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Question of the day…how many authors have you read at least five books they’ve written?
It’s all yours today…
Question of the day…how many authors have you read at least five books they’ve written?
Great question, Michael.
CS Lewis, Philip Yancey, John Stott and Tom Wright.
Might be others but at least those.
bob1,
I swiped it off Twitter…
Charles Bowden
N.T. Wright
J.I. Packer
John Stott
Steve Brown
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
C.S. Lewis
Nick Tosches
There’s a bunch more…never realized that…
off the top of my head
N. T. Wright
Gordon Fee
Richard Taruskin
Roger Scruton
Theodore Adorno
Jeremy Begbie
Bill Watterson
Rumiko Takahashi
C S Lewis
Francis Schaeffer
Jacques Ellul
Ted Gioia (great on jazz and blues and dubious on almost all other topics)
Paul Dini (did a fun run on Detective Comics)
Probablys (as in maybe not five but I’ve read at least four or the books were/are so substantial they count)
Ephraim Radner
Tom Wolfe
Joan Didion
Tolkien
T F Torrance
Graham Twelftree
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoevsky
T. S. Eliot
ahem, on account of blogging I did I have to technically include Mark Driscoll and Doug Wilson … but I hope people will understand why I feel obliged to bracket him out from other writers
Amy Carmichael
Elisabeth Eliot
Pearl S Buck
James Michner
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Walter Wagnerin
Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
Leon Uris
Ray Bradbury
Isabel Kuhn
Terry Brooks
John Stott
Barbara Kingsolver
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
CS Lewis
Zenna Henderson
Rosemary Sutcliff
Lois Lenski
Hudson Taylor
James Harriott
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tomas Carrasquilla
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Daniel Defoe
Amy Tan
James Baldwin
James Agee
Thomas Cronin
(That’s what I remember offhand. There are probably more.)
Those are some lists!
It’s good to be in the company of readers…
Stephen King.
Today, for the first ever, we focused upon Epiphany in our worship service.
PH,
How did it go?
Michael,
It was well received. We’ve slowly been introducing elements of the liturgical calendar over the last few years. Only a handful have expressed concern that we are going catholic. 😀
I can’t compete in this group. I have a short list of 5+ books by same author:
C. S. Lewis
Francis Schaeffer (I like the earlier ones better)
George Macdonald
Kurt Vonnegut
If the list were 3+ books my list would be much longer.
Christopher Hitchens of course. 🙂
I had to think about it, but Lawrence Krauss as well. Maybe Stephen King, but that was decades ago.
P. T. Forsyth
N. T. Wright
Jack R. Taylor
C. H. Spurgeon
John R. W. Stott
Steve Brown
Paul Johnson
Malcolm Muggeridge
Chuck Colson
Richard John Neuhaus
Philip Jenkins
Rodney Stark
Watchman Nee (back in the day)
Richard Foster
Donald Bloesch
Michael Heiser
H. R. Mackintosh
C. Peter Wagner
Randy Clark
Greg Boyd
That’s enough
Seems we all have a little Stott in us…that’s a really good thing.
I’m late to Michael Heiser…and finding him annoying….can’t put my finger on why.
I found him to be an acquired taste but he grew on me.
A partial list…
Michael Ramsey
James Atkinson
Charles Kannengiesser
Norman Cantor
Jacques Ellul
Robert Alter
Henry Chadwick
Owen Chadwick
Jaroslav Pelikan
Andrew Louth
Robert Markus
R. M. Grant
G. C. Stead
Thomas Merton
C.S. Lewis
Henri Nouwen
Percy Dearmer
Patrick O’Brian
Martin Gilbert
William Manchester
Sorry to be AWOL today…catching up on sleep after another drug reaction.
Suddeny,there are ads on the site I have no idea where they came from.
I’m utterly confused…
James Lee Burke
John Steinbeck
CS Lewis
Stephen Ambrose
Jon Krakauer
Malcom Gladwell
Sebastian Junger
Mark Bowden
Mark Twain
Michael Lewis
A little light on theology…
PM,
You’re never light on theology when Lewis is on your list.
I might be real close to including Krakauer and Bowden on mine…Bowden did a takedown of Al Sharpton years ago that was one of the most brilliant pieces of writing ever…
I don’t know if anyone here has seen the God Made Trump advertisement, which Trump shared on his social media platform, but it was shockingly blasphemous. I bring it up here because it is a not very veiled promotion of Trump as a messianic figure, full of religious and biblical imagery.
I wonder if it will actually appeal to a mass portion of Evangelical Americans or if it is a step too far.
@1:28 I haven’t watched it yet but Trump has easily blown through every prior “step to far” with his adoring fans.
Maybe this will be the one that does it…
There is no step too far…this makes me sick.
PM,
I hope you’re right. But I’m not holding my breath…
I doubt this will change most peoples minds. It makes me sick to and it is absolutely incomprehensible that a true believer would think this is ok.
Cult
I mean, God made Leviathan, too, right? I “do” have a copy of Esther Hamori’s book God’s Monster’s, after all. FOr that matter I”ve got Mark Sneed’s Taming the Beast about the reception history of Leviathan and Behemoth in Jewish and Christian interpretation and Andrei Orlov even has a book that includes English language scholarship on the reception history of Leviathan in Muslim thought, though I haven’t cracked open Supernal Serpent yet.
Just watched that Trump video and now I’m sick to my stomach.