V Theology
Background to Contemporary Theology
K. Barth, The Epistle to the Romans (Oxford University Press, rpt.1977 [1933]). 3
G. Dorrien, The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology (Westminster John Knox, 2000) 3
J. Livingston, Modern Christian Thought, Vol I (Fortress, 2nd ed., 2006) 3
R. Olson, The Journey of Modern Theology (IVP Academic, 2013) 2
Overviews of Modern Theology
J. Livingston, Modern Christian Thought, Vol I (Fortress, 2nd ed., 2006) 2
J. Livingston, E. Schussler Fiorenza, Modern Christian Thought, 2 Vols (Fortress, 2nd ed. 2006) 3
B. McCormick, K. M. Kapic, Mapping Modern Theology (BakerAcademic, 2012) 2
R. Olson, The Journey of Modern Theology (IVP Academic, 2013) 2
C. Pinnock, Tracking the Maze (Wipf & Stock, rpt, 1998) 2
Introductions to Theology
H. Berkhof, The Christian Faith (Eerdmans, 1986) 2
J. Lawson, Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Zondervan, 1980) 2
G. Fackre, The Christian Story, 2 Vols (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
G. Bilezikian, Christianity 101 (Zondervan, 1991) 1
A. Epp-Weaver, Mennonite Theology in Face of Modernity (Bethel College Press, 1996) 2
S. J. Grenz, Theology for the Community of God (Broadman & Holman, 1994) 2
A. E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2nd ed., 1997) 2
D. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding (Eerdmans, 1991) 2
W. Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology (Eerdmans, 1991) 3
V. Lossky, Orthodox Theology: An Introduction (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1978) 2
Systematic Theology
G. Aulen, The Faith of the Christian Church (Fortress, 1960) 2
K. Barth, Church Dogmatics, 14 Vols (T & T Clark, 1957) 3
C. E. Braatten, R. W. Jensen, eds., Christian Dogmatics, 2 Vols (Fortress, 1984) 3
T. Finger, Christian Theology: An Eschatologial Perspective, 2 Vols (Nelson, 1985) 3
---- A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology (InterVarsity, 2004) 3
J. W. McClendon, Systematic Theology, 3 Vols (Abingdon, 2000-2002) 2
T. Oden, Systematic Theology, 3 Vols (Harper & Row, 1987-1994) 3
K. Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith (Seabury, 1978) 3
W. Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, 3 Vols (Eerdmans, rpt. ed., 2009-2010) 3
O. Weber, Foundations of Dogmatics, 2 Vols (Eerdmans, 1983) 3
The Nature of Theology/ Methodology
H. U. von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible (Ignatius, 2004) 3
J. Barr, Biblical Faith and Natural Theology (Clarendon, 1993) 3
R. Bauckham, B. Drewery, eds., Scripture, Tradition and Reason (T & T Clark, 1988) 2
G. Boyd, The Benefit of the Doubt (Baker, 2013) 2
G. Chartier, The Analogy of Love (Imprint Academic, 2007) 2
G. Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology (IVP Academic, 2012) 2
J. B. Green, M. Turner, eds., Between Two Horizons (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2000) 3
S. Grenz, Revisioning Evangelical Theology (InterVarsity, 1993) 2
E. Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World (Eerdmans, 1983) 3
D. F. Kinlaw, Let's Start with Jesus: A New Way of Doing Theology (Zondervan, 2005) 2
G. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine (Westminster, 1984) 2
G. Meadors, ed., Four Views on Moving Beyond The Bible to Theology (Zondervan, 2009) 2
J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (Fortress, 1993 [orig. German, 1973]) 3
W. Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science (PWestminster Press, 1976) 3
C. Pinnock, Tracking the Maze (Wipf & Stock, rpt, 1998) 2
C. Pinnock, R. Brow, Unbounded Love (InterVarsity 1994) 2
Choan-Seng Song, Third-Eye Theology (Orbis, 1979) 2
P. Toon, The Development of Doctrine in the Church (Eerdmans, 1979) 2
T. Tchividjian, Jesus + Nothing = Everything (Crossway, 2011) 1
K. Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine (Westminster John Knox Press, 1995) 3
M. B. Wynkoop, A Theology of Love: The Dynamic of Wesleyanism ( Beacon Hill, 1972) 2
J. H. Yoder, Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method (Brazos, 2002) 3
P. D. Young, Feminist Theology/Christian Theology: In Search of a Method (Fortress, 1990) 3
Black Theology
V Theology: Humanity (Imago Dei)
V Theology: Church, Politics and Culture
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
A. B. Bradley, Liberating Black Theology (Crossway, 2010) 2
A. B. Cleage, The Black Messiah (Sheed & Sheed, 1969) 2
J.H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation (Lippincott, 1970) 2
---- For My People (Orbis, 1986) 2
---- God of the Oppressed (Orbis, rev.ed., 1997) 3
J. H. Evans, Jr. We Have Been Believers: An African-American Systematic Theology (Fortress, 1992) 3
W. Jones, Is God a White Racist? (Doubleday & Co., 1973) 2
M.L. King, Strength to Love (Fortress, 2010 [1963]) 2
J. R. Washington, Black Religion (Beacon Press, 1966) 2
C. West, Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Westminster, 1982) 3
Feminist Theology
V Theology: Humanity (Imago Dei)
V Theology: Church, Politics and Culture
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
M Buhrig, Woman Invisible (Burns & Oats, 1993) 2
E. S. Fioenza, ed. Searching the Scriptures, Vol. 2: A Feminist Commentary (Crossroad, 1994) 3
D. Hampson, Theology and Feminism (Blackwell, 1990) 3
L. Russell, ed., Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Westminster, 1985) 2
E. Yoder, Peace Theology and Violence Against Women (Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1992) 2
P. D. Young, Feminist Theology/Christian Theology: In Search of a Method (Fortress, 1990) 3
Theology From Third World Perspectives / Liberation Theology
V Theology: Humanity (Imago Dei)
V Theology: Church, Politics and Culture
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
W. Dryness, ed., Emerging Voices in Global Christian Theology (Zondervan, 1994) 2
---- Learning About Theology From the Third World (Zondervan, 1990) 2
G. Gutíerrez, A Theology of Liberation (Orbis, rev. ed., 1988) 3
---- The Truth Shall Make You Free (Orbis, 1990) 2
S. E. Moreau, The World of the Spirits: A Biblical Study in the African Context (Evangel, 1990) 2
J. Parret, ed., A Reader in African Christian Theology (SPCK, 1987) 2
J. Sobrino, Jesus the Liberator (Orbis, 1988) 3
---- The True Church and the Poor (Orbis, 1984) 2
C.S. Song, Third-Eye Theology (Orbis, 1979) 2
J. Sobrino, Christology at the Crossroads: A Latin American Approach (Orbis, 1988) 3
Narrative Theology
M. Ellingsen, The Integrity of Biblical Narrative (Fortress, 1990) 3
G. Fackre, The Christian Story, 2 Vols (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
S. Hauerwas, L. G. Jones, eds., Why Narrative? (Eerdmans, 1989) 2
D. Patrick, The Rendering of God in the Old Testament (Fortress, 1981) 3
Science and Theology
V Theology: Doctrine of Creation
