My apologies! I've been away from the blog for a while. Hopefully I will be on here more in the new year.
I've been thinking about what books I want to try to read in 2010. This list will no doubt change as new books are released, but here are twelve that I am eyeing right now:
- Collapse (by Jared Diamond)
- Made to Stick (by Chip Heath & Dan Heath)
- The Art of the Start (by Guy Kawasaki)
- Love Is An Orientation (by Andrew Marin)
- A Community Called Atonement (by Scot McKnight)
- Dreams from My Father (by Barack Obama)
- On the Brink (by Henry M. Paulson)
- Drive (by Daniel Pink)
- Mechanistic & Non-mechanistic Science (by Richard L. Thompson)
- The Lost World of Genesis One (by John Walton)
- The Resurrection of the Son of God (by N. T. Wright)
- Surprised by Hope (by N. T. Wright)
What about you? Are there any books you are looking forward to reading in 2010?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Indeed the blog here has been rather neglected by all of us the last several months!
Some books that I hope to get to read soon:
A Cross-Shattered Church: Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching by Stanley Hauerwas
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul Miller
And of course, I hope to catch up on and finish my two-year Bible read-through.
Is anyone else on Goodreads or other sites to follow along with what folks are reading? (Here's a link to my Goodreads profile)
BTW, how did Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science make the list?
The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
A book on how to control toddlers.
Bart, let me know how the toddler book works out ;-)
Paul, Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science was a recommendation from my philosophy professor during the spring 2009 semester.
Here is the product description from amazon.com: "This book discuss how the mechanistic theories of modern science have difficulty explaining such phenomena as consciousness, complex biological form, and inspiration, and how the non-mechanistic science of bhakti-yoga from India can help provide useful explanations."
As you might guess, I am more interested in the first part than the second part :-) In fact, looking at the table of contents, the first 200 pages are devoted to discussing the limitations of science, while only the last 25 pages actually dive into the bhakti-yoga stuff.
I deeply believe that science is valuable, but limited. However, I think that some scientists today perhaps no longer recognize its limitations, so I am interested to read this book and see how someone on the scientific side of things (rather than the populist side of things) makes the case for science's own limitations.
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