There are many tremendous Catholic and Eastern Orthodox books on this important issue of Ressourcement. Here are seven of my favorites and most influential Protestant writers on this topic:
1. John Howard Yoder. The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. One of the best books written on the Jewish roots of the Christian faith and even why Judaism and Christianity did not really have to go two different ways but why they did.
2. D. H. Williams. Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church. This book not only challenged some of my Anabaptist roots but also taught me to call my self a "suspicious protestant."
3. Jason Byassee. Praise Seeking Understanding. Reading the Psalms with Augustine. Beautifully written by a Methodist on re-contextualizing the Psalms for today using Augustine as a model.
4. Michael Graves. The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Fathers Can Teach Us. Tremendous biblical insights into the early church.
5. Ephraim Radner. The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West. Radner tries to connect and puts into historical context the contemporary wounds of the church.
6. Steven R. Harmon. Towards Baptist Catholicity. Here is a Baptist trying to return to the early church fathers and the early European fathers of the Baptist movement.
7. Steven R. Harmon. Baptist Identity and the Evangelical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of community. Ecclesiology and ecumenism at its best!
(a honorable mention does go to Christopher Hall)
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