Reforming Theology in Christian Perspective
Systematic Theology
Historical Theology
Biblical Studies - General
Old Testament Studies
New Testament Studies
History of Christianity
The Kingdom of God
Miracles
Eschatology
Christianity in Everyday Life
Christianity and Other Religions; Missions
Systematic Theology
Berkouwer, G C. Divine election. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
Berkouwer, G C. Faith and justification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954.
Berkouwer, G C. Faith and perseverance. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1958.
Berkouwer, G C. Faith and sanctification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Berkouwer, G C. General revelation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955.
Berkouwer, G C. Holy Scripture. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
Berkouwer, G C. Man: the image of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.
Berkouwer, G C. Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971.
Berkouwer, G C. The Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976.
Berkouwer, G C. The person of Christ. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954.
Berkouwer, G C. The providence of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Berkouwer, G C. The return of Christ. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.
Berkouwer, G C. The Sacraments. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969.
Berkouwer, G C. The work of Christ. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965.
Green, Michael. I believe in Satan's downfall. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
Houston, James. I believe in the Creator. Eerdmans, 1980.
Kuyper, Abraham. The Work of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.
Middleton, J Richard. "Is creation theology inherently conservative? A dialogue with Walter Brueggemann." Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994) 3:257-277.
Plantinga, Theodore. Learning to live with evil. St Catharines: Paideia Press, 1982.
Stott, John. The cross of Christ. IVP, 1986.
Spykman, Gordon. Reformational Theology: A new paradigm for doing dogmatics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.
Vander Stelt, John C. "Philosophical assumptions in North American Presbyterian Theology." Pro Rege 18 (1990) 4:9-19.
Vander Stelt, John C. "Theology as Study of Faith-life." Pro Rege 18 (1989) 1:15-23.
Wenham, David. The enigma of evil. Leicester: IVP, 1985.
Williams, Michael. "Being righteous and doing justice: Modern theology and the prophetic concern for justice." Pro Rege 19 (1991) 3:18-23.
Williams, Michael. "Individualism and Biblical personhood." Pro Rege 21 (1993) 3: 6-22.
See also the annotated Bibliographies from Ex Auditu:
The Holy Spirit
Biblical Law and Liberty
The Church
The Resurrection
Historical Theology
Berkouwer, G C. A half century of theology: movements and motives. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.
Berkouwer, G C. The triumph of grace in the theology of Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.
Biblical Studies
Holwerda, David. Jesus and Israel: One Covenant or Two? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
Linnemann, Eta. Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology or ideology? Reflections of a Bultmannian turned evangelical. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990.
Plantinga, Theodore. Reading the Bible as history. Burlington: Welch, 1980.
Ridderbos, Herman. Studies in Scripture and its Authority. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.
Old Testament Studies
Blocher, Henri. In the Beginning: the opening chapters of Genesis. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP. 1984.
Dumbrell, William. Covenant and creation. Paternoster, 1984.
Ellis, E Earle. The Old Testament in Early Christianity. Canon and interpretation in the light of modern research. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991.
Goldingay, John. Theological Diversity and the Authority of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
Goldsworthy, Graeme. According to plan. The unfolding revelation of God in the Bible.
Goldsworthy, Graeme. Gospel and Kingdom: A Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament. Exeter: Paternoster, 1981.
Goldsworthy, Graeme. Gospel and Wisdom: Israel's Wisdom Literature in the Christian life. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1987.
Greidanus, Sidney. The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.
Thompson, Alden. Who's afraid of the Old Testament God? Exeter: Paternoster, 1988.
Wiseman, P J. Clues to creation in Genesis. Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1977.
New Testament Studies
Bailey, Kenneth E. Poet and Peasant. Through Peasant Eyes. A literary-cultural approach to the parables in Luke. Combined edition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.
Ridderbos, Herman. The Coming of the Kingdom. Philadephia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1962.
Ridderbos, Herman Paul and Jesus. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1958.
Ridderbos, Herman Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures. Presbyterian and Reformed/Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1988.
Ridderbos, Herman. When the time had fully come: Studies in New Testament Theology. St Catharines: Paideia, 1982.
Wright, N T. "How can the Bible be authoritative?" Vox Evangelica 21 (1991) pp. 7-32.
Wright, N T. Christian Origins and the Question of God.
Volume 1. The New Testament and the People of God. London: SPCK, 1992.
Volume 2. Jesus and the Victory of God. London: SPCK, 1996.
The remaining volumes still being written are:
Volume 3. Paul and the Faithfulness of God.
Volume 4. The Gospels and the Story of God.
Volume 5. The early Christians and the Purpose of God.
Wright, N T. The Climax of the Covenant. Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991.
Wright, N T. The Epistles of Paul to the Colossians and to Philemon. Tyndale, 1987.
History of Christianity
Balke, Willem. Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.
