currently reading…
2009
Radical amazement Judy Cannola (13 Jan 09)
The Subtle Knife Phillip Pullman (12 Jan 09)
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ Matthew Fox (8 Jan 09)
The prophet Isaiah (2 Jan 09)
2008
The Evangelical Universalist Gregory McDonald [23 dec 2008] 7/10
The Inescapable Love of God Thomas Talbott (15 dec 2008] 5/5
A History of God Karen Armstrong
Evil and the Justice of God N T Wright [25 nov 08] 3/5
Truth or Dare? Starhawk [7 Nov 08] 7/10
What’s so amazing about Grace? Phillip Yancey
Natural Grace Rupert Sheldrake / Matthew Fox (1 nov 08] – 5/5
Emerging Worship Dan Kimball [29 oct 08] – 2/5
The History of Hell Alice K Turner [15 Oct 08] – 3/5
If Grace is True Phillip Gulley/James Mulholland [26 sep 08] – 5/5
What Does the Bible Really Say About Hell? Randy Klasssen [23 sep 08] – 3/5
Four Views On Hell William Crockett Ed [17 Sep 08] 4/5
The Universe Is A Green Dragon Brian Swimme [13 sep 08] – 4/5
The Last Word And The Word After That Brian McLaren [8 Sep 08] – Second Reading 5/5
An Analytical Study of Words Louis Abbot [6 Sep 08] 3/5
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky [4 Sep 08] – Abandoned
The Fidelity of Betrayal Peter Rollins [5 Sep 08] 4/5
The Shack William Young [1 Sep 08] 4/5
A Generous Orthodoxy Brian McLaren [1 Sep 08] 5/5
Quantum Reality Nick Herbert [20 Aug 08] 3/5
A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson [10 Aug 08] 4/5
Antoon de Klerk said
Hi Nic,
Walked the rabbit trail to your blog – via Peter Rollins’s site to Ikon to Emergent African and well to the rabbit hole.
Got to say love your reading list – looks a lot like mine – read ‘The Fidelity of Betrayel whislt on holiday in Israel last week – thought it quite an apt (con)trast. Anyways I was wondering if there are any ‘emergent’ red wine/good coffee gatherings around Cape Town.
Would be great to meet like (un)minded people.
Cheers
Nic Paton said
Hi Antoon. I always admire a sleuthing approach to life, maybe because I appear to be an Enneagram number 5 (The Investigator).
Well if you are in CT yes there are a few of us around on a similar path, scattered about the southern burbs. You can contact me via http://www.emergingafrica.info/user/1257/contact
I must update this list BTW, I’ve read about 7 more books since the last update. TOO MUCH!
liquidlight said
hi Antoon.
i must warn you that Nic likes his coffee strong, like his paradoxes. i’m currently based in da oooh kaaah but encourage you to get connected with Nic, FEOTU, Tim & the rest of the clan.
till soon.
/russ…
Antoon de Klerk said
Too much cofffee & too much reading – now right there are two of my favourite paradoxes.
Okay so Wednesday nights at Cafe Verdi seems to be the space?
Ja – and please update your reading list – my latest teachers include: Richard Rohr’s ‘From Wild Man to Wise Man’, Cynthia Burgealt’s ‘Contemplative Prayer’, David Bosch’s ‘Spirituality of the Road’, Karen Armstrong: ‘The Bible: A Bibliography’ and emmm hehe Christopher Paolini’s “Brisingr’.
Waiting in line: Frederick Buechner: ‘Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale’ & N.T. Wright: ‘The Last Word: Beyond Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture’.
Somebody said ‘We read to know that we are not alone’..
Lekka,
Antoon
Nic Paton said
Russ Thanks for the vote of confidence, maybe. My favourite paradoxes are Italian.
Antoon – updated the list. I am not normally so bookish or one track minded, its just that I am doing a thorough study of the eschatology of grace at present. I have Karen Armstrong’s History of God awaiting.
Nic Paton said
Antoon – BTW check first about Cafe Verdi – we’ve not been frequenting that much during Winter, but it’s great during summer.
Gavin said
Karen Armstrong’s History of God
Heavy going – but very good.
Antoon de Klerk said
Shot thanks for updatings Nic.
Please keep posting info on Cape emergent get togethers on the Cape Conversation website.
Great weekend – looks like summer might finally be waking up.
A
PS: Have you tries G.K. Chesterton? ‘Orthodoxy’ is top 5.
fakeexpressionsoftheunkown said
Antoon
Some goodies in that list of yours.
This should lead to some interesting conversation…
Antoon de Klerk said
Don’t know whether this counts as theology but have you been reading about the chaos & mayhem going on in global markets? Certainly a fair amount of fear & trembling. A good book here is George Soros’s: The Credit Crisis of 2008.
I’ve actually played around with the idea of uncovering the deep unity of international interest rates and the ‘so-called’ transcendental. Economics argue that it is the price and availability of capital that determines what gets done/built/produced in a society vs(?) the more elevated god-view held by religion.
Have you ever come across such thinking in your reading?
Cheers
nic paton said
Ooh Antoon you are a voice calling out from the edge of the known world!
I can’t think of a book other than James Glieck’s Chaos, but that is mostly about physics.
From where I am now, the core conversation is between the ecomomics of Grace and all other ecomonics.
Other more tangental thoughts have to do with the notion of “worth”, and may or may not contribute to your investigation: http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/a-worthy-worship-2-worth/
Let’s do coffee this weekend?
Antoon de Klerk said
No jokes – there’s blood on the street: Rand has lost 6% already today, the JSE is down 36.75% from its highs this year…there goes the pension fund.
Worth – worthy – worship – valuable – value – price – money – exchange – agreement – relationship – society – values – history – religion – worth – etcetc.
It’s all in their by (non)linear relationship – perhaps you’re right physics might indeed hold some unifying hope (certainly physisists hold it) – after all its physics that dumped us in this accursed ‘mo(d)dernity’.
Yes coffee this weekend – Sat morning Origin say 10?
A