Over on Roger Olson’s blog he posted his top 10 favorite books of all time.
Here’s my list….in no particular order…
Walter Brueggemann – The Prophetic Imagination
Stephen Seamands – Ministry in the Image of God
Greg Boyd – God at War
Rodney Clapp – A Peculiar People
Miroslav Volf – Exclusion and Embrace
Miroslav Volf – The End of Memory
NT Wright – Surprised by Hope
Mark Noll – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (changed my life as a college student)
Richard Hays – The Moral Vision of the New Testament
CS Lewis – The Great Divorce
What’s your top 10 list look like? Any recommendations for me?
i see asbury’s influence in your list!
One of my top 10 is (surprisingly) John Piper’s- Don’t Waste Your Life. It changed the way I view my life. I haven’t read it since college, so I’m not sure what I’d think about it now.
Definitely in my top 20 would be Piper’s ‘Let the Nations be Glad.’ If you can make it through his Calvinism obsession, it’s a really good book on missions.
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I put my annotated list over here: http://kalevhinrich.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/top-10-most-influential-books/
But here it is in short form:
Krister Stendahl – Paul Among Jews and Gentiles
Walter Brueggemann – Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy
Saint Augustine – The Confessions
Saint Athanasius – On the Incarnation
John Milbank – Theology and Social Theory
Catherine Pickstock – After Writing: On the Liturgical Consumation of Philosophy
David Bentley Hart – The Beauty of the Infinite
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Jean Francois Lyotard – The Postmodern Predicament
Fredriech Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathrustra
Other notable mentions:
Milbank, Pickstock, Ward (ed.) – Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology
Henri de Lubac – The Drama of Atheist Humanism
Martin Luther – Basic Theological Writings
Marilyn Robinson – Gilead
Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Brian McLaren – A New Kind of Christian (trilogy)
James K. A. Smith – numerous works
I should probably add that I tried to list my most theologically influential books, not really my most favorite.