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Book Recommendations


 

Leaders are readers and readers are leaders! As I tell my students in college and seminary, if you want to lead you've got to read. With respect to Grace Theology there are many books out there covering a variety of topics. They will help inform you concerning motivation for spiritual formation. Here are a few suggestions to read and perhaps re-read:
 

 

 

    

The Gagging of God
by DA Carson Grand Rapids, Zondervan 1996
For those of you who are not weak of heart and have a little bit of time on your hands, this 640 page book by research professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This book offers an incredible critique of the view called pluralism based upon the view called relativism. Dr Carson argues quite effectively that Jesus Christ is the only that one can come to a saving knowledge of God. This view is called exclusivism and is vital for evangelical Christianity.
 

No Place for Truth (or whatever happened to evangelical theology)
by David Wells Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 1993
In this book Wells gives a devastation analysis and almost a catscan of American evangelicalism. He reveals that what started out as a conviction towards the authority and integrity of the World f God has reduced itself to mere opinions amongst religious educators and practitioners. This is must reading for those who want to understand what has happened to the evangelical movement.

God and the Wasteland: the Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams
by David Wells Grand Rapids Eerdmans 1994
This book is a sequel to the book No Place For Truth. Both of them are essentially a bomb that explodes upon the playground of the American Evangelical. Wells explained the sickness of the soul in his former book reveals that there is a potential solution.
 

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
by Mark Noll Grand Rapids Eerdmans 1994
Dr. Noll is an evangelical historian at Wheaton University. He traces how the evangelical mind has become rusted in the last 200 years. He says “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”

Love God With All Your Mind
by JP Moreland Grand Rapids Baker 1997
JP Moreland is a professor of Philosophy at Talbot Seminary. He looks at the historical, theological, and philosophical evidence as to why Christians need to think concerning their faith. Unfortunately, we live in what might be called a profound anti-intellectual period of western civilization. Although we have passion in our hearts we fail to have intelligence in our minds. Moreland provides the clarion call to cognitive thinking with the mind that should result in total commitment with the heart.
 

The Closing of the American Mind
by Alan Bloom 1987 New York, Simon and Schuster
This is an insightful book that deals with the soul of the American universities today. Bloom was a premier political science professor at the University of Chicago as well as other Ivy League schools. He covers a variety of topics but a large portion of the book deals with the liberal agenda and it’s desire for political correctness. Although this book is a number of years old it sets the foundation for what has happened for our educational system.


 

 



 

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