Recommended Books

Finding good, sound theological works that can be recommended is becoming increasing more difficult. Listed here are what the editors believe to be some of the best works available. They are in order of category and those with hyperlinks are available online. Many works listed have a code in bold face at the end of the link, this code refers to the publisher or distributor of the book(s), see the Notes section for more information.

Bibliology

• Gordon Clark, God's Hammer: The Bible and its Critics TF
• Louis Gaussen, God-Breathed: The Divine Inspiration of the Bible TF
• Arthur W. Pink, Divine Inspiration of the Bible SGP

The Doctrine of God

• Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God RHB

• Athur W. Pink, The Attributes of God RHB

• Arthur W. Pink, The Nature of God: Gleanings in the Godhead RHB

• Gordon Clark, The Trinity TF

The Person and Work of Christ

• John Owen, The Glory of Chirst RHB

• Robert Reymond, Jesus: Divine Messiah RHB

• John Brown (of Wamphray), Christ: The Way, Truth & Life RM

• James Durham, Unsearchable Riches of Christ RHB

• Arthur W. Pink, The Satisfaction of Christ: Studies in the Atonement RHB

• Arthur W. Pink, Doctrine of Reconciliation CVBBS

• James A. Haldane, Doctrine of the Atonement RHB

• John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ RHB

• George Smeaton, Christ's Doctrine of the Atonement RHB

• George Smeaton, The Apostle's Doctrine of the Atonement RHB

• Philip Henry, Christ is All in All RHB, GM

• Thomas Goodwin, Christ our Mediator SGP

• Isaac Ambrose, Looking Unto Jesus RM

• Gordon Clark, The Incarnation TF

• Gordon Clark, The Atonement TF

The Holy Spirit

• John Owen, The Holy Spirit, [Works, Volume 3] RHB

• James Buchanan, The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit OOP

• George Smeaton, The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit RHB

• Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit OOP

• Arthur W. Pink, The Holy Spirit SGP

• Gordon Clark, The Holy Spirit TF

Anthropology

• Gordon Clark, The Biblical Doctrine of Man TF

• Arthur W. Pink, The Total Depravity of Man SGP

• John Murray, The Imputation of Adams Sin RHB

• Thomas Goodwin, Man's Guiltiness Before God SGP

Sovereignty of God and Calvinism

• Elisha Coles, The Sovereignty of God RHB, GM

• Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God [Baker Edition] RHB

• Gordon Clark, God and Evil: The Problem Solved TF

• Gordon Clark, Predestination TF

• Ronald Cammenga and Ronald Hanko, Saved by Grace RFPA

• H. Hanko, H. Hoeksema, and Gise J. Van Baren, The Five Points of Calvinism RFPA

• Abraham Kuyper, Particular Grace RFPA

• Herman Hoeksema, The Wonder of Grace RFPA

• John Owen, A Display of Arminianism RHB

• Jerome Zanchius, The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination RHB

The Gospel, Grace and Salvation

• Thomas Goodwin, Justifying Faith RHB

• John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith [Works, Volume 5]  SGP

• Thomas Goodwin, A Discourse of Election [Works, Volume 9] SGP

• James Buchanan, The Doctrine of Justification RHB

• Solomon Stoddard, The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Christ OOP

• John Gill, The Cause of God and Truth RHB, GM

• William Romaine, Law and Gospel RHB, GM

• John Brown (of Wamphray), The Life of Justification Opened GB

• O. Palmer Robertson, The Current Justification Controversy TF

• Gordon Clark, What is Saving Faith? TF

• Abraham Booth, Reign of Grace RHB, GM

• John Colquhoun, True Repentance RHB, GM

• William Rushton, A Defense of Particular Redemption GM

• John Pedersen, Sincerity Meets the Truth OPP

• Hugh Martin, The Atonement RHB

Systematic Theology

• John Gill, A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity RHB, GM

• Robert Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith RHB

• Herman Hoeksema, Reformed Dogmatics, 2 Volumes, 2nd Edition RFPA

• G. Henry Kersten, Reformed Dogmatics, 2 Volumes RHB

• John L. Dagg, Manual of Theology RHB

• James P. Boyce, Abstract of Systematic Theology OOP

• William Ames, Marrow of Theology RHB

Important Theological Works

• John Gill, Sermons and Tracts RHB, GM

• Abraham Booth, The Death of Legal Hope GB

• Abraham Booth, Glad Tidings to Perishing Sinners GB

• Tobias Crisp, Christ Alone Exalted, 4 Volumes RHB, GM

• Walter Marshall, Gospel Mystery of Sanctification RHB

• William Romaine, The Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith RHB, GM

• David Engelsma, Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel RFPA

• John Kennedy and Horatius Bonar, Evangelism: A Reformed Debate JBS

• R.K. McGregor Wright, No Place for Sovereignty: What's Wrong with Free Will Theism? CVBBS

• Homer Hoeksema, Voice of Our Fathers: Exposition of the Canons of Dordrecht RFPA

• Herman Hoeksema and Henry Danhof, Sin and Grace RFPA

• Isaac Chauncy, Neonomianism Unmask'd GB

• John Eaton, The Honeycombe of Free Justification by Christ Alone GB

• William Twisse, The Riches of God's Love, 2 Volumes GB

• Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, 4 Volumes RHB

• John Owen, Biblical Theology RHB

• John Skepp, Divine Energy GB

Other Online Reformed Works for Reference

• Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness

• Philip Eveson, The Great Exchange: Justification by Faith Alone in the Light of Recent Thought

• John Piper, Counted Righteous in Christ: Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?

