Textbooks Spring 2012
First Year:
Hermeneutics
Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding the Bible (3nd ed). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993. pp. 9-44, 94-112.
Virkler, Henry A. & Ayayo, Karelyne Gerber. Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation (2nd revised ed.). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
Pentecostal Foundations
Synan, Vinson, The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001.
Book of Acts
Bruce, F. F. The New International Commentary on the New Testament: The Book of Acts. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eermans Pub. Co., 1987.
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Block, Darrell L. Acts: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.
Intermediate New Testament Greek
Wallace Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids, Mich.. William B. Eerdmans, 1998.
Old Testament Survey
Schultz, Samuel J. The Old Testament Speaks. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980.
Life of Christ
Stein, Robert H., Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1996.
Homiletics
Robinson, Haddon. Biblical Preaching, Mi: Baker Academic, 2001.
Cahill, Dennis M. The Shape of Preaching. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2007.
New Testament Survey
Gundry, Robert A. A Surveuy of the New Testament. 4th ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Studies in Historical Books
Howard, David M. An Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books. Chicago: Moody Press, 1993.
Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Jacob, Edmond. Theology of the Old Testament.
Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy.
Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling. Trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Second Year Modules:
Church History II
Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. 2nd ed. Chichester, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2010.
Grass, Tim. Modern Church History. London: SCM Press, 2008.
Pneumatology
Menzies, William and Robert P. Menzies, Spirit and Power: Foundations of Pentecostal Experience, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.
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Romans
Osborne, Grant R. Romans: IVP New Testament Commentaries, Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2004.
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Third Year Modules:
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