few weeks ago...
If you could only read 3-5 books of theology for the rest of your life, what would they be? Must be worth reading deep and rereading.
— Steve McCoy (@stevekmccoy) December 20, 2013I got great responses. A number of folks asked me to compile a list of all the responses. Here they are as one long list in the order they were received. I added a "*" for every extra mention. If you don't like something on the list, don't blame me. It's not my list. :) I will start, though, with my list which I didn't give on Twitter. Thanks to all who responded.
ALSO, I tried to offer links to WTS, Amazon, & Kindle. Buying by clicking the links though Amazon and WTS cost you nothing extra, but it helps me a lot as I need to buy my books as a pastor through these two companies. Appreciate it, if you are buying anyway, if you would consider using my links. Always a blessing.
My list...
- Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Knowing God by J.I. Packer (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Unceasing Worship by Harold Best (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Holy Spirit by Sinclair Ferguson (Amazon | WTS)
- Revival by Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Amazon | WTS)
Twitter responses...
- Dynamics of Spiritual Life by Richard Lovelace (Amazon | WTS)
- The Glory of Christ*** by John Owen (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Institutes of the Christian Religion********** by John Calvin (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Desiring God**** by John Piper (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Knowing God*** by J.I. Packer (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Letters of John Newton (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Christian Directory* by Richard Baxter (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Mission of God by Christopher Wright (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Life in Christ: Studies in 1 John by Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Amazon | WTS)
- The Christian in Complete Armour by William Gurnall (Amazon | Kindle | WTS or WTS)
- The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Unfolding Mystery of the Divine Name by Michael Knowles (Amazon | Kindle)
- Systematic Theology* by Wayne Grudem (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Cross of Christ by John Stott (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- How People Change by Tim Lane & Paul Tripp (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Pastor by Eugene Peterson (Amazon | Kindle)
- Life in the Trinity by Donald Fairbairn (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Romans* by Karl Barth (Amazon)
- Church Dogmatics* by Karl Barth (link is to whole set)
- Church Dogmatics IV/1 by Karl Barth (Amazon)
- Glaubenslehre by F Schleiermacher (Amazon)
- Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Book of Condord* (Amazon | WTS)
- The Holy Rule of St. Benedict (Amazon | Kindle)
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Amazon | Kindle)
- Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Eugene Peterson's Spiritual Theology series (Christ Plays, Eat This Book, Tell It Slant, Practice Resurrection)
- Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Confessions* by Augustine (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Christianity & Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware (Amazon | Kindle)
- Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Remythologizing Theology by Kevin Vanhoozer (Amazon | Kindle)
- Communion With God* by John Owen (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Apocrypha with Study Notes (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Chemnitz mentioned twice with no specific book listed
- Chrysostom Homilies
- On The Trinity* by Augustine (Amazon)
- Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards (Amazon | Kindle)
- Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation by Andrew Fuller (Amazon | Kindle)
- Manual of Theology by John Dagg (Amazon)
- Marrow of Modern Divinity by Edward Fisher & Thomas Boston (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Holiness by J.C. Ryle (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Biblical Theology by Geerhardus Vos (Amazon | WTS)
- A Body of Divinity by Thomas Boston (Amazon | WTS)
- The Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Michael McClymond & Gerald McDermott (Amazon | Kindle)
- The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (Amazon | Kindle)
- God In Our Midst by Daniel Hyde (Amazon | Kindle | WTS)
- Orations by Gregory Nazianzus (Amazon | Kindle)
- Works of Jonathan Edwards, 2 Vol (Amazon Vol 1 & Vol 2 | WTS)
- Reformed Dogmatics by Herman Bavinck (Amazon | WTS)
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