Books that changed your life

[Bill the Cat]

I just bought the first and second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Man, I wish they'd make them into movies. :pray2:

They ARE!!!!

http://www.themovieinsider.com/m2243...omas-covenant/

[eudyptes]

They ARE!!!!

http://www.themovieinsider.com/m2243...omas-covenant/

YAY.....may have to pull those back out and reread.....been awhile

[Bill the Cat]

YAY.....may have to pull those back out and reread.....been awhile

I will say that I am very disappointed in the new series as far as the language goes. The first two were rich with strong dialogue and high level expression while the last seems almost completely different when the characters are interacting. I was shocked at the amount of F-bombs in the first 2 books of the new series.

[eudyptes]

Haven't even looked at the new series yet......sad to hear that it's not up to the earlier work

[Bill the Cat]

I will say that the story line is excellent. Quite unexpected!

[One Bad Pig]

The Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian - how could I, an avid student of history, have not even heard of the Armenian genocide until I stumbled across this book in an airport bookstore a few years ago?

The Chronicles of Narnia - got me irrevocably hooked on fantasy

The New Testament and the People of God by N. T. Wright - this really got me interested in the early church, and helped push me toward Orthodoxy, along with

The Orthodox Church by Kallistos Ware

The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey - made me aware that Jesus needed to be studied in context

Submarine! by Capt. Edward Beach - the main reason why I joined the Navy and volunteered for sub duty

[Kelp]

Were you more useful than a screen door on a submarine?

[One Bad Pig]

Hey, that screen door came in handy when we wanted to go fishing.

[Kelp]

Pre-shredded.

[Catatle]

Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphisis, Hunger Artist
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, Notes From The Underground
Kierkagaard: Sickness Unto Death
Song of Solomon
Derrida: The Gift of Death
Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Augustine: Confessions
St. John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul

[Manwë Súlimo]

Very interesting list there.

Too bad I loathed Metamorphisis when I had to read it in high school.

[Adrift]

Very interesting list there.

Too bad I loathed Metamorphisis when I had to read it in high school.

I never read the books they forced us to read in high school... it was an act of civil disobedience. I had a close call once though... the year I first read The Hobbit for my own enjoyment (this was like 92? 93?) my English teacher made the class read it a couple months later.

[Zeta Metroid]

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright - I couldn't believe I'd missed the actual meaning of resurrection :P Knowing that something as small as picking up a gum wrapper outside can improve the afterlife by orders of magnitude is definitely a paradigm-shifter!

Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz - Really got to me when I read it years ago. The way Master Chief viewed and dealt with pain showed me how easy it really can be to control it in order to serve a greater cause

[Adrift]

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright - I couldn't believe I'd missed the actual meaning of resurrection :P Knowing that something as small as picking up a gum wrapper outside can improve the afterlife by orders of magnitude is definitely a paradigm-shifter!

Great book. I'm sort of lost on the gum wrapper statement though. It probably ties into Wright's conclusions towards the end of the book on his view of the mission of the church which I don't think I was totally in agreement with, but I got a lot out of the chapters preceding that bit and how the early church perceived the general resurrection and the nature of heaven. I really wish he dealt more with the state of those saints who are dead now and awaiting the general resurrection. He mentions that there are indications in scripture that they are in a conscious yet restful state, but doesn't really develop this idea much more than that. At the time I was reading it I was helping a loved one with a death in her family, and she was asking very pointed questions that I wish I had better answers for. Anyways its a great book. I definitely can see how it would be a life changing one.

[Manwë Súlimo]

Listening to the Preterist Podcast, Dee Dee and her cohost mentioned something interesting. According to her view (or at least the view she mentioned), the soul is 'disrobed' of its body as it lies in the ground and goes....somewhere. The soul is conscious but only in a murky or dreamlike state because we are incomplete without our bodies. While there we look forward to the Resurrection where we will be reunited with our bodies and become fully human again.

It's interesting at least.