Top 100 + Books

Theodore Zachariades, Ph.D.

Christianity: Reformed (For a solid defense of Calvinistic reformed theology).

1. Religion, Reason, and Revelation, Gordon H. Clark.
2. No Place For Sovereignty, R. K. McGregor Wright.
3. Whosoever Will, Herman Hoeksema.
4. Predestination, Gordon H. Clark.
5. Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel, David J. Engelsma.
6. By His grace and For His Glory, Thomas J. Nettles.
7. Not Reformed At All, Sean Gerety & John W. Robbins.
8. Christianity and Neo-Liberalism, Paul M. Elliott.
9. Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?, James Montgomery Boice.
10. The Doctrines of Grace, James Montgomery Boice & Philip Graham Ryken.

The Person & Work of Christ (choose two or three volumes from here).

1. The Person and Work of Christ, Benjamin B. Warfield.
2. The Work of Christ, Robert Letham.
3. Christ our Penal Substitute, Robert L. Dabney.
4. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, John Owen.
5. The Cross of Christ, John R. W. Stott.
6. The Atonement, Gordon H. Clark.
7. Definite Atonement, Gary D. Long.
8. The Cross, Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
9. Jesus: Divine Messiah, Robert L. Reymond.
10. The Person of Christ, David F. Wells.
11. The Uniqueness of Jesus, Christopher Wright.
12. 31 Days on The Life of Christ, J. Oswald Sanders.
13. The Identity of Jesus of Nazareth, Carl F. H. Henry.
14. The Person of Christ, Donald Macleod.
15. Putting Jesus in His Place, Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed. Komoszewski.
16. The Lord of Glory, Benjamin B. Warfield.
17. Redemption Accomplished and Applied, John Murray.
18. Meet the Real Jesus, John Blanchard.
19. Creeds, Councils, and Christ, Gerald L. Bray.
20. The Incarnation, Gordon H. Clark.

Dictionaries of Bible & Theology (You should have all these in your library).

1. Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Charles Brand, Charles Draper, & Arthur English.
2. Halley's Bible Handbook, Henry Halley.
3. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology 2^nd Ed., Walter Elwell.
4. Foundations of the Christian Faith, James Montgomery Boice.
5. The Moody Handbook of Theology 2^nd Ed., Paul Enns.

Systematic Theology (choose two or three for comparison).

1. Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin (Battles' Translation).
2. Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem.
3. Christian Theology, Millard Erickson.
4. Dogmatic Theology, William G. T. Shedd.
5. Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof.
6. A New Systematic Theology of The Christian Faith 2^nd Ed., Robert L. Reymond.
7. A Systematic Theology of The Christian Religion, J. Oliver Buswell.
8. Integrative Theology, Bruce Demarest & Gordon Lewis.
9. Institutes of Elenctic Theology 3 Vols., Francis Turretin.
10. The Marrow of Theology, William Ames.
11. A Body of Divinity, Thomas Watson.
12. A Body of Divinity, John Gill
13. Biblical Theology, John Owen.
14. A Body of Divinity, James Ussher.
15. Systematic Theology, Robert Duncan Culver.

General Church History (mostly accessible works).