Below is a list of our favorite theological books - across all categories - from 2025. A special thanks to our contributors who submitted titles, wrote summaries and full reviews for these books and more throughout the year.
12/26/25
Every sinner can trace their salvation back to this moment when the Savior was born in accordance with the Word of God so that all of God’s words would be realized.
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12/25/25
Christmas is not for remembering, thinking, pondering, trying to make sure you are really celebrating it properly, or for wondering whether you truly have faith.
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- Bonnie Petroschuk
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- Magnus Persson
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- Matthew L. Rubinstein
- Michael Berg
- Michael Gibney
- Nicholas Hopman
- Nicholas Kallis
- Norman Nagel
- Paul Dunk
- Paul Koch
- Pete Lange
- Peter Nafzger
- Philip Bartelt
- Raleigh Sadler
- Rick Ritchie
- RJ Grunewald
- Robert Farrar Capon
- Robert Kolb
- Rod Rosenbladt
- Roland Ehlke
- Ron Hodel
- Russ Lackey
- Ryan Couch
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- Ted Rosenbladt
- Travis Scholl
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- Valerie Thur
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- Walter Hwang
- Wayne Sender
- Zack James Cole
01/05/17
Hers is not a beauty of breathtaking cathedrals, stained glass, or towering arches, but of a body.
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01/05/17
It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.
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01/04/17
My eyes soaked in the midnight view. Stars crowded the sky.
01/03/17
Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
01/02/17
The question is not can I lose my salvation, but can salvation lose me? No, it can’t.
12/29/16
It's coming. Can you feel it? It's creeping up on us like a quiet predator. It's hiding behind the Christmas trees and stockings hung with care. It's getting ready to strike.
12/29/16
The arrangement was made with Abraham when God claimed for Himself all of his being, and put the seal of His promise upon the most personal member of his anatomy.
12/27/16
Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
12/23/16
by Fredrik Sidenvall, translated by Bror Erickson
12/17/16
The dragon who failed to devour the child in the manger swallows the man atop the cross. In so doing, unbeknownst to this beast, he ate poison.
12/15/16
I take out the broom, spray bottle, and trash can. For the hundredth time this week, I find myself sweeping up the mess of a Christmas to come.
12/14/16
We have heard of the man born to be king. Here in Bethlehem, by divine condescension, the King—the King of kings—is born to be man.
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