📚 Theology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with theology on their catalogue record, first published between 1200 and 2013, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject theology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 108,530 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Bible	Bible	1200	6,110
Confessions	Augustine of Hippo	1482	450
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	1467	277
Institutio Christianae religionis	Jean Calvin	1536	120
Summa contra gentiles	Thomas Aquinas	1475	53
Herders sämmtliche Werke	Johann Gottfried Herder	1877	51
Poems	Francis Thompson	1893	49
Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte	Adolf von Harnack	1886	41
Schriften zur Theologie	Karl Rahner	1900	34
The Way of Zen	Alan Watts	1957	31
The Abolition of Man	C. S. Lewis	1943	24
The Weight of Glory	C. S. Lewis	1942	18
Theology for beginners	Frank J. Sheed	1957	15
Herrlichkeit	Hans Urs von Balthasar	1960	11
Epistle to the Romans	Karl Barth	1932	9
Creative ministry	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1971	9
Method in theology	Bernard J. F. Lonergan	1972	9
Know the truth	Bruce Milne	1982	9
Theology	Alister E. McGrath	2013	9
Christian theology	Alister E. McGrath	1993	8
The land	Walter Brueggemann	1977	7
Sexism and God-talk	Rosemary Radford Ruether	1983	7
Desiring God	John Piper	1987	7
Biblical theology	Geerhardus Vos	1948	6
God of the oppressed	James H. Cone	1975	6
Things to come	J. Dwight Pentecost	1958	5
Christianity and Barthianism	Cornelius Van Til	1962	5
Philosophy for understanding theology	Diogenes Allen	1985	5
Exploring Christian heritage	C. Douglas Weaver	2012	5
The root of the righteous	A. W. Tozer	1955	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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