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If you'd like to see the kinds of books used at a seminary, here are some:

How to Write it: Quality Research Papers (Vyhmeister) link

Theology and Historical Studies (click on "link" for more information and/or to order)

The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift: The Fissuring of American Evangelical Theology from 1936 to 1944 (Mangum) link

American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandry of Modernity (Hunter) link

Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (McKnight) link

Is Religion Dangerous? (Ward) link

Dangerous Religion (Myers) - not that I agree with much of this, but food for thought. link

When Religion Becomes Evil; Five Warning Signs (Kimball) - not that I agree with all of it, but some things to consider. link

God's Long Summer (Marsh) link

Pilgrim Heart: The Way of Jesus in Everyday Life (Tippens) link

The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today (Marsh) link

The Church and the Churches: Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology (Evans) link

Karl Barth Vs. Emil Brunner: The Formation and Dissolution of a Theological Alliance, 1916-1936 (Hart) link

The Portable Seminary: A Masters Level Overview in One Volume (Horton, ed.) link

The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular Through the Theology of Karl Barth (Metzger & Gunton) link

The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (Frei) link

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian (Newbigin) link

Barth for Armchair Theologians (Franke) - a useful introduction to Barth & his work link

Torah Story: An Introduction to the Pentateuch (Schnittjer) - very well illustrated; a useful text link

The Character of Theology: An Introduction to Its Nature, Task and Purpose (Franke) - thinking about doing theology in the postmodern world link

An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches (Anderson) link

Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology (Vanhoozer, ed.) link

"Non-Western" Christian Thought & Life

Asian Faces of Jesus (Sugirtharajah, ed.) link

Faces of Jesus in Africa (Schreiter, ed.) link

Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion (Bediako) link

Christians And Churches Of Africa: Salvation In Christ And Building A New African Society (Mana) link

Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church (Lewis) link

Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Emerson & Smith) link

Jesus and The Gospel In Africa: History And Experience (Bediako, with introductions by Visser & Bediako) link

Jesus the Liberator: A Historical-Theological Reading of Jesus of Nazareth (Sobrino, Burns, & McDonagh) link

Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (Tinker) link

Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada (Treat) link

United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race (DeYoung, Emerson, Yancey, & Kim) link

White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice) (Perkinson) link

Disrupting White Supremacy From Within: White People On What We Need To Do (Harvey, Case, & Gorsline, eds.) link

Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism And Women's Lives Matter (West) link

Grieving Indian (Life Ministries Indian) link

"Missional" Theology

Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective link

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn: Six Views (Penner, ed.) link

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith (Downing) link

Confessions of a Reformission Rev: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Driscoll) link

Constants in Context (Bevans & Schroeder) link

Doing Local Theology (Sedmak) link

The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission (Newbigin) link

Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age (Stetzer) link

The Missional Leader (Roxburgh) link

The Continuing Conversion of the Church (Guder) link

The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World (Roxburgh & Romanuk) link

Breaking the Missional Code: When Church Can Become Missionary in Your Community (Stetzer & Putnam) link

Planting Postmodern Churches (Stetzer) link

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (Smith) link

The Church in Transition (Conder) link

Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture (Smith) link

The Shaping of Things To Come (Hirsch & Hirsch) link

The Organic Church (Cole) link

Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Webber) link

Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community (Webber) link

Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Webber) link

The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Ancient-Future) (Webber) link

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy (Smith & Milbank) link

Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition (Smith) link

Christian Origins: The Apostles to Nicaea

Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations (Holmes) link

Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scriptures and the Faith We Never Knew (Ehrman) link

The Art of Reading Scripture

The Art of Reading Scripture (Davis & Hays) link

Engaging Scripture (Fowl) link

Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible (Levison & Pope-Levison) link

Film, Culture and Theology

Film, Form, and Culture, 2nd ed. with CD-ROM (Kolker) link

Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Johnston) link

The Story of the Christian Church

Christianity Through the Centuries (Cairns) link

The Christian Faith 2: God, Creation, Humanity, and Christ

Systematic Theology (Grudem) link

By the Renewing of Your Minds: The Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine (Charry) link

