The Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals

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ltwin said:
Me and my siblings loved Narnia growing up. We would hide in our wardrobe and pretend there was a whole world back there. 🙂

I remember reading Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan when I was like 11. That was a little too much for me at the time. I also vaguely remember reading Fox’s Book of Martyrs, and I definitely remember sitting in church hearing a sermon where that book was referenced a lot.

I’ve read, off and on and still haven’t finished yet, Charles Finney’s Power from on High. I’ve also started reading various works of John Wesley and even Thomas a Kempis, but I never have time to finish reading everything I want to. The Church Fathers are on my list eventually, and I really want to read the Theologia Deutsch. My brother has a copy of The City of God, and I’m borrowing that too eventually.

Thank God for Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
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Theologia Deutsch looks interesting. I had not heard of it.

Another very influential book among Evangelicals which is not within the list’s post-WWII time frame is Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest.
 
AbideWithMe said:
Theologia Deutsch looks interesting. I had not heard of it.

Another very influential book among Evangelicals which is not within the list’s post-WWII time frame is Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest.
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Yes, I agree. When I first saw this thread pop up, my very first thought was MUFHH. I was shocked that it wasn’t on the list. Almost every Evangelical Protestant I have known, especially the missionaries and pastors, claim that this book was a huge influence on their faith and life.
 
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The Church has been around for 2000 years. The authors who wrote during the first 1900 years are underrepresented.
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Because the first 1500 years were not on their reading list? Actually, not many people were educated then and books were expensive. Available to a limited crowd of clergy and educated.
 
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