Book Reviews

Take and Read Suggested Books on Controversial Topics
by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon

The next time you are considering a topic, look at these books for further study and direction.

Here you will find lists of books in certain controversial categories. If you think other books should be added, please email me and let me know which books you found helpful in a certain areas of study. These books are “must reads” along with the Bible (assumed) when studying any of these topics. Be sure to consult them before landing on a certain theological persuasion. Sometimes we need the help of others before we make solid theological decisions that will shape the rest of our life.

Baptism and Infant Baptism
Baptistic:
The Evils of Infant Baptism
by RBC Howell

Lectures on Baptism
by William Shirreff

A String of Pearls Unstrung
by Fred Malone

Baptists, The Only Thorough Reformers
by John Q. Adams

Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace
by Paul K. Jewett

The Terms of Communion at the Lord’s Table
by RBC Howell

Children of Abraham
by David Kingdom

PaedoBaptisitic:
Calvin’s Institutes
by John Calvin – (4.8.16ff)

Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Vol. 3, Pages 356, 383, 414-20
by Francis Turretin

Systematic Theology
by Louis Berkhof, Pages 632ff

The Works of John Owen, Vol. 16, Pages 268ff
by John Owen

Systematic Theology, Pages 791ff
by R.L. Dabney

William the Baptist
by James Chaney

The Covenant of Life Opened
by Samuel Rutherford

The Scripturalness of Infant Baptism
by Ergatees

Reflections on Mr. Wall’s History of Infant Baptism
by John Gale

Anabaptism: The Fountain of Independency, Antinomy, Brownism, Familism, and the most of the other errors which for the time do trouble the church of England, Unsealed; Also, the Questions of Paedobaptism and Dipping Handled from Scripture
by Robert Baillie

Letters on Baptism
by Edmund B. Fairfield

Baptists and Infant Baptism
by Michael G. Wgner

Immersion and Immersionists
by W.A. Mackay

A Testimony Against the Unfounded Charges of Anabaptism
by Greg Price

Infant Baptism, Its Nature and Objects
by James Lumsden

The History of Infant Baptism in Two Parts
by William Wall

A Defense of the History of Infant Baptism Against the Reflections of Mr. Gale and Others
by William Wall

A Plea for Infant Baptism in Seven Parts
by James Milligan

The Origins of Infant Baptism, by Joachim Jeremias
Children of the Promise
by James Booth

a Practical Discourse Concerning Vows with a Special Reference to Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
by Edmund Calamy

Eschatology
Premillenial
The Revelation
by John Walvord

The Doctrine of Last Things
by Dwight D. Pentecost

Postmillenial
The Last Things
by Herman Bavinck

Amillenial
More than Conquerors
by William Hendricksen

The Bible and the Future
by Anthony A. Hoekema

The Return of the King
by Vern S. Poythress

The Church and Last Things
by D. Martin Lloyd Jones

Amillenialism Today
by William E. Cox

Last Things
by Paul Helm

The Momentous Event
by W. J. Grier

The Last Days According to Jesus
by RC Sproul

The Promise of the Future
by Cornelius Venema

Preterism
Shattering the Left Behind Delusion
by John Noe

The Sabbath/Lord’s Day
Sin, The Law and the Glory of the Gospel
by Joseph Bellamy

The Lord’s Day
by Joseph Pipa

The Ten Commandments
by Thomas Watson

Theses Sabbaticae
by Thomas Shepherd

A Treatise on the Law and the Gospel
by John Calqhoun

Call the Sabbath a Delight
by Walter Chantry

Celebrating the Sabbath
by Bruce Ray

The Lord’s Day
by Daniel Wilson

The Grace of Law
by Ernest Kevan

The Law of God
by William Plumer

The Worship of the English Puritans
by Horton Davies

The Worship of the American Puritans
by Horton Davies

Calvin and the Sabbath
by Richard Gaffin

Hebrews, Volume 2, The Name, Original, Nature, Use, and Continuance of a Day of Sacred Rest, [Pages 265-460]
by John Owen

Discussions, Volume 1, [Pages 496-550]
by R. L. Dabney

Systematic Theology, [Pages 351-357; 366-397]
by R. L. Dabney

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 2, 3 Sermons on the Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath, [Pages 93-103]
by Jonathan Edwards

The Marrow of Theology, [Pages 112, 283-284, 291-295, 298]
by William Ames

The Collected Writings of John Murray, Volume 1 [Pages 205-225] and Volume 3, [Pages 34-35; 43, 49, 72-73, 75-76, 101, 108]
by John Murray

Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Volume 2, [Pages 1-37; 77-100]
by Francis Turretin

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 2, [Book 2.8.29ff]
by John Calvin

Systematic Theology Volume 3, [Pages 257-275; 321-340]
by Charles Hodge

The Works of Richard Baxter, Volume 3, [879-926]
by Richard Baxter

The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, Volume 3 [Pages 236-267; 364-387]
by Ezekiel Hopkins

Paul, An Outline of His Theology, [Pages 99-100; 106-107; 130-158]
by Herman Ridderbos