Christocentric: Perilous Navigation

Thursday, December 16, 2010

David McCullough:

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Book Notes

Matt's Book Montage

Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

by David Hackett Fischer

Great critical thinking when it comes to historiography. The logic chopping is a little pedantic at times but the overall affect is greater clarity on how to reach responsible historical conclusions.

The problem however is that F...

Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

by Stephen Miller

Miller traces the history of the "conversible world" of friends and acquaintances who discussed the big ideas of their day and how they shaped their world. The ancient world gets short shrift, but the 18th c. British coffee house...

That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession

by Peter Novick

Novick gives a fantastic analysis of the changing views on the questions of objectivity and subjectivity in American historiography. How Novick, a European historian, could write so comprehensively and with such depth and for almost 650 pag...

The Silver Chair

by C.S. Lewis

Let's hear it for Puddleglum! The final confrontation with the witch is so inspiring. I love to read it to my students when were studying Feuerbach. One of my students brilliantly pointed out that good ol' Puddleglum was using Pascal's Wage...

Being Consumed

by William T. Cavanaugh

Cavanaugh argues that globalism is a counterfeit of the church. Consumerism is the worldview that drives the structures of globalism and it is a direct challenge to the Christian faith. Cavanaugh writes:

"Consumer culture is...

Poetics

by Aristotle

Aristotle says that the exercise of any capacity brings pleasure. Poetry is language made pleasurable in verse form. Aristotle distinguishes the poetic genres of epic poetry (like Homer's Illiad and Odyssey) and tragedy (like the plays of A...

The Great Divorce

by C.S. Lewis

heaven is weightier than earth and takes some getting used to. if unbelievers were given the choice again they would make it the same. great dialoge.

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

by Mark A. Noll

The Puritans who settled Massachusetts combined heart-felt devotion to Christ with a love of theology. They practiced a vigorous intellectual life centered on the Bible and embraced cutting edge science like inoculation against disease. By ...

Between Heaven and Hell

by Peter Kreeft

Splendid application of Lewis' Lord, Liar, Lunatic triad. A little overwhelming. Take in small bites.

The Inklings

by Humphrey Carpenter

Masterful! All you ever wanted to know about them and more. Read Glyer for a critique of his view of influence.

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