Recommended
Philosophical and Theological Works
Dr.
Jonathan M. Gold
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Topic |
Author |
Title
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Gold
Comments |
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Husserl, Edmund |
The
Crises of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology |
“a
great book by a great philosopher” |
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Advanced Logic |
Fitting and Mendelsohn |
First-Order Modal Logic |
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Advanced Logic |
Girle, R. |
Modal Logics: Modal Logics and
Philosophy |
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Arminian Systematic Theology |
John
Miley |
Systematic
Theology |
best
one |
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Barth |
Bromily,
Geoffrey |
Introduction
to the Theology of Karl Barth |
This
book surveys the church dogmatics
as well as any could. It will give you
an idea of the lay of the land
like a road map |
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Barth |
George Hunsinger |
How
to read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology |
an
excellent book and most of the book tests out his
claims about the patterns in Barth’s Theology in terms of the many sidedness of
Barth’s concept of truth!!!!!!! |
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Barth |
Ramm, Bernard |
After
Fundamentalism |
Bernard
Ram, "After Fundamentalism" a book written to recommend
Barth to evangelicals not only as a great theologian
but as an Apologist!! |
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Being |
Emonet, Pierre-Marie |
The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things: An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Being |
Each of these books is under 150 pages. He uses
meditation, poetry, Aristotle, Aquinas, Maritain and plenty of description of
beings in order to get the reader to see Being in the way that I write about
it. I am using these books in my morning devotions, right now and
getting great joy. These books and then Sweeney's more technical but also
very rooted in experience metaphysics would give you a solid basis for
understanding being. You will see then, I hope, that much of the
philosophical task is description of what we experience. This is basic
data to deal with and to seek to thematically study and know better, if we
want to learn from reality rather than impose untested ideas and theories on
reality [as does modernism and postmodernism] while failing to listen to our
own being, the being of other people, the being of knowing and the being of
the known and the being of God who is omnipresent in all things etc.
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Being |
Emonet, Pierre-Marie |
The Greatest Marvel of Nature: An Introduction to The Philosophy
of the Human Person |
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Being |
Emonet, Pierre-Marie |
God seen in the Mirror of the World: An Introduction to the
Philosophy of God |
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Being |
Gilson, E |
Being
and Some Philosophers |
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Being |
Gilson, E |
The
Unity of Philosophical Experience |
He
shows how the departure |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Calvin,
John |
Institute
of the Christian Religion |
in
a class by itself! |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Turretin |
Institutes
of Elenctic Theology, 3 Volumes |
a
classic |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Hodge,
AA |
Outlines
of Theology |
also
very helpful |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Gill,
John |
The
Body of Divinity |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Gill,
John |
Cause
of God and Truth |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Owen,
John |
Anything! |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Edwards |
A
Strict Inquirty into the Freedom of the Will |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Cunningham |
Historical
Theology |
Solid
systematic considerations |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Reymond,
R |
A
New Systematic Theology |
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Calvinistic Systematic Theologies |
Pink,
Arthur |
Almost
everything he wrote! |
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Coherence Truth |
Rescher,
Nicholas |
The
Coherence Theory of Truth |
Perhaps
the best book |
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Epistemology |
Husserl, Edmund |
Transcendental
and Formal Logic |
this
book displays “a tremendous sense of finitude of the intellect and the
finitude of our knowledge while still holding on to absolute truths where
they are legitimate and justified as such” |
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Epistemology |
Clouser, Roy |
The
Myth of Neutrality: An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories |
“This
is a great book by a very clear and passionate writer who is a committed Calvinist
and analytical philosopher.” |
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Epistemology |
Clouser, Roy |
Knowing
