Books Read in 2019

By now it’s a tradition: at the end of each year I post all the books that I finished reading during year.  Here are all the books I read in 2019. Some are brand spanking new books. Others are older books. The books published in 2019 are marked by an asterisk. There were a total of 13 in this category.

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January

1. The Christian Frame of Mind – T.F. Torrance
2. Divine and Contingent Order – T.F. Torrance
3. Communion with the Triune God – Dick Eugenio
4. Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Fathers – Jason Radcliff

 

February

5. The Theological Anthropology of Thomas F. Torrance: A Critical and Comparative Exploration – Wei Jing
6. Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God – Rankin Wilbourne

 

March

7. Paul: A Biography – N.T. Wright
8. A Disruptive Witness – Alan Noble
9. Jesus: The End and the Beginning – Telford Work*

 

April

10. The Color of Compromise – Jemar Tisby*
11. In Search of Ancient Roots – Kenneth Stewart
12. Pictures at a Theological Exhibition – Kevin Vanhoozer
13. Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World – Maryanne Wolf

 

May

14. Christ and the Created Order: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science – Andrew Torrance and Thomas McCall
15. It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy, and Religion – Andrew Briggs, Hans Halvorson, Andrew Steane
16. The Logic of Evangelism – William Abraham
17. Redemption Accomplished and Applied – John Murray
18. Four Views on the Historical Adam – Matthew Barrett
19. Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower – Gary Moon

 

June

20. None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God – Matthew Barrett*
21. Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments – Dru Johnson*
22. The Ground and Grammar of Theology – T.F. Torrance
23. Union with Christ: John Calvin and the Mysticism of St. Bernard – John Tamburello
24. Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions – Michael Christensen and Jeffery Wittung
25. State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America’s Future – Manuel Pastor
26. Persons, Divine and Human – Christoph Schwöbel and Colin Gunton
27. Judaism: Revelation and Traditions – Michael Fishbane

 

July

28. The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ – Maximus the Confessor
29. Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance – Myk Habets

 

August

30. The National Parks – Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
31. Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Jewish Christian Relations – Michael Wyschogrod
32. Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865 – John Robinson
33. In Search of Christ in Latin America – Samuel Escobar*
34. Jews and Christians: People of God – Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson

 

September

35. The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Life Time of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History – Darrin Lunde
36. Seven Theories of Human Nature – Leslie Stevenson
37. I and Thou – Martin Buber
38. The God of Israel and Christian Theology – R. Kendall Soulen
39. A Practical Primer on Theological Method – Glenn Kreider and Michael Svigel*
40. The Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships – Alistair McFadyen
41. John Calvin: A Pilgrim’s Life – Herman Selderhuis
42. Personhood: What Philosophers Say About You – Warren Bourgeois

 

October

43. The Apostles Creed – C.E.B. Cranfield
44. Learning Theology – Amos Yong
45. Being and Communion – John Zizioulas
46. Communion and Otherness – John Zizioulas
47. The Victory of the Cross: Salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy – James Payton*
48. Baptist Theology – Stephen Holmes
49. Original Sin – Peter Martyr Vermigli*

 

November

50. Persons in Communion – Alan Torrance
51. Trinitarian Personhood: Investigating the Implications of a Relational Definition – William Ury
52. Paul and the Person – Susan Eastman
53. Persons in Relation – John MacMurray
54. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America – Michael Winship

 

December

55. The Culture of Theology – John Webster*
56. Tertullian, Cyprian, and Origen on the Lord’s Prayer – Tertullian, Cyprian, and Origen
57. The Mosaic of Atonement – Joshua McNall*
58. The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation – Ian McFarland*
59. Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom – Darren Duerksen and William Dyrness*
60. The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles – Gary Kirst
61. The Lord’s Prayer: A Guide to Praying Our Father – Wesley Hill*