Books Read in 2018

As usual here is the list of books I read in during the year. Books published in 2018 are marked by an asterisk. Out of the books published in 2018 my two favorites–in no particular order–were 1) Conformed to the Image of His Son – Haley Goranson Jacob and 2) Resourcing Theological Anthropology – Marc Cortez.

January

1. An Introduction to Torrance Theology – Gerrit Dawson
2. Resourcing Theological Anthropology – Marc Cortez*
3. Being Human in God’s World: An Old Testament Theology of Humanity – Gordon McConville
4. Calvin’s Doctrine of Man – T.F. Torrance

February

5. The Soul of Theological Anthropology – Joshua Farris
6. Petitionary Prayer – Scott Davison
7. What is History? – E.H. Carr
8. The Historian’s Craft – Marc Bloch

March

9. Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to His Thought – Oliver Crisp and Kyle Strobel*
10. Church History: An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources – James Bradley and Richard Mueller
11. Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
12. Still Evangelical? – Mark Labberton*

April

13. Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel – Jennifer McBride
14. God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism – William Lane Craig
15. Approaching Philosophy of Religion – Anthony Thiselton*

May

16. The Allure of Gentleness – Dallas Willard
17. A Treatise on Jonathan Edwards: Continuous Creation and Christology – S. Mark Hamilton
18. Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation – Oliver Crisp

June

19. The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ – James Gordon
20. Praying with Confidence: Aquinas on the Lord’s Prayer – Paul Murray
21. The Lord is Good: Seeking the God of the Psalter – Christopher Holmes*
22. Mind, Brain, and Free Will – Richard Swinburne

July

23. What Sort of Human Nature: Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology – Marilyn McCord Adams
24. The Humanity and Divinity of Christ: A Study of Pattern in Christology – John Knox
25. The Brain, the Mind, and the Person Within – Mark Cosgrove*
26. The Atonement – William Lane Craig*

August

27. The Crucifixion – Fleming Rutledge
28. The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God – Ian McFarland
29. Prayer, Middle Knowledge, and Divine Human Interaction – Kyle DiRoberts*

September

30. Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed – Alan Spence
31. John Calvin: A Biography – T.H.L. Parker
32. The Dawn of the Reformation – Heiko Oberman
33. Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed – Marc Cortez
34. Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought – David Bebbington
35. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past – John Lewis Gaddis
36. Were they Preaching “Another Gospel”? Justification by Faith in the 2^nd Century – Andrew Dauton-Fear

October

37. Judaism Before Jesus – Anthony Tomasino
38. Cur Deus Homo – Anselm
39. The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers – T.F. Torrance
40. The Human Condition: Christian Perspectives Through African Eyes – Joe Kapolyo

November

41. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era – James Jeffers

December

42. God the Son Incarnate – Stephen Wellum
43. Paul and the Person – Susan Eastman*
44. What is Regeneration? – Matthew Barrett
45. Conformed to the Image of His Son – Haley Goranson Jacob*
46. Human Nature from Calvin to Edwards – Paul Helm*
47. In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls us to Reflect his Character – Jen Wilkin*