Now Concerning Series Resources
Note: These resources are useful starting points for research and analysis. Including them in this blog post does not mean every point of view is fully agreed with by Doxa leadership. Whatever and whenever you read, be sure to ask the Lord’s help in discerning truth from error.
Women in Ministry
Books:
How Can Women Thrive in The Local Church? by Keri Folmar
Different by Design by John MacArthur
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by John Piper and Wayne Grudem
Women in the Church by Andreas Kostenberger and Thomas Schreiner
Men and Women in the Church by Kevin De Young
The Christian Family by Herman Bavinck
God’s Design for Man and Woman by Andreas Kostenberger
Men, Women and Order in the Church by John Calvin
The Feminist Mistake by Mary Cassian
Women’s Ministry in The Church by Ligon Duncan & Susan Hunt
The Accidental Feminist by Courtney Reissig
Articles:
Can Women Be Pastors? by Danny Burk
Should Women Be Pastors by Virgil Walker
Women Pastors, Women Preachers, and the Looming Test of the SBC by Al Mohler
5 Patterns of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by Kevin DeYoung
Women’s Roles in the Church by Michelle Lesley
Evil and God’s Goodness
Books:
God and Evil: The Problems Solved by Gordon Clark
What About Evil? by Scott Christensen
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God ed. By John Piper and Justin Taylor
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga
Theodicy by G.W. Leibniz
Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It?) by Greg Welty
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller
God in the Wasteland by David Wells
How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Pain and Suffering by D.A. Carson
If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Sufffering and Evil by Randy Alcron
The Many Faces of Evil John Feinberg
Articles:
Answering Evil by RC Sproul
Messages:
What is Evil and Where Did it Come From? by RC Sproul
If God is Good Then Why Do I Suffer? by RC Sproul
Losing Your Salvation
Books:
A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance by Augustine
The Race Set Before Us: A Theology of Perseverance by Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday
Can I Lose My Salvation? R.C. Sproul
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
Biblical Doctrines by B.B. Warfield
Eternal Security by A.W. Pink
Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof
Articles:
Can I Lose My Salvation? by Jonathan Leeman and John Onwuchekwa
Can Christians Lose Their Salvation? by Keith A. Mathison
Can Christians Lose Their Salvation? (Hebrews 6) by Dennis E. Johnson
Is it Possible for Redeemed People to Lose Their Salvation? by John MacArthur
Does Hebrews 6 Teach You Can Lose Your Salvation? by Ardel Caneday
Classical Christianity: On Perseverance of the Saints
Augustin and John Owen on Perseverance (PDF)
The Perseverance of the Saints - A History of the Doctrine (PDF)
Podcasts:
Predestination and Free Will
Books:
Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
The Sinfulness of Sin by Ralph Venning
Biblical Doctrine by B.B. Warfield
The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
On the Predestination of the Saints by Augustine
The Sovereignty of God by A.W. Pink
Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul
Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility by D.A. Carson
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
Articles:
John Wesley on his view of Predestination
Videos:
Man's Radical Fallenness by RC Sproul
Living for Christ in a Post-Christian World
Books:
The Other Worldview by Peter Jones
One or Two by Peter Jones
Against All Opposition by Greg Bahnsen
Websites/Articles:
Videos:
Pesky Verses or the Power of God: Romans One under Attack by Peter Jones
The Truth and the Lie in Worship
The Truth and the Lie in the Contemporary Church
The Truth and the Lie in Mystical Trends
Speaking the Gospel in a Oneist World
Twoism and the Doctrine of God
Ditching The Old Testament
Books:
The Revelation of Law in Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn
The Whole Christ by Sinclair Ferguson
How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament by Jason Derouchie
Commentary on the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson
The Marrow of Modern Divinity by Edward Fisher
A Treatise on the Law by John Colquhoun
Biblical Doctrine by B.B. Warfield
40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law by Thomas Schreiner
Podcast:
Should We Unhitch Christianity from the Old Testament? “Unbelievable” episode debate between Andy Stanley and Jeff Durbin
Articles:
Getting Unhitched from the Old Testament? Andy Stanley Aims at Heresy by Al Mohler
6 Reasons You Need to Stay Hitched to the Old Testament by Michelle Lesley
Church and State
Books:
Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Romans by Thomas Schreiner
The Epistle to the Romans by John Murray
Commentary on Romans 13 by Martyn-Lloyd Jones
The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates by Matthew Trewhella
Theodore Beza “On the right of Magistrates”
John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion”
God Against the Revolution by Gregg Frazer
The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders by Gregg Frazer
A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer
God in the Dock by CS Lewis
Lex Rex: The Law is King by Samuel Rutherford
Videos:
Government: Christian Worldview from R.C. Sproul
Our First Studio Dividing Line: Romans 13, 1 Peter 2, and More by James White
Critical Race Theory
Books:
Faultlines by Voddie Baucham
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
Engaging Critical Theory and the Social Justice movement (free download) by Neil Shenvi
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth by Thaddeus Williams
Social Justice and the Chrisitan Church by Ronald Nash
Social Justice vs. Biblical Justice by E. Calvin Beisner
Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice by Scott David Allen
Social Justice goes to Church by Jon Harris
Awake and Alive to Truth by John Cooper
Videos:
Biblical Justice versus Social Justice
Articles & Websites:
Critical Race Theory, the New White Supremacy by Virgil Walker
Neil Shenvi Apologetics (website + direct link to Critical Race Theory articles)
Center for Biblical Unity website
Hold the High Ground by James White
Being Tossed To and Fro by CRT
How to be an Anti-Intellectual by Coleman Hughes
Evangelicals and Race Theory by Carl Trueman
No! CRT does not continue the Civil Rights Movement by James Lindsay
Podcasts:
Just Thinking - Episodes 45, 108, 109, 110, 111
Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Episodes 19, 275, 327, 383 (and more)
Alpha and Omega (a.k.a The Dividing Line with James White)
The Sexual Revolution
Books:
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? By Kevin DeYoung
Unchanging Witness by S. Donald Fortson III and Rollin G. Grams
Source of the Self: The making of the modern identity by Charles Taylor
The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield
Confessions by Augustine
Ethics in the Conflict of Modernity Alasdair Macintyre
Forgetting How to Blush by Karen Booth
Same Sex Mirage by Douglas Wilson
The Sexual Revolution by Wilhelm Reich
Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry
When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson
Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey
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