Erik Thoennes, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at Biola University, weighs in:
The Top 10 Books That Were Most Influential in Evangelicalism in the Past 50 Years
1) Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life
2) John Piper, Desiring God
3) Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor
4) Jerry Jenkins/Tim LaHaye, Left Behind
5) Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth
6) Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism
7) Carl F. H. Henry, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
8) C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
9) J. I. Packer, Knowing God
10) Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez
The Top 10 Books That Should Have Been Most Influential in Evangelicalism in the Past 50 Years
1) A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy
2) John Piper and Wayne Grudem, ed., Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
3) Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
4) John Piper, Desiring God
5) Carl F. H. Henry, Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
6) J. I. Packer, Knowing God
7) Robert Saucy, The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism
8) Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
9) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
10) Patrick Johnstone, Operation World
