by Jonathan on January 23, 2012
Last year I kept track of the books I read for the first time. Following the cue of Ian Clary, I’m going to list them here, not because I want to attract attention to myself, but rather because reading Ian’s list last year encouraged me. Who knows? maybe I can encourage you this year with my list. I’m a person who usually is reading three to five books at once, but who finishes only about two out of five. I’d like to improve that number this year and continue growing in my understanding of God’s Word and especially church history.
1) The Plan of Salvation by Benjamin B. Warfield
2) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
3) Anti-Antinomianism: the Polemical Theology of Daniel Williams (Th.M. Thesis) by D. Patrick Ramsey
by Jonathan on August 20, 2011
I previously wrote about how much I’d learned from Carl Trueman of Westminster Theological Seminary. I’ve run across another church historian whose lectures have taught me much about Christian history, especially about Baptist history. His name is Michael Haykin. He blogs at The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies and is professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and teaches some courses at Toronto Baptist Seminary.
I have been incredibly edified by many of his lectures. He has introduced me to people I’d never heard of but who have challenged my faith and spirituality (e.g. Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Samuel Pearce, and the men who wrote the 1689 Baptist confession).
You can find his lectures at sermonaudio.com.
