What theological/Christian books do you have in your personal library?

[trinityisunity]

I am wondering what books do Baptist Christians purchase and keep on their shelves at home. If you have the time, make a list and see what interesting titles come out of this. I will post my list but I need some time to type it all up. Include all the commentaries, dictionaries, Bibles, OT and NT surveys, Church history, concordances, counselling books, ethical books, ministry books, whatever is Christian and in your house/office. In three years of study I have gone from 10 - 20 books to now about 252 books. When you add up what they cost it is most surprising. I would be interested in how many books PrincetonGuy has, considering he has well over 200 commentaries on Romans alone!!!

[nzguy]

I got the Case for Christ, and the Case for Faith, by Lee Strobel. I had Real Churches or a Fog, by S.E. Anderson, I have The Trail of Blood, by J.M.Carroll (online), I have NKJV bible and KJV bible. I have Changes That Heal, have read The Search for Significance. I have the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance on my computer (I think it is the exhaustive one). I have the Guiness organisation's little New Testament plus Psalms and Proverbs book. I also have the living water booklet - the gospel of John.

That is about it.. I would love to get some more apologetics stuff and in particular Baptist history books - because I am sure The Trail of Blood book has alot of other material that backs it up and teases it out some more.

[MatthewDiscipleofGod]

Here is a link to a list of some of my books. There still are plenty more I need to add.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MatthewDiscipleOfGod (http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MatthewDiscipleOfGod)

[edb19]

here's just a few:

The Holiness of God
We Believe : A Pre-Modern Creed for Post-Modern Christians
Basic Christianity
Willing to Believe : The Controversy over Free Will
Trust and Obey : Obedience and the Christian
Ashamed of the Gospel
Grace Unknown : The Heart of Reformed Theology
The Sovereignty of God
The Gift for All People : Thoughts on God's Great Grace
The Case for Christianity (C.S. Lewis Classics)
Spurgeon Vs Hyper Calvinism : The Battle for Gospel Preaching
The Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis Classics)
The Contemporary Christian : Applying God's Word to Today's World
Forgotten Spurgeon
Chosen by God
Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
Your Mind Matters
Concise Theology (sc)
God in the Dark : The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt
Future Grace
Desiring God : Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
Death of Death
Justification by Faith Alone: Affirming the Doctrine by Which the Church and the Individual Stands or Falls
Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible
A Better Way : Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
The Atonement : Its Meaning and Significance
The Confessions of St. Augustine : A Modern English Version
A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times

[eldermike]

I need to do this, I just don't know when. I know it's a good idea just based on lending books and having them come back. If you don't know what you have it's hard to remember who has them. Oh well, one of these days.

[MrJim]

It would take too long :D

[PaladinGirl]

I have "Eternal Security: Can You Be Sure?" by Charles Stanley.

[mlqurgw]

Of the 3000 or so hardbacks I have I would guess that 2800 of them are theological and Christion. I haven't counted the ones I have on CD, as many if not more. Though it would take me a while to list them all I do have them on my shelves in categories: history, theology proper; both Arminian and Calvinist, Bibles: from the KJV to The Message,
commentaries: on the whole of the Bible and specific books, Greek and Hebrew, concordances, sermons, hymns and songs, biographies, general topics, world religions. Every wall of my study plus other palces in my home are covered with books. I will not say that I have read them all cover to cover but a majority of them I have and use many of them continuously.

[FreeinChrist]

Lots of books here too - but not 2000 plus!

I always liked real life missionary stories so ) have books by Don Richardson - Peace Child and Lords of the Earth based on his experiences in Irian Jaya with primiticve tribes. And he also wrote Eternity in their hearts which is wonderful! Also, I like Isabel Kuhn's life story.

Theological - varies. I have commentaries by John MacArthur and a few of his books like the Gospel according to the Apostles. Also, I have Salvation by Chafer, a commentary by Wayne Gruden, Giles Trinity and Subordinationism, Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie, Learning Theology with the Church Fathers by Christopher Hall, The Apocalypse by Joseph Seiss, The Epistles of John by Zodhiates and lots of others.

I prefer studying the Bible inductively rather than commentaries, but they can be helpful

[-~Truth_N_Trust~-]

I have a full bookshelf! lol!
Some of my books inlcude (apart from the Bible!)
Baker Theological Dictionary of the Bible
Lion Handbook to the Bible
Dr Martin Lloyd Jones - Romans
The new park street pulpit - Spurgeon - and a few other spurgeon things too...
Jesus Author and Finisher - Mulheran
Saving life of Christ/mystery of Godliness - Major Thomas
A few C.S.Lewis
Some Bunyan
a stack of Christian Fiction - mostly Francine Rivers
Hymnology - a collection of writings about church music history
some biographies.

that's all I can think of/see at the moment...

[mlqurgw]

Lots of books here too - but not 2000 plus!

I always liked real life missionary stories so ) have books by Don Richardson - Peace Child and Lords of the Earth based on his experiences in Irian Jaya with primiticve tribes. And he also wrote Eternity in their hearts which is wonderful! Also, I like Isabel Kuhn's life story.

Theological - varies. I have commentaries by John MacArthur and a few of his books like the Gospel according to the Apostles. Also, I have Salvation by Chafer, a commentary by Wayne Gruden, Giles Trinity and Subordinationism, Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie, Learning Theology with the Church Fathers by Christopher Hall, The Apocalypse by Joseph Seiss, The Epistles of John by Zodhiates and lots of others.

