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.
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* = Published in 2017
+ = This is the 2nd+ time reading this book
January
- The Social God and the Relational Self – Stanley Grenz
- Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies? – Nancey Murphy
- Same-Sex Attraction and the Church – Ed Shaw
- Body, Soul, and Human Life – Joel Green
- Neuroscience and the Soul – Thomas Crisp, Steven Porter, Gregg Ten Elshof
February
- Saving Calvinism – Oliver Crisp
- Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? – Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown
- Philosophical Approaches to the Devil – Benjamin McCraw and Robert Arp
- Being Human – Dwight Hopkins
- A Walk Through the Bible – Leslie Newbigin
March
- Creation and Humanity – Veli-Matti Karkkainen
- The Person of Jesus Christ – H.R. Mackintosh
- The Sentences Book Three: On the Incarnation of the Word – Peter Lombard
- On the Unity of Christ – St. Cyril of Alexandria
April
- Jesus: God and Man – Wolfhart Pannenberg
- Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies – Marc Cortez
- On the Incarnation – Athansius+
- The Way of Jesus – Jurgen Moltmann
- The Identity of Jesus Christ – Hans Frei
- Christ and Reconciliation – Veli-Matti Karkkainen
- The Unassumed is Unhealed: The Humanity of Christ in the Christology of T.F. Torrance – Kevin Chiarot+
- The Logic of God Incarnate – Tom Morris
May
- Martin Luther in His Own Words – Jack Kilcrease & Erwin Lutzer*
- Flesh and Blood: A Dogmatic Sketch Concerning the Fallen Nature view of Christ’s Human Nature – Daniel Cameron*
- The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture – Yoram Hazony
- Christ and Horrors – Marilyn Adams
- Christ the Key – Kathryn Tanner
- The Word Enfleshed – Oliver Crisp
June
- The Tech-wise Family – Andy Crouch*
- Embodied Hope – Kelly Kapic*
- The Struggle of Prayer – Donald Bloesch
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door – David Crump
July
- Uncommon Decency – Richard Mouw
- Beyond the Modern Age – Bob Goudzwaard and Craig Bartholomew*
- Enjoy Your Prayer Life – Michael Reeves
- Give God the Glory: Ancient Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective – Jerome Neyrey
- A Community Called Atonement – Scot McKnight
- Calvin and the Calvinists – Paul Helm
- Jonathan Edwards on the Atonement – Brandon Crawford*
- What are we Doing When We Pray? – Vincent Brummer+
- The Contemplative Pastor – Eugen Peterson
August
- Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Letters to the Thessalonians – Gene Green
- Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation – D.A. Carson
- All That is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Theism – James Dolezal*
- I am Not but I Know I Am – Louie Giglio
- The Pastor: A Memoir – Eugene Peterson
- The Great Omission – Dallas Willard
- Death by Living – N.D. Wilson
- NIV Application Commentary: 1 & 2 Thessalonians – Michael Holmes
September
- Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed – Adam Johnson
- The Glory of Atonement – Charles Hill and Frank James III
- Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross – Marit Trelstad
- Recovering the Scandal of the Cross – Joel Green & Mark Baker+
- Feminist Theories of Atonement – Linda Peacore+
- The Non-Violent Atonement – Denny Weaver+
October
- The Crucified God – Jurgen Moltmann+
- Prayer and Providence – Terrence Tiesen
- A Little Book for New Bible Scholars – Randolph Richards & Joseph Dodson*
- Was the Reformation a Mistake? Matthew Levering*
- The Metaphor of God Incarnate – John Hick+
- NIV Application Commentary: 1 Corinthians – Craig Bloomberg
Novemeber
- Responsibility and Atonement – Richard Swinburne+
- The Pastor Theologian – Gerald Heistand and Todd Wilson+
- Jesus the Eternal Son – Michael Bird*
- Atonement, Law and Justice – Adonis Vidu+
- Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer – J. Gary Millar
- Unnamed Book on Atonement – Oliver Crisp*
- The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism – Carl Henry
December
- TheologyGrams – Rich Wyld*
- Walking Through Twilight – Douglas Groothius*
- Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation – Scott Davision*
- The New Christian Zionism – Gerald McDermott*
- Immeasurable: Reflections on the Soul of Ministry in the Age of Church, Inc. – Skye Jethani*
- The Economics of Neighborly Love – Tom Nelson*
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transnationalism, cross-cultural conflict management, and doxological diversity.
wo trends. The first is a revival of Trinitarian theology. This trend has attempted to place the Trinity at the center of theology and church life. The second is a turn towards the majority world. It has been well documented that in the 20th century the church experienced explosive growth in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, whereas the “Western church” has dwindled. From this growth in the majority world church we are beginning to witness a shift in how theology on the global stage is being done. In The Trinity Among the Nations: The Doctrine of God in the Majority World, editors Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo bring these two trends together to produce a volume that “brings the global church to theological dialogue regarding kaleidoscopic understandings of the Trinity” (p. 2).
