 | On Being Black and Reformed: A New Perspective on the African-American Christian Experience by Anthony J. Carter
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $6.59 Carter offers a new paradigm for a lived Black Theology that is solidly cross-centered.
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 | The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version by Published by Ligonier Ministries General Editor-R. C. Sproul
Buy used from: $25.00 The best study Bible on the market in one of the best translations. Theology must start with the Scriptures.
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 | Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy R. Pearcey
Buy used from: $4.00 Establishes a framework for a Christian worldview. Theology, whether actively or passively gained, always yields a worldview. Start with Pearcey for a framework of truth.
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 | Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview by Albert M. Wolters
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $6.94 Considers a Christian worldview with an overview of the plan of God in Scripture. This text is to establish a framework for understanding "the Scarlet Thread."
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 | According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible by Graeme Goldsworthy
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $12.68 Gives an overview of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. A lay-introduction to Biblical Theology and "the Scarlet Thread."
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 | The Fabric of Theology: A Prolegomenon to Evangelical Theology by Richard Lints
Buy used from: $5.86 A significant text in learning how to think theologically. Don't be turned off by the term "evangelical," for Lints is no fundamentalist.
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 | Expository Hermeneutics: an Introduction by Elliot Johnson
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $12.25 The best 20th Century work on the theory and method of Biblical interpretation with a process of validating truth.
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 | The Pleasures of God by John Piper
Buy new: $8.14 / Used from: $3.64 In order to gain a breathtaking view of the majesty of God and all of His works, especially in the atonement and nature, get this book! Every African-American preacher needs this book!
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 | The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by D. A. Carson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $8.60 "God is love," "God loves the sinner and hates the sin," and "God wants us to love everyone" and all other common Black slogans on love will never be the same once you read this book.
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 | Love in Hard Places by D. A. Carson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.98 How do you love (and forgive) a racist who has harmed your family? It is not as simple as "forgive and foget." How do you forgive the 9/11 terrorists? Hard, solid, biblical thoughts are in this book.
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 | Introducing Black Theology: Three Crucial Questions for the Evangelical Church by Bruce L. Fields
Buy used from: $0.36 Fields makes even-handed criticisms of Black Theology.
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 | Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience by Carl F. Ellis
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.64 Ellis analyzes the development of African-American theological thought without sacrificing the cross.
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 | W.E.B. Du Bois : Writings : The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles (Library of America) by W. E. B. Du Bois
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $9.95 Not Christian in thought, but all African-American thought flows from or argues against DuBois. Library of American brings the best works together.
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 | Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America) by Frederick Douglass
Buy new: $23.44 / Used from: $14.97 For those who cannot find an ethnic Christian hero among the Puritans and Reformers, here is a good place to start. Douglass is heroic.
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 | Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (Religion in America) by John Saillant
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $29.00 A hero in hue among the Puritans. A readble account.
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 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.70 This text may be even more significant that DuBois' Soul's for the contemporary African-American, as we become even more invisible.
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 | African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness (The C. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience)
Buy new: $17.55 / Used from: $10.99 |
 | Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (American Culture) by Michael Eric Dyson
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.83 Although written in the mid 90's, Dyson's critique of African-American life, including religon, is still on point for today. It should be read in conjunction with the other texts in this listmania.
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 | Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Glenn C. Loury
Buy used from: $0.59 Good thinking by a scoail conservative. Probably need to be read hand in hand with a work by Shelby Steele and Cornel West's Race Matters.
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 | Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology (New Vectors in the Study of Religion and Theology) by Dwight N. Hopkins
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $6.95 |
 | African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
Buy new: $40.46 / Used from: $24.95 The entire Anthology needs to be read to understand Black religious thought.
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 | Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More Than 100 Disputed Questions by Wayne Grudem
Buy new: $25.64 / Used from: $12.88 To address the tough issue of women in ministry, this is a must read!
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 | Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism by John Piper
Buy used from: $0.97 For further consideration of the roles of men and women, this is a modern classic. If only every African-American pastor and professor would read this book...!
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 | The Nation of Islam: Understanding the "Black Muslims" by Steven Tsoukalas
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.58 A good primer. This book needs to be read with Lincoln's Black Muslims.
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