Request: Resources from Westminster John Knox Press

Rosie Perera
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edited November 2024 in Books and Courses Forum

Absolute musts:

  • Old Testament Exegesis by Douglas Stuart
  • New Testament Exegesis by Gordon Fee
  • A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III

Very important:

  • Beyond Foundationalism by Stanley Grenz & John Franke
  • God and the Crisis of Freedom by Richard Bauckham
  • Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen
  • Presbyterian Creeds: A Guide to the Book of Confessions by Jack Rogers
  • Reconstructing Pastoral Theology: A Christological Foundation by Andrew Purves
  • Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes by Walter Brueggemann
  • Using the Bible in Groups by Roberta Hestenes
  • Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms by Donald McKim

Important:

  • Breaking Bread: The Spiritual Significance of Food by Sara Covin Juengst
  • Calvin for Armchair Theologians by Christopher Elwood
  • God Never Forgets: Faith, Hope, and Alzheimer's Disease edited by Donald McKim
  • Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace by Glen Stassen
  • Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song by Brian Wren
  • Reformed Spirituality by Howard Rice
  • Sexual Ethics by Stan Grenz
  • Spiritual Life: The Foundation for Preaching and Teaching by John Westerhoff
  • The Remaking of Evangelical Theology by Gary Dorrien
  • The Westminster Collection of Christian Prayers compiled by Dorothy M. Stewart
  • To Will God's Will: Beginning the Journey by Ben Campbell Johnson
  • Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society by Marva Dawn
  • Worship by Hughes Oliphant Old

Older or more peripheral but would still be good to have in Logos:

  • Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye by Virginia Stem Owens (perhaps best for Vyrso??)
  • The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short
  • The Gospel According to the Simpsons by Mark Pinsky
  • The Hymnody of the Christian Church by Louis F. Benson (John Knox Press [which later merged with Westminster into WJKP], 1960)
  • Praying the Movies II: More Daily Meditations from Classic Films by Edward N. McNulty (get the original volume too, if you can: Praying the Movies, but that's published by Geneva Press)
  • Saint Paul at the Movies by Robert Jewett
  • Technology, Theology and the Idea of Progress by David Hopper
  • The Wheel and the Cross: A Christian Response to the Technological Revolution by Waldo Beach

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