Hey guys, I hope everyone is doing well. I've been a bit slow getting involved here. I never was good as regularly posting...Anyway, I just read a review of Prophetic Untimeliness by Os Guinness that Randy sent over, and was hoping to get some suggestions for reading from the wise minds of the council. The author quotes C.S. Lewis as saying, “The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of history blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.” My inquiry to everyone here is what books would you consider in this category that are sound reading? I don't want to be so far removed from where the church has been, if I am at all involved in where it is going.
Thanks for any input you have, and I pray that you all have a blessed week.
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- hip hop
- humor
- hymns
- Isaac Watts
- Man Foul
- man gathering
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2 comments:
If you resonated with the Guinness book might i recommend his book "The Call" Talks of the idea Christians have of a "calling" found it good and challenging.
I also just finished a book called "Luther for Armchair Theologians" It's kind of a theological biography of Martin Luther's life. Everything from his famous "95 Thesis" to his lesser known "Freedom of a Christian".
Plato is foundational to an overwhelming amount of theology that came out of the medieval period (Augustine, etc.) He might work out to be the most important 'Christian theologian' who isn't a Christian, and even though he lived a bajillion years ago and wouldn't know Jesus from Adam, his writing is filled to the rafters with concepts that are still almost absurdly illuminating.
I want to recommend the Republic (if you haven't read it) It's big, but reads really fast (the whole thing is a conversation set at a backyard hangout between Socrates and a bunch of other dudes), and seriously, large chunks of it simply *is* orthodoxy.
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