What are some books that every pastor should read?
PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 9 recommendations for historical theological studies:
- Karl Barth, The Word of God and Theology
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics III/4 (theological ethics)
- Augustine, Confessions
- Augustine, Homilies on the First Epistle of John
- Martin Luther, “The Freedom of a Christian”
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
- Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
- Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand, The Genius of Luther’s Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church