I get emails from time to time from individuals asking me to recommend books on theology, church history, et al. But recently I received a request to periodically post some recommendations on my blog, which is something I have never done.So, periodically I will post a list of books in a given area that I have found to be good and helpful reads. Please note-- just because I recommend a book doesn't mean that I essentially agree with it. I make it a point to read books that I know will challenge my perspective. Of course, I do read volumes from authors I find congenial, but I like to read from a wide variety of perspectives.
Today's recommendations are not on one particular subject, but are instead from among the books I have read in the last year or so that I commend to your reading.
David Alan Black, The Jesus Paradigm
Nigel Cawthorne, Witch Hunt: The History of Persecution
Bruce Chadwick, I am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing that Shocked a New Nation
David Fisher, Washington's Crossing
L. Daniel Hawk, Joshua in 3-D: A Commentary on Biblical Conquest and Manifest Destiny
James Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, and Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
John Polkinghorne, Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion
3 comments:
As if I don't have enough guilt already and a long shelf of books I am getting to. This could be a valuable resource. What about a page tab that had an ongoing list. It would take time but a brief sentence about each book might help, of course done in your spare time.
Grace and Peace
the Polkinghorne book is a good read - have not read any of the others.
Pumice, an interesting suggestion. I will think on it.
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