Secondhand Christian Theology Bargain Book Box SP4158

Secondhand Christian Theology Bargain Book Box SP4158

Twenty Christian paperbacks from the serious evangelical shelf, with a run of vintage Fontana Religious: Karl Barth’s Faith of the Church, Butterfield’s Christianity and History, J.I. Packer’s Knowing God, Lloyd-Jones’s Spiritual Depression, Matthew Henry on the Gospels, Thomas à Kempis in Penguin Classics, the Moffatt Gospels, J.B. Phillips’s Young Church in Action, Michael Green, Bill Hybels, Hallesby and John Romer’s Testament. The reading list of a 1970s Bible college student.

1. Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones — Twenty-one sermons from Westminster Chapel on why Christians are miserable and what to do: “Have you realised that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?” The most-read Lloyd-Jones, and the one pastors hand out.
2. Matthew Henry’s Commentary: The Four Gospels — ed. David Winter — The 1700s Nonconformist commentary that Spurgeon read every year, abridged to the Gospels. Still the warmest commentary in English.
3. The Faith of the Church — Karl Barth — The twentieth century’s greatest theologian on the Apostles’ Creed, clause by clause, from lectures in France. The shortest way into Barth. Fontana.
4. Christianity and History — Herbert Butterfield — The Cambridge historian on providence, judgment and what the Bible says about how history works. A view of the depths below the surface of history, says the Guardian. Fontana, 3/6.
5. The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis — The fifteenth-century manual of the inner life, more read than any Christian book but the Bible. Leo Sherley-Price’s translation. Penguin Classics.
6. Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe — ed. D.M. MacKay — Seven scientists on whether a universe of laws leaves room for God. The IVP symposium that shaped the science-and-faith conversation in Britain.
7. Knowing God — J.I. Packer — Not knowing about God, but knowing him: the attributes, the grace, the adoption. The 1973 book that sold a million and is the evangelical classic of its generation.
8. The Gospels — trans. James Moffatt — The first paperback of the Scottish scholar’s modern translation, the one that got there before Phillips and the NEB. Hodder, 2/6.
9. I Believe in Satan’s Downfall — Michael Green — The Oxford evangelist on the devil, demons and deliverance, taking the subject seriously without hysteria. Hodder.
10. Too Busy Not to Pray — Bill Hybels — Slowing down to be with God, from the Willow Creek founder. IVP.
11. World Without End — Roger Pilkington — Science and religion from a biologist who writes fearlessly and evocatively, says J.B. Phillips. Fontana.
12. Runaway World — Michael Green — Is Christian belief escapism, or are the escapists the ones who won’t face the evidence? Green’s apologetic for students, 1968. IVP.
13. The Young Church in Action — J.B. Phillips — The Acts of the Apostles in modern English, from the man who translated the New Testament in a bomb shelter. Fontana.
14. God’s Frozen People — Mark Gibbs & T. Ralph Morton — A book for and about ordinary Christians: why the laity is frozen out of the church and how to thaw it. Fontana original.
15. Testament: The Bible and History — John Romer — The Channel Four series book: how the Bible was written, copied and argued over, by the archaeologist-presenter.
16. Godliness and Contentment — Marcus L. Loane — Studies in the Pastoral Epistles by the Archbishop of Sydney. Australian evangelical scholarship at its best.
17. Victory in the Christian Life — Herbert W. Cragg — A Victory Press paperback on the overcoming life.
18. Under His Wings — O. Hallesby — The Norwegian theologian’s devotional classic to restore and strengthen the discouraged believer, from the author of Prayer.
19. Developing a Christian Mind — Oliver R. Barclay — How to think Christianly about everything, from the IVF general secretary. IVP.
20. Divine Order in the Church: A Study of 1 Corinthians — French L. Arrington — A Pentecostal scholar’s commentary on the most disorderly church in the New Testament.