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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