Bradley, James E, and Muller, Richard A. Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works and Methods. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
McNeill, John T. The history and character of Calvinism. London: OUP, 1954.
The Kingdom of God
History of interpretation:
Groh, John E. "The kingdom of God in the history of Christianity. A Bibliographical survey." Church History 43 (1974) 257-267.
Hiers, Richard H. "Eschatology and methodology." Journal of Biblical Literature 85 (1966) 170-184.
Viviano, Benedict T. The Kingdom of God in history. Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1988.
a) Early church
Beskow, Per. Rex Gloriae. The kingship of Christ in the early Church. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell, 1962.
Ferguson, E. "The kingdom of God in early Patristic literature." In: Willis, W. The kingdom of God in 20th century interpretation. Boston: Hendrikson, 1987, pp. 191-208.
Murray, R. Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A study in early Syriac tradition. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
b) Reformation
Torrance, T F. Kingdom and Church: A study in the theology of the Reformation. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956.
c) Nineteenth-twentieth centuries
Lundström, Gösta. The Kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus. A history of interpretation from the last decades of the Nineteenth century to the present day. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1963.
Willis, Wendell, ed. The kingdom of God in 20th-century interpretation. Boston: Hendrikson, 1987.
Biblical studies:
Bright, John. The Kingdom of God: The Biblical concept and its meaning for the Church. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1953.
France, R T. "The church and the kingdom of God: some hermeneutical issues." In: Carson, D A, ed. Biblical interpretation and the church: text and context. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1984, pp. 30-44.
Gray, John. The Biblical doctrine of the reign of God. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1979.
Marcus, Joel. "Entering into the Kingly power of God." Journal of Biblical Literature 107 (1988) 4:663-675.
a) Old Testament
Dumbrell, W J."Spirit and Kingdom of God in the Old Testament." Reformed Theological Review 33 (1974) 1-10.
Patrick, Dale. "The kingdom of God in the Old Testament." In: Willis, W. The kingdom of God in 20-the century interpretation. Boston: Hendrikson, 1987, pp. 67-80.
Selman, M J. "The kingdom of God in the Old Testament." Tyndale Bulletin 40 (1989) 2:161-184.
b) New Testament
Marshall, Chris. Kingdom come. The Kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus. Auckland: Colcom Press, 1990.
Ridderbos, Herman. The coming of the Kingdom. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1962.
Theological reflections:
Barbour, R S (ed). The kingdom of God and human society. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
Chilton, Bruce, ed. The Kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Dengerink, J. "The universal reality of God's kingdom" International Reformed Bulletin 69 (1977) 10-15.
Hathaway, Brian. Beyond renewal: The kingdom of God. Milton Keynes: Word, 1990.
Ladd, George Eldon. The presence of the future: the eschatology of Biblical realism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.
Newbigin, Lesslie. Your kingdom come. Leeds: John Paul the Preacher's Press, 1980.
Recker, Robert. "The redemptive focus of the Kingdom of God." Calvin Theological Journal 14 91979) 154-186.
Ridderbos, Herman. Paul: An Outline of his Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
Miracles
See also the items listed in the Bibliography for the Kingdom of God with respect to the connection of Jesus' miracles with the coming of the Kingdom.
History of interpretation:
Gousmett, C J. "Creation order and miracle according to Augustine." Evangelical Quarterly 60 (1988) 217-240.
Grant, Robert M. Miracle and natural law in Graeco-Roman and early Christian thought. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1952.
Hooykaas, R. The principle of uniformity in geology, biology and theology. Leiden: E J Brill,
Keller, Ernst & Marie-Luise. Miracles in dispute: a continuing debate. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969.
Klaaren, Eugene. The religious origins of modern science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.
Moule, C F D, editor. Miracles. Cambridge Studies in their philosophy and history. London: A R Mowbray, 1965.
Mourant, John. "Augustine on miracles." Augustinian Studies 4 (1973) 103.
Theological reflection:
Berkouwer, G C. The Providence of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Inch, M. "The apologetic use of 'sign' in the fourth Gospel." Evangelical Quarterly 42 (1970) 35.
Kallas, James. The significance of the Synoptic miracles. London: S.P.C.K., 1960.
Melinsky, M A H. Healing miracles. An examination from history and experience of the place of miracle in Christian thought and medical practice. London: A R Mowbray, 1968.
Smedes, Lewis B, editor. Ministry and the miraculous: a case study at Fuller Theological Seminary. Pasadena: Fuller Theological Seminary, 1987.
Van der Loos, H. The miracles of Jesus. Supplement to Novum Testamentum, VIII. Leiden: E J Brill, 1965.
Eschatology
History of interpretation:
Althaus, Paul. Christian eschatology and the history of doctrine. In: Twentieth century theology in the making. Vol 1.
Cohn, N. The pursuit of the millenium. London: Paladin, 1970.
a) Early church
Bietenhard, H. "The millenial hope of the early church." Scottish Journal of Theology 6 (1953) 12-30.
