2019 Reading

David de Bruyn

December 13, 2019

cover	Title and review	Author
	Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture 5/5 A tad nostalgic, but otherwise superb.	Esolen, Anthony
	The Fall of Arthur 3/5. Pity he never finished it.	Tolkien, J.R.R.
	A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Mid-Twentieth Century 4/5 A great collection.	Trott, James H.
	The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation 4/5 Apart from the big tent approach, excellent. And he mentions famous people like Ryan Martin and Scott Aniol, and I’ve been in their presence.	Dreher, Rod
	Work: Its Purpose, Dignity, and Transformation 3/5 Sound, but too Kuyperian.	Doriani, Daniel M.
	The Children of Húrin 5/5 Wonderful and tragic.	Tolkien, J.R.R.
	To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World 4/5 Faithful presence is an excellent view of Christianity and culture.	Hunter, James Davison
	What I Learned in Narnia 4/5. One of the better summaries.	Wilson, Douglas
	The Forgotten Heavens: Six Essays on Cosmology 3/5. Uneven qualities of essays, but refreshingly supernaturalistic.	Wilson, Douglas
	The Silmarillion 5/5 Christian mythos at its best.	Tolkien, J.R.R.
	Being Consumed 3/5. Great on diagnosis, shorter on cure.	Cavanaugh, William T.
	The Pilgrim Church 3/5 Great in places, careless in others. Wish it were all true.	Broadbent, Edmund Hamer
	C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction 4/5 Amazingly concise.	Como, James
	Religion and the Rise of Western Culture 5/5 Peerless combination of detail, clarity and insight.	Dawson, Christopher Henry
	Paradise Lost 5/5 Soaring.	Milton, John
	Theology of Jonathan Edwards 4/5 Excellent topical summaries.	McClymond, Michael James
	The Practice Of Piety 3/5 Dense and scrupulous.	Bayly, Lewis
	How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy 4/5 For us barbarians.	Bridges, John
	Mere Fundamentalism: The Apostles’ Creed and the Romance of Orthodoxy 4/5 Insightful treatment.	Wilson, Douglas
	A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness 4/5 The middle section on illumination is simply superb.	Piper, John
	Live Like A Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles 3/5 Great chapter or two surrounded by others.	Rigney, Joe
	The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer 3/5 Fantastic approach, marred by vacuous mysticism.	Eastman, Dick
	Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God 5/5 Simply brilliant description and summary. Delightful.	Rigney, Joe
	The Stranger in Your House 3/5 Some helpful insights on teenagers, with some psychobabble.	Jantz, Gregory L.
	Man, The Dwelling Place Of God 4/5 Tozer rarely disappoints.	Tozer, A.W.
	Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith 3/5 Foster’s taxonomy of spirituality would be brilliant but for his unnecessary inclusion of the ‘social justice’ tradition.	Foster, Richard J.
	Madame Guyon: A Short and Easy Method of Prayer 3/5 I don’t find it short and easy to be a quietist.	Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvi
	Worship and the reality of God: an Evangelical Theology of Real Presence 3/5 Marred by silly remarks on music and continuationism. The arguments for more frequent Lord’s Supper are strong.	Davis, John Jefferson
	A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church 4/5 The early church did not borrow its music from the world.	Stapert, Calvin R.
	Select Sermons of George Whitefield With An Account Of His Life By J.C. Ryle 5/5 Surprisingly readable and warm.	Whitefield, George
	Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship 4/5 Good, but not new for Piper.	Piper, John
	The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4) 3/5 A rather odd treatment of the tale, in my opinion.	White, T.H.
	Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man 4/5 Great insights on purity.	Wilson, Douglas
	Imitation Of Christ 3/5 Warm and severe at the same time. Unfortunate sacerdotalism.	Kempis, Thomas à

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