Some suggestions for books worth picking up if you want to keep thinking down the lines of this blog:

For those interested in practicing Christianity, albeit with a decidedly Lutheran bias

  • The Bible

  • The Apostles' Creed

  • The Nicene Creed

  • The Athanasian Creed

  • Anselm; Prayers and Meditations

  • Benne; Ordinary Saints

  • Duncan; Dear Church

  • The Formula of Concord, Epitome

  • Hoffman; Faith Forming Faith

  • Jenson; Story and Promise

  • Johnson; Crossing the Bar

  • Keifert; We Are Here Now

  • Kolden; The Christian's Calling in the World

  • Luther; Large Catechism

  • Luther; Small Catechism

  • Melanchthon; The Augsburg Confession

  • Schmit; Sent and Gathered

For those leading Christian communities

  • Ammerman, Carroll, Dudley, and McKinney; Studying Congregations

  • Arand; That I May Be His Own

  • Atkins; Memory and Liturgy

  • Bernstein; Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

  • Bertram; A Time for Confessing

  • Chaves; Congregations in America

  • Dykstra; Growing in the Life of Faith

  • Ellison and Keifert; Dwelling in the Word

  • The Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration

  • Grane; The Augsburg Confession

  • Hovda; Strong, Loving and Wise

  • Jenson; Lutheran Slogans

  • Jenson; Visible Words

  • Keifert; Welcoming the Stranger

  • Lange; Trauma Recalled

  • Lathrop; The Pastor

  • Luther; The Babylonian Captivity of the Church

  • Maas and O'Donnell; Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church

  • Melanchthon; The Apology of the Augsburg Confession

  • Padgett and Keifert; But Is It All True?

  • Palmer; The Company of Strangers

  • Soskice; The Kindness of God

  • Spinks; Luther's Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass

  • Taylor; A Secular Age

  • Taylor; Sources of the Self

  • Volf; Captive to the Word of God

  • Wannennwetsch; Political Worship

  • Webber; The Congregation in Mission

  • Wengert; A Formula for Parish Practice

  • Wind; Places of Worship

  • Wingren; Luther on Vocation

For those who want to think God first and/or help others do the same

  • Adams; Christ and Horrors

  • Ammerman; Congregation and Community

  • Beilby; For Faith and Clarity

  • Crisp; A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology

  • Crisp and Rea; Analytic Theology

  • Cunningham; To Teach, To Delight, and To Move

  • Davis; God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs

  • Elert; The Christian Ethos

  • Gadamer; Truth and Method

  • Hunter; To Change the World

  • Jenson; Systematic Theology

  • Juel; Shaping the Scriptural Imagination

  • Kelsey; Proving Doctrine

  • Kelsey; To Understand God Truly

  • Luther; The Smalcald Articles

  • Luther; Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope

  • Ricour; The Rule of Metaphor

  • Socskice and Lipton; Feminism and Theology

  • Taylor; Sources of the Self

  • Taylor; A Secular Age

  • Tracy; Plurality and Ambiguity

  • Vajta; Luther on Worship

  • Van Huyssteen; Alone in the Wolrd?

  • Welker; God the Spirit

  • Wind; American Congregations

​That little work of my own, my PhD dissertation.