Florovsky, G. "Eschatology in the Patristic age: an introduction." Studia Patristica 2 (1957) 235-250.
Kelly, J N D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: A & C Black, 196O.
Lampe, G W H. Early Patristic Eschatology. Scottish Journal of Theology Occasional Papers No. 2.
b) Reformation
Murray, Iain. The Puritan Hope. Banner of Truth, 1971.
Quistorp, H. Calvin's Doctrine of the Last Things. London: Lutterworth Press, 1955.
Toon, Peter, ed. Puritans, the Millennium and the future of Israel: Puritan Eschatology 1600-1660. London: James Clarke, 1970.
c) Nineteenth-twentieth centuries
Martin, James P. The Last Judgement in Protestant Theology from Orthodoxy to Ritschl. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1963.
Rowell, Geoffrey. Hell and the Victorians. Oxford: Clarendon, 1974.
Biblical studies:
Nickelsburg, G W E. Resurrection, immortality and eternal life in inter-testamental Judaism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
a) Old Testament
Gowan, Donald E. Eschatology in the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
Birkeland, H. "The belief in the resurrection of the dead in the Old Testament." Studia Theologica 3 (1950-51) 75-
Vawter, B. "Intimations of immortality and resurrection in the OT." Journal of Biblical Literature 91 (1972) 158-171.
b) New Testament
Cranfield, C E B. "Thoughts on New Testament eschatology." Scottish Journal of Theology 35 (1982) 497-512.
de Boer, M C. The defeat of death. Apocalyptic eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 22. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.
Harris, Murray J. Raised Immortal: Resurrection and Immortality in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.
Harris, Murray J. From Grave to Glory: Resurrection in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.
Travis, Stephen H. Christ and the Judgement of God: Divine retribution in the New Testament. Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1986.
Vos, Geerhardus. The Pauline Eschatology. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1991.
Theological reflections:
Bavinck, Herman. Our Reasonable Faith. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977. Chapter 24: Eternal life.
Bavinck, Herman. The Last Things.
Berkouwer, G C. Man: The Image of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962. Chapter 7: Immortality.
Berkouwer, G C. The return of Christ. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.
Boliek, L. The Resurrection of the Flesh. A study of a confessional phrase. Amsterdam: Jacob van Campen, 1962.
Cullman, Oscar. Christ and time. London: S.C.M., 1962.
Cullman, Oscar. Immortality of the soul or resurrection of the dead? London: Epworth Press, 1958.
Fudge, Edward William. The fire that consumes: A Biblical and historical study of final punishment. Houston: Providential Press, 1982.
Hamilton, N Q. Holy Spirit and Eschatology in Paul. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957.
Hanhart, K. The intermediate state in the New Testament. Franeker: T Wever, 1966.
Holwerda, David. The Holy Spirit and eschatology in the Gospel of John. A critique of Rudolph Bulkmann's present eschatology. Kampen: J H Kok, 1959.
Konig, Adrio. The centrality of Christ in eschatology: Towards a Christ-centred approach. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.
Ladd, George Eldon. The presence of the future: the eschatology of Biblical realism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.
Lawrence, David. Heaven: it's not the end of the world! London: Scripture Union, 1995.
Ridderbos, H. Paul: An Outline of his Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. Section 12: The future of the Lord.
Rietkerk, Wim. The future great planet earth. Mussoorie, India: Good Books, 1989.
Schep, J A. The Nature of the Resurrection-Body. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964.
Spykman, Gordon. Reformational theology: A new paradigm for doing dogmatics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. Part 5: The consummation.
Travis, Stephen H. I believe in the second coming of Jesus. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
Travis, Stephen H. Christian hope and the future of man. Leicester: I.V.P., 1980.
Travis, Stephen H. End of Story? What Jesus said about the end of the world.
Tugwell, Simon. Human immortality and the redemption of death. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990.
Wainwright, G. Eucharist and Eschatology. London: Epworth Press, 1971.
Theology in Everyday Life
Banks, Robert, ed. Faith goes to work: reflections from the marketplace. New York: Alban Institute, 1993.
Banks, Robert. Redeeming the Routines: Bringing Theology to Life. Wheaton, Ill: Victor Books, 1994.
Wright, Tom. New tasks for a renewed church. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992.
Christianity and Other Religions; Missions
Bavinck, J H. An Introduction to the Science of Missions. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1960.
Bavinck, J H. The church between temple and mosque. A study of the relationship between the Christian faith and other religions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.
Boer, Jan H. Missions: heralds of capitalism or Christ? Ibadan, Nigeria: Day Star Press, 1984.
Dyrness, William A. Let the earth rejoice! A Biblical theology of holistic mission. Westchester: Crossway, 1983.
Ramachandra, Vinoth. Gods that Fail. Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
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