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Theology Mukbang’s Top Eleven Works on Justification

Tied for 1st place (Book 11)
John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification in The Works of John Owen, Volume 5: Faith and Its Evidences (Banner of Truth, 1998).

Tied for 1st place (Book 10)
William Perkins, Commentary on Galatians in the Works of William Perkins (Reformation Heritage Books, 2015).

Tied for 1st place (Book 09)
Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, (Christian Focus Publication, 2009).

Tied for 1st place (Book 08)
Francis Turretin, trans. George Musgrave Giger, Justification, (P&R Publishing, 2004).

Note: This is my second copy shown in the video, my first copy was lost because water damage at storage at my friend’s house.

Tied for 1st place (Book 07)
Theodore Beza, Amandus Polanus, and Francis Turretin, Justification by Faith Alone: Selected Writings from Theodore Beza, Amandus Polanus, and Francis Turretin, (Reformation Heritage Books, 2023).

Tied for 2nd Place (Book 06)
Lee Irons, The Righteousness of God: A Lexical Examination of the Covenant-faithfulness Interpretation, (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)

Tied for 2nd place (Book 05)
Michael Horton, Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ, (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007).

Note: This is my second copy shown in the video, my first copy that sad heavily annotated was lost because water damage at storage at my friend’s house.

Tied for 2nd Place (Book 04)
J. V. Fesko, Beyond Calvin: Union with Christ and Justification in Early Modern Reformed Theology (1517-1700), (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012).

Note: That is J. V. Fesko’s signature that I got signed in his office at Westminster Seminary California. He was my prof.

Tied for 2nd Place (Book 03)
Cornelis P. Venema, Accepted and Renewed in Christ: The "Twofold Grace of God" and the Interpretation of Calvin's Theology, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007).

Tied for 3rd Place (Book 02)
R. Scott Clark, Covenant, Justification, and Pastorsl Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California (P&R Publishing, 2007).

Note: This is my second copy shown in the video, my first copy which was heavily annotated was lost because water damage at storage at my friends house.

Tied for 3rd place (Book 01)
R. C. Sproul, Getting the Gospel Right: The Tie That Binds Evangelicals Together, (Baker Books, 2017)

Martin Luther and Johann Heinrich Alsted stated that the doctrine of justification is the article of the standing or falling church. Pastor-Theologians John Calvin, John Owen, William Perkins stood with them: they considered justification as vitally important.

Calvin wrote:
The theme of justification was therefore more lightly touched upon because it was more to the point to understand first how little devoid of good works is the faith, through which alone we obtain free righteousness by the mercy of God; and what is the nature of the good works of the saints, with which part of this question is concerned. Therefore we must now discuss these matters thoroughly. And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main axis (praecipuum…cardinem) on which religion turns, so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.”

Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 3.11.1

Further William Perkins wrote:

The very point of difference is this: we hold that the satisfaction made by Christ in His death and obedience to the law is imputed to us and becomes our righteousness. They (Rome) say it is our satisfaction and not our righteousness whereby we stand righteous before God, because it is inherent in the person of Christ as in a subject. Now the answer of the papist to the former question is on this manner: The thing (says he) that makes us righteous before God and causes us to be accepted to life everlasting is remission of sins, and the habit of inward righteousness, or charity with the fruits thereof. We condescend and grant that the habit of righteousness, which we call sanctification, is an excellent gift of God, and has its reward of God, an is the matter of our justification before man, because it serves to declare us to be reconciled to God, and to be justified. Yet we deny it to be the thing which makes us of sinners to become righteous or just before God. And this is the first point of our disagreement in the matter of justification, which must be marked because if there were no more points of differences between us, this one alone were sufficient to keep us from uniting our religions. For hereby the Church of Rome razes the very foundation.

Perkins, A Reformed Catholic, 7:36.

*As the months/years go on, Lord willing, I’ll add a top 15 to the top 11.