Theology and Christian Living: A Reading List to Get
Started
Ray Van Neste and Bradley Green
Theology
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
John Piper, Desiring God
John Piper, Supremacy of
God in Preaching
John Piper, The Pleasures
of God
John Piper, Future Grace
John Piper, Brothers, We
are Not Professionals
C.S. Lewis, Mere
Christianity
C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of
Narnia
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of
God
Wayne Grudem, Systematic
Theology
Millard J. Erickson, Christian
Theology
J.I. Packer, Fundamentalism
and the Word of God
D.A. Carson and John
Woodbridge, Scripture and Truth
________, Hermeneutics,
Authority, and Canon
Martin Lloyd-Jones, Preachers
and Preaching
J.I. Packer, “Introduction”
to John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of
Christ
Cornelius Van Til, The
Defense of the Faith
Greg Bahnsen, Van Til’s
Apologetic
D.A. Carson, Exegetical
Fallacies
Helmut Thielicke, A Little
Exercise for Young Theologians
Graeme Goldsworthy, According
to Plan
Graeme Goldsworthy, Preaching
the Whole Scripture as the Word of God
Historical Theology
Augustine, Confessions
Augustine, The City of God
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s
Progress
John Calvin, Institutes of
the Christian Religion
T.H.L. Parker, Portrait of
Calvin
Martin Luther, Bondage of
the Will
Richard Baxter, The
Reformed Pastor
Jonathan Edwards, Religious
Affections
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity
and Liberalism
Timothy George, Theology
of the Reformers
Iain Murray, Spurgeon and
Hyper-Calvinism
Practical Living
Horatius Bonar, Words to
Winner of Souls
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual
Disciplines for the Christian Life
Donald A. Carson, For the
Love of God
Douglas Wilson, Reforming
Marriage
John Owen, The
Mortification of Sin
John Piper and Wayne Grudem, Recovering
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
John Murray, Redemption
Accomplished and Applied
Thomas Boston, The Art of
Manfishing
J.I. Packer, Evangelism
and the Sovereignty of God
Donald A. Carson, The
Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
Donald A. Carson, How
Long, O Lord?
Donald A. Carson–his exegetical works [1]
D.A. Carson and John
Woodbridge, Letters Along the Way
Biography
Elliot, Elisabeth, Shadow
of the Almighty
A.A. Bonar, Memoir and
Remains of Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne
Iain Murray, The Forgotten
Spurgeon
B.B. Warfield, The
Religious Life of Theological Students
Essays
C.S. Lewis, “Learning in
War-Time”
C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of
Glory”
C.S. Lewis, “On the Reading
of Old Books”
Important Journals
Evangelical Quarterly
The Southern Baptist Journal
of Theology
Themelios
Tyndale Bulletin
Westminster Theological
Journal
[1] Currently these include expositions of Matt 5-7 (Sermon on the Mount), Matt 8-10, John 14-17, 1 Cor 1-4, 1 Cor 12-14, 2 Cor 10-13, Philippians, and the prayers in Paul’s letters. The titles of some vary between American and British editions. Some have gone out of print, but we would not expect them to stay out long.