Member: SamTekoa
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About meLove the Lord, love people, have a family. Life is good.
About my libraryI've been trying to figure out where we Christians came from. I read history, Christian history, biography and other things that grab my attention. I read Bamber Gascoigne's The Christians and just finished Christianity's Dangerous Idea. Both these writers are very good and reflect the scholarship and attitudes that I admire. Mostly I like happy people that think about life. I like Joseph Epstein also.
GroupsCheese!, Faith and Reason, Reformation Historians, Texas History
Favorite authorsThomas Cahill, Joseph Epstein, Bamber Gascoigne, Paul Johnson (Shared favorites)
LocationTexas
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Member sinceJul 10, 2009
Currently readingPhilosophy of Language (Foundations of Philosophy) by William P. Alston
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership (NelsonFree) by Tim Irwin
Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation (Library of Christian Classics (Paperback Westminster)) by E. Gordon Rupp
Philo-Judæus of Alexandria: Judæus of Alexandria by Norman De Mattos Bentwich
The Victory of Faith by Julius Charles HARE
Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time by Greg Ogden
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it took me a while to get used to his style (at first i thought he was a bit of a pompous jerk
at the end, i wished i had written it, because i agreed with sooo much fo it
mind you his constantly refering to others people as 'my friend....'so and so - did continue to grate!!
Cheers
Stephen
posted by PKXFXNINJA at 9:46 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2010
posted by PKXFXNINJA at 10:09 am (EST) on May 13, 2010
I appreciate hearing more about you. Your biographical info is most interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I'm still plodding through the third and final volume in Foote's Civil War. However, I get easily sidetracked. I've lately pulled out six or eight of my "old" (mostly 1980s), books on worship. I've been grappling with the changes in worship style/music/etc. that most evangelical churches have experienced over the past decade or so, with the intention of making a thoughtful critique and not a grumpy, curmudgeony one. There was a good article in the most recent issue of Christianity Today on the subject. I don't know if you saw that.
I haven't read the MacGrath book you mentioned, but I have read some of his other work, and appreciate his scholarship. I own a copy of Grant's Memoirs and haven't read that either, but my understanding is that some historians consider it one of the finest of its kind.
Blessings,
Dean
posted by deanc at 9:12 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2009
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Gray-and-Gold-1942-Posters_i290929_.htm
We made a print and have it hanging in our kitchen!
John Rogers Cox
posted by patwagner at 11:00 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2009