Long Evangelical Century

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Noll) link

North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914 (Shenk (ed.)) link

John Wesley (Outler (ed.)) link

Dominance of Evangelicalism (Bebbington) link

American Evangelical Story (Sweeney) link

Revivalism and Social Reform (Smith) link

Missional Church (Guder) link

Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century (Dieter) link

History of Christianity 1 (Apostolic Age to Reformation)

Historical Theology (McGrath) link

"I Believe": Exploring the Apostles' Creed (McGrath) link

The Making of the Creeds (Young) link

The Rise of Western Christendom (Brown) link

History of Christianity 2 (Reformation to Present)

The European Reformations (Lindberg) link

Fundamentalism and American Culture (Marsden) link

The Modern Church (Miller) link

The Presbyterian Controversy (Longfield) link

The Story of Christian Theology (Olson) link

Theology of the Reformers (George) pb link hc link

American Evangelicalism & Fundamentalism

Renewing the Center (Grenz) link

The Future of Evangelical Christianity (Bloesch) link

Guarding the Holy Fire (Steer) link

Evangelical Theology in Transition (Colyer) link

Christianity and Liberalism (Machen) link

The Smell of Sawdust: What Evangelicals Can Learn from Their Fundamentalist Heritage (Mouw) link

Where Shall My Wond'ring Soul Begin? The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought (Noll & Thiemenn, eds.) link

Systematic Theology 1: Introduction, Sources, and Method

After Modernity...What? (Oden)

The End of Liberal Theology (Toon) link

Explaining Inerrancy (Sproul)

A Francis Schaeffer Trilogy (Schaeffer) link

Reviving Evangelical Theology (Grenz) link

Systematic Theology 2: God and Creation

The Doctrine of Humanity (Sherlock) link

The God Who Risks (Sanders) link

Theology for the Community of God (Grenz) link

The Triune Creator (Gunton) link

Systematic Theology 3: Christ and Salvation

The Cross of Christ (Stott) link

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Owen) link

Justification by Faith Alone (Hodge) link

The Person of Christ (Macleod) link

Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Murray) link

What is Faith? (Machen) link

For a course on Salvation (Evangelical and Catholic Positions):

Roman Catholics & Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences (Geisler & MacKenzie) link

A Reformation Debate (Calvin & Sadoleto) link

Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millenium (Rausch) link

The Roman Catholic Controversy (White) link

Roman Catholicism: Evangelical Protestants Analyze What Divide Us (McGrath, ed.) link

The Spiritual Life: A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation (Grou) link

Fundamentalist Attack on Romanism link

Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation According to Thomas Aquinas (Levering) link

Not by Bread Alone (Sungenis) link

How Can I Get to Heaven? (Sungenis) link

Not by Scripture Alone (Sungenis) link

Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on Romanism by Bible Christians (Keating) link

Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World: A Theology for the Third Millennium (Osborne) link

The Godly Image: Christ and Salvation in Catholic Thought from St. Anselm to Aquinas (Cessario) link

Orthodoxy (Chesterton) link

A Generous Orthodoxy (McLaren) link

Systematic Theology 4: the Church and Eschatology

The Church (Clowney) link

Created for Community: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living (Grenz) link

Eschatology in Bible and Theology link

Four Views on the Book of Revelation (Pate, ed.) link

Future Grace (Piper) link

Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church (Blaising & Bock) link

Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin, transl. McNeill) link

The Holy Spirit (Ferguson) link

Five Views on Apologetics (Cowen, (ed.)) link

Jesus and the Restoration of Israel (Newman(ed.)) link

A Post-Trib Alternative to the Pre-Trib Rapture (Chin) link

The Rapture: Pre-, Mid-, or Post- Tribulation? (Archer, Feinberg, Moo & Reiter) link

