Good Books

Fifty books that have influenced me.  Other than the Bible, the order of these books is not significant.

1. The Bible
2. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Lesslie Newbigin
3. How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler
4. The Openness of God, Clark Pinnock ed.
5. The Most Moved Mover, Clark Pinnock
6. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism, Ronald Numbers
7. For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, Steven Bouma-Prediger
8. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
9. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
10.  Tribes, Seth Godin
11.  Seeing is Believing, Gregory Boyd
12.  God at War, Gregory Boyd
13.  New Testament and the People of God, NT Wright
14.  Jesus and the Victory of God, NT Wright
15.  Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
16.  The Open Secret, Lesslie Newbigin
17.  Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade and how we can fight it, David Batstone
18.  The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark Noll
19.  Colossians Remixed, Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat
20.  The Gravedigger Files, Os Guinness
21.  Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers, Christopher Hall
22.  Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self, Anthony Thiselton
23.  The Heart’s Desire, James Houston
24.  The Flame of Love, Clark Pinnock
25.  Creation Regained, Al Wolters
26.  Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace, James Torrance
27.   Truth is Stranger than it used to be, Middleton and Walsh
28.  The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann
29.  How the Read the Bible for All its Worth, Fee and Stuart
30.  The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard
31.  The Gift of Being Yourself, David Benner
32.  Foolishness to the Greeks, Lesslie Newbigin
33.  The Theology of the Book of Revelation, Richard Bauckham
34.  The way of the modern world, Craig Gay
35.  Pensees, Pascal
36.  The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
37.  The Space Trilogy, CS Lewis
38.  The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis
39.  The Trinity and the Kingdom, Jurgen Moltmann
40.  Evangelical Theology, Karl Barth
41.  Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr
42.  The Sacred Canopy, Peter Berger
43.  Experiencing God, Blackaby and King
44.  Amusing ourselves to death, Neil Postman
45.  Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders, David Livingstone
46.  The New Friars, Scott Bessenecker
47.  Dumbing us Down, John Taylor Gatto
48.  Teach Your Own, John Holt
49.  Under the Unpredictable Plant, Eugene Peterson
50.  Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, Gordon Fee