Steven Wedgeworth is the rector of Christ Church Anglican in South Bend, Indiana. He has written for Wanting God, The Gospel Coalition, The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, The Anglican Means, and Mere Orthodoxy; he served as a founding board member of the Davenant Institute. Steven additionally lately contributed an essay on concupiscence within the new e book, Ruined Sinners to Reclaim (Crossway, 2024). Steven is married and has 4 youngsters.
1. That Hideous Power, by C. S. Lewis
A implausible science fiction tackle the dystopian future with the literary twist that Lewis can be giving commentary on the connection between women and men and demonstrating how they want one another to keep away from mutual self-destruction.
2. Methods to Use the Ebook of Frequent Prayer, by Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane
One of the best introduction and commentary to Anglican theology and worship.
3. God Is: A Devotional Information to the Attributes of God, by Mark Jones
A powerful work of scholastic theology in a well-liked format which additionally manages to attach educational doctrine with private piety.
4. Echoes of Exodus, by Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson
Top-of-the-line works of biblical theology and typology which ties collectively the overarching narrative of the Scriptures in an easy-to-read method.
5. An Exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians, by John Davenant
A seventeenth-century Bible commentary which additionally incorporates dense dogmatic treatises. Top-of-the-line primers on traditional Christology might be present in Davenant’s remedy of Colossians.
6. Nicaea and Its Legacy, by Lewis Ayres
This e book is crucial studying for understanding the fourth century and the event of the pro-Nicene theological custom.
7. The Metropolis of God, by Augustine of Hippo
An all-time traditional of Christian apologetics, political theology, and eschatology. Although a protracted work, this e book is however surprisingly accessible.
8. Three Treatises, by Martin Luther
These three works from Martin Luther seize the guts and soul of the Protestant Reformation. They present Luther’s personal improvement and spotlight the primary subjects of disagreement between historic Protestants and Roman Catholics.
9. The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity, by Maxwell E. Johnson and Paul F. Bradshaw
It is a very useful reference work that explains the historical past of assorted points of Christian liturgical observe and the church calendar.
10. Thomas Cranmer: A Life, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
It is a large biography which additionally serves as an historic primer on the English Reformation.
11. The Stations of the Solar: A Historical past of the Ritual 12 months in Britain, by Ronald Hutton
This e book is stuffed with fascinating historic tidbits and explanations of the folkways and customs which many people take as a right however haven’t stopped to research.
12. On the Incarnation, by Athanasius of Alexandria
A slim however dense quantity which defends the deity of Christ with the narrative of redemptive historical past.
A commentary on the well-known Heidelberg Catechism which additionally capabilities as a dogmatic theology textbook.
14. Right here I Stand: A Lifetime of Martin Luther, by Roland Bainton
That is nonetheless the most effective biography of Luther in that it’s each severe in its scholarship and inspirational in its prose. To not be missed.
15. Institutes of the Christian Faith, by John Calvin
An impressively complete strategy to Christian theology which might be learn by laymen in addition to students and clergy. Nonetheless important.
16. Males and Actions within the American Episcopal Church, by E. Clowes Chorley
This survey captures what’s an in any other case misplaced historical past of the American Episcopal Church because it was. That is no work of romantic idealism however the real-life rise and fall of a denomination which was as soon as the premier Protestant physique in the US.
17. The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Coronary heart, by Harold Senkbeil
A contemporary traditional which recovered an almost-lost perspective on the pastoral ministry as soulcare.
18. Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Previous for the Current, by Jonathan Gibson
An amazing historic sourcebook which passes down the traditional Protestant liturgies.
19. The Story of Christianity, by Justo L. Gonzalez
An attractive and informative survey of Christian historical past, masking the traditional world of the Hebrews by the rising Christian church into the medieval and fashionable eras.
20. Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Phrases, by Richard Muller
A Seminary schooling in a single quantity. An effective way to get began with scholastic theology.