Three Views of the Millenium and Beyond (Bock, ed.) link

Christian Ethics

Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics (Murray) link

Gospel Virtues: Practicing Faith, Hope, and Love in Uncertain Times (Wilson) link

The God Who Commands: A Study in Divine Command Ethics (Mouw) link

Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multi-Cultural World (Adeney) link

Readings in Christian Ethics, Vol 1: Theory and Method (Clark & Rakestraw, eds.) link

Readings in Christian Ethics, Vol. 2: Issues and Applications (Clark & Rakestraw, eds.) link

The Moral Vision of the New Testament (Hays) link

Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics After MacIntyre (Murphy, Kallenberg & Nation) link

African Christian Ethics (Kunhiyop) link

"Other Philosophical" and Intellectual

Postmodern Ethics (Baumann) link

Reviving Evangelical Ethics (Reuschling) link

Habits of the Mind (Sire) link

Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (Moreland) link

Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul (Moreland) link

Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (Wood) link

Metaphysics: Constructing a Christian Worldview (Hasker) - Contours of Christian Philosophy series link

Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions (Holmes) - Contours of Christian Philosophy series link

Philosophy of Religion: Thinking About Faith (Evans) - Contours of Christian Philosophy series link

God's Call: Moral Realism, God's Commands, and Human Autonomy (Hare) link

God and Morality: A Philosophical History (Hare) link

The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance (Hare) link

Kant's Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered (Rossi) link

Other Theology

Engaging the Doctrine of God: Contemporary Protestant Perspectives (McCormack, ed.) link

Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (McCormack) link

Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective (Carter) link

Canon and Biblical Interpretation (Bartholomew, ed.) link

Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Bartholomew, ed.) link

Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (Bartholomew, ed.) link

Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation (Adam) link

Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World (Adam) link

Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends (Vanhoozer, ed.) link

Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom (Grenz) link

Aquinas for Armchair Theologians (Renick) link

Augustine for Armchair Theologians (Cooper) link

Luther for Armchair Theologians link

Rediscovering the Triune God (Grenz) link

The Social God and the Relational Self (Grenz) link

The Holy Spirit (Bloesch) link

Essentials of Evangelical Theology, vol. 1 (Bloesch) link

Essentials of Evangelical Theology, vol. 2 (Bloesch) link

Debating Calvinism (Hunt & White) link

Theology and the Theologians (Gunton) link

Why I Am Not a Calvinist (Walls & Dongell) link

Why I Am Not an Arminian (Petersen & Williams) link

The Harvest of Medieval Theology (Oberman) link

The Dawn of the Reformation (Oberman) link
History of the Church in England (Moorman) link

Questioning Q (Perrin, Goodacre & Wright, eds.) link

Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel (Franke, ed.) link

Evangelizing the Chosen People (Ariel) link

Is There a Meaning in This Text? (Van Hoozer) link

First Theology: God, Scriptures & Hermeneutics (Van Hoozer) link

The Drama of Doctrine (Van Hoozer) link

Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology (Marshall, Van Hoozer, & Porter) link

Justification and Variegated Nomism (Carson, O'Brien & Seifrid) link

Trinitarian Perspectives (Torrance) link

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectial Theology (McCormack) link

Trinitarian Hermeneutics: The Hermeneutical Significance of Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Tirnity (Leslie) link

The Throne, The Lamb and The Dragon (Spilsbury) link

The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth link

Theology of John Calvin (Barth) link

Evangelical Theology (Barth) link

Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth, rev. ed. (Hunsinger) link

20th Century Theology (Grenz) link

Women in the Church (Grenz) link

The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology: Theology Without Weapons (Dorrien) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctine of Reconciliation IV/1 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctine of Reconciliation IV/2 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctine of Reconciliation, Jesus Christ the True Witness IV/3, 1st Half Volume (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctine of Reconciliation, Jesus Christ the True Witness IV/3, 2nd Half Volume (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctrine of God, II/1 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. The Doctrine of God, II/2 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. Doctrine of Creation, III/1 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. Doctrine of Creation, III/2 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. Doctrine of Creation, III/3 (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics. Doctrine of Creation, III/4 (Barth) link

