Mohler's Top Ten (or Eleven)

Al Mohler has posted his picks for books that pastors ought to read in 2011.

1. Collected Writings on Scripture by D.A. Carson (Crossway)

2. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan (Baker)

3. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church by Kenda Creasy Dean (Oxford University Press)

4. The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame (P&R)

5. God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A Biblical Theology by James M. Hamilton (Crossway)

6. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter (Oxford University Press)

7. Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth by Alister McGrath (HarperOne)

8. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson)

9. The Letter to the Hebrews (Pillar New Testament Commentary) by Peter T. O’Brien (Eerdmans)

10. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert Putnam and David Campbell (Simon & Schuster) [*Note: 60% off at Amazon at time of writing]

11. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith with Patricia Snell (Oxford University Press)