Recommended Reading

Several weeks, OK, months ago, I sent out some emails to a few of my professors asking them to list the books that were most influential in their lives. I am going to try to consolidate the list into a single reference, and I will try to indicate who recommended each book. Here goes:

Books Recommended by More Than One Professor

• A Theology of the New Testament by George Eldon Ladd and Donald A. Hagner (Schreiner, Ware)
• Desiring God by John Piper (Ware, Haykin)
• Knowing God by J. I. Packer (Allison, Ware)
• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Allison, Haykin)
• Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings edited by Timothy Lull (Allison, Plummer)

Everything Else

• A Call to Spiritual Reformation by D. A. Carson (Plummer)
• The Apostolic Fathers (Allison)
• Baptists and the Bible by Tom Nettles and Russ Bush (Moore)
• Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting by John W. Cooper (Allison)
• The Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer (Haykin)
• The Christian Tradition: Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 by Jaroslav Pelikan (Allison)
• The Confessions: St. Augustine (Haykin)
• The Confession of St. Patrick (Haykin)
• Creeds of Christendom by Phillip Schaff (Allison)
• The Cross of Christ by John Stott (Ware)
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew by Justin Martyr (Moore)
• Exegetical Fallacies by D. A. Carson (Plummer)
• The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock (Allison)
• George Muller of Bristol: His Life of Prayer and Faith by A. T. Pierson (Ware)
• The Gospel and the Kingdom by George Eldon Ladd (Moore)
• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton (Ware)
• Hudson Taylor by Howard Taylor (Ware)
• The Hymns and Letters of Ann Griffiths (Haykin)
• The Hymns of Charles Wesley (Haykin)
• Inspiration and Authority of the Bible by B. B. Warfield (Allison)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (Allison)
• The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer (Ware)
• The Letter to Diognetus (Haykin)
• Letters by John Newton (Haykin)
• Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry (Moore)
• Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy (Moore)
• The Memoirs of Samuel Pearce by Andrew Fuller (Haykin)
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Plummer)
• The Olney Hymns by John Newton and William Cowper (Haykin)
• On the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus (Moore)
• On the Mortification of Sin in Believers by John Owen (Haykin)
• On Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards (Haykin)
• On Spiritual Friendship by Ailred of Rievaulx (Haykin)
• The Person & Work of Christ by B. B. Warfield (Allison)
• Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The "Lutheran" Paul and His Critics by Stephen Westerholm (Schreiner)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Allison)
• The Pleasures of God by John Piper (Ware)
• Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics by Richard A. Muller (Allison)
• The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis (Moore)
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper (Ware)
• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem (Allison)
• Toward a Theology of the Body by Mary Timothy Prokes (Allison)
• Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl F. H. Henry (Moore)
• The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis (Haykin)

Dr. Schreiner recommended any book from John Piper, D. A. Carson, J. I. Packer, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Augustine (especially against Pelagius), Martin Luther, and Martin Lloyd Jones (despite his occasional charismatic tendencies). In addition, Dr. Sills pointed me to his web site for a list of his recommended books that he compiled at one time from Southern Seminary professors.

Thanks to Gregg Allison, Michael Haykin, Russell Moore, Rob Plummer, Tom Schreiner, David Sills, and Bruce Ware.