| # | NAME | WHY I LIKE HIM | FAVORITE BOOK(S) BY/ABOUT HIM |
| 1 | Augustine of Hipo | When reading how Augustine actively referenced and explained Scripture, I get new perspectives on God's Word. The Confessions, although written many centuries ago, should still connect with any man seeking to manage passions while honoring God. | Augustine's Confessions |
| 2 | William Bradford | Bradford loved his Geneva Bible and turned to it while overseeing Christ-centered government on the Plymouth Planation. He was an English Puritan separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620 before founding the first Thanksgiving in 1621. | On Plymouth Plantation |
| 3 | John Bunyan | Bunyan was arrested and spent the twelve years in jail because he refused to give up preaching of God's Word. His Pilgrim's Progress remains one of the top selling books of all time for good reason. | Pilgrim's Progress |
| 4 | Herman Witsius | Witsius appealed to Scripture to resolve controversies between those who held to reformed orthodox (Voetians) and covenantal (Cocceians) views. | The Character of a Genuine Theologian |
| 5 | William Perkins | While John Calvin was the dominant theological influence throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, his one serious rival was William Perkins of Cambridge. Perkins emphasized preaching of the Word and prayer. | The Art of Prophesying |
| 6 | Martyn Lloyd Jones | David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899- 1981) was a Welsh Protestant medical doctor and Reformed evangelical preacher. For nealry 30 years, he was the minister of Westminster Chapel in London. A complete collection of original audio recordings of his sermons is available at https://www.mljtrust.org/ sermons/ | Spiritual Depresssion |
| 7 | J. Gresham Machen | This Princeton professor and Westminster Seminary founder showed that liberal theology actually constitutes a new non-Christian religion. This insight got him kicked out of his increasingly liberal denomination, but Machen was right-then and now. See https://www.leaderu.com/ humanities/top40bks.html | Christianity and Liberalism |
| 8 | Cornelius Van Til | Although his attention to "presuppositions" rather than "evidence" in Christian apologetics continues to spark debates, Van Til remains the father of worldview criticism. https://www.leaderu.com/ humanities/top40bks.html | The Defense of the Faith |
| 9 | Harold Lindsell | This book caused scandal, provoked fights, and split churches, but it arrested the slide of evangelicals toward a liberal view of the Bible, establishing instead the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture. https://www.leaderu.com/ humanities/top40bks.html | Battle for the Bible |
| 10 | Charles Spurgeon | Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher known as the "Prince of Preachers." He remains highly influential among Christians in many denominations. | Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare |