Theology Resources

Theology Blogs:

1. Kerry's Loft: Kerry heads up the Norman Karl Barth reading group and keeps his blog updated with helpful Barth study guides, notes, and thoughts. We are taking a slow and thoughtful look at Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics.

2. Fors Clavigera: Personal blog of James K.A. Smith, Professor at Calvin College.

3. Brandon Withrow: Writer and theological studies professor, Withrow also writes for the Huffington Post.

4. Stand for Reason: Stand to Reason trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values in the public square.

Theology Books:

1. A Grammar of Christian Faith: Dr. Joe R. Jones was a guest professor of Systematic Theology from whom I had the pleasure of learning. This is link to his website associated with his two volume systematic. My first read left me with a bad taste in my mouth. It took me six months of reflection when I realized that Jones' book is so insightful and necessarily challenging.

2. Systematic Theology: A three volume systematic theology by Thomas Oden. I borrowed the first volume from a friend and found it to be a good place to begin when jumping into systematics. I wish I had started with Oden before jumping into Jones (#1).

3. The Christian Tradition: Five volume set on the history of Christian theology by Jaroslav Pelikan.

4. Lectures in Christian Dogmatics: John D. Zizioulas provided for me the clearest explanation of the Trinity. One of my favorite resources on church dogmatics.

5. A History of Christianity: Pelikan's The Christian Tradition (#4) is a focused look at the history of Christian theology. Kenneth Scott Latourette two volume set A History of Christianity looks more broadly at not only Christian theology but the historical events surrounding the history of Christian theology. This is an older resource but valuable nonetheless.

6. A Community Called Atonement: Scott McKnight's view of the atonement. Good read if you can get past the golf analogy.