I've made a list of 10 basic categories of books that would be helpful for Christians to have
(feel free to suggest others)
What single book would you choose to fill each category?
1.
Bible (make this plural to cover many translations - a Christian should have more than one translation)
2.
A study bible
3.
A modern one-volume commentary
4.
An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
5.
An Introduction to the New Testament
6.
A Bible Dictionary
7.
A Handbook of Theological terms
8.
A Systematic Theology
9.
An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation ('How to Study the Bible')
10. A guidebook to your particular form of beliefs
Yes. They offer a lot of free courses. I highly recommend them. They are free. You advance at your own pace. You get a certificate of completion from Dallas Theological Seminary upon completion.
Thank you on the EMTV clarification. I'd never even heard of it. I prefer paper and ink, but I downloaded pocket sword for iPad to examine the EMTV.
It looks interesting so far.
I had signed up for the 'How to read the bible' course before posting.
I'm not much interested in certificates but it is nice that it is offered. I will also purchase the book sometime in the future. Thanks for that lead as well.
They tell you that. That's because you have an inappropriate and unbalanced view of books over scripture. You are the only one people tell that to on this board. It doesn't apply to anyone else.
1.
How to Read A Book – Mortimer Adler
2.
The Hermeneutical Spiral – Grant Osborne
3.
God in the Wasteland – David Wells
4.
Nothing Greater, Nothing Better – Kevin Vanhoozer
5.
No One Like Him – John Feinberg
6.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ – John Owen
7.
How Then Shall We Live – Francis Schaeffer
8.
Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
9.
All That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
10.
Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
When you post about books and some book is your go to answer for evidence of a position but rarely post scripture to support your positions then that is how your posts will always be understood. Since that describes your posts very accurately then there is no other interpretation to come to.
11.
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
12. Songs of Innocent and of Experience - William Blake
13. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
14. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
15. 1984 - George Orwell
:)
In my not entirely humble opinion one of the very best books ever written on the Death of Christ.
As a Non-Conformist Puritan he was probably closest to what we would call a Congregationalist even though some suggest he more closely resembled an early Baptist.
He was not only a brilliant man, an Oxford Don, but also the academic administrator at Oxford University.
I agree, although some of those books are online for free now.
Then... for #10 regarding my particular beliefs, I would not be without the book by Methodist minister J.H. Allen called "Judah's Sceptre/Joseph's Birthright".
An oldie but goodie and written a century ago is now free from copyright.
Anyone can distribute it now.
1. KJV and ESV
2. Reformation Study Bible
3. John Gill’s Commentary on the Whole Bible
4. Survey of the OT- Hill and Walton
5. The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown- Kostenberger
6. ?
7. ?
8. Institutes of Elenctic Theology- Turretin
9. ?
10. 1689 Baptist Confession