 | The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament: A New Interlinear Translation of the Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies' Fourth, Corrected ... Standard Version, Testament (Personal Size) by Robert K. Brown
Buy new: £12.56 / Used from: £12.91 Greek New Testament (translated word-for-word in the interlinear) alongside the NRSV - spot-on for NT studies. Get a UBS4 as well, for the critical apparatus.
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 | New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading by Anthony C. Thiselton
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £13.50 Put the effort in to read and inwardly digest - by far one of the MOST important texts to get your head around.
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 | Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Buy used from: £21.10 Another crucial one for hermeneutics.
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 | Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (American Society of Missiology) by David J. Bosch
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £10.00 Known in the trade simply as 'Bosch' - awesome.
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 | The New Testament and the People of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God v. 1 (Christian Origins & Ques God 1) by N.T. Wright
Buy new: £19.51 / Used from: £14.99 Useful background for NT study, also covers hermeneutical theory usefully. The whole series (covering Jesus, the resurrection and soon Paul) is well worth the time and effort.
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 | Gods Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit by Gordon D. Fee
Buy new: £23.33 / Used from: £33.97 Great work on Paul's view of the Spirit.
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 | Living the Christian Story: The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics by John E Colwell
Buy new: £28.50 / Used from: £11.97 Amongst the dross on ethics out there, John Colwell makes a brilliant case for a Christ-centred story-empowered ethic.
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 | The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley Hauerwas
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £12.00 Provocative ethicist par excellence; sure to provoke in the best of ways.
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 | A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, ... Emergent, Unfinished Christian by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: £7.32 / Used from: £3.99 Whatever your opinion, the emerging movement needs investigaion and assessment - start here.
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 | The Christian Theology Reader
Buy new: £18.79 / Used from: £17.30 A range of primary texts covering almost all the bases.
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 | Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God: Triune God Vol 1 by Robert W. Jenson
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £19.01 Robert Jenson: certainly not an easy read but let it permeate your thought.
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 | Church Dogmatics Revised Set by Barth
Buy new: £695.00 Yes, there's tonnes of it. But yes, it's worth reading, because yes, it is profound.
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 | Theology of Hope (SCM classics) by Jurgen Moltmann
Buy used from: £27.02 Anything by Moltmann is heavyweight and important.
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 | Gagging of God, The: Christianity Confronts Pluralism by D.A. Carson
Buy used from: £6.86 Carson contributes to the postmodern(ism/ity) 'conversation'.
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 | The Cost of Discipleship (SCM Classics) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £6.00 Bonhoeffer is a significant 20th Century figure - read this and see why, then go on to Life Together and the Letters.
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 | Renewing Biblical Interpretation (Scripture & Hermeneutics)
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £9.74 This series is indispensable for any student wanting to really engage with the Bible in a meaningful way - plenty of variety and applications.
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 | Letter to the Ephesians (Pillar New Testament Commentary) by O'Brien
Buy used from: £21.18 O'Brien's work on the prison letters is spectacularly good - get it all!
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 | The Acts of the Apostles (A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary) by Ben Witherington III
Buy new: £32.39 / Used from: £23.08 Witherington is similarly good, especially in the rhetorical and social studies critiques.
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 | The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives by Dallas Willard
Buy used from: £5.15 Ignore this kind of book at your peril - knowledge without character and faith is (according to Paul), crap and useless.
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 | Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
Buy used from: £2.06 Ditto - if you're like me you may feel inclined to skip over a less seemingly academic text to study 'the proper stuff'. Take it from me, big mistake. START here...
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 | The Essential IVP Reference Collection - 2nd Edition
Buy used from: £155.48 Get this, you'll use it tonnes.
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 | The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology (Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology) by John Patton
Buy new: £22.19 / Used from: £40.40 Most readers, especially the Blackwell ones like this and the Cambridge Companions, are worth looking into
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 | Theological Reflection: Methods: v. 1 by Elaine Graham
Buy new: £14.56 / Used from: £10.75 Learn to think theologically - don't worry about the terminology (none of us want to 'theologically reflect'), instead see it as moulding and training your mind.
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 | The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £15.69 Pluralist society; yup, that's us!
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 | Nosh 4 Students: A Fun Student Cookbook. See every recipe in FULL COLOUR. 50% more recipes than its previous Best Selling Edition. by Joy May
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.92 "Man does not live on bread alone..." Too right!
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