Books We Wish We Had Read before Coming to Seminary or Theology School

• The Bible, preferably in a study version with notes and commentary.
• Adler, Mortimer J. and Carl Van Doren. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading. New York: Touchstone, revised edition, 1972.
• Cooper, Stephen A. Augustine for Armchair Theologians. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.
• Core, Deborah. The Seminary Student Writes. Saint Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2000. Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
• Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 1994.
• González, Justo L. The Story of Christianity. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.
• Harris, Roberta L. The World of the Bible. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• King, Martin Luther. Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
• Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2015.
• Moore, Christopher. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. New York: Perennial, 2003.
• Palmer, Parker. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.
• Stone, Howard W. and James O. Duke. How to Think Theologically. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press 2013.
• Wink, Walter. The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. New York: Doubleday, 1998.