VI Apologetics: The Existence of a Creator
VI Apologetics: The Existence of the Soul
I. Barbour, Religion and Science (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997) 3
---- Religion in an Age of Science, 2 vols. (Harper & Row, 1990) 3
P. Clayton, God and Contemporary Science (Eerdmans, 1997) 3
D. Falk, Coming to Peace with Science (InterVarsity, 2004) 2
K. W. Giberson, F. S. Collins, The Language of Science and Faith (Intervarsity, 2011) 2
J. Haught, God After Darwin (Westview, 2001) 3
E. I. Mascall, Christian Theology and Natural Science (Longmans, Green & Co., 1956) 3
D. O'Murchu, Quantum Theology (Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998) 2
---- Religion and Science (Herald Press, 2002) 2
T. J. Oord eds. Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science, (Pickwick 2009) 3
W. Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science (Westminster Press, 1976) 3
A. Peacock Creation and the World of Science (Clarendon Press, 1979) 3
---- God and Science: A Quest for Christian Credibility (SCM Press, 1996) 3
---- ed., The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century (University of Notre Dame, 1981) 3
G. R. Petersen, Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences (Fortress, 2003) 3
J. Polkinghorne, Exploring Reality (Yale University Press, 2005) 3
---- Quarks, Chaos and Christianity (New York: Crossroad, 1996) 3
---- Science and Creation (Shambala, 1989) 2
---- Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue (Trinity Press, 1995) 3
B. Ramm, The Christian View of Science and Scripture (Paternoster, 1955) 2
T. F. Torrance, Preaching Christ Today: The Gospel and Scientific Thinking (Eerdmans, 1994) 2
---- Space, Time & Incarnation (Oxford University Press, 1969) 3
S. Weil. On Science, Necessity and the Love of God (Oxford University Press, 1969) 3
M. Worthing, God, Creation and Contemporary Physics (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996) 2
The Nature of Revelation/ Biblical Authority
V Theology: Divine Accommodation/ Progressive Revelation
VI Apologetics: Defenses of Biblical Authority
VIII Philosophy: Epistemology/Post-Modernism
P. J. Achtemeier, The Inspiration of Scripture (Westminster, 1980) 2
K. Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man (Peter Smith, 1978) 3
D. Bloesch Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration & Interpretation (InterVarsity, 1994) 3
S. T. Davis, The Debate about the Bible (Westminster, 1977) 2
P. Enns, The Bible Tells Me So (HarperOne, 2015) 2
--- Inspiration and Incarnation (Baker Academic, 2005) 2
T. Fretheim, K. Froehlich, eds., The Bible as God's Word (Fortress, 1998) 3
A. T. B. McGowan, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture (IVP Academic, 2008) 3
A. Padgett, P. Keifert, eds., But Is It All True? (Eerdmans, 2006) 3
W. Pannenberg, et. al., Revelation as History (Macmillan, 1968) 3
C. Pinnock, The Scriptural Principle (Harper & Row, 1984) 2
M. J. Ramage, Dark Passages of the Bible (Catholic University of America Press, 2013) 3
J. Rogers, ed. Biblical Authority (Word Books, 1977) 2
J. Rogers, D. McKim, The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible (Harper & Row, 1979) 2
H. Ridderbos, Studies in Scripture and It's Authority (Eerdmans, 1978) 3
R. Swinburne, Revelation (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2007) 3
T. F. Torrance, Reality & Evangelical Theology (InterVarsity, 1982) 3
---- The Divine and Contingent Order (Oxford University Press, 1981) 3
K. Vanhoozer, Remythologizing Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2010) 3
T. Ward, Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God (IVP Academic, 2009) 3
N. Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse (Cambridge University Press, 1995) 3
N.T. Wright, The Last Word (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005) 2
---- Scripture and the Authority of God (HarperOne, 2013) 2
Divine Accommodation/ Progressive Revelation
Note: These are works that discuss the manner in which God had to accommodate the limited and fallen state of his people as he slowly revealed himself to the world – a process that culminates in his full revelation in the crucified Christ. This concept plays an important role in Greg's own understanding of how violent portraits of God in the Old Testament bear witness Christ.
J. Balserak, Divinity Compromised (Springer, 2006) 3
A. Huijgen, Divine Accommodation in John Calvin's Theology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011) 3
J. Ramage, Dark Passages of the Bible (Catholic University of America Press, 2013) 3
B. Ramm, Special Revelation and the Word of God (Eerdmans, 1961) 2
W. VanGemeren, The Progress of Redemption (Zondervan Academic, 1988) 2
The Trinity
L. Boff, Holy Trinity: Perfect Community (Orbis, 2000) 3
---- Trinity and Society (Orbis, 1988) 3
M. Erickson, God in Three Persons (Baker, 1995) 2
E. Fortman, The Triune God (Westminster, 1972) 2
C. Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (T & T Clark, 1991) 3
W. Hill, The Three-Personed God (University of America, 1982) 2
R. Jensen, The Triune Identity (Fortress, 1982) 3
E. Jüngel, The Doctrine of the Trinity (Scottish Academic Press, 1976) 3
---- God as the Mystery of the World (Eerdmans, 1983 [1977]) 3
C. M. LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (HarperCollins, 1991) 2
J. Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom (Harper & Row,1981) 3
J. O'Donnell, Trinity and Temporality (Oxford University Press, 1983) 3
K. Rahner, The Trinity (Seabury Press, 1974) 3
A. W. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith (T&T Clark, 1988) 3
A. Wainwright, The Trinity in the New Testament (London: S.P.C.K., 1962) 2
Nature and Attributes of God
V Theology: Critiques of Classical Theism
V Theology: Nature of Divine Judgment
V Theology: Providence/Predestination/Free Will
I Biblical Interpretation: The "Dark Side" of Scripture
L. Ashcraft, et. al., Servant God (Loma Linda University Press, 2013) 2
G. van den Brink, M. Sarot, eds., Understanding the Attributes of God (Lang, 1999) 2
G. Boyd Repenting of Religion (Baker, 2004) 2
V. Brümmer, Models of Love (Cambridge University Press, 1993) 2
---- Speaking of a Personal God (Cambridge University Press, 1992) 2
---- What Are We Doing When We Pray? (SCM, 1984) 2
E. Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of God (Westminster, 1949) 2
G. Chartier, The Analogy of Love (Imprint Academic, 2007) 3
W. L. Craig, Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time (Crossway, 2001) 3
M. J. Dawn, Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God (Eerdmans, 2001) 3
P. Fiddes, The Creative Suffering of God (Clarendon Press, 1988) 3
H. H. Framer, The World and God: A Study of Prayer, Providence and Miracle (Nisbet & Co., 1935), 2
