What Are You Currently Reading?

[Teluog]

Finished Cloud and Townsend's Boundaries in Dating. Solid book, common sense wisdom that unfortunately isn't common. Manwe's mom is proof.

I also been reviewing Greek in my intro Greek textbook by Summers, but it sucks so badly that I'm about to head over to Bill Mounce's Basics book.

Also resumed my reread of my OT textbook.

[One Bad Pig]

The Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3: Tertullian
The Story of Christianity by Justo Gonzalez - two volumes packaged as one as cheaply as possible (they didn't bother to re-paginate or anything). Typically West-centric; after the Cappadocian Fathers, there are a whopping 20 pages or so dedicated to the East. There is no list of works cited, because there pretty much aren't any citations - just a few quotes here and there.

[Kelp]

The Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3: Tertullian
The Story of Christianity by Justo Gonzalez - two volumes packaged as one as cheaply as possible (they didn't bother to re-paginate or anything). Typically West-centric; after the Cappadocian Fathers, there are a whopping 20 pages or so dedicated to the East. There is no list of works cited, because there pretty much aren't any citations - just a few quotes here and there.

Reminds me of the 70's version of the Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity. Quotes with no citations which I've never been able to find the source on .

[Carrikature]

Manwe, did you finish The Name of the Wind? I enjoyed it, myself. I believe the second book is out, or due out soon.


I'm currently reading Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. I've read through book five of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I recently bought the last three, so I'm restarting the series to get back into it. It's amazing how much background information is scattered throughout the series that can be easily overlooked.



My couples small group recently finished Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges. We really liked it and have opted to read another of his books, The Gospel for Real Life. Next on our list, I think, is Respectable Sins, also by him.

[One Bad Pig]

Reminds me of the 70's version of the Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity. Quotes with no citations which I've never been able to find the source on .

I have that one too.

[Kelp]

I will say this for it, it has nice pictures.

Btw, do you know what Jenkins' view of Scripture is? I know he thinks the Bible is more violent than the Quran, but I don't know more than that about him.

[JB]

I recently finished reading the twentieth volume of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, which included a number of works like Christendom in Dublin, Irish Impressions, The New Jerusalem, and A Short History of England. Given the topics, I was surprised at how many real gems there were in it.

"Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical." (20.177)

Now I'm back to focusing my attention on Plantinga's Warrant: The Current Debate.

[Kelp]

Where are you getting those? Library?

[Teluog]

Reminds me of the 70's version of the Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity. Quotes with no citations which I've never been able to find the source on .

Same with my textbook for church history, Earl Cairns Christianity Throughout the Centuries. Had maybe a footnote or two per chapter from a source dating from the early 1900s, which might not be bad because I don't know how frequently the basic church history field gets updated. But I never figured out where he got 98% of his info from.

[Kelp]

Especially when the quote is a attributed to some, "Well known historian..." or something and I can't find it anywhere on the internet.

[Teluog]

Where are you getting those? Library?

JB happened to stumble upon one of the world's largest underground book rigs, making him the most textual richest people in the world. How he discovered happened when one day his copy of Phil Schaffer's ancient church history 10-set volumes died of old age and too much usage, so he went to bury it in his back yard, but upon digging it a bunch of books shot upward about 200 feet in the air. Thus he has had an eternal supply of reading material ever since then, and hired guards with AK-47s to guard it, especially against JWs who knock on his door.

[Kelp]

Yes, but does he have the whip and the snappy fedora?

[One Bad Pig]

I will say this for it, it has nice pictures.

Btw, do you know what Jenkins' view of Scripture is? I know he thinks the Bible is more violent than the Quran, but I don't know more than that about him.

He seems to be an Episcopalian, so who knows? He's a historian, not a theologian. He teaches several history courses at Penn State, as well as courses in Religious Studies.

[Kelp]

Ah. Ok.

[Manwë Súlimo]

Manwe, did you finish The Name of the Wind? I enjoyed it, myself. I believe the second book is out, or due out soon.

The second book, The Wise Man's Fear, was released the beginning of this month, but I'm holding off on buying it until I can find a paperback version (I have no earthly idea why those are so rare, but I prefer it to be paperback because the I got the first book in paperback. Makes a matching set...). Patrick Rothfuss is certainly no Second Coming of Tolkien as some reviews have made him out to be, but I had a true blast reading TNOTW.





Anyway, Til We Have Faces is an awesome story. I'm about 2/3rds done with it already. I have gleaned many a Christian theme here and there and reading Surprised by Joy immediately prior was a very lucky event because Joy, as Lewis defined it, has popped up on at least one occasion and I would have missed it unless I had read SBJ.