What books did you get over the holidays?

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moral necessity

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Did anybody pick up any good reads for the new year?

I got the first volume of William Perkins' works from Reformation Heritage.


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Got 3 with the Amazon gift card my brother-in-law got me for our gift exchange. Decided to go in the direction of better understanding family history.

Beechview (PA) from the Images of America series- my grandpa is pictured in the book.

Biographical Sketches and Index of the Huguenot Settlers of New Rochelle, 1687-1776- my 9-times great-grandfather and his family are profiled.

With Axe and Bible: The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick, 1784-1874- book that focuses on the Presbyterian Church as the lynchpin of Scottish society in the settling of New Brunswick, Canada.
 
"Germany: Memories of a Nation" by Neil MacGregor of the British Museum. Interesting read if you're interested in Germany and German history and culture. Lots of pictures, but highly enlightening.

"Revelation: Four Views, Revised and Updated: A Parallel Commentary" by Steve Gregg ( Thomas Nelson). See online review by Kenneth L. Gentry.

Although this is a good book and a great and helpful overview of preterism, historicism, futurism and idealism, I discovered from Steve Gregg's website that he is Arminian and possible annihilationist. So I bought the book second hand.

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Got the Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible (black leather), Chris Coldwell's Grand Debate, Machen's What is Faith, Oliphint's Reason and Revelation, the full set of Livy's Histories (Oxford), and Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy.

The Ref Heritage bible is a real gem... best notes and study apparatus out there :)
 
Vos, Geerhardus, Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation
Ziele, Helmut, Modern Theological German
McCormack, Bruce, Karl Barth's Critically Realist Dialectical Theology
Moreland, J. P. Kingdom Triangle
and I am debating on getting

The Glory of the Atonement
 
I got a brand new, scarcely touched copy of Eric Foner's Reconstruction for free in a university library's free book-shelf yesterday. Some generous individual must have finished with it and donated the book, saving me £17 as I had planned to buy it at a book-store that very day! :cool:
 
Wife bought me a lovely book by Alexander McCall Smith "Edinburgh, a work of beauty." For a bit of nostalgia, one of my sons bought me a collection of old "Broons and Oor Willie" stories. For those not familiar with Scot's culture, probably the most influential literature ever produced!
 
For some reason my family thinks all I do is read (crazy idea) so I always receive several Amazon gift cards. This was the first book that came in the mail. Very fascinating.

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Douglas Moo — The Letter of James (Pillar New Testament Commentary, 2000).

Thomas Manton — James (Geneva Series Commentaries, 1968).

Charles Hodge — Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians (1950 [1857]).
 
From some folks in our church:

The Reformation Commentary on Scripture (vols. on John 1-12 & Acts), A Portrait of Paul (Ventura & Walker), and a book that looks like an interesting read entitled God Does Not...entertain, play matchmaker, hurry... (Laytham).

My father-in-law gave me Ravi Zacharias' Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass-Marketed Spirituality, which looks like it will be excellent. I really enjoy RZ.
 
Nothing substantial for me, mostly wanting a few items to hold in my hand rather than read on my laptop.

I needed a large print Bible - ESV Large Print TruTone Charcoal (Crossway, 2014)

A few items for the Confessional Christian:
Reformed Confessions Harmonized - Beeke
The Creedal Imperative - Trueman
Confessing The Faith - Van Dixhoorn
The WCF and Catechisms - OPC Hardcover

WTS Books also had a number of clearance items, I figured I would read them then loan them without worry if they made it back :)
Understanding Scripture - Grudem
Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible - Grudem
Choosing a Bible - Ryken
The Legacy of the King James Bible - Ryken
ESV and the English Bible Legacy - Ryken
Understanding English Bible Translation - Ryken

When I received a WTSBooks email that all Crossway ESV Bibles would no longer be discounted after Jan 05, I went ahead and ordered the ESV Study Bible Large Print Gen. Leather Black (Crossway, 2014) ||| Concise Theology - Packer ||| Grace Through the Ages - Smith

I wanted to add Grudem's Systematic Theology but began to wonder about him after reading on his site he has a fondness for Wimber, doing a search here at PB made me put it off for now. I'm downloading his ST series (mp3) now, we'll see. I'm waiting to see what the 2015 Reformation Study Bible looks like..? I would like a nice study Bible from a Reformed perspective, with text (ESV, NKJV, ..?) and notes with a readable font.
 