T. Fretheim, The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Fortress 1984) 3
R. Jensen, The Triune Identity (Fortress, 1982) 3
E. Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World (Eerdmans, 1983 [1977]) 3
W. Kasper, The God of Jesus Christ (Crossroad, 1986) 3
K. Kitamori, Theology of the Pain of God (SCM, 1966) 2
A. König, Here Am I: A Believer's Reflection on God (Eerdmans, 1982) 2
P. Kreeft, Knowing the Truth About God's Love (Servant, 1988) 2
J. Y. Lee, God Suffers For Us (Nijhoff, 1974) 3
G. MacGregor, He Who Lets Us Be: A Theology of Love (Seabury, 1975) 3
D. Migliori, The Power of God (Westminster, 1983) 2
J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (Fortress, 1993[[1973]) 3
---- The Trinity and the Kingdom ()San Francisco: Harper & Row,1981) 3
G. Newlands, Theology of the Love of God (John Knox, 1980) 3
C. Orlebeke, L. B. Smedes, eds., God and the Good (Eerdmans, 1975) 2
A. Pagett, God, Eternity and the Nature of Time (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992) 3
C. Pinnock, R. Brow, Unbounded Love (1994) 2
W. Pratney, The Nature and Character of God (Bethany, 1988) 1
R. Solokowski, The God of Faith and Reason (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982) 3
R. Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977) 4
T. F. Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God (T & T Clark, 2001) 3
K. Vanhoozer, Nothing Greater, Nothing Better (Eerdmans, 2001) 2
D. Weaver, The Non-Violent God (Eerdmans, 2013) 2
C. C. J Webb, Problems in the Relations of God and Man (Nisber, 1911) 3
M. B. Wynkoop, A Theology of Love (Beacon Hill, 1972) 2
Critiques of Classical Theism
Note: The dominant view of God in the theology of the Church, at least since the fifth century, is called "the classical view of God." This view generally holds that God exists in an eternal, unchanging, non-sequential moment, is not affected by anything outside himself, and experiences no suffering. The following is a list of works that offer biblical and/or philosophical critiques of this perspective.
V Theology: Nature and Attributes of God
V Theology: Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
V Theology: Providence/Predestination/Free Will
VI Apologetics: Problem of Evil
G. Boyd, God at War (InterVarsity, 1997) 3
---- Satan and the Problem of Evil (InterVarsity, 2001) 3
---- Trinity and Process (Lang, 1992) 3
V. Brümmer, The Model of Love (Cambridge University Press, 1993) 2
---- Speaking of a Personal God (Cambridge University Press, 1993) 2
R. Creel, Divine Impassability (Cambridge University Press, 1986) 3
S. Davis, Logic and the Nature of God (Eerdmans 1983) 3
I. A. Dörner, Divine Immutability (Fortress Press , 1994 [orig. 1856-58]) 3
P. Fiddes, The Creative Suffering of God (Clarendon Press, 1988) 3
T. Fretheim, The Suffering of God (Fortress, 1984) 2
J. Hallman, The Descent of God: Divine Suffering in History and Theology (Fortress, 1991) 2
C. Hartshorne, The Divine Relativity (Yale University Press, rpt. 2012) 3
---- Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (SUNY, 1984) 2
W. Hasker, God, Time and Knowledge (Cornell University Press, 1989) 3
R. Hood, Must God Remain Greek? (Fortress, 1990) 2
R. Jensen, The Triune Identity (Fortress, 1982) 3
M. Jones, The Color of God (Mercer University Press, 1987) 2
E. Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World (Eerdmans, 1983 [1977]) 3
A. König, Here Am I: A Believer's Reflections on God (Eerdmans, 1982) 2
D. Migliori, The Power of God (Westminster, 1983) 2
J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (Fortress, 1993[[1973]) 3
---- The Trinity and the Kingdom ()San Francisco: Harper & Row,1981) 3
C. Pinnock, Most Moved Mover (Baker, 2001) 2
---- , et al. The Openness of God(InterVarsity, 1992) 2
----, R. Brow, Unbounded Love (InterVarsity, 1994) 2
W. Reese, C. Hartshorne, Philosophers Speak of God (Humanity Books, 2nd ed., 2000) 2
J. Sanders, The God Who Risks (IVP Academic, rev. ed. 2007 [1998]) 3
R. Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977) 4
F. Tupper, Scandalous Providence (Mercer University Press, 1995) 3
K. Ward, Divine Action (Torch, 1991) 2
---- God, Chance and Necessity (OneWorld, 1996) 3
---- Relational Theology and the Creativity of God (Pilgrim, 1982) 2
Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
IV Church History: Historical Advocates of the Open View of the Future
V Theology: Providence/Predestination/Free Will
VIII Philosophy: Defenses of Libertarian Free Will/Indeterminism
VIII Philosophy: The Nature of Time/ the Future
IX Contemporary Science: The Nature of Time/ the Future/ Free Will
W. Achtner, S. Kunz, T. Walter, Dimensions of Time (Eerdmans, 1980) 3
Brother Andrews, And God Changed His Mind (Chosen Books, 1999) 1
D. J. Barthalomew, God of Chance (SCM Press, 1984) 3
J. Beilby, R. Eddy, eds. Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views (Intervarsity, 2001) 2
G. Boyd, God of the Possible (Baker, 2000) 1
---- Satan and the Problem of Evil (InterVarsity, 2001) 3
G. Boyd, E. Boyd, Letters From a Skeptic (David C. Cook, 2nd ed., 2008 [1994]) 1
S. J. Brams, Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible (MIT Press, 2003) 3
S.T. Davies, Logic and the Nature of God (Eerdmans, 1983) 3
R. Ellis, Answering God (Paternoster, 2005) 2
D. J. Ellwood, Understanding the Will of God (AuthorHouse, 2008) 1
T. Fretheim, The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Fortress, 1984) 3
M. Garrigue, Dieu sans idée du mal. La liberté de l'homme au coeur de Dieu (Critérion, 1982) 3
P. Geach, Providence and Evil (Cambridge University Press, 1977) 3
D. Ray Griffin, ed., Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time (SUNY, 1986) 3
C. Hall, J. Sanders, Does God Have a Future? (Baker, 2003)
W. Hasker, God, Time and Knowledge (Cornell University Press, 1989) 3
---- The Triumph of God Over Evil (InterVarsity, 2008) 3
R. Lucas, The Freedom of the Will (Clarendon, 1970) 3
---- The Future: an Essay on God, Temporality, and Truth (Bail Blackwell, 1989) 3
G. Olson, The Foreknowledge of God (Bible Research Corporation, 1941) 1
T. J. Oord eds. Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science, (Pickwick 2009) 3
C. Pinnock, Most Moved Mover (Baker, 2001) 2
C. Pinnock, et al. The Openness of God(InterVarsity, 1992) 2
W. Pratney, The Nature and Character of God (Bethany, 1988) 1
R. Rice, God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will (Bethany House Publishers, 1985) 1
J. Sanders, The God Who Risks (IVP Academic, rev. ed. 2007 [1998]) 3
R. Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Clarendon, 1977) 4
K. Ward, God, Chance and Necessity (OneWorld, 1996) 3
Nature of Divine Judgment
Note: These are works that address the redemptive intent and organic, non-retributive nature of divine judgment.