I prefer studying the Bible inductively rather than commentaries, but they can be helpful I usually use my books to check myself to make sure I am not going off the deep end on a topic or passage. I have few if any original thoughts, I just ain't that smart, so I check to see if any agree with me. I didn't just buy all those books either but have accumalted them over the years. I have had the privilage of being guided by men such as my pastor, probably 12000 or more, and my brother-in-law, 300000, or more in my purchases.

[HumbleMan]

With a four and a five year old, I don't have a whole lot of time for reading. Some of the books I do have and have enjoyed reading are

Living Beyond the Limit- Franklin Graham
The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
12 Ordinary Men - John McArthur
Paul - Charles Swindoll
Jesus Freaks - DC Talk

[BereanTodd]

I have multiple completely full book shelves, hundreds of volumes, so too many to list. If it's a major work I probably have it, though I avoid a lot of the lighter laymens books that are "popular" these days.

[TwistTim]

Ok, I had a list typed up and stored on my computer, but my external Hard Drive died on me 2 days before I could start burning stuff off( right before my vacation).... lost 200 Gigs of new data I was going to start burning.....

so... anyways.... I'm gonna do that LibraryThing website thing.... and then I'll post a link to the list here....

And I am always adding to my collection....

[HappyChicken]

Right now, most of my book collection is out in one of my barns in storage bins, until i can get a bookshelf. However, I have loads of books...Books from college, books on the occult, Mormon literature (I use to be Mormon), lots of British literature and other fiction. In my home, are the books I have acquired since we moved here which include, a couple different Bibles, and a book about David that was written by Chuck Swindol. HOWEVER, everything I have been reading recently is stuff I have printed off the internet off of sites suggested by a friends on here (Thanks Ron, Deacon Dean, and McWilliams!). I have a large binder that is over full that I'm working through and I have gone through a couple ink cartridges. lol. I'm blessed with lots of reading time.

[trinityisunity]

I have just downloaded Early Church Fathers and History of the Christian Church off of the Net. I was looking at purchasing the ECF for $299 US with $140 postage (normally $1100) which looked like a great deal. The cheapest I could get it here in Oz was $595. So now all 38 vols are on the hard drive and not taking up shelf space and saved myself around $500 AUS.

[TwistTim]

it only took me a mere four days due to some stuff happening over the course of two nights to get it done (So really 2 nights).... here it is.... http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TwistTim

most of it is stories more than actual deep stuff.... my dad's got all the deep stuff.... this is just my personal collection.... which expends slowly over time.... but I also due have deep stuff in there and biographies... this is my collection since childhood to present... only Christian stuff right now... in a while I'm gonna add my secular works to it.

[edb19]

I forgot about Library Thing - and I have my books listed there too.

I need to update though - don't think I've added anything to it for a while.

My tastes come through pretty clearly;)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/edie19

[shrewdsnake]

Other than the Bible (KJV) we have a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.

[Logus]

My list would be too ridiculously long.
I have several Bibles. Some Commentaries. Dictionary, Concordance and a number of the basic aids.

Five books I've relied on heavily are:
C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity
Francis Schaeffer's The God Who is There
Norman Geisler's Christian Apologetics
Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict and Handbook of Today's Religions

I'm heavily interested in Apologetics aimed at Islam, so I have a number of books on Islam (Most from a Christian perspective or those who've left Islam, but also a fair selection of Islamic material).

Many of my books I've read several chapters. Many I've read completely, some not at all. Most I like just for references.

I've got copies of Augustine's works, excerpts from the early Church writings, Thomas A Kempis and on and on.

I have small selection of Christian based fiction, but hopefully that'll grow... the thing is that so much of it is either like a soap opera for women or just too boring. But that's just me.

It's some of my non-Christian books that I find interesting:
I've got a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas (What a riot), a partial anthology of Hadiths by Buhkari, two Qurans with commentary, the Baghivad Gita.

One of the Bibles I have, I got for free online. It's actually just the NT. I got it first without knowing the source, but after discovering the nature of the editors and publishers, I know to take it with a huge grain of salt, but keep if for potential reference. The Recovery Version Bible put out by Living Stream Ministries... Witness Lee and the Local Church Sect.

One of the more enjoyable books I've read in the last year or so was The Bible as History by Werner Keller. I have an older edition. As a history and geography nut, the book is not a dry read, even if slightly flawed here and there and one realizes that Keller doesn't subscribe to the supernatural aspect of the Bible it seems.

[ImmersionX]

The King James Only CONTROVERSY by James R. White
The Complete Guide to Christian Denominations by Ron Rhodes
The Baptist Way by R. Stanton Norman
Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff

Peace and God Bless.

[chi_cchick]

I have "Boy meets Girl" by Joshua Harris. I don't know if that would count as a "christian book" but it does approach marriage in a way God would approve of I think.

[trinityisunity]

I have finally got around to putting some of my library onto

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/trinityisunity

I am still only halfway through this but here goes anyway.....

[christian73]

I have a lot of the Thomas Nelson series and some of the NIV Application Commentary series.

[SWigton87]

First of all, I'm a little ticked that nobody mentioned "The Chronicles of Narnia."

...

I'll get over it.

I own a set of Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, Case for Christ, Some early church History book, some theology textbooks by Dr. Harold L. Wilmington, Bible Code 1+2 (don't worry, I don't buy it), 3 million cookbooks, the Maker's Diet, 12 Sermons on Prayer by Charles Spurgeon, A book about Samurai, some of the enemy's books (yoga, taichi, meditation, communicating with the dead) from before I was saved that I keep as ammunition, a book of poems by Emily Dickinson, More than a Carpenter (great for new Christians that are hungry for knowledge to help them share the Gospel), Why Good Arguments Often Fail by James Sire, The Late Great Planet Earth and Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth - both by Hal Lindsey.

+Just about everything you can download for E-sword.