Over the
years I have been so blessed to be able to read 100’s if not 1000’s of books by
some of the great Christian authors across various denominational, and
theological perceptive. Within our
current generation we have been blessed with some awesome writers with in the
United States. However, some of the greatest Christian writers have come from
Britain I would like to share with my top four:
1)
James Stalker … was a minister, lecturer and preacher
for the Free Church of Scotland (United Free Church) and was Professor of
Church History at the United Free Church College in Aberdeen.
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Note: Dr. Stalker’s books on the Life Christ and Paul and his great work on
the Passion week, are must reads in my opinion for every pastor and student of
the word. His book The Preacher and his
Models (Yale Lectures on Preaching: 1891) are on my top 5 books of all times.
2)
Thomas F. Torrance …was
a Scottish Protestant theologian. Torrance served for 27 years as professor of
Christian dogmatic at New College, in the University of Edinburgh; and serving
as an ordained minister in the Church of Scotland
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Note: This writing’s around
“Theology and Science” and Christological our very interesting to say the
least.
3)
C. S. Lewis … Clive
Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic
positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College,
1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963).
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Note: I remember first reading C. S. Lewis in class in the 4th
Grade at a Christian school in Taiwan, and it was love at first read. As a
class we read through the entire The Chronicles of Narnia that year, and since
then I have read most of his books and have never been disappointed from his
great wisdom within “Mere Christianity” to being so blessed when my parents
passed away by his wisdom in “Grief Observed”
Within our modern history, one British theologian &
writer that I have read has stood out to me:
4)
N. T. Wright … Nicholas
Thomas Wright is a retired Anglican bishop who previously served as the Bishop
of Durham; He then became Research Professor of New Testament and Early
Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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Still writing and impact our generation on the
topics of the New Testament and Pauline letters, he is considered one of the
great minds today in the field of Theology.
