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  • #31
    Added a couple more books.

    First, I resumed reading (after a considerable break) Fr. John Anthony McGuckin's book The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture, which is a wonderful and extensive demonstration of Fr. McGuckin's lack of familiarity with the word "introduction" but is certainly a fine treatment of the Orthodox Church.

    Second, I started reading Timothy S. Laniak's book Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership in the Bible.

    Third, I've also started reading David Walpert's book Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America.
    "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

    "It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading." - John Wesley

    "Wherever men are still theological, there is still some chance of their being logical." - G. K. Chesterton

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    • #32
      Originally posted by JB DoulosChristou View Post
      Added a couple more books.

      First, I resumed reading (after a considerable break) Fr. John Anthony McGuckin's book The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture, which is a wonderful and extensive demonstration of Fr. McGuckin's lack of familiarity with the word "introduction" but is certainly a fine treatment of the Orthodox Church.
      As if you've got room to talk, O Verbose One.

      I've got my eye on this book, but haven't gotten around to purchasing it yet.
      Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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      • #33
        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
        As if you've got room to talk, O Verbose One.

        I've got my eye on this book, but haven't gotten around to purchasing it yet.
        Hey, at least I don't pretend to be 'introductory' anything... Even I have to slow down considerably when reading some parts of this one.
        "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

        "It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading." - John Wesley

        "Wherever men are still theological, there is still some chance of their being logical." - G. K. Chesterton

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        • #34
          I finished reading McGuckin (The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Its Doctrine, History, and Spiritual Culture), Quinn (The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, and Walbert (Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America). Setting Pruss (One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics) aside for a couple weeks, because I've resumed reading The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, edited by William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland. Also still reading Laniak (Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership in the Bible), which so far is duller and slower-going than I expected. I've now started reading two other books:
          • Early German-American Evangelicalism: Pietist Sources on Discipleship and Sanctification, edited by J. Steven O'Malley
          • G. K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker


          I won't be reading too much over the next few days, as I have a paper to wrap up for my January class. But after that's done, I'll probably start another book as well to get a better rotation going.
          "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

          "It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading." - John Wesley

          "Wherever men are still theological, there is still some chance of their being logical." - G. K. Chesterton

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          • #35
            Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Peter Norton
            Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
            Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson
            The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation ed. Jerome Neyrey (which I'm finding to be very slow going)
            Scripture in the Jewish and Christian traditions: Authority, interpretation, relevance, ed. Frederick Greenspahn
            Started the next volume in NPNF, the works of Gregory of Nyssa

            Still working on:
            Craig Keener's Commentary on the Gospel of John
            Theodoret's Ecclesiastical History
            Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

            Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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            I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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            • #36
              I feel like whenever I post in this thread, I'm like a kid in middle school still reading picture books.

              But I'm just now starting the LOTR trilogy. I've never read it.
              "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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              • #37
                Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                I feel like whenever I post in this thread, I'm like a kid in middle school still reading picture books.

                But I'm just now starting the LOTR trilogy. I've never read it.

                You better not let Manwe see that.

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                • #38
                  I do not normally frequent this forum, but . . . I just read Ted Dekker's 'Outlaw.' I have read Dekker before but there is something that hits me a little off with him. Am I all wet, or is this real?
                  Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                  • #39
                    But I'm just now starting the LOTR trilogy. I've never read it.
                    I envy you.
                    Last edited by Manwë Súlimo; 01-31-2014, 11:23 PM.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post

                      You better not let Manwe see that.
                      It was also so boring I don't even remember if I ever finished it.
                      "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                      There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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                      • #41
                        It was also so boring I don't even remember if I ever finished it.
                        Burn in Angband.

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                          I do not normally frequent this forum, but . . . I just read Ted Dekker's 'Outlaw.' I have read Dekker before but there is something that hits me a little off with him. Am I all wet, or is this real?
                          I tried reading one of his books once. I don't think I made it 100 pages before giving up. Was not impressed.
                          Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                          Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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                          I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                            I tried reading one of his books once. I don't think I made it 100 pages before giving up. Was not impressed.
                            Which one was it?

                            Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                            I do not normally frequent this forum, but . . . I just read Ted Dekker's 'Outlaw.' I have read Dekker before but there is something that hits me a little off with him. Am I all wet, or is this real?
                            I haven't read that one, but every other work of his that I have read I really liked.

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                            • #44
                              Might have been "The River" or "River of Fire" or something like that. It was several years ago. It was an "End Times" book.
                              Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                              Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
                              sigpic
                              I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                                Might have been "The River" or "River of Fire" or something like that. It was several years ago. It was an "End Times" book.
                                Never heard of that one, Probably a reason for that.

                                Seriously though, his Circle books are excellent.

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