Keith Mathison’s Top Ten Books
Keith A. Mathison (M.A., Reformed Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Whitefield Theological Seminary) is dean of the Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies and an associate editor of Tabletalk magazine at Ligonier Ministries. He is the author of Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God?; Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope; The Shape of Sola Scriptura; Given For You: Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper; and From Age to Age: The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology. He is editor of When Shall These Things Be?: A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism and associate editor of The Reformation Study Bible.
1. John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion.
2. Martin Luther - Commentary on Galatians.
3. Robert Bruce – The Mystery of the Lord’s Supper.
4. John Owen – The Mortification of Sin.
5. The Nicene Creed, The Chalcedonian Definition, and either The Three Forms of Unity or The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms.
6. F. F. Bruce – The Defense of the Gospel in the New Testament.
7. Geerhardus Vos – The Pauline Eschatology.
8. Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death.
9. J. R. R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings.
10. Although it’s not a book, I would encourage every Christian to read and re-read John Newton’s letter “On Controversy.”
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22 “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has also rejected you. . . .” (1 Samuel 15:22-23, ESV)
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” – Augustine
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