I've been drafted by the magnificent Meg Jenista to complete the following little survey, and I'm happy to oblige. Here goes:
1. Number of books you have owned: Too many. Not quite on the scale of, say, Peter Bratt, but my collection has reached a significant volume. Put it this way: I own many books, but many of those books have not been read by me.
2. Last book I bought: CS Lewis' Dangerous Idea, by Victor Reppert. It's Reppert's goal to prove the veracity of the argument against naturalism that Lewis postulates in "Miracles."
3. Last book I completed: Tie between Rob Bell's "Velvet Elvis," David Bentley Hart's "The Doors of the Sea." Bell's book is great when he doesn't talk about his church, and Hart's exploration of the problem of evil from an Eastern Orthodox perspective contained gorgeous prose and robust argument.
4. Five (or so) books that mean a lot to me: Of course, this list is subject to change at any moment. Also, they're in no specific order.
1. The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
2. The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
3. The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley Hauerwas
4. The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
6. Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
7. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
8. Outlaw Culture by bell hooks
and on, and on....
4b. What are you currently reading?
1. Dubliners by James Joyce
2. CS Lewis' Dangerous Idea by Victor Reppert
3. In Search of the Soul - Various
4. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew - Thomas Lambdin
5. In Search of Belief - Joan Chittiser
5. Which 5 bloggers are you passing this onto?
Peter Bratt
Joel Swagman
Leanna Zeyl
Meredith Guthrie
Ben Hoekstra
1. Number of books you have owned: Too many. Not quite on the scale of, say, Peter Bratt, but my collection has reached a significant volume. Put it this way: I own many books, but many of those books have not been read by me.
2. Last book I bought: CS Lewis' Dangerous Idea, by Victor Reppert. It's Reppert's goal to prove the veracity of the argument against naturalism that Lewis postulates in "Miracles."
3. Last book I completed: Tie between Rob Bell's "Velvet Elvis," David Bentley Hart's "The Doors of the Sea." Bell's book is great when he doesn't talk about his church, and Hart's exploration of the problem of evil from an Eastern Orthodox perspective contained gorgeous prose and robust argument.
4. Five (or so) books that mean a lot to me: Of course, this list is subject to change at any moment. Also, they're in no specific order.
1. The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
2. The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
3. The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley Hauerwas
4. The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
6. Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
7. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
8. Outlaw Culture by bell hooks
and on, and on....
4b. What are you currently reading?
1. Dubliners by James Joyce
2. CS Lewis' Dangerous Idea by Victor Reppert
3. In Search of the Soul - Various
4. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew - Thomas Lambdin
5. In Search of Belief - Joan Chittiser
5. Which 5 bloggers are you passing this onto?
Peter Bratt
Joel Swagman
Leanna Zeyl
Meredith Guthrie
Ben Hoekstra
thanks Brian, that was fun.
Posted by
bnjmn |
5:05 PM
Lambdin! How did I forget Lambdin? Oh, probably because I've been spending most my summer trying to supress the god-awfulness that is learning Hebrew on-line.
Posted by
Reverend Irreverent |
12:02 AM
Ghosh-awefulness of online Hebrew.... I showed some Jewish friends the seminary curriculum for Hebrew. They backed up what I thought, that it is a joke. They completely trashed all the lessons in vowels the lack of any real structure in learning this holy tongue. That is why I am going elsewhere for the Hebrew.
Posted by
Carlos |
12:09 AM
Oh kids, Lambdin online or in book form is like brussel sprouts sauteed in rancid butter with mashed limas beans: gross and unpalatable.
Go with Carlos and learn it elsewhere. Life's too short.
I still get queasy thinking about that book and it's been over a decade....
Posted by
Mary |
6:52 PM