What Are You Currently Reading?

[Teluog]

I wrote Teluog's mom a love ekphrastic poem. She was impressed.

Like I said, keep your doors locked.

[Raphael]

Merlin by James Mallory.

Heh, I have a copy of Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur hiding somewhere in my old books.

Currently reading:
WoT series (yet again. currently halfway through book 12)
Mark Driscoll's Vintage Jesus
Paul Miller's A Praying Life
Vox Day's The Irrational Atheist (again)

Trying to get started on Mike Erre's Death by Church (i have it in PDF....which is annoying as I keep loosing my place.)
and J.P. Moreland's The God Question (also in PDF, so keep on loosing my place)

[moreta]

I had that one years ago, but it got lost in a move. I have The Once and Future King by T. H. White, which is loosely based on Sir Thomas' book. I'll have to dig it out. It's been a while since I read it.

[Rational Gaze]

i have it in PDF....which is annoying as I keep loosing my place.

also in PDF, so keep on loosing my place

PDFs have page numbers.

[Raphael]

PDFs have page numbers.

Dude, sometimes I can barely remember what day of the week it is, and now you want me to remember page numbers?

I'll just spend some time converting the PDF's to ePub or .Mobi sometime soon, seem as unless you actually own a Kindle (h/ware) you can't use Amazon's email converter.
Just means spending an hour or so sorting out some formatting issues.

[One Bad Pig]

Dude, sometimes I can barely remember what day of the week it is, and now you want me to remember page numbers?

I'll just spend some time converting the PDF's to ePub or .Mobi sometime soon, seem as unless you actually own a Kindle (h/ware) you can't use Amazon's email converter.
Just means spending an hour or so sorting out some formatting issues.

When I read a book in pdf, I add [start at page xx] to the file name when I have to take a break.

[Raphael]

When I read a book in pdf, I add [start at page xx] to the file name when I have to take a break.

I has a solution.

ThinkFree Office (which comes standard on the Galaxy S) remembers your position in the PDF, unlike Adobe Reader which only remembers your position if you don't open another pdf or switch off your phone.

That will make it a lot easier to read them.

[Rational Gaze]

or switch off your phone.

Therein lies your problem. I read my .pdfs on my computer.

[Raphael]

Therein lies your problem. I read my .pdfs on my computer.

When I'm not at work I try to avoid switching on my computer.
My boss would not be very happy if i spent all my time at work reading books

[Folklore]

Reading 1408. Short story from my first edition hardback of Everything's Eventual by Stephen King.

[Requiem]

After finishing David Oderberg's "Real Essentialism", i'm waiting for "An Elementary Christian Metaphysics" by Joseph Owens to come in the mail.

[JB]

How was Real Essentialism? It's been on my to-read list for a while. (Same with An Elementary Christian Metaphysics.)

[Requiem]

Very helpful, if you want to know more about the aristotelian conception of substance. Oderberg is knowledgeable both in modern metaphysics and in medieval philosophy; the best parts were chapter 2 (in which he rebuts some of the most common arguments against essentialism) and the discussion of life in chapter 8. It's definitely worth the money.

I'll let you know more when i read AECM.

[One Bad Pig]

Interesting! What does it say about the baptismal content in the Didache?

I've actually recently read one book he references several times (The Didache: Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity by David Flusser and Huub van de Sandt). He disagrees with them that the Trinitarian baptismal formula in Matt 28:19 is a later interpolation (p. 135). In the Didache, baptism is administered by someone else (no qualifications specified), and immersion is clearly preferred. The exception of a triple pouring does not imply a triple immersion, but may have been done to ensure a complete dousing. The ritual signified admission to the community of believers. Infant baptism is ruled out, as the account presupposes people of age to receive instruction (pp. 202-203). The author in general seems to have a bias against infant baptism.

[Rational Gaze]

Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries by Everett Ferguson - at over 800 pages, this'll take me a while to wade through. Very interesting though.

Does it discuss infant baptism at all?

EDIT:
Oh wait, never mind just saw this:

Infant baptism is ruled out, as the account presupposes people of age to receive instruction (pp. 202-203). The author in general seems to have a bias against infant baptism.