I have been reading Christian books for over 35 years, since I first became a Christian. The following are my favourite Christian books and the ones which have had the biggest impact on me as a Christian.
One of the first Christian books I read, and one that has had a lasting impact on me. Pink's book is a thorough and robust explanation of the sovereignty of God in creation, providence and salvation.
Packer's classic was another early book I read. It is a wide ranging work, which deals with God's attributes and the gospel of salvation.
I am very interested in Reformed theology and systematic theology and Berkhof's classic work was the first one I bought and read. Again, it has had a massive influence on my Christian life and thinking.
John Stott's classic work on the atonement was. again, one of the earliest Christian books I read and it helped me to gain a lifelong grasp of the centrality of the cross and the penal substitutionary atonement. It is still the best book on the subject, I would argue.
One of my favourite books of church history, or rather historical theology, this short work by James Walker is a very interesting and informative survey of Scottish theology from the period of the Reformation in 1560 through to the mid 18th century. The book includes discussions of the work of some of Scotland's greatest theologians including John Knox, Andrew Melville, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Boston and many others.
This book by William Milligan was originally a series of public lectures. I had read several books about the resurrection. Most of them didn't go much beyond either the resurrection as evidence that the sacrifice of the cross was accepted by God or as evidence that the resurrection actually occurred. What always impressed me about Milligan's work was that it was the first I read that sought to explain the meaning of the resurrection in its own right and its central place in Christianity alongside the cross.
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