From Heaven He Came And Sought Her - bunch of people wrote it
Overcoming Sin and Temptation: 3 classic works by John Owen
Crazy Busy - DeYoung
2 Volume set of the Works of J. Edwards
Communion with God - Owen
 
I, too, bought the Works of William Perkins Vol. 1. I just received it and am looking through it now. I must say, this was beautifully put together. I am very thankful that RHB is doing this.
I also bought the RHB King James Study Bible. Also beautifully done. I'm reading through the Psalms in the morning and going through the notes and questions. Malcolm Watts' annotations are well done, but I wish he was given more space.
I'm also reading "Prepared By Grace, For Grace" by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley. As I read the Puritans all the time, this book will hopefully help me in understanding them a little more.
I'm finishing up "The Foundation of Communion with God: The Trinitarian Piety of John Owen" by Ryan McGraw. It's a nice little intro to Owen. I'd like to read McGraw's other work on Owen, sadly it's over $100 on Amazon. I wonder why... Same thing with Mark Jones' work on Owen...

Other books I recently got, but haven't read (that are sitting on my "Read next" pile):
"The Church's Book of Comfort" by Willem Van'T Spijker
"Confessing The Faith" by Chad Van Dixhoorn
"The Westminster Assembly's Grand Debate"
"A Treatise on True Theology" by Junius
"From Heaven He Came and Sought Her"
"William Grimshaw of Haworth" by Faith Cook

I got some other Puritan works from Puritan Publications that I need to read, too.

I wish I didn't read so slow. :(

Thought I would add that these were just books I got for myself. No one gave them to me as gifts. (Not sure if that's what was meant in the OP.)
 
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I didn't get anything new for Christmas, but I finished reading (for you classical music fans) Virgil Thomson's collected music criticism in his new Library of America volume. It provides about 900 pages of snapshots of New York's classical music life (with a quick side trip to Paris) during the 1940s and early 1950s.

In the new year, I plan to re-read James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. It's considered the first modern biography - and it's a fabulous read.
 
My 14-year-old son gave me a book of football trivia. Given how I typically withdraw to read theology and the trivia is something fun I can do with him instead, it's probably just what I need.
 
Perkins, vol. 1
Confessing The Faith by Chad Van Dixhoorn
The Westminster Assembly's Grand Debate
The Theology of the Westminster Standards, by Fesko
The Presbyterian Creed, by Fortson
Why Study History? by John Fea
Calvinism: A History by Hart
Presbyterians in North Carolina: Race, Politics, & Religious Identity, by Conser & Cain
and on recommendation above, just now ordered A Thing of Beauty: Edinburgh, by McCall Smith
 
I bought a Geneva Bible facsimile. I wanted it for the commentary mostly. I'm going to read through it in a year, according to a 52 week plan. Maybe some day I'll take it to Leonard's Book Restoration and have a proper family bible made out of it.
 
- Gottschalk & A Medieval Predestination Controversy translated by Genke and Gumerlock
- The Will of God and the Cross: A Historical and Theological Study of John Calvin's Doctrine of Limited Redemption by Jonathan Rainbow
- Only the Decalogue is Eternal: Martin Luther's Complete Antinomian Theses & Disputations edited by Holger Sonntag
- History of the Synoptic Tradition by Rudolf Bultmann (writing a paper on Bultmann for seminary)
 
CPJ 10
The Westminster Assembly's Grand Debate
How (Not) To Be Secular, by James K.A. Smith
The Trinitarian Devotion of John Owen, by Sinclair Ferguson
The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience, George Marsden
 
I received the new edition of New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. Now I need to figure out what to do with the Colin Brown edition...
 
I believe I posted this in another thread, so at the risk of being redundant, A Popular Commentary on the New Testament (4 vols.) by Schaff, Philip, T&T Clark, Charles Scribner’s Sons 1879–1890

I wanted it mainly for William Milligan's commentaries on The Gospel Of John, and Revelation, but it was hard to find in separate volumes at a reasonable price. I lucked out in finding all 4 in nice condition for being over 100 years old, and at just north of a hundred bucks.
 
I got Reformed Portfolio (Yippee)

Also Riddlebagger's The Lion of Princeton B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian

Plus R C Sproul's HOLY, HOLY, HOLY PROCLAIMING the PERFECTIONS of GOD.

And Hendrickson's More than Conquerors (How does this differ to the Baker Commentary Revelation??? by the by)
 
I got Reformed Portfolio (Yippee)

Also Riddlebagger's The Lion of Princeton B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian


Plus R C Sproul's HOLY, HOLY, HOLY PROCLAIMING the PERFECTIONS of GOD.

And Hendrickson's More than Conquerors (How does this differ to the Baker Commentary Revelation??? by the by)

The Baker commentary on Revelation was written by Simon Kistemaker, not Hendriksen.
 
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