R. Bauckham, ed., God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jurgen Moltman (Fortress, 1991) 3
J. Bonda, The One Purpose of God (Eerdmans, 1998) 3
L. Crenshaw, ed., Theodicy in the Old Testament (Fortress, 1983) 3
R. Feldmeier, H. Spieckerman, God of the Living (Baylor, 2011) 3
A. T. Hanson, The Wrath of the Lamb (London: SPCK, 1957) 3
B. Jersak, M. Hardin, eds., Stricken By God? (Eerdmans, 2007) 3
Joze Krasovec, Reward, Punishment and Forgiveness (Brill, 1999) 2
G. McDonald, The Evangelical Universalist (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2006) 1
T. Fretheim, Creation Untamed (Baker Academic, 2010) 2
---- The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Fortress, 1984) 3
C.D. Marshall, Beyond Retribution (Eerdmans, 2001) 2
P. D. Miller, Sin and Judgment in the Prophets (Scholars Press, 1982) 2
D. Patrick, Redeeming Judgment (Pickwick, 2012) 2
S. Travis, Christ and the Judgment of God (Hendrickson 2008) 2
J. Walls, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015) 2
Providence/Predestination/Free Will
Note: These are works that emphasize God's non-coercive way of steering history and/or that emphasis the morally responsible free will of agents who have the power to affect what comes to pass.
V Theology :Nature and Attributes of God
V Theology: Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
V Theology: Warfare Worldview
VI Apologetics: The Problem of Evil
VIII Philosophy: Defenses of Libertarian Free Will/Indeterminism
VIII Philosophy: The Nature of Time/ the Future
P. Balelz. Prayer and Providence (The Seabury Press, 1968) 2
D. J. Barthalomew, God of Chance (SCM Press, 1984) 3
D. Basinger, The Case For Freewill Theism (InterVarsity, 1996) 2
G. Boyd, Is God to Blame? (InterVarsity, 2004) 2
---- Satan and the Problem of Evil (InterVarsity, 2001) 3
J. Boykin, The Gospel of Coincidence: Is God in Control? (Zondervan, 1986) 1
R. Ellis, Answering God (Paternoster, 2005) 2
D. J. Ellwood, Understanding the Will of God (AuthorHouse, 2008) 1
A. Fisher, Young, Restless, and No Longer Reformed (Cascade, 2014) 1
R. Forster, V. P. Marston, God's Strategy in Human History (Tyndale, 1973) 2
H. H. Framer, The World and God: A Study of Prayer, Providence and Miracle (Nisbet & Co., 1935), 2
R. A. Fringer, J. K. Lane, Theology of Luck (Beacon Hill, 2015) 1
M. Garrigue, Dieu sans idée du mal. La liberté de l'homme au coeur de Dieu (Critérion, 1982) 3
T. J. Gorringe, God's Theatre: A Theology of Providence (SCM, 1991) 3
D. Hunt, What Love is This? (Loyal, 2002) 1
D. Jowels, Four Views of Divine Providence (Zondervan, 2011) 2
W. W. Klein, The New Chosen People (Zondervan, 1990) 2
J. Levenson, Creation and the Persistence of Evil (Harper & Row, 1988) 3
F. Lindström, God and the Origin of Evil (Gleerup, 1983) 3
R. Olson, Against Calvinism (Zondervan, 2011) 2
---- Arminian Theology (InterVarsity, 2006) 2
J. Peckham, The Love of God (IVP Academic, 2015) 2
C. Pinnock, ed., The Grace of God , the Will of Man (Bethany, 1995) 2
---- ed., Grace Unlimited (Bethany, 1975) 2
A. Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil (Eerdmans, 1974) 3
R. Rice, Suffering and the Search for Meaning (IVP Academic, 2014) 1
R. Shank, Elect in the Son (Bethany, rpt., 1989 [1970]) 2
F.Tupper, Scandalous Providence (Mercer University Press, 1995) 3
L. Walls, J. R. Dongell, Why I Am Not a Calvinist (nterVarsity, 2004) 2
K. Ward, Divine Action (Torch, 1991) 2
---- God, Chance and Necessity (OneWorld, 1996) 3
--- Relational Theology and the Creativity of God (Pilgrim, 1982) 2
B. Witherington III, The Problem with Evangelical Theology (Baylor, 2005) 3
R. Worsley, Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil (St. Martin's Press, 1996) 3
Doctrine of Creation
Note: These are works that address the significance of, and issues related tom the doctrine of creation from a biblical perspective.
D. Bonhoeffer Creation and Fall: Temptation (Simon & Shuster, 1997) 2
E. Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption (Lutterworth Press, 1960) 2
A. Custance, Without Form and Void (Custance, 1970) 2
T. J. Oord eds. Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science, (Pickwick 2009) 3
J. Levenson, Creation and the Persistence of Evil (Harper & Row, 1988) 3
J. Moltmann, God in Creation (Fortress, 1993) 3
J. P. Moreland, J. M. Reynolds, eds. Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Zondervan, 1999) 2
J. Polkinghorne, Science and the Trinity (Yale University Press, 2002) 3
---- The Work of Love: Creation and Kenosis (Eerdmans, 2001) 2
E. Sauer, The King of the Earth ( Ronald N. Hayes, 1981) 1
R. Simkins, Creator and Creation (Hendrickson, 1994) 2
Humanity (Imago Dei)
Note: These are works that address the nature of humanity, issues related to the story of Adam and Eve, and gender & race issues.
