Tag: Reading
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The saddest words I have ever read
The saddest words I have ever read are found in Ecclesiastes ch. 12, “To the making of books there is no end, and too much reading is a weariness of the flesh.” But then I realise that this is also good news: books won’t end, therefore they’re eternal. There will be books in heaven. The…
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Books Read in 2018
Happy New Year everyone! Every end of the year for a number of years now I post a list of the books I’ve finished reading in that year. I’m sorry I don’t have time to also put in the corresponding links to Amazon but you can always look these books up yourself. So here they…
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Books Read in 2017
Reinke’s NEWTON ON THE CHRISTIAN LIFE R. Holiday’s THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY Jacob’s A THEOLOGY OF READING Dreher’s THE BENEDICT OPTION Dreher’s HOW DANTE CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Homer’s ODYSSEY (Fagles’ translation) Nimmo’s BARTH Christensen’s HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE? MAMMOTH BOOK OF WORLD’S GREATEST CHESS GAMES John Flavel’s SAINT INDEED (in Works,…
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Charitable Reading for Lawyers
I’ve just finished reading Alan Jacobs’ A Theology of Reading: A Hermeneutics of Love. It’s a book I need to reread in order to understand it better. But I’ve already learned a number of valuable things from it. Such as, read with this motivation: Love for God and love for neighbor. Whether you eventually agree…
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Books Read in 2015
Here are the books I’ve read this year: January Calvin’s Institutes (edited by Lane & Osborne) N. Stithatos’ On Spiritual Knowledge Shakespeare’s Macbeth (nth reading) Kevin Young’s Taking God at His Word Thielicke’s A Little Exercise for Young Theologians (nth reading)
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Reading Theology
There’s nothing that can integrate reality in the way that theology can, and so I feel as if I’m reading something whole when I read great theology, and I feel as though I’m reading something very partial when I’m reading anything else. – Marilynne Robinson
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The Gift of Books
So thankful for the gifts I received this Christmas! 1. Peter Brown’s Augustine of Hippo 2. Diarmaid McCulloch’s Reformation 3. N.T. Wright’s The New Testament for Everyone (18 volumes) What came to mind as I write this is the verse which says, “To him who has more shall be given!” It seems I’ll have to…
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