Whenever I first flip through a book, I look at the cover, the endorsements, and then the references. Footnotes or endnotes – it doesn’t matter: I want to know who the author is drawing wisdom from. References clue you in on what theological stream the author swims in, what literature he or she reads, and if the book will contain illustrative material that helps get the point across.
Counterfeit Gospels contains a wide variety of quotes and references. Here’s a sampling (in order of appearance) of some of the people I reference:
- Jefferson Davis (yes, the president of the confederacy)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- C.S. Lewis
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Herman Bavinck
- John Piper
- Lucille Ball (yes, from I Love Lucy)
- Charles Spurgeon
- Alexandyr Solzhenitsyn
- Michael Horton
- Os Guinness
- Greg Gilbert
- N.T. Wright
- Dinesh D’Souza
- Miroslav Volf
- Graeme Goldsworthy
- Kate DiCamillo (author of The Tale of Despereaux)
- Martin Luther
- Roger Nicole
- John Stott
- Adrian Warnock
- G.K. Chesterton
- George Eldon Ladd
- Mark Galli
- Tim Keller
- Tullian Tchividjian
- Philip Yancey
- Victor Hugo
- Erwin Lutzer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- D.A. Carson
- Lesslie Newbigin
- Gina Welch
- Joshua Harris
- Tim Chester
- J.I. Packer
- Mark Dever
- Scot McKnight
- Russell Moore
- James Emery White
- James K.A. Smith
- Kevin DeYoung
- C. FitzSimons Allison
- Jonathan Leeman
- Francis Chan
- Francis Schaeffer