with the Heart: Religious Experience and Belief in God. |
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Epistemology |
Dooyeweerd, Herman |
A
New Critique of Theoretical Thought |
“The monumental work of Christian Philosophy in
the 20th Century” |
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Epistemology |
Grossmann, Reinhardt |
The
Fourth Way |
“one
of the most exciting books in Epistemology that I have ever read” |
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Epistemology |
Mensch, James |
Knowing and Being: A
Postmodern Reversal |
Mensch
is with it! Grounded in premodern, modern, and postmodern thought, he is
doing creative retrieval of premodern ways of being and areas of being for
postmodern folk in the 21st century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Epistemology |
Mensch, James |
After Modernity:
Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition |
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Epistemology |
Owens, Joseph |
Cognition An Epistemological Inquiry |
“a
Thomistic approach
to knowledge which I basically share” |
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Epistemology |
Torrance |
Theological Science |
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Epistemology |
Torrance |
Reality
and Evangelical Theology |
Both
of these books are Theological and Christian epistemology of the highest order! He is a Barthian but an original thinker as well and he makes major points
of great value for any person who wants a Christian Epistemology that can be
Postmodern without the bad points. I
will call this "responsible postmodernism." -
well it would give you a new paradigm for Christian epistemology which
you will
not get from philosphers. Why not do
that next. Better than all of Van Til
and Bahnsen, or so I think |
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Foundationalism |
Heidegger, Martin |
Being
and Time - Macquarrie and Robinson Translation |
“a
great book” and “a direct response to the dead end of Carteisianism and its
obliviosness to the being of the "am" in the "I think
therefore, I am."” One of the Great Philosophy Books of 20th
Century Radically
opposed to Cartesian Foundationalism and providing a new kind of
Foundationalism in a contextualized theory of Being and Human Being |
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Foundationalism |
McGrew, T |
A
Defense of Foundationalism |
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Foundationalism |
Fales, Evan |
The
Given |
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Foundationalism |
Kelly, D |
The
Evidence of the Senses |
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Foundationalism |
Pols, Edward |
Radical
Realism |
Radical
Realism Showing
we are always beyond our conceptual
and linguistic frameworks and not imprisoned in them at all! |
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Foundationalism |
Rasmussan |
The
Triumph of Realism |
Same
as RR above |
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Free Will |
Edwards,
Jonathan |
A Strict Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will |
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Free Will |
Pink,
Arthur |
Total Depravity |
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Free Will |
Pink,
Arthur |
Man’s Spiritual Impotence |
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Free Will |
Fischer,
John Martin |
The Metaphysics of Free Will |
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Free Will |
Helm,
Paul |
The Providence of God |
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Free Will |
White,
James |
The Potter's Freedom: A Defense of the
Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler's "Chosen But Free |
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Free Will |
Pink,
AW |
The Sovereignty of God |
a
consideration of Pink's arguments would be a very solid exercise in coming to
know what the Bible says about God, sin and its effects, and Grace in
salvation |
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Free Will |
Owen,
John |
A Display of Arminianism |
an
old but not dated look at the presuppositions and arguments of Arminianism |
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General Philosophy A Great Introduction to Philosophy for new
beginners and perpetual beginners! |
Scruton, Roger |
Modern
Philosophy |
“an
excellent introduction from an excellent analytical
philosopher” & “informative,clearly written and has very informative
study guides and bibliography for each chapter” |
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Heidegger |
Gelvin, Michael |
Commentary on Being and Time |
A commentary
that I first used in 1970 and then two years ago, is Michael Gelvin Commentary
on Being and TIme. Very good! Both are in PB.] |
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Heidegger |
Polt, J |
title not known – an intro to Heidegger |
He
has written a very good introduction to Heidegger and what he is about
and most of the book is a about "Being and Time." Excellent help. |
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History of
Analytic Philosophy |
Passmore, John |
The
last Hundred Years in Philosophy |
Dr.
