Book Project > Recommended Reading Lists: 2013

2013 Recommended Reading List by President Dockery

• A Higher Education: Baylor and the Vocation of a Christian University. Edited by Elizabeth Davis. Baylor University Press (December 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary. Edited by Jason Duesing. B&H Academic (October 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Art as Spiritual Perception: Essays in Honor of E. John Walford. Edited by James Romaine . Crossway Books (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. Jules Tygiel . Oxford University Press (February 2008). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith. Michael Reeves. IVP Academic (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practices for the 21st Century. Edited by Mike Barnett. IVP Academic (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God's Everything. Anonymous. B&H Books (October 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Flourishing Faith: A Baptist Primer on Work, Economics, and Civic Stewardship. Chad Brand. Acton/Christian's Library Press (November 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition. John Witte Jr.. Westminster John Knox Press (January 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China. Liao Yiwu. HarperOne (September 2011). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Intergenerational Christian Formation: Bringing the Whole Church Together in Ministry, Community and Worship. Holly Catterton Allen and Christine Lawton Ross. IVP Academic (October 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• KJV 400: The Legacy and Impact of the King James Version. Edited by Ray Van Neste; Foreword by David S. Dockery. BorderStone Press (December 2012). Union Contributor(s): Bradley G. Green (Chapter: "Convenant, Canon, and Culture: Theological Reflections on the Cultural Meaning of the King James Version"); Hunter Baker (Chapter: "A Bible for the People: The Political and Cultural Impact of the Vernacular Bible"); Gavin Richardson (Chapter: "'No New Reformation': Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Scripture in the Minds of the Reformers"); Micah Watson (Chapter: "Who Appeals to Heaven? King James I and John Locke on Scripture & Political Authority"); Justin D. Barnard (Chapter: "Human Nature and the Veneration of the KJV"); Jennifer A. Gruenke (Chapter: "Isaac Newton's Bible: Science and Heresy in 17th Century England"); Ray Van Neste (Editor and Introduction); James A. Patterson (Chapter: "Divine Right or Holy Dissent? Conflicting Visions of Church and State in Early Seventeenth-Century England"); Steve R. Halla (Chapter: "Art, Iconoclasm, and the Search for Unity: Reflections on Cornelis Boel's 1611 KJV Title Page Design"); Bobby C. Rogers (Chapter: "'Therefore Now Put Off They Ornaments': The Influence of the King James Bible in Contemporary American Poetry"); John T. Netland (Chapter: "'The Very Language of Men': Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth's Poetry"); Scott Huelin (Chapter: "Only God Speaks King James: The Literary Use of English Bible Translations in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away"); Gene Fant (Chapter: "'Give Me also This Power': Secular Writers' Simultaneous Fascination with and Denial of the Power of the KJV"); Christopher W. Mathews (Chapter: "Sounding through the Centuries: The Influence of the King James Version over Four Centuries of Musical Composition"). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Lottie Moon: A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend. Regina D. Sullivan . Louisiana State University Press (June 2011). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought. Edited by Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw and Micah Watson. Lexington Books (November 2012). Union Contributor(s): Micah Watson (Editor). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions. Winfried Courduan. IVP Academic (October 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting. Johnny Carr and Laura Captari . B&H Books (March 2013). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Partnering with the Global Church. Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Femi Adeleye. IVP Books (December 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Philosophy: A Student's Guide. David K. Naugle. Crossway Books (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Political Thought: A Student's Guide. Hunter Baker. Crossway Books (July 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture. James H. Moorhead. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (August 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry. Gregory Alan Thornbury. Crossway Books (March 2013). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Restore Unity, Recover Identity, and Refine Orthopraxy: The Believers' Priesthood in the Ecclesiology of James Leo Garrett Jr.. Peter Tie. Wipf & Stock Publishers (January 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African. Lamin Sanneh. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership that Matters. Albert Mohler. Bethany House Publishers (November 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity. Robert Louis Wilkin. Yale University Press (November 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Thomas K. McCraw. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (October 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist. John A. Jenkins . PublicAffairs Press (October 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of Nicholas of Myra. Adam C. English. Baylor University Press (November 2012). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Edited by Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley . Oxford University Press (November 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Jon Meacham. Random House (November 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Peter Brown. Princeton University Press (September 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Western Christians in Global Mission: What's the Role of the North American Church?. Paul Bortwick. IVP Books (December 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  
• Widgmus World. Randall Bush. BorderStone Press (November 2011). Buy at Amazon.com or Christianbook.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Summar Library
  
  

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