• Mark Karlberg, Covenant Theology in Reformed Perspective

• Wilhelmus a Brakel, The Christian's Reasonable Service [Vol. 1] ]Vol. 2]

• William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2 Volumes

• John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

• John Calvin, Calvin's Calvinism

• Arthur C. Custance, The Sovereignty of Grace

• Loraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

• James White, The Forgotten Trinity

• Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

• Archibald A. Hodge, The Atonement

• Robert L. Dabney, Christ Our Penal Substitute

• Robert L. Dabney, Systematic Theology

• Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3 Volumes

• W.G.T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2A] [Vol. 2B] [Vol. 3]

• Benjamin Warfield, The Works of Warfield, 10 Volumes

• William Cunningham, Historical Theology

Biographies

• George Ella, John Gill and the Cause of God and Truth BSB, GP

• George Ella, Augustus Montague Toplady: A Debtor to Mercy Alone GP

• George Ella, James Hervey: Preacher of Righteousness RHB, GP

• George Ella, William Huntington: Pastor of Providence RHB, GP

• Alexander Haldane, The Lives of Robert and James Haldane RHB

• Tim Shenton, 'An Iron Pillar': The Life and Times of William Romaine RHB

• Andrew Thomson, John Owen: Prince of the Puritans RHB

• Theodore Beza, The Life of John Calvin RHB

Bible Commentaries

Multi Volume Sets

• John Gill, Commentary on the Bible, 9 Volumes BSB

• John Calvin, Calvin's Commentaries, 22 Volumes RHB

• Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, 6 Volumes RHB

• Matthew Poole, Commentary on the Holy Bible, 3 Volumes [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2] [Vol. 3] RHB

• John Trapp, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5 Volumes RM

• Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 3 Volumes RM

• William Hendriksen & Simon Kistemaker, New Testament Commentary, 12 Volumes SGCB

• Robert Hawker, The Poor Man's Old Testament Commentary, 6 Volumes SGCB

• Robert Hawker, The Poor Man's New Testament Commentary, 3 Volumes SGCB

Old Testament

• Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in Genesis RHB

• Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in Ruth: The Kinsman Redeemer EP

• Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in the Song of Solomon RHB

• Henry Mahan, With New Testament Eyes, Volume 1 (Genesis-Job) EP

• Henry Mahan, With New Testament Eyes, Volume 2 (Psalms-Malachi) EP

New Testament

• Romans

  • Robert Haldane, Commentary on Romans RHB

  • Herman Hoeksema, Righteous by Faith Alone RFPA

  • Douglas Moo, The Epistle to the Romans CVBBS

  • John Piper, The Justification of God: An Exegetical & Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23 CVBBS

• Corinthians

  • Gordon Clark, First Corinthians TF
    

• Galatians

  • Edgar Andrews, Free in Christ: The Message of Galatians EP

  • James A. Haldane, Galatians PBP
    

• Ephesians

  • Paul Bayne, Ephesians RHB

  • Thomas Goodwin, Ephesians [Works: Volumes 1 & 2] SGP

  • Gordon Clark, Ephesians TF
    

• Philippians

  • Gordon Clark, Philippians TF
    

• Colossians

  • Gordon Clark, Colossians TF
    

• Thessalonians

  • Gordon Clark, First and Second Thessalonians TF
    

• Hebrews

  • John Owen, Hebrews, 7 Volumes RHB

  • William Gouge, An Exposition of Hebrews OOP

  • Edgar Andrews, A Glorious High Throne: Hebrews Simply Explained CVBBS

  • James A. Haldane, Hebrews PBP
    

• Epistles of Peter

  • Gordon Clark, New Heavens, New Earth: First and Second Peter TF
    

• Epistles of John

  • Samuel E. Pierce, An Exposition of the Epistle of 1 John RHB

  • Gordon Clark, First John TF
    

• Revelation

  • Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in Revelation RHB

  • Herman Hoeksema, Behold He Cometh: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation RFPA

Suggested Commentaries for Research

The following commentaries are not in any way endorsed but are listed here because of the value they may have regarding original language studies, historical background and alternative interpretations they may provide.

Multi-volume series

• Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, 10 Volumes

• Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

• New International Commentary on the New Testament

• New International Greek Testament Commentary

• International Critical Commentary series on the New Testament

• Pillar New Testament Commentary series

• New American Commentary on the New Testament

• Geneva Commentary series

• Lenski's New Testament Commentaries

• Word Biblical Commentaries on the New Testament

• The NIV Application Commentary on the New Testament

Individual commentaries

• Craig S. Keener, A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew

• Arthur W. Pink, The Gospel of John

• Herman Ridderbos, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary

• Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of John, 2 Volumes

• Harold W. Hoehner, Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary

• John Murray, Romans

• Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of Hebrews

Notes:

OOP = Out of print

Sources to Purchase Books

BSB = Baptist Standard Bearer
EP = Evangelical Press
GB = Good Books
GM = Gospel Mission
GP = Go Publications
JBS = James Begg Society
OPP = Old Paths Publications
PBP = Particular Baptist Press
RFPA = Reformed Free Publishing Association
RHB = Reformation Heritage Books
RM = Radio Missions
SGCB = Solid Ground Christian Books
SGP = Sovereign Grace Publications
TF = Trinity Foundation