Books Read in 2017

Every year, at the end of the year, I post the list of books that I read during the year. This year you will notice, the number has dropped down even more from the year before. This is mainly because I’ve been focused on other things. Also you will notice there were a lot of books read on atonement, prayer, and theological Anthropology. These are all related to my schoolwork and research. Finally, all of these are only the books I read to completion.

KEY:

* = Published in 2017
+ = This is the 2nd+ time reading this book

January

1. The Social God and the Relational Self – Stanley Grenz
2. Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies? – Nancey Murphy
3. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church – Ed Shaw
4. Body, Soul, and Human Life – Joel Green
5. Neuroscience and the Soul – Thomas Crisp, Steven Porter, Gregg Ten Elshof

February

6. Saving Calvinism – Oliver Crisp
7. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? – Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown
8. Philosophical Approaches to the Devil – Benjamin McCraw and Robert Arp
9. Being Human – Dwight Hopkins
10. A Walk Through the Bible – Leslie Newbigin

March

11. Creation and Humanity – Veli-Matti Karkkainen
12. The Person of Jesus Christ – H.R. Mackintosh
13. The Sentences Book Three: On the Incarnation of the Word – Peter Lombard
14. On the Unity of Christ – St. Cyril of Alexandria

April

15. Jesus: God and Man – Wolfhart Pannenberg
16. Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies – Marc Cortez
17. On the Incarnation – Athansius+
18. The Way of Jesus – Jurgen Moltmann
19. The Identity of Jesus Christ – Hans Frei
20. Christ and Reconciliation – Veli-Matti Karkkainen
21. The Unassumed is Unhealed: The Humanity of Christ in the Christology of T.F. Torrance – Kevin Chiarot+
22. The Logic of God Incarnate – Tom Morris

May

23. Martin Luther in His Own Words – Jack Kilcrease & Erwin Lutzer*
24. Flesh and Blood: A Dogmatic Sketch Concerning the Fallen Nature view of Christ’s Human Nature – Daniel Cameron*
25. The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture – Yoram Hazony
26. Christ and Horrors – Marilyn Adams
27. Christ the Key – Kathryn Tanner
28. The Word Enfleshed – Oliver Crisp

June

29. The Tech-wise Family – Andy Crouch*
30. Embodied Hope – Kelly Kapic*
31. The Struggle of Prayer – Donald Bloesch
32. Knocking on Heaven’s Door – David Crump

July

33. Uncommon Decency – Richard Mouw
34. Beyond the Modern Age – Bob Goudzwaard and Craig Bartholomew*
35. Enjoy Your Prayer Life – Michael Reeves
36. Give God the Glory: Ancient Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective – Jerome Neyrey
37. A Community Called Atonement – Scot McKnight
38. Calvin and the Calvinists – Paul Helm
39. Jonathan Edwards on the Atonement – Brandon Crawford*
40. What are we Doing When We Pray? – Vincent Brummer+
41. The Contemplative Pastor – Eugen Peterson

August

42. Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Letters to the Thessalonians – Gene Green
43. Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation – D.A. Carson
44. All That is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Theism – James Dolezal*
45. I am Not but I Know I Am – Louie Giglio
46. The Pastor: A Memoir – Eugene Peterson
47. The Great Omission – Dallas Willard
48. Death by Living – N.D. Wilson
49. NIV Application Commentary: 1 & 2 Thessalonians – Michael Holmes

September

50. Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed – Adam Johnson
51. The Glory of Atonement – Charles Hill and Frank James III
52. Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross – Marit Trelstad
53. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross – Joel Green & Mark Baker+
54. Feminist Theories of Atonement – Linda Peacore+
55. The Non-Violent Atonement – Denny Weaver+

October

56. The Crucified God – Jurgen Moltmann+
57. Prayer and Providence – Terrence Tiesen
58. A Little Book for New Bible Scholars – Randolph Richards & Joseph Dodson*
59. Was the Reformation a Mistake? Matthew Levering*
60. The Metaphor of God Incarnate – John Hick+
61. NIV Application Commentary: 1 Corinthians – Craig Bloomberg

Novemeber

62. Responsibility and Atonement – Richard Swinburne+
63. The Pastor Theologian – Gerald Heistand and Todd Wilson+
64. Jesus the Eternal Son – Michael Bird*
65. Atonement, Law and Justice – Adonis Vidu+
66. Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer – J. Gary Millar
67. Unnamed Book on Atonement – Oliver Crisp*
68. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism – Carl Henry

December

69. TheologyGrams – Rich Wyld*
70. Walking Through Twilight – Douglas Groothius*
71. Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation – Scott Davision*
72. The New Christian Zionism – Gerald McDermott*
73. Immeasurable: Reflections on the Soul of Ministry in the Age of Church, Inc. – Skye Jethani*
74. The Economics of Neighborly Love – Tom Nelson*