In a recent blog post, popular pastor and writer, Eugene Cho, made a list of ten books that he would recommend all Christians should read. Cho feels that these books have impacted Christianity immensely and proved extremely helpful to their readers over the years.
If you are interested in reading any of these books, they would be available from a sites such as Amazon, Exclusive, Kalahari or my personal favourite – loot.co.za.
The list is compiled in no particular order.
• Testament of Hope – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
• Celebration of Discipleship – Richard Foster
• Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger – Ron Sider
• Wounded Healer or Return of the Prodigal Son – Henri Nouwen
• Dogmatics – Karl Barth [yes, all 13 volumes]
• The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society – Leslie Newbiggen
• The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Politics of Jesus – John Howard Yoder
Cho then went on to list another ten books that narrowly missed his initial cut.
• Knowing God – J.I. Packer
• Theology of Hope – Jurgen Moltmann
• Old Testament Theology – Gerhard von Rad
• The Moral Vision of the New Testament – Richard B. Hays
• A Theology of Liberation – Gustavo Gutierrez
• Irresistable Revolution – Shane Claiborne
• Transforming Missions – David Bosch
• The Jesus I Never Knew or What’s so Amazing About Grace – Phillip Yancey
• Christ and Culture – H. Richard Niebuhr
• Moral Man & Immoral Society – Reinhold Neibuhr
Finally, Cho also compiled a list of 'honourable mentions'.
• The Hiding Place [Corrie ten Boom]
• Confession [Augustine]
• Summa Theologica [Aquinas]
• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind [Mark Noll]
• Let Justice Roll Down [John Perkins]
• The Prophetic Imagination [Walter Brueggemann]
• Any one of Francis Shaeffer’s trilogy
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy [Tolkien]
• Surprised by Hope [N.T. Wright]
• Silence [Shusaku Endo]
• Traveling Mercies [Anne Lamott]
• The Brothers Karamazov [Dostoyevsky]
• Life Together [Bonhoeffer]
You can read Eugene’s blogs on http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/