V Theology: Women in Ministry
VI Apologetics: Existence of the Soul
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
R. S. Anderson, On Being Human (Eerdmans, 1982) 3
A. Atkins, Split Image: Male and Female after God's Likeness (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
K. Barth, Church Dogmatics, vol 3, pt. 1 (T & T Clark, 1958) 3
G. C. Berkouwer, Man: The Image of God (Eerdmans, 1962) 3
G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (Ignatius, rpt.1993) 2
P. Enns, The Evolution of Adam (Brazos, 2012) 2
D. J. Hall, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship (Eerdmans, 1986) 2
P. Hughes, The True Image (Eerdmans, 1989) 2
P. K. Jewett, Man as Male and Female (Eerdmans, 1975) 2
---- Who We Are: Our Dignity as Human (Eerdmans, 1996) 2
R. J. Middleton, The Liberating Image (Brazos, 2005) 3
R. Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, 2 Vols (Scribners, 1941, 1943) 3
E. Sauer, The King of the Earth (R. Hayes, rpt. 1959) 1
C. Sherlock, The Doctrine of Humanity (InterVarsity, 1996) 2
J. Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 And the Human Origins Debate (IVP Academic, 2015) 2
The Fall/ Sin
G. C. Berkouwer, Sin (Eerdmans, 1971) 3
D. Bonhoeffer Creation and Fall: Temptation (Simon & Shuster, 1997) 2
K. Menninger, Whatever Became of Sin? (Hawthorn, 1973) 2
T. Peters, Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society (Eerdmans, 1994) 2
A. Plantinga, God , Freedom and Evil (Harper & Row, 1974) 3
C. Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed To Be: A Breviary of Sin (Eerdmans, 1995) 2
B. Ramm, Offense to Reason: The Theology of Sin (Harper & Row, 1974) 2
D. L. Smith, With Willful Intent: A Theology of Sin (Bridgepoint, 1994) 2
N. P. Williams, The Ideas of the Fall and Original Sin (Longmans, 1927) 3
W. H. Willimon, Sighing For Eden: Sin, Evil & The Christian Faith (Abingdon, 1991) 1
Christology
Note: These are works that address the Christology of the New Testament and/or that address the nature and significance of Jesus being fully God and fully human.
III New Testament: The Historical Jesus
III New Testament: Centrality of the Cross
V Theology: The Cross/Atonement
VI Apologetics: The Case for Christ
D. M. Baille, God Was In Christ (Faber & Faber, 1956) 2
R. Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1999) 3
---- Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008) 3
R. M. Bowman, Jr., J.E. Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place (Kregel, 2007) 1
R. E. Brown, Jesus, God and Man (New York: Macmillan, 1967) 2
E. Brunner, The Mediator (Lutterworth Press, 1963) 2
O. Cullman, The Christology of the New Testament (Fortress, 1963) 3
J. Dunn, Christology in the Making (Westminster, 1980) 3
M. Erickson, The Word Became Flesh (Baker, 1996) 2
C. S. Evans, ed., Exploring Kenotic Christology (Oxford University Press, 2006) 3
G. D. Fee, Pauline Christology (Hendrickson, 2007) 2
P.T. Forsyth, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ (Pilgrim, 1909) 2
A. Fuller, The Foundations of New Testament Christology (Scribner's, 1965) 2
M. J. Harris, Jesus as God (Baker, 1992) 2
R. Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ (Eerdmans, 2nd ed., 2002 [[1983]) 3
M. Hengel, Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross (SCM, 1977) 2
-- Between Jesus and Paul (Wipf & Stock, 2003 [1983])
A. Hultgren, Christ and His Benefits (Fortress, 1987) 2
L. W. Hurtado, How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? (Eerdmans, 2005) 2
---- Lord Jesus Christ (Eerdmans, 2005) 3
---- One God, One Lord (Fortress, 1988) 3
W. Kasper, Jesus the Christ (Paulist, 1976) 3
D. Maclead. The Person of Christ (InterVarsity, 1998) 2
H. I. Marshall, Jesus the Savior (InterVarsity, 1990) 2
---- The Origins of New Testament Christology (InterVarsity, 2nd ed.m 1992) 2
M. Meyer, C. Hughes Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology Trinity, 2001) 2
J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (Fortress, 1993 [orig. German, 1973]) 3
T. Morris, The Logic of God Incarnate (Cornell University Press, 1986) 3
W. Pannenberg, Jesus-God and Man (Westminster, 1977) 3
K. Tanner, Christ the Key (Cambridge University Press, 2010) 2
T. Torrance, Incarnation (IVP Academic, 2008) 3
---- The Mediation of Christ (Helmers & Howard, 1992) 2
---- Space, Time & Incarnation (Oxford University Press, 1969) 3
B. Witherington III, The Christology of Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990) 3
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus (InterVarsity, 1999) 1
The Cross/ Atonement
Note: These are works that emphasize the cross as the definitive revelation of God's character and will and/or that argue against violent interpretations of the Atonement and/or that defend the Christus Victor understanding of the Atonement.
III New Testament: Centrality of the Cross
V Theology: Justification/Salvation
VII Christian Living: Centrality of Self-Sacrificial Love
VII Christian Living: Pacifism/Peacemaking
G. Aulen, Christus Victor (Wipf and Stock, 2003 [1931]) 3
A. W. Bartlett, Cross Purposes: The Violent Grammar of Christian Atonement (Trinity, 2001) 3
J. Bielby, P. Eddy, The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views (InterVarsity, 2006) 2
G. Boyd, God at War (InterVarsity, 1996) 3
D. Brandon, Paul and the Cross (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006) 2
A.R. Brown, The Cross and Human Transformation (Fortress, 1995) 2
S. Cave, The Doctrine of the Work of Christ (Cokesbury, 1937) 2
E. A. Dreyer, ed., The Cross in Christian Tradition (Paulist Press, 2000) 3
R. Girard, The Scapegoat (John Hopkins University Press, 1986) 3
R. Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford University Press, 1987) 3
J. Green, M. Baker, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross (InterVarsity, 2000) 2
M.Gorman, Apostle of the Crucified Lord (Eerdmans, 2004) 3
---- Cruciformity: Paul's Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Eerdmans, 2001) 2
K. Heim, Jesus the Lord (Oliver & Boyd, 1959) 2
---- Jesus the World's Perfector: The Atonement and the Renewal of the World (Oliver & Boyd, 1959) 2
M. Hengel, The Cross of the Son of God (Trinity Press, 1986) 3
B. Jersak, M. Hardin, eds., Stricken By God? (Eerdmans, 2007) 3
C. B. Kruger, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam (Perichoresis,. 2007) 2
