My “Canon of Theologians”
Okay. I have put together an initial reading list following the schedule I posted below. What would you add? What would you take away? I would love to hear your thoughts. Download a Microsoft Word (97-03) file of this list.
January – Early Church
ð Jaroslav Pelikam, The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition∞
ð Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
ð J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines
ð Henry Chadwick, The Early Church
February – Augustine
ð The Confessions*
ð The City of God
ð On the Trinity
ð The Triumph of Grace (Augustine on Salvation)
ð Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo*
March – Medieval Theologians
ð Anselm
ð Aquinas
April – Luther
ð Bainton, Here I Stand*
ð Oberman, Luther
ð Luther, Basic Theological Writings
ð Luther, Tabletalk
ð Luther, Galatians
May – Calvin
ð The Institutes of the Christian Religion
ð Beatitudes
ð Commentaries
ð Cottret, Calvin
ð Francois, Calvin
June – Puritans
ð Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
ð Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture
ð Flavel, Works
ð Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor
ð Miscellaneous Puritan Paperbacks
July – Edwards/Whitfield
ð Edwards, On Knowing Christ
ð Edwards, The History of the Work of Redemption
ð Edwards, Miscellaneous Sermons
ð Dallimore, Whitfield Biography
ð Whitefield, Journals
August – Spurgeon
ð Spurgeon, Autobiography (2 vols.)
ð Spurgeon, Sermons
September – Princetonians
ð Machen, Christianity and Liberalism*
ð Machen, What is Faith?
ð Machen, The Christian View of Man
ð Warfield, Works
ð Vos, Biblical Theology
ð Hodge, Systematic Theology
October – D.M. Lloyd-Jones
ð Revival
ð Preaching and Preachers
ð Romans Sermons
ð Ephesians Sermons
November – 20th Century
ð John Murray, Redemption: Accomplished and Applied*
ð John Murray, Collected Writings
ð C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
ð Lewis, The Screwtape Letters*
ð Lewis, God in the Dock
ð Lewis, other wiritngs
ð Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics (4 vols.)
ð Hoekema, Created in God’s Image, Saved by Grace, The Bible and the Future
ð Ridderbos, Paul, The Coming of the Kingdom, and The Gospel of John
December – Contemporary Writers (John Frame, J.I. Packer, David Wells, D.A. Carson, G. Goldsworthy)
ð D.A. Carson, John and Matthew Commentaries
ð Carson, How Long, O Lord
ð Carson, Love in Hard Places
ð Stott, The Cross of Christ
ð John Frame, The Doctrine of God
ð Frame, The Doctrine of the Christian Life
ð David Wells, Losing Our Virtue
ð Wells, Above all Earthly Powers
ð Goldsworthy, Gospel Centered Hermeneutics & Preaching the Whole Bible
ð Vanhoozer, Is There Meaning in this Text?
ð Beale, The Book of Revelation
ð Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (articles)
∞ Started. Not finished.
* Already read. Want to read again.
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