Resource Roundup

For those interested in reformed biblical theology, these resources will be quite helpful.

Dictionary of Biblical Imagery

Have you ever read a passage in the prophets and said “I wonder what the significance of ______ is?”  The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery may very well help you with those kinds of questions.  The large tome has numerous articles on various images that appear throughout Scripture such as “mountains” or even “treading under feet.”  This volume is helpful for anyone wanting to enrich their bible reading and come to a better understanding of God’s revelation.

Dictionary of Biblical Theology

This is another helpful resource for Bible study and sermon preparation.  This book contains several helpful entries on various topics in biblical theology.  I’ve used this several times in preparing sermons and writing papers.

Edmund P. Clowney

Clowney’s short book The Unfolding Mystery is an excellent introduction to typology and the progression of themes and images throughout Scripture.  As the title indicates, Clowney shows how God has used types in order to reveal himself and his plan of redemption in a continually unfolding fashion.  Several of Clowney’s sermons are available at SermonAudio.com and are helpful for seeing how biblical theology can [and should] affect preaching.

Northwest Theological Seminary

Northwest has made several helpful resources available.  The audio resource page is especially interesting.  It includes several sermons by Jim, Charlie and Bill Dennison as well as other faculty members and their first graduate.  They have also posted a list of useful Bible commentaries and sermon resources.

Graeme Goldsworthy

According to Plan by Goldsworthy is a helpful introduction to biblical theology.  Three of Goldsworthy’s other books have been published in a single volume called The Goldsworthy Trilogy.

Geerhardus Vos

What list of BT resources would be complete without books by Geerhardus Vos?  For many in the reformed world, Vos is the quintessential biblical theologian.  His works have been especially helpful for orienting the thinking of many well known theologians.  Getting into and digesting his writing comes at a cost, however.  He isn’t known for being the most accessible writer.  That being said, if you read Clowney and Goldsworthy and want to go deeper, pick up Vos’ Biblical Theology which is a wonderful explanation of his method.  Vos further develops his system in The Pauline Eschatology.  Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. has edited a helpful collection of Vos’ shorter writings in Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation.  Danny E. Olinger has also compiled A Geerhardus Vos Anthology.