Presbyterians for the Kingdom Reading List

Level 1: Understand what Christianity is

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Psalms
• Proverbs
• New Testament
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Reason for God by Tim Keller

Level 2: Understand what Presbyterianism is

• Rest of the Bible
• PCUSA Book of Confessions

Level 3: Start Reading Theologians

• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
• On the Incarnation by Athanasius
• Confessions by Augustine
• Introduction to the Reformed Tradition by John Leith
• Worship Reformed According to Scripture by Hughes Oliphant Old
  The Story of Christianity by Justo Gonzalez

Level 4: Read Important Theological Texts

• Everything from the Apostolic Fathers
• Irenaeus Against Heresies
• Augustine on the Spirit and the Letter
• Augustine on Predestination
• Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles (All 3 Books)
• Martin Luther Bondage of the Will
• Martin Luther The Freedom of a Christian
• Calvin’s short treatise on the Lord’s Supper
• John Williamson Nevin’s Mystical Presence
• Abraham Kuyper’s 6 Princeton Lectures
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Cost of Discipleship

Level 5: Get to know the Church Fathers

• All 7 Ecumenical Councils
• Justin Martyr’s Apology
• Tertullian’s Apology
• Athanasius’s 4 Discourses Against the Arians
• Basil the Great on the Holy Spirit
• Gregory of Nazianzus Theological Orations
• Gregory of Nyssa On the Soul and the Resurrection
• Gregory of Nyssa Not Three Gods
• John Chrysostom Galatians Commentary
• Augustine On The Trinity
• Cyril of Alexandria That Christ is One
• Maximus the Confessor on the Cosmic Mystery of Christ
• John Damascene on the Orthodox Faith

Level 6: Get the know the Reformed Tradition

• Theodulf of Orleans on the other of Baptism
• Theodulf of Orelans on the Holy Spirit
• Confession by Gottschalk
• Ratramnus Against the Objections of the Greeks
• Zwingli’s 67 Articles
• Ursinus on Predestination
• Heinrich Bullinger Sermon on the church
• Chemnitz Examination of the Council of Trent
• John Knox Predestination
• 39 Articles
• Canons of Dort
• Belgic Confession

• Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the hands of an angry God
• Jonathan Edwards the Freedom of the Will
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• John Williamson Nevin Catholicism
• John Williamson Nevin Antichrist, or the spirit of Sect and Schism
• John Williamson Nevin Election not contrary to a free gospel
• John Williamson Nevin False Protestantism
• EVERYTHING by JWN
• Karl Barth Learning Jesus Through the Heidelberg Catechism
• START Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics
• Donald Bloesch Foundations
• T.F. Torrance Scottish Theology
• Phillip Schaff, the Principle of Protestantism

Level 7: Learn Scholasticism and Philosophy

• Aristotle's Physics

• Consultation of Philosophy
• Boethius Theological Tractates
• Anselm of Canterbury Cur Deus Homo
• Bernard of Clairvaux On Free Will
• Bonaventure the Mind’s Road to God
• Gregory Palamas Philokalia
• Gregory Palamas Triads
• Johannes Wollebius Compendium
• Petrus Van Maastricht Theoretical-Pratical Theology
• Francis Turretin Institutes of Elenctic Theology
• Johannes Maccovius Miscellaneous Questions
• John Davenant on the Atonement
• Voetius on Simplicity
• Johann Gerhard’s Theological Commonplace on the Church
• Johann Gerhard’s Theological Commonplace on Predestination
• William Whittaker On Councils
• William Whittaker’s Disputation on Holy Scripture
• Rutherford’s Examination of Arminianism
• Rutherford’s The Covenant of Life Opened
• William Perkins Golden Chain
• John Owen The Death of Death

Level 8: Master Presbyterianism

• Descartes meditations
• Hume Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Kant prolegomena to all future metaphysics
• Berkeley A Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
• Thomas Reid Inquiry into the Human Mind in the Principles of Common Sense
• George Gillespie 111 Propositions
• George Gillespie An Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland
• Robert Baillie a dissuasive from the errors of our time
• Robert Baillie a Scotch antidote to the English infection of Arminianism
• Alexander Henderson The Solemn League and Covenant
• Alexander Henderson The Government and Order of the Church of Scotland
• Samuel Rutherford The Due Right of Presbyteries

• Marrow of Modern Divinity
• James Hadow the Antinomianism of the Marrow of Modern Divinity
• William G.T. Shedd Dogmatic Theology
• Charles Hodge Systematic Theology
• R. L. Dabney Systematic Theology
• Continuing Church by Dr. Sean Michael Lucas
• Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
• The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Spirit
• Machen’s Hope by Dr. Richard Burnett

Level 9: Master the Fathers

• Read Complete Phillip Schaff Church Fathers Set

Level 10: Master Exegesis

• Read All of Thomas Aquinas’s Biblical Commentaries
• Read All of Calvin’s Biblical Commentaries