Classic Christian Curriculum
January (Early Church)
Year One: Henry Bettenson, Letter of Ignatius, Letters of Polycarp and The Martyrdom of
Polycarp
Year Two: Iranaeus, Against All Heresies
Year Three: Clement of Rome, First Epistle To The Corinthians
Year Four: Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics, and On Idolatry
February (Middle Ages)
Year One: Augustine, Confessions
Year Two: Augustine, On The Spirit and The Letter and On Grace and Free Will
Year Three: Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
Year Four: Anselm, Cur Deus Homo
March (Martin Luther)
Year One: Roland H Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Year Two: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
Year Three: Luther, The Bondage Of The Will
Year Four: Luther, Table Talk and the prefaces of his commentaries on Romans and Galatians
April (John Calvin)
Year One: Calvin, Necessity of Reforming The Church and A Reformation Debate
Year Two: Calvin, Short Treatise on the Supper Of Our Lord, Second Defence of the Faith
Concerning the Sacraments, The True Partaking Of the Flesh and Blood of Christ
Year Three: Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book One
Year Four: Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book Two
May (Richard Sibbes and Richard Baxter)
Year One: Sibbes, The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax and Sibbes, The Glorious Feast of the
Gospel
Year Two: Baxter, The Reformed Pastor
Year Three: Sibbes, The Spiritual Man's Aim and Sibbes, A Glance of Heaven
Year Four: Sibbes, The Saint's Comforts, and Sibbes, Salvation Applied
June (John Bunyan and John Owen)
Year One: Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Year Two: Owen, Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Year Three: Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Year Four: Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
July (Jonathan Edwards and Edward Fisher)
Year One: Iain H Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography
Year Two: Edwards, Freedom of the Will
Year Three: John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards (With
the Complete Text of "The End for Which God Created the World")
Year Four: Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, plus tapes by Sinclair Ferguson on the
Marrow Controversy
August (Charles H Spurgeon, John W Nevin and W G T Shedd)
Year One: Spurgeon, Autobiography
Year Two: Spurgeon, Till He Comes
Year Three: John Williamson Nevon, The Mystical Presence
Year Four: W G T Shedd, Calvinism: Pure & Mixed
September (B B Warfield, Vos and Abraham Kuyper)
Year One: Warfield, Revelation and Inspiration (vol 1 of his complete works)
Year Two: Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism
Year Three: Vos, Biblical Theology
Year Four: Vos, Pauline Eschatology
October (Machen, Lloyd-Jones
Year One: Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
Year Two: Machen, What is Faith, and The Christian View of Man
Year Three: J I Packer, Knowing God
Year Four: Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
November (C S Lewis, Van Til and Kline)
Year One: Lewis, Mere Christianity and Lewis, Surprised by Joy
Year Two: Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, Escape From Reason
Year Three: Kline, Kingdom Prologue: Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview
Year Four: Kline, The Structure of Biblical Authority
December (Contemporary Authors & Issues)
Year One: Piper, Taylor, & Helseth, Beyond the Bounds
Year Two: R Scott Clark, Covenant Justification and Pastoral Ministry
Year Three: G K Beale, The Temple and the Church's Mission
Year Four: Guy Prentiss Waters, The Federal Vision and Covenant Theology
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