Recommended Religious Reading List

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You asked a few weeks ago for a recommended religious reading list. Here's mine. I'll also post these on my blog. Thanks. PC


Dogmatics (vol. 1 and 2) – Emil Brunner
Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
Transforming Mission – David Bosch
Philosophical Fragments – Soren Kierkegaard
Message and Mission – Eugene Nida
Customs and Culture – Eugene Nida
Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Word of Truth – Dale Moody
Either/Or – Soren Kierkegaard
Nature and Destiny of Man – Reinhold Niebuhr
Understanding Genesis – Nahum Sarna
The Concept of Anxiety – Soren Kierkegaard
Concluding Unscientific Postscript - Soren Kierkegaard
Axioms of Religion – E.Y. Mullins
The Christian Religion in its Doctrinal Expression – E.Y. Mullins
The Sickness Unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard
On Being Christian – Hans Kung
The Baptist Heritage – Leon McBeth
Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
Works of Love – Soren Kierkegaard
The Epistle to the Romans – Karl Barth
The Polarities of Human Existence in Biblical Perspective – Frank Stagg
New Testament Theology - Frank Stagg
The Book of Daniel (ABC) – Alexander A. Di Lella and Louis F. Hartman
I and Thou – Martin Buber
The Message of Genesis – Ralph Elliott
The Divine Imperative – Emil Brunner
The Mediator – Emil Brunner
The Theology of Hope – Jurgen Moltmann
A Literary Approach to the New Testament – John Paul Pritchard
Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Soren Kierkegaard
Apostasy – Dale Moody
Sexual Ethics – Stanley Grenz
Christian Theology – Millard Erickson
The Book of J – Harold Bloom
Genesis: A Living Conversation – Bill Moyers
Christ and Culture and Culture – H. Richard Niebuhr
Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally – David Hesselgrave
Baptist Confessions of Faith – William Lumpkin


Here are some “religious” works of fiction. Not all “Christian” and not all explicitly “religious”:

Before the Law – Franz Kafka
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
The Wasteland - T. S. Elliot
Meditation XVII - John Donne
The Second Coming – W.B. Yeats
Four Quartets - T. S. Elliot
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Divine Comedy – Alighieri Dante
Paradise Lost – John Milton
The Last Temptation - Nikos Kazantzakis
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky