In The Gospel Coalition’s article On My Shelf: Life and Books with Tim Keller, the influential pastor shared the 15 Christian biographies that have most shaped his life and ministry:
- Arnold Dallimore’s books on George Whitefield and Charles Spurgeon
- George Marsden’s biographies (one short and one long) of Jonathan Edwards
- F. Bruce Gordon’s biography of John Calvin
- Henry Chadwick’s biography of Augustine (though I really should read Peter Brown’s)
- Roland Bainton’s biography of Martin Luther
- Iain Murray’s biography of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Alister Chapman’s biography of John Stott
- John A. D’Elia’s biography of George Ladd
- Barry Hankins’s biography of Francis Schaeffer
- Donald MacLeod’s biography of C. Stacey Woods
- Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of J. R. R. Tolkien and of The Inklings
- Alan Jacobs’s biography of C. S. Lewis
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