Foundational Reading List for Christian Maturity

Foundational Reading List for Christian Maturity

Apologetics Book List

Pratt, Richard L. 1979. Every Thought Captive. Phillipsburg: P&R.

Keller, Timothy. 2008. The Reason For God: Belief In An Age Of Skepticism. New York: Dutton.

Frame, John M. 2015. Apologetics: A Justification of Christian Belief. (Second Edition edited by Joseph E. Torres). Phillipsburg: P&R.

Biblical Studies Book List

Introduction

Grey, Jacqueline. 2008. Them, Us And Me: How The Old Testament Speaks To People Today. (Australasian Pentecostal Studies Supplements 2) Sydney: APS Press.

Roberts, Vaughan. 2009. God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible. Nottingham: IVP.

Goldsworthy, Graeme. 1981. Gospel and Kingdom: A Christian Interpretation Of The Old Testament. Exeter: Paternoster.

Goldsworthy, Graeme. 1991. According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation Of God In The Bible. Sydney: Lancer.

Old Testament

Harrison, R K. 1970. Introduction to the Old Testament. London: The Tyndale Press.

Longman, Tremper III. & Dillard, Raymond B. 2006. An Introduction to the Old Testament. (Second Edition) Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

New Testament

Guthrie, Donald. 1990. New Testament Introduction. (4th Revised edition) Leicester: Apollos.

Carson, Don A., Moo, Douglas J. & Morris, Leon. 1992. An Introduction to the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Systematic Theology Book List

Frame, John M. 1987. A Theology of Lordship: 1 The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God. Phillipsburg: P&R.

Frame, John M. 2002. A Theology of Lordship: 2 The Doctrine of God. Phillipsburg: P&R.

Frame, John M. 2008. A Theology of Lordship: 3 The Doctrine of the Christian Life. Phillipsburg: P&R.

Frame, John M. 2010. A Theology of Lordship: 4 The Doctrine of the Word of God. Phillipsburg: P&R.

Grudem, Wayne. 1994. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Church History Book List

Renwick, A.M. & Harman, A.M. 1999. The Story of the Church. (Third Edition) Leicester: IVP.

Practical Ministry Book List

Clowney, Edmund P. 1995. The Church. (Contours of Christian Theology). Downers Grove: IVP.

Anything from the Christian Counselling and Education Foundation, Philadelphia.

Commentaries for your Quiet Time

Bible Speaks Today Series

Calvin’s Commentaries.

By David Jackson|2021-05-28T15:36:48+10:0020/12/2020|Articles, Recommended Reading|

About the Author: David Jackson

David R Jackson has been a pastor, church planter, and special education teacher. He was head of Biblical Studies in a Christian School in Sydney’s Southwest for twenty years. He is the author of Crying Out for Vindication: The Gospel According to Job (P&R, 2007) and numerous articles in dictionaries and journals. He met his wife, Pat, at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where they were both students. They have four married children, and eleven grandchildren. He enjoys travelling, photography, snorkelling, woodwork, but most of all seeing kids light up as they come to know Jesus through their encounters with the Bible, which is God’s personal words to us.