Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
10 best books like Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church (Merold Westphal): The Masterpiece, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, The Devil's Arithmetic, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Notes from a Small Island, A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love, Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire, Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth, Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers, St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
| Author | Francine Rivers |
| ISBN | 1496407903 |
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece.
A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco...
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
| Author | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
| ISBN | 0553272586 |
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0142401099 |
I wish I could say I liked this book. I thought I would. I know it's critically acclaimed and a well-known story. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies. The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
Notes from a Small Island
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380727501 |
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."
After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently...
If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the “law of love”—the twofold love of God and one’s neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Jacobs pursues this challenging task by alternating largely theoretical, theological...
Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
| Author | R.J. Snell |
| ISBN | 1621381269 |
While the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful person...
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
| Author | A.O. Scott |
| ISBN | 1594204837 |
The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect...
Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers
| Author | Michael J. Gorman |
| ISBN | 1565634853 |
"Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers" presents the essential elements of sound exegetical method in a succinct and incisive way. Designed for students, teachers, pastors, and others wishing to think and write about the Bible carefully, this brief hands-on guide...
St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
| Author | Paul Strathern |
| ISBN | 1566631505 |
Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity - detailed in his Confessions - ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided...
| Author | Glen H. Stassen |
| ISBN | 0664238173 |
Why have some Christians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., been able to speak truth to power at great personal cost, while others readily capitulate to injustice? In this magnum opus, Christian ethicist Glen Stassen argues that such robust Christianity stems from believing...
| Author | Rodney Clapp |
| ISBN | 0830819908 |
Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the YearChristians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary...
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
| Author | Nyasha Junior |
| ISBN | 0664259871 |
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a byproduct of feminist biblical interpretation but part of a distinctive tradition of...
Christian Spirituality I: Origins to the Twelfth Century (World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, Volume 16)
| Author | Bernard McGinn |
| ISBN | 0824508475 |
This is a decent compilation of chosen representatives for the days of the early (ier) Church; which presciently covers both east and west.
Some chapters are, almost inevitably, vastly superior to others and I find much more important. Moreover, I find myself a lot more attracted to a few,...
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
| Author | Peter L. Berger |
| ISBN | 0385073054 |
“[Berger] writes in a concise and lucid style, a rare talent among sociologists, but does so without losing any of the cogency of his material. More impressively, he is almost unparalleled in his creativity. The Sacred Canopy brings together all of these virtues and is easily his most important book....
The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0830815740 |
Many philosophers of the past century have focused on the problem of hermeneutics. Theologians have shared this concern because of their interest in interpreting biblical texts. As postmodern critics have challenged the possibility of understanding any texts, the issue of how to respond has become...
Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes
| Author | Justo L. González |
| ISBN | 0687014522 |
In a small but illuminating book, Justo Gonzalez describes how aspects of the Latin American experience shape a perspective on the Bible (while carefully acknowledging nuance within and without) that has much to offer to the rest of the Church.
Discussing elements of marginality, poverty,...
A Little Exercise for Young Theologians
| Author | Helmut Thielicke |
| ISBN | 0802811981 |
I like this little book. For me, it’s a good reminder not to use theology as a tool to shame others. I have seen (and personally experienced) too many instances of new theologians using cumbersome language and complicated ideas to silence those they don’t agree with. It is a kind of shaming that, especially...
