The hold-overs from last summer:
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- On Being a Christian - Hans Kung
Currently reading but not yet finished:
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Three Treatises on the Divine Images - St. John of Damascus
- Knowledge of the Holy - A.W. Tozer
- Whose Bible is it? - Jaroslav Pelikan
New additions:
- On the Holy Spirit - St. Basil the Great
- The Orthodox Way - Bishop Kallistos Ware
- Worship in the Early Church - Ralph P. Martin
- For the Life of the World - Fr. Alexander Schmemann (I was supposed to read this for class but never got to it)
- Early Christian Doctrines - J.N.D. Kelly
- The Problem with Evangelical Theology - Ben Witherington III
- The Last Days of Socrates - Plato
- The Eucharist: Our Sanctification - Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.
- Sober Intoxication of the Spirit: Filled with the Fullness of God - Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.
8 comments:
I didn't see te 7th Harry Potter on that list...
Tegan please tell me that you're joking.
Although my one housemate is a huge fan of the Harry Potter series.
I don't think she's joking. It's on my list ...
it should go in your 'purely entertainment' section. Every reading list needs one of those sections.
basil's work on the holy spirit is great. I just finished it.w
oh Benjamin. ;)
I'm NOT joking! Harry Potter is good for the heart, if not literally. It defintiely makes ME happy! And while happiness might not be joy, it sure can't be overated!
Ben - very cool list. The Brothers Karamazov is a book that changed my life - I don't know if I would be a Christian if it wasn't for that book. The Cantalamessa stuff looks cool too. I'm trying to come up with my summer reading. Right now I'm thinking of reading The Beauty of the Infinite by David Bentley Hart and the book on Jesus that Pope Benedict recently came out with.
You should read all three books of C.S.Lewis' Space Trilogy, esp. the last one, b/c, esp. considering some of things we talked about today, you'd appreciate and I thought about mentioning to you, BUT until you read the book, you can't talk about it with me, so that's the hook. Also, I read The Brothers Karamazov in ninth grade, which is funny b/c i don't think I got most of it, but the plot was awesome, of course. I was in to Russian literature then.
Martin's Worship in the Early Church is a solid quick read. I found it at a used book shop in Pasadena and I've never regretted buying it.
Of merit that I've completed recently:
Talking the Walk by Marva Dawn
Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips
Also, for a great intellectual murder-mystery that takes place in a monastary, read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
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