Gottingen Dogmatics (Barth) link

Epistle to the Romans (Barth) link

Church Dogmatics Dual Language (Barth) link

The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology (Busch, et. al) link

For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Eccesial Theology (Busch, et. al.) link

Theology and Pastoral Care: A New Interdisciplinary Approach (D. Hunsinger) link

Church History

Evangelicals and Tradition: Influence of the Early Church link

Junia: The First Woman Apostle (Epp & Graventa) link

A Woman's Place: House Churches in Early Christianity (Osiek, MacDonald, & Tulloch) link

Women at the Table: Three Medieval Theologians (Mayesi) link

The Medieval Theologians (Evans) link

John Calvin (Bouwsma) link

Books for a Course on Philosophical Theology

The Craft of Theology (Dulles) link

Athens and Jerusalem: The Role of Prophecy in Theology (Bonsor) link

The Savior of Science (Jaki) link

The God of Faith and Reason (Sokolwski) link

The Shape of Catholic History of Theology: An Introduction to Its Sources, Principles and History (Nichols) link

A History of Christian Theology: An Introduction (Placher) link

Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and His Work (Torrell) link

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing link

Related Books

Shaped by God's Heart link

Retrieving the Tradition link

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places (Peterson) link

Doing Local Theology: A guide for Artisans od a New Humanity (Schrieter) link

Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology (Stinton) link

Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective (Lacugna) link

Welcoming but Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality (Grenz) link

The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (Wright) link

The New Testament and the People of God (Wright) link

The Resurrection and the Son of God (Wright) link

Paul in Fresh Perspective (Wright) link

Following Jesus (Wright) link

Simply Christian (Wright) link

The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture (Wright) link

John Calvin link

The Reciprocating Self (Balswick, King, & Reimer) link

A Brief History of the Episcopal Church link

After Virtue (MacIntyre) link

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (MacIntyre) link

Anglo-American Postmodernity (Murphy) link

Beyond Fundamentalism and Liberalism (Murphy) link

Book of Jewish Values: A Day by Day Guide to Ethical Living (Telushkin) link

The Sabbath (Heschel; illustrations by Schor) link

Sabbath Time: Understanding and Practice for Contemporary Christians (Edwards) link

To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service link

Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew (Steinsaltz) link

Renewel Theology (Williams) link

What's Darwin Got to Do with It? (Newman) link

Three Views on Creation and Evolution link

Five Views on Law and Gospel link

Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context (Grenz & Franke) link

Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica (Series), 5) (Perrin) link

Five Views on Apologetics link

Hebrews Through Hebrews Eyes (Sacks) link

The Mystery of Romans (Nanos) link

An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels (Black) link

Covenant of Grace (Murray) link

The Bible and the Future (Hoekema) Out ot print - search for used copy link

Three Central Issues in Contemporary Dispensationalism link

Continuitiy and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Bewteen the Testaments (Feinberg, ed.) link

Aspects of Rabbinic Theology (Schechter) link

America's Real War (Lapin) link

Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of The Rebbe (Schneerson) link

Charts of Christian Theology & Doctrine link

Taxonomic Charts of Theology and Biblical Studies (Sawyer) link

The Millenial Maze (Grenz) link

The Named God and the Question of Being (Grenz) link

The Social God and the Relational Self (Grenz) link

The Moral Quest (Grenz) link

Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics (Wells) link

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life (Nicoll) link

The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (Hauerwas) link

Sacred Rhythms - Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation (Grenz) link

Reforming Theological Anthropology (Shults) link

Reforming the Doctrine of God (Shults) link

From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race (Hays & Carson) link

Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology (Chung, ed.) link

From Homer to Harry Potter (Dickerson & O'Hara) link

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