Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Aug 27, 2011)

Jonathan’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

71) Shepherding the Small Church: A Leadership Guide for the Majority of Today's Churches by Glenn C. Daman

70) The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews by Barnabas Lindars

69) The Suburban Church: Practical Advice for Authentic Ministry by Arthur H. DeKruyter

68) The Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle? by Mike Erre

66) Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition: A Workbook by Steve Harper
67) Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz

Ugh, I've been slacking far more on reading this year than I ever dreamed possible. I'm up to 65 right now, which is still better than I was doing in 2007 at this time (54), but further behind than I've been any year since then. Especially 2009. I'd rather be gradually increasing the number of books I get through per year.

65) The King-Priest of Psalm 110 in Hebrews by David R. Anderson

Zee, you are so right. Borges' collected short stories would probably be my ideal re-read.

Now, if I were going to go with something new, that's a good question. My to-read list is so large and tantalizing! It might have to be the recent'The Metaphysics of the Incarnation', edited by Marmadoro and Hill; I've been salivating over that since I first heard it was coming out.

62) Bearing Christ's Reproach: The Challenge of Hebrews in an Honor Culture by David Arthur Desilva
63) An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue by Quentin Schultze
64) The Melchizedek Tradition: A Critical Examination of the Sources to the Fifth Century A.D. and in the Epistle to the Hebrews by Fred L. Horton Jr.

61) Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time by Greg Ogden

60) Abuse of Language Abuse of Power by Josef Pieper

59) The Personification Of Wisdom (Society for Old Testament Study Monographs) by Alice M. Sinnott

57) Understanding the Book of Hebrews: The Story Behind the Sermon by Kenneth Schenck
58) Mormonism and the Nature of God: A Theological Evolution, 1830 - 1915 by Kurt Widmer

56) Homilies on Joshua: Origen by Origen and translated by Barbara J. Bruce

There are a precious few friends whom I'll permit to borrow my books, and even then, generally only the reasonably priced ones. (More for their benefit than anything else, since they know better than to damage any of them - inadvertently or otherwise - without promptly funding their replacement.)

Hello, everybody!

I've actually already hit the 50-book-mark for 2011, but I'll enjoy keeping track of my progress here now anyway. This way I won't forget to start a new thread here once 2012 starts!

1) Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission by Paul Hattaway
2) Luther's Works, Vol. 2: Lectures on Genesis 6-14, by Martin Luther
3) On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius of Alexandria
4) The Rule of Saint Benedict by St. Benedict of Nursia
5) Readings in World Christian History, edited by Andrea Sterk and John Coakley
6) History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 by Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist
7) Why Jesus? by William H. Willimon
8) The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible by Ben Witherington III
9) Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century by Charles Taliaferro
10) The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness
11) New Testament History: A Narrative Account by Ben Witherington III
12) Listening to God in Times of Choice: The Art of Discerning God's Will by Gordon T. Smith
13) Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard L. Bushman
14) The New Testament Story by Ben Witherington III
15) Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life As a Christian Calling by James W. Sire
16) Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century by Timothy Tennent
17) Inside the Leaders Head: Unraveling Personal Obstacles to Ministry by Stephen L. Martyn and Virginia Todd Holeman
18) The Fathers of the Church: The Poems of Prudentius (Fathers of the Church by Prudentius and translated by M. Clement Eagan
19) The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 20, by G.K. Chesterton
20) Women in Ministry: Four Views, edited by Bonnidell Clouse and Robert Clouse
21) Warrant: The Current Debate by Alvin Plantinga
22) Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845: A Documentary History, edited by Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera
23) The Letters of St. Boniface, by St. Boniface and translated by Ephraim Emerton
24) True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven by Matteo S. Ricci
25) Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity, edited by Norman E. Thomas
26) Delusions: an analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an examination of its internal and external evidences, and a refutation of its pretences to divine authority by Alexander Campbell
27) Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct by Stanley J. Grenz and Roy D. Bell
28) The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History, edited by Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera
29) Missions from the Majority World: Progress, Challenges, and Case Studies, edited by Enoch Yee-Nock WAN
30) Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
31) Mormonism unvailed: or, A faithful account of that singular imposition and delusion from its rise to the present time. With sketches of the characters of its propagators, and a full detail of the manner in which the famous Golden Bible was brought before by Eber D. Howe
32) Calling & Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life by William H. Willimon
33) The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought by Paul L. Gavrilyuk
34) Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, edited by Francisco José Ayala et al.
35) Writings of Martin of Braga, Paschasius, Leander, translated by Claude Barlow
36) A dissertation on the prophecies relative to Antichrist and the last times: exhibiting the rise, character, and overthrow of that terrible power: and a treatise on the seven apocalyptic vials by Ethan Smith
37) A Key to the Figurative Language; Found in the Sacred Scriptures, in the Form of Questions and Answers by Ethan Smith
38) View of the Hebrews; exhibiting the destruction of Jerusalem; the certain restoration of Judah and Israel; the present state of Judah and Israel; and an address of the prophet Isaiah relative to their restoration by Ethan Smith
39) Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology by Lewis Ayres
40) Fundamentalism and Evangelicals by Harriet A. Harris
41-43) The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, translated by Michael Gaddis
44) Ethics: Systematic Theology (Systematic Theology by James William McClendon Jr.
45) Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi: Carmen Christi as Cursus Pudorum by Joseph H. Hellerman
46) The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 by John L. Brooke
47) God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity by William Lane Craig
48) Systematic Theology, Vol. 2: Doctrine by James William McClendon Jr.
49) Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution by Richard Paul Vaggione
50) The Hope of Glory: Honor Discourse and New Testament Interpretation by David Arthur Desilva
51) The Fiction by H.P. Lovecraft
52) Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief by Jerome I. Gellman
53) Systematic Theology, Vol. 3: Witness by James William McClendon Jr.
54) Story of Christianity: Volume 2: Volume Two: The Reformation to the Present Day by Justo L. Gonzalez
55) Baptism On Account of the Dead (1 Cor 15:29): An Act of Faith in the Resurrection by Michael F. Hull