Christmas Reading Gord’s 2024 Selection

 Creation, Covenant, Incarnation, Redemption, Mission, Adventure, Cultural Analysis. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7s9kDPKNw The God of All Comfort Sermon by N. T. Wright. This sweeping articulation of a biblical theme is a great way to enter the Advent and Christmas Celebration. 

1.  From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology. 
John Dyer, 2024. 

2. The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust. Francis Collins, 2024. 

3. Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song, Bruce Hindmarsh & Craig Borlaise, 2024. 

4. The Patient Ferment of the Early Church. Alan Kreider, Baker Academic, 2024. 

5. How to Read & Understand the Psalms. Bruce K. Waltke, Crossway, 2024 

6. Remembering the Future. John D. Zizioulas, 2023. 

7. On Freedom. Timothy Snyder, 2024.

8. Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from the Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries, Gerald L. Sittser & Eugene Peterson, 2010. 

9. Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in a Reductionist World. Jeremy S. Begbie, Baker Academic, 2023. 

10. A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ. John Andrew Bryant, Lexham Press, 2023. 

11. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies. N. T. Wright & Michael Bird, 2024. 

12. Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian & Western Perspectives. Jerry Hwang, Langham Publishing. 

13. The Surprising Genius of Jesus. Peter Williams, 2023. 

14.Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis. James Davison Hunter, 2024. 

 

Christmas Reading: Increase Your Cultural Bandwidth

Abigail Favale – The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. (March Speaker)

Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture. (February Speaker)

Andrew Wilson, Remaking the Modern World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West.

Fleming Rutledge, The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ.

Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as a Sign of Hope.

Uche Anizor, Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care. (Christianity Today 2023 Book of the Year)

John Goldingay, The Book of Jeremiah.

Nicholas Wolterstorff, In this World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life of Learning.

Matthew Lynch – Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God

Peter J. Leithart, On Earth as in Heaven: Theopolis Fundamentals.

Loren Wilkinson and Peter Harris, Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation. (Regent book launch in January 2024)

Micah Mattix & Sally Thomas, eds., Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology.

Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes.

Hans Boersma – Pierced By Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition.

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ.

Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis.

Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century (eds. Thomas M. Crisp, Steve L. Porter and Gregg A. Ten Elshof)

Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life.

Craig Gay, Modern Technology and the Human Future: a Christian Appraisal.

Hans Boersma, Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church.

Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family.

Daniel Taylor, Do We Not Bleed? A Jon Mote Mystery.

Mark R. McMinn, The Science of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters to the Church.

Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart, Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World.

Dennis Danielson, The Tao of Right and Wrong.

Cynthia Long Westfall, Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Christ.

Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life.

Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering. 

Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World.

Malcolm Guite, Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope.

M. Louise Holert, Praying with the Arts: Illuminating the Church Year with Sacred Art.

Andrzej Franaszek, Milosz: a Biography.

The Language Animal: the full shape of human linguistic capacity by Charles Taylor (2016)

Faith and Wisdom in Science by Tom McLeish (OUP, 2014)

The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn (Verso, 2016)

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet  by Lyndal Roper (2016)

Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and its Inversion by Richard Lints (IVP)

Last Testament: in his own words by Pope Benedict XVI (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016)

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