Gold recommends this book on the history of philosophy |
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History of Philosophy |
Copleston, Frederick C |
History
of Philosophy |
“probably
the best multi-volume history of philosophy” |
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History of Philosophy |
Edwards, Paul |
The
Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
“a
great help” |
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History of Philosophy |
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The
Pelican History of Western Philosophy |
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Informal Logic |
Mullen |
Hard Thinking |
a
direct assualt on relativisms and pomo type thinking |
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Intellectual Virtues |
Moreland, JP |
Discipleship of the Mind |
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Jonathan Edwards |
Jenson, Robert |
Jonathan
Edwards: A Recommendation. |
“I
recommend Robert Jenson, a famous and contemporary Lutheran Theologian's
book, "Jonathan Edwards: A Recommendation. Jenson wrote that book
about 20 years ago for the purpose of waking up sleeping wishy washy
Christendom to the real Christianity of the Bible. He recommends
Edwards because Edwaerds is very Bible based and counter cultural to the
baptized lion clubs that make up so much of Christendom.” |
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Language |
Hale, Robert
and Crispin Wright |
A
Companion to the Philosophy of Language (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) |
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Logic |
Allen and Hand |
Logic Primer |
Best
natural deduction system, this book was designed to be used with a teacher |
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Logic |
Bergmann, Moor, and Nelson |
The Logic Book |
Best
all around book for standard logic |
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Logic, History of |
Bochenski’s,
IM |
A History of Formal
Logic |
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Open Theism |
Frame,
John |
No
Other God: A Response to Open Theism |
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Open Theism |
Ware,
Bruce |
God’s
Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of
Open Theism |
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Open Theism |
Wright,
RK McGregor |
No Place for Sovereignty:What is wrong with
Freewill Theism |
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OT |
Birch, Brueggeman, Fretheim, Petersen |
A
Theological Introduction to the Old Testament |
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OT, pomo, epistemology |
Walter Brueggermann |
Theology of the Old Testament |
I
want to recommend to you, in terms of postmodernism and Bible studies, the
first self-consciously Postmodern Old Testament Theology. I have just
spent two hours from 4Am to 6AM reading it and it is a wonderful book! Walter
Brueggemann Theology of the Old
Testament! This book is very relevant
to your concerns about postmodernism and epistemology. |
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Philosophy of Religion |
Ross, James |
Philosophical
Theology |
“a great book” |
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Philosophy of Religion |
Ross, James |
Introduction
to the Philosophy of Religion |
“an
excellent short introduction to philosophy of religion” |
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Polanyi |
Torrance |
Belief
in Science and in Christian Life: The Relevance of Michael Polyani's Thought for Christian Faith and Life |
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Postmodernism |
Johnson, William S. |
The
Mystery of God: Karl Barth and the PostModern Foundations of Theology" |
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Presuppositional Apologetics |
Bahnsen, Greg |
“…over
half of it is the writings of Van Til, judiciously selected by Bahnsen and
illuminated by his commentary; [This book] is the place to begin a study of
both Van Til
and Bahnsen.” |
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Realism |
Devitt, Michael |
Realism
and Truth |
“excellent
book” |
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Realism |
Devitt, Michael |
Realism
and Truth |
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Realism |
Wild, John |
Introduction to Realistic Philosophy |
[Incidently,
what I am calling premodern is also
called “classical realism.” If you
want a reliable introduction to classical
realism, the book to get is John Wild “Introduction to Realistic
Philosophy.” |
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Realism |
Devi |
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Reality |
Brunner, Emil |
Christian
Dogmatics (esp., 3) |
In
both books he makes a big deal about how the church objectivised itself because
it fell into propositionalism as the necessary effect of falling away from
moment by moment communication with the Lord. |
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Reality |
Brunner, Emil |
Truth
as Encounter |
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Reformed Epistemology |
Plantinga, Alvin |
Warrant:
The Current Debate |
“simply a great philosopher” & “His work in
Epistemology is must reading” |
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Reformed Epistemology |
Plantinga, Alvin |
Warrant
and Proper Function |
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Reformed Epistemology |
Plantinga, Alvin |
Warranted
Christian Belief |
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Thinking |
Sertillanges,
AG |
The
Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods |
Hard
intellectual work |