Book Recommendations
While I do not necessarily endorse every word in the following books, I believe that each title provides overall enriching content. For now, I am starting with books that I have read within the past 10 years to ensure that they are still familiar enough to merit my endorsement. This will be an ever-growing list, so check back often!
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Top Ten (Based on personal significance) - This is subject to change with the seasons
3. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
4. Calvin, John, The Institutes of the Christian Religion
5. Chesterton, G.K., Orthodoxy
6. Lewis, C.S., Til' We Have Faces
7. Kierkegaard, Søren, The Concept of Anxiety
8. Kierkegaard, Søren, The Sickness unto Death
9. Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King)
10. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion
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Introduction to Philosophy & Christian Thought
1. Allen, Diogene & Springsted, Eric, Philosophy for Understanding Theology
2. Deweese, Garrett & Moreland, J.P., Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult
3. Groothuis, Dogulas, Philosophy in Seven Sentences
4. Peterson, Michael Et. al, Philosophy of Religion
5. Sproul, R.C., The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World
6. Stevenson, Leslie, Et. al, Thirteen Theories of Human Nature
7. Stevenson, Leslie, The Study of Human Nature: A Reader
8. Thielicke, Helmut, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians
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Philosophy & Psychology
1. Barrett, Lee, Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard
2. Barnett, Christopher, From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard
3. Beabout, Gregory, Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair
4. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
5. De Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, Flight to Arras
6. Grzybowski, Jacek (ed.), Philosophical and Religious Sources of Modern Culture
7. Jung, Carl, Man and His Symbols
8. Kierkegaard, Søren, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
9. Kierkegaard, Søren, Fear and Trembling
10. Kierkegaard, Søren, The Concept of Anxiety
11. Kierkegaard, Søren, The Diary of Søren Kierkegaard
12. Kierkegaard, Søren, The Sickness unto Death
13. Marcel, Gabriel, The Philosophy of Existentialism
14. Peterson, Jordan, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
15. Peterson, Jordan, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
19. Weaver, Richard, Ideas Have Consequences
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Fiction - This category will receive much attention in time to come
1. Lewis, C.S., The Screwtape Letters
2. Lewis, C.S., Til' We Have Faces
3. Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit
4. Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King)
5. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion
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Biblical & Systematic Theology
1. Alexander, T. Desmond, From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Pentateuch
2. Allen, Michael, Grounded in Heaven: Recentering Christian Life and Hope in God
3. Athanasius, On the Incarnation
5. Augustine, Four Anti-Pelagian Writings
8. Calvin, John, The Institutes of the Christian Religion
9. Chan, Simon, Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Life
11. Fee, Gordon, New Testament Exegesis
12. Frame, John, Doctrine of the Knowledge of God
13. Horton, Michael, Rediscovering the Holy Spirit
14. Kline, Meredith, Kingdom Prologue
15. Luther, Martin, The Freedom of a Christian
16. Niehaus, Jeffery, God at Sinai: Covenant & Theophany in the Bible and Ancient Near East
17. Niebhur, H. Richard, Christ & Culture
19. Poythress, Vern, The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses
20. Sailhamer, John, The Pentateuch as Narrative
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Christian Apologetics
1. Bahnsen, Greg, Van Til's Apologetic
2. Chesterton, G.K., Orthodoxy
3. Groothuis, Douglas, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith
4. Keller, Timothy, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
5. Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity
6. Sweis, Khaldoun and Meiste, Chad (eds.), Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources
7. Van Til, Cornelius, The Defense of the Faith
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History & Historical Theology
1. Constable, Giles, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century
2. Ferguson, Everett, Backgrounds of Early Christianity
3. Gonzalez, Justo, The Story of Christianity
4. Green, Michael, Evangelism in the Early Church
5. Gregory, Brad, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
7. Holder, R. Ward, Crisis and Renewal: The Era of the Reformations
9. Levi, Anthony, Renaissance and Reformation
10. McGrath, Alister, Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought
11. Noll, Mark (ed.), Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation
12. Sproul, R.C., and Nichols, Stephen, The Legacy of Luther
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