Recommended Reading

Pastor John Piper has written this book to refute N. T. Wright’s view of the doctrine of justification. The book is outstanding, and I highly recommend it.

This book is the most comprehensive defense of the prolife position on abortion ever published. It is sophisticated, but still accessible to the ordinary reader.

This book is a technical study on a particular point of Greek Grammar, the articular infinitive. It was published by Sheffield Phoenix Press in May 2006. Sheffield Phoenix Press is located in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in England.

I am a contributor to this dictionary of Old and New Testament words. It is based on the NIV translation, though it’s still servicable with the King James Version. Zondervan is hoping that it will replace the old but popular Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, which was based on the King James translation. It was published by Zondervan in July 2006.

Dr. Richard Bauckham argues that the eyewitnesses of Jesus’ life exercised substantial influence over the oral traditions that ultimately became inscripturated in the form of the four canonical Gospels. Thus the four written Gospels are reliable, eyewitness testimony about Jesus.

Taking the canonical Gospels as historically reliable depictions of Jesus’ words and deeds, Dr. John Piper sets forth fifty “demands” that Jesus makes of the world.

In God’s Indwelling Presence, Hamilton sets out to answer the question of what the Bible says about how the Spirit relates to believers before and after the glorification of Jesus. Hamilton takes John 14:17 (”He is with you, and He will be in you”) to be John’s summary of the Bible’s teaching on indwelling as it relates to believers under the old and new covenants.

Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness is an indispensible introduction to the issues at stake in the current debates over imputation. It also offers a compelling interpretation of Paul that affirms the traditional formulation of the doctrine. There are very few books like this one, and anyone who is concerned about having a biblical theology should give this volume careful consideration.

The Resurrection of the Son of God is the most significant defense of the bodily resurrection of Jesus in decades. This is one book by N.T. Wright you will not want to miss.

In Evangelical Feminism, Wayne Grudem argues that egalitarianism is a slippery slope to liberalism.

Russell Moore describes the recent revisions of dispensational and covenant theology and their competing visions of the Kingdom of God. He argues that the new consensus gives a solid grounding for evangelicals to have a more robust engagement of the culture.

The title of the book is The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views with contributions by Greg Boyd, Joel Green, Bruce Reichenbach, and Tom Schreiner. Boyd defends the Christus Victor view, Schreiner the penal substitution view, Reichenbach the “Healing” view, and Green the “Kaleidoscopic” view.

As a distillation of his previous scholarship on the book of Revelation, this 164 page primer is a must-read for anyone interested in a competent and learned summary of Revelation’s theology. I highly recommend it.

A penetrating analysis of post-modern culture and the evangelical church in America.

Jonathan Edwards argues in this classic that the nature of true religion lies in the affections. Edwards gives certain and uncertain criteria by which to measure whether a person has really experienced God’s saving grace.