W. von Loewenich , Luther's Theology of the Cross (Augsburg, 1967) 2
A. McGrath, Luther's Theology of the Cross (Baker, 1985) 3
S. McNight, A Community Called Atonement (Abingdon, 2007) 2
J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (Fortress, 1993 [orig. German, 1973]) 3
J. Sanders, ed., Atonement and Violence (Abingdon, 2006) 3
T. Torrance, Atonement (IVP Academic, 2009) 3
---- The Mediation of Christ (Helmers & Howard, 1992) 2
R. Viladesau, Beauty of the Cross (Oxford, 2006) 3
D. Weaver, The Non-Violent Atonement (Eerdmans, 2001) 2
J. S. Whale, Victor and Victim (Cambridge University Press, 1960) 2
The Kingdom of God
J. Arpin-Ricci, The Cost of Community (InterVarsity, 2011) 2
G. R. Beasley-Murray, Jesus and the Kingdom of God (Eerdmans, 1986) 2
J. Bright, The Kingdom of God (Abingdon) 2
B. Chilton, Pure Kingdom: Jesus' Vision of God (Eerdmans, 1996) 2
T. Dickau, Plunging into the Kingdom Way (Cascade, 2011) 2
J. Ellul, The False Presence of the Kingdom (Seabury, 1972) 2
---- The Politics of God & The Politics of Man (Eerdmans, 1972) 2
---- The Presence of the Kingdom (Helmers & Howard, 1989) 2
---- The Subversion of Christianity (Eerdmans, 1986) 2
R. Forster, The Kingdom of Jesus (Authentic Lifestyle, 2002) 1
M. Goldberg, Kingdom Coming (W.W. Norton, 2007) 2
S. Hauerwas, Peaceable Kingdom (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983) 3
G. W. Kümmel, Promise and Fulfillment: The Eschatological Message of Jesus (SCM, 3rd ed., 1957) 3
G. E. Ladd, Jesus and the Kingdom (Word, 2nd ed., 1964) 2
S. McKnight, Kingdom Conspiracy (Brazos, 2014) 2
J. Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom (Harper & Row, 1981) 3
T. Timmons, Jesus Plus Nothing (Embers, 2012) 1
N. Perrin, Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom (Fortress, 1976) 3
---- The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (Fortress, 1963) 3
H. A. Snyder, A Kingdom Manifesto (InterVarsity, 1985) 2
D. Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (HarperOne, 1998) 2
N.T. Wright, How God Became King (HarperOne, 2012) 2
J. H. Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom (University of Notre Dame Press, 1984) 2
The Church
III New Testament: New Testament Church
V Theology: The Kingdom of God
V Theology: Church, Politics and Culture
L. C. Allen, The Cruciform Church (Abilene Christian University, 1990) 2
L. Boff, Holy Trinity: Perfect Community (Orbis, 2000) 3
A. Dulles, Models of the Church (Doubleday, 1974) 2
D. Durnbaugh, The Believers' Church (Herald, 1968) 2
D. Fitch, G. Holsclaw, Prodigal Christianity (Josse-Bass, 2013) 2
M. Frost, A. Hirsch, ReJesus (Hendrickson, 2009) 2
V. Eller, Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy over the Powers (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
S. J. Grenz, Theology for the Community of God (Broadman & Holman, 1994) 2
S. Hauerwas, W. H. Willimon, Resident Aliens (Abingdon, 1989) 2
R. Held-Evans, Searching for Sunday (Nelson Books, 2015) 1
J. H. Hellermen, When the Church Was Family (B&H Academic, 2009) 2
R. T. Henderson, The Church and the Relentless Darkness (Wipf & Stock, 2013) 2
S. McKnight, Kingdom Conspiracy (Brazos, 2014) 2
J. Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit (Fortress, 1993) 3
R. Schnackenburg, The Church in the New Testament (Herder & Herder, 1965) 3
F. Viola, Reimaging Church (David Cook, 2008) 1
---- The Untold Story of the New Testament Church (Destiny Image, 2004) 2
F. Viola, G. Barna, Pagan Christianity (Tyndale, 2002) 1
M. Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1997) 3
R. Webber, The Church in the World: Opposition, Tension, or Transformation (Zondervan, 1986) 2
J. H. Yoder, Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World (Herald, 2011) 2
---- The Royal Priesthood (Herald, 1998) 2
J. Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (St. Vladamir's, 1985) 3
Baptism
R. Armour, Anabapist Baptism (Herald, 1966) 2
G. R. Beasley-Murray, Baptism in the New Testament (Macmillan, 1963) 2
O. Cullmann, Baptism in the New Testament (SCM, 1950) 3
G. Delling, Die Taufe im Neuen Testament (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1963) 3
P. L. Stepp, The Believers Participation in the Death of Christ: "Corporate Identification" and a Study of Romans 6:1-14 (Mellen, 1996) 3
Women in Ministry/ Equality in Marriage
V Theology: Feminist Theology
V Theology: Humanity (Imago Dei)
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
G. Bilezikian, Gilbert. Beyond Sex Roles (Baker, 1985) 1
C. L. Blomberg, J. R. Beck, eds. Two Views on Women in Ministry (Zondervan, 2001) 2
J. T. Brislow, What Paul Really Said About Women (HarperOne, rpt., 1991) 2
L. Cunningham, J. Hamilton, Why Not Women? (YWAM, 2000) 1
G. Fee, I & 2 Timothy: A Commentary (Hendrickson, 1988) 2
S. Grenz, S. D. Kjesbo, Women in the Church (Intervarsity, 1995) 2
R. Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Thomas Nelson, 2012) 1
J. R. Hyland, Sexism is a Sin (Viatoris, 1995) 2
C. Keener, Paul, Women and Wives (Hendrickson, 2004) 2
P. Marston, Women in Marriage and in Church Leadership (Lifesway, 2006) 1
A. Mickelsen, Women, Authority and the Bible (InterVarsity, 1986) 1
R. W. Pierce, Partners in Marriage and Ministry (Christians For Biblical Equality, 2011) 1
R. W. Pierce, R. M. Groothuis, G. D. Fee, eds. Discovering Biblical Equality (InterVarsity, 2004) 2
W. Webb, Slaves, Women and Homosexuals (InterVarsity, 2004) 2
B. Witherington, Women and the Genesis of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 1990) 2
Church, Politics and Culture
V Theology: The Church
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
VII Christian Living: Pacifism/Peacemaking
D. Andrews, Christi-Anarchy: Radical Spirituality for a New Millennium (Lion, 1999) 1
M. Babcock, UnChristian America (Tyndale, 2008) 2
K. Barth, Church and State (Student Christian Life Movement Press, 1939) 2
J. Bartley, Faith and Politics after Christendom (Paternoster, 2006) 2
G. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation (Zondervan, 2005) 2
A. Christoyannopoulos, Christian Anarchism: (Imprint Academic, 2011) 2
S. Claiborne, C. Haw, Jesus for President (Zondervan, 2008) 1
R. Clapp, ed., The Consuming Passion: Christianity and the Consumer Culture (InterVarsity, 1998) 2
---- A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture in a Post-Christian Society (InterVarsity, 1996) 3
