Thread: Currently Reading

What is everyone currently reading? I ask because it helps give me ideas for my ever expanding library..

I am currently reading "History of the Christian Church" Vol 1 Aposolic Christianity by Philip Schaff, and "The Story of Civilization" Book 3 Ceasar and Christ by Will Durant.


I am a history nut

Right now apart from Scripture (I'm so bad about this, having several books going) I am reading:

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, William Law
Always Ready, Greg Bahnsen
The Life of John Newton, Josiah Bull
The Mischief of Sin, Thomas Watson
Saved By Grace, Herman Bavinck
Family Religion, Matthew Henry

I *think* that's all. Not too bad, actually, only six

Just finished Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick--a secular, fascinating history, well documented, sympathetic to the Puritans for the most part.

Whoops! Seven! Left off Manton's Sermons on Hebrews 11!

I'm reading "Concerning the End For Which God Created the Word" by Edwards, "All of Grace" by Spurgeon and plowing through "The Institutes of Christian Religion" by Calvin. Edward's is the hardest but is very good it will take me some time to get through it.

Owen's Death of Death (I promised myself I'd read it this winter!); Piper's series of short biographies; I'm also on an Edwards kick, kind of reading related history without a whole lot of planning.

I'm busy with my assigned reading, especially right now (a little over three and a-half weeks of classes left before reading days and finals!):

Augustine, "City of God" (selected readings)
Peter Brown, "Augustine of Hippo"
Bengt Hägglund, "History of Theology"
J.D. Kelly, "Early Christian Doctrine"
H. Chadwick, "History of the Early Church"

Man, you guys put me to shame I need to bust into some non-fiction!
I ordered my husband Christless Christianity for festivus, so maybe I'll read that soon.

Splitting between two books right now, my typical habit. Knowing God by JI Packer and By What Standard? by RJ Rushdoony.

The mortification of sin by John Owen

(i almost made this thread a couple of weeks ago!)

How God Wants Us to Worship Him - Joe Morecraft, III

and

Calvin's Commentary on Malachi

This is my "Currently Reading" shelf from goodreads.com

My practice is to study along with what my church is teaching through.
Currently it's Hebrews, Philippians, The Doctrine of God, and the Baptist Catechism.

Calvin's Institutes. Don't tell Johnny Hunt.

Accepted and Renewed in Christ: The "Twofold Grace of God" and the Interpretation of Calvin's Theology, by Cornelis P. Venema

Life in Christ: Union with Christ and Twofold Grace in Calvin's Theology, by Mark A. Garcia

Bavink's Prolegomena before bed.

Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System, Medical Instrumentation and Design, Introduction to Programming with C++, Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics...

Oh wait, you're probably more interested in my extra-curricular, theological reading:
Future Grace by John Piper
The Godly Man's Picture by Thomas Watson
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

I am currently reading:

The Story of Christianity, Justo Gonzalez
The Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
What Jesus Demands from the World, John Piper
Baptist Confessions of Faith, William Lumpkin
1689 Confession in Modern English
A Baptist Catechism, John Piper

I'm reading:

Desiring God- John Piper (again)
Disciplines of a Godly Man- R. Kent Hughes (Point man group book)
The Reformed Pastor- Richard Baxter (Homework)

Originally Posted by Southern Presbyterian

How God Wants Us to Worship Him - Joe Morecraft, III

Finished this one last night.

Just started Putting Amazing Back into Grace - Michael Horton

And continuing to read various commentaries on the Book of Malachi.

Originally Posted by Leslie

Just finished Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick--a secular, fascinating history, well documented, sympathetic to the Puritans for the most part.

This sounds like an interesting book... I think I will check it out

The Death of Meaning by Rushdoony

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Browsing through How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer

Next up - The History of The Church by Eusebius (for the 3rd time)

I wish I had Philip Schaff's books. They'd be great reading!

Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics by Gordon Stykeman

Theology of the Sacraments by Baille

Everything else is packed and ready for the move.

Liberal Fascism -Jonah Goldberg

Empire of the East -Fred Saberhagen

In no particular order:

Memoirs: Volume One: Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955) This is the first of the two volumes of Truman's presidential memoirs. I like to call Truman the "last sane Democrat."

The Jeweler's Eye by William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969) This is a collection of Buckley's essays and articles published to that point.

Moral Essays: Volume 1 by Seneca; translated from the Latin by John W. Basore; The Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928) The Roman writer Seneca, whose older brother, Novatus, is the Gallio of Acts 18:12-17.

The Lives of the Novelists by Sir Walter Scott; reprint; the Everyman's Library series (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910) Biographies of novelists whose works were reprinted in a multi-volume format in the early 1820s. Same idea as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (1779, 1781).