Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Learning from the Best



Who are some of the best Christian writers down throughout the ages?  Who have taught you and who are you learning from?  Some of the best Catholic and Orthodox writers through the centuries are as follows: 

Origen,  Iranaeus, Ignatius, Athanasius,
Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor,
Gregory Palamas, John Chrysostom,
Thomas Aquinas, John the Cross,
Symeon the new theologian, Bulgakov,
G. K. Chesterton, Hans Ur von Balthassar


Some of the best Protestant writers and theologians:
Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards,
Soren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, Karl Barth,
John H. Yoder, Lesslie Newbigin


Some of the best living Christian writers today I like to read:
N. T. Wright (Anglican)
Ephraim Radner (Anglican)
Stanley Hauerwas (Methodist)
Peter Leithart (Presbyterian)
William P. Brown (Presbyterian)
Hans Boersma (Reformed)
Matthew Levering (Catholic)
Raniero Cantalamessa (Catholic)
Peter Bouteneff (Eastern Orthodox)
Andrew Louth (Eastern Orthodox)
David Bercot (Anabaptist)
Steven R. Harmon (Baptist)
Justo l. Gonzalez (hispanic Christian historian)
Richard Middleton (Jamaican-American Biblical scholar)
Mark Noll (global Church Historian)

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