B. Dewey, Americanity: How the American Church Tamed Christianity (Brian Dewey, 2015) 2
V. Eller, Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
J. Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity (Eerdmans, 1991) 2
J. Ellul, The False Presence of the Kingdom (Seabury, 1972) 2
---- Political Illusion (Vintage, 1967) 2
---- The Politics of God & The Politics of Man (Eerdmans, 1972) 2
---- The Subversion of Christianity (Eerdmans, 1986) 2
D. A. Fletcher, One Nation Over God: The Americanization of Christianity (fletchpub at Lulu, 2006) 2
M. Goldberg, Kingdom Coming (W.W. Norton, 2007) 2
J. Harader, A. O. Green, A Living Alternative (Ellelloc Publishing, 2014) 2
G. Heide, Domesticated Glory: How the Politics of America Has Tamed God (Pickwick, 2010) 2
J. D. Hunter, To Change the World (Oxford, 2010) 3
S. Hauerwas, After Christendom? (Abingdon, 1991) 2
S. Hauerwas, W. Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in a Christian Colony (Abingdon, 1989) 2
C. Keller, God and Power (Fortress, 2005) 2
Kierkegaard, S. Attack Upon Christendom (Princeton University Press, 1968 [1855]) 3
D. Kuo, Tempting Faith (Free Press, 2006) 2
T. Lewis, Electing Not to Vote (Wipf & Stock, 2008) 1
J. MacArthur, Why Government Can't Save You (Word Publishing, 2000) 1
S. Murray, The Naked Anabaptist (Herald, 5th Anniversary ed., 2015) 2
---- Post-Christendom: (Paternoster, 2004) 2
R. Osborn, Anarchy and Apocalypse (Cascade, 2010) 3
D. Stephens, ed., Government is Violence: Essays on Anarchism and Pacifism (Phoenix, 1990) 2
C. Thomas, E. Dobson, Blinded By Might (Zondervan, 1999) 2
S. Wells, A Nazareth Manifesto: Being With God (Wiley, 2015) 2
---- M. A. Owen, Living Without Enemies (InterVarsity, 2012) 2
J. H. Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Eerdmans, 2nd ed, 1994 [1972]) 3
T. York, Living on Hope While Living in Babylon (Lutterworth, 2009) 2
B. Zahnd, A Farewell to Mars (David C. Cook, 2014) 1
The Holy Spirit
G. D. Babcock, Light of Truth & Fire of Love (Eerdmans, 1997) 2
G. Fee, God's Empowering Presence (BakerAcademic, 2009) 3
---- Paul, the Spirit and the People of God (BakerAcademic, rpt., 1996) 3
G.T. Montague, The Spirit and His Gifts (Paulist, 1974) 3
---- The Spirit of Life (Fortress, 1992) 3
C. Pinnock, Flame of Love (InterVarsity, 1996) 3
S. Shatzmann, A Pauline Theology of Charismata (Hendrickson, 1987) 2
J. V. Taylor, The Go-Between God: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission (SCM, 1972) 3
M. Welker, God the Spirit (Fortress, 1994) 3
J. White, When the Spirit Comes With Power (Servant/Vine, 1988) 1
J. Wimber, K. Springer, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986) 1
---- Power Healing (Harper & Row, 1987) 1
Justification/ Salvation
III New Testament: Paul's Theology and Exegesis
V Theology: Christology
V Theology: Cross/Atonement
V Theology: The Exclusivism, Inclusivism, Universalism Debate
J. K. Beilby, P. R. Eddy, eds., Justification: Five Views (IVP Academic, 2011) 2
D. G. Bloesh, Jesus is Victor: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Salvation (Abingdon, 1976) 2
R. Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ (Eerdmans, 2nd ed., 2002) 3
M. P. Johnson, One With Christ: An Evangelical Theology of Salvation (Crossway, 2013) 2
C. B. Kruger, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam (Perichoresis,. 2007) 2
L. B. Smedes, Union with Christ (Eerdmans, 1983) 2
C. Stravopoulos, Partakers of Divine Nature (Light and Life, 1976) 3
N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, 2 Vols (Fortress, 2013) 3
Exclusivism, Inclusivism, Universalism Debate
Note: These are works on the subject of who will ultimately be included in, and excluded from, Christ's saving work.
V Theology: The Nature of Divine Judgment
V Theology: Justification/Salvation
V Theology: Eschatology
T. Allin, M. Chamberlain, Every Knee Shall Bow (Xulon, 2005) 1
K. Barth, Christ and Adam: Man and Humanity in Romans 6 (Collier Books, 1962) 2
R. Bauckham, ed., God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jurgen Moltman (Fortress, 1991) 3
G. Beauchemin, Hope Beyond Hell (Malista Press, 2007) 1
J. Bonda, The One Purpose of God (Eerdmans, 1998) 3
N. M. de S., Cameron, Nigel M. de S., ed., Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell( Baker, 1992) 2
B. Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut (Wipf & Stock, 2009) 2
R. Klassen, What Does The Bible Really Say About Hell? (Pandora, 2001) 2
W. W. Klein, The New Chosen People: A Corporate View of Election (Zondervan, 1990) 2
G. McDonald, The Evangelical Universalist (Cascade, 2006) 1
R. A. Parry, C. H. Partridge, eds. Universal Salvation? (Eerdmans, 2003) 2
C. Pinnock, ed., Grace Unlimited (Bethany, 1976) 2
----A Wideness in God's Mercy (Zondervan, 1992) 2
N. Punt, Unconditional Good News (Eerdmans, 1980) 1
J. Sanders, No Other Name (Eerdmans, 1992) 2
---- ed. What About Those Who Have Never Heard? (InterVarsity, 1995) 2
E. Stetson, Christian Universalism (Sparkling Bay Books, 2008) 2
T. Talbot, The Inescapable Love of God (Universal Publishers, 1999) 2
T. Tiessen, Who Can Be Saved? (InterVarsity, 2004) 2
Warfare Worldview
I Biblical Interpretation: Spiritual Warfare/Cosmic Conflict in Scripture
IV Church History: Spiritual Warfare in the Early Church
VI Apologetics: The Reality of Satan/Angels /Demons
VI Apologetics: The Problem of Evil
VII Christian Living: Spiritual Warfare
C. Arnold, Powers of Darkness (InterVarsity, 1992) 1
D.G. Barnhouse, The Invisible War (Zondervan, 1965) 1
J. Beilby, P. Eddy, eds., Understanding Spiritual Warfare: Four Views (BakerAcademic, 2012) 2
H. Berkhof, Christ and the Powers (Herald, 1977) 2
O. Böcher, Christus Exorcista (Kohlhammer, 1972) 3
---- Dämonenfurcht und Dämonebabwehr (Kohlhammer, 1970) 3
---- Das Neue Testament und die dämonischen Mächte (Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1972) 3
G. Boyd, God at War (InterVarsity, 1996) 3
---- Is God to Blame?: (Intervarsity, 2003) 2
---- The Myth of a Christian Religion (Zondervan, 2009) 2
---- Satan and the Problem of Evil (InterVarsity, 2001) 3
L. Ciristiani, Evidence of Satan in the Modern World (Macmillan, 1975 [1961]) 2
V. Eller, Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy over the Powers (Eerdmans, 1987) 2
J. Ellul, The New Demons (Seabury, 1975) 3
A. E. Farkus et. al., Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Verlag, 1987) 3
N. Forsyth, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton University Press, 1987) 2
I. Fröhlich, E. Koskenniemi, eds., Evil and the Devil (Bloomsbury, 2013) 2
M. S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm (Lexham, 2015) 2
R. T. Henderson, The Church and the Relentless Darkness (Wipf & Stock, 2013) 2
A. H. van den Heuvel, Those Rebellious Powers (Friendship, 1965) 2
K. van der Horn, ed., Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, 1999) 3
S. Husain, Demons, God's and Holy Men (Douglas & McIntyre, 1987) 2
Kelley, Jessica. Lord Willing?: Wrestling with God's Role in My Child's Death. (2016) 1
T. Ling, The Significance of Satan (SPCK, 1961) 2
J. Kallas, Jesus and the Power of Satan (Westminster, 1968) 2
---- The Real Satan (Augsburg, 1975) 2
---- The Satanward View: A Study in Pauline Theology (Westminster, 1966) 2
---- The Significance of the Synoptic Miracles (Seabury, 1961) 2
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Macmillan, 1982) 1
E. Lewis, The Creator and the Adversary (Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948) 2
P. Middleton, Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (T & T Clark, 2006) 3
W. O. Mundia, "The Existence of the Devil," Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University School of Theology (1994) 3
J. T. Murphree, A Loving God and a Suffering World (InterVarsity Press, 1981) 2
S. Peck, People of the Lie (Simon & Schuster, 1983) 2
W. Robinson, The Devil and God (Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1945) 2
---- Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1981) 2
W. Sargant, The Mind Possessed (Lippincott, 1974) 2
H. Schier, Principalities and Powers in the New Testament (Herder, 1961) 3
S. Tonstad, Saving God's Reputation (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2006) 3
G. Twelftree, Jesus the Exorcist (Mohr Siebeck, 1993) 3
---- In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism Among Early Christians (Baker, 2007) 3
P. G. R. de Villers, Like a Roaring Lion (University of South Africa, 1987) 2
H. White, Demonism Verified and Analyzed (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1922) 1
W. Wink, Engaging the Powers (Augsburg Fortress, 1992) 3
---- Naming the Powers (Fortress, 1984) 3
----The Powers That Be (Doubleday, 1998) 2
----Unmasking the Powers (Fortress, 1986) 3
Ethics
VII Christian Living: Discipleship
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
VIII Philosophy: Ethics
D. Bonhoeffer, Ethics (Simon & Shuster, 1995) 3
G. Boyd Repenting of Religion: Turning From Judgment to the Love of God (Baker, 2004) 2
J. Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom (Eerdmans,1976) 3
J. Jernigan, Redeeming Pleasure (Worthy Publishing, 2015) 1
Eschatology
Note: These are works that address end time issues, including the debate over Hell as eternal suffering, as annihilation ("Annihilationism"), or as redemptive in nature ("Universalism").
V Theology: Nature of Divine Judgment
V Theology: Exclusivism, Inclusivism, Universalism Debate
R. Bauckham, ed. God Will Be All in All (Fortress, 2001) 3
G. Beauchemin, Hope Beyond Hell (Malista Press, rev. ed., 2010) 1
J. Bonda, The One Purpose of God (Eerdmans, 1998) 3
D. Burnfield, Patristic Universalism (Universal-Publishers, 2013) 2
N. M. de S., Cameron, Nigel M. de S., ed., Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell(Baker, 1992) 2
W. Crockett, ed. Four Views of Hell (Zondervan, 1992) 2
O. Culmann, Christ and Time (SCM, rev. ed., 1962) 3
C. M. Date, et. al., eds. Rethinking Hell (Cascade, 2014) 2
T. Finger, Evangelicals, Eschatology, and the Environment (Evangelical Environmental Network, 1998) 2
R. Froom, et. al., The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, 2 Vols (Review and Herald, 1965–6) 3
E. Fudge, The Fire That Consumes (Paternoster, rev. ed.,1994) 2
H. E. Guillebaud, The Righteous Judge: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment (Phoenix, n.d.) 2
P. Hughs, The True Image (InterVarsity, 1989) 3
B. Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut (Wipf & Stock, 2009) 2
J. L. Kvanvig, The Problem of Hell (Oxford University Press, 1993) 2
R. Klassen, What Does the Bible Really Say About Hell? (Herald Press, 2001) 1
A. Köenig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology (Eerdmans, 1989 [1980]) 2
G. E. Ladd, The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism (Eerdmans, 1974) 2
C.S.Lewis, The Great Divorce (HarperOne, 2015) 1
G. McDonald, The Evangelical Universalist (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2006) 1
J. Moltmann, The Coming of God (Fortress, 1996) 3
---- A Theology of Hope (Fortress, Harper & Row, 1967) 3
R. A. Parry, C. H. Partridge, eds. Universal Salvation? (Eerdmans, 2003) 2
B. R. Rossing, The Rapture Exposed (Westview, 2004) 2
R. Swinburne, Responsibility and Atonement (Clarendon, 1989) 3
T. Talbot, The Inescapable Love of God (Universal Publishers, 1999) 2
J. Walls, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory (Brazos Press, 2015) 2
---- Hell: The Logic of Damnation (University of Notre Dame Press, 1992) 3
---- Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2012) 2
D. L. Watson, God Does Not ForeClose (Abingdon, 1990) 1
J. Wenham, The Enigma of Evil (Zondervan, 1985) 2
B. Witherington, Jesus, Paul and the End of the World (InterVarsity, 1992) 2
Contents
Background to Contemporary Theology
Overviews of Modern Theology
Introductions to Theology
Systematic Theology
The Nature of Theology/ Methodology
Black Theology
Feminist Theology
Theology From Third World Perspectives / Liberation Theology
Narrative Theology
Science and Theology
The Nature of Revelation/ Biblical Authority
Divine Accommodation/ Progressive Revelation
The Trinity
Nature and Attributes of God
Critiques of Classical Theism
Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
Nature of Divine Judgment
Providence/Predestination/Free Will
Doctrine of Creation
Humanity (Imago Dei)
The Fall/ Sin
Christology
The Cross/ Atonement
The Kingdom of God
The Church
Baptism
Women in Ministry/ Equality in Marriage
Church, Politics and Culture
The Holy Spirit
Justification/ Salvation
Exclusivism, Inclusivism, Universalism Debate
Warfare Worldview
Ethics
Eschatology
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