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Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
5/5 A tad nostalgic, but otherwise superb.
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Esolen, Anthony
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The Fall of Arthur
3/5. Pity he never finished it.
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Mid-Twentieth Century
4/5 A great collection.
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Trott, James H.
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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.
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Dreher, Rod
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Work: Its Purpose, Dignity, and Transformation
3/5 Sound, but too Kuyperian.
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Doriani, Daniel M.
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The Children of Húrin
5/5 Wonderful and tragic.
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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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.
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Hunter, James Davison
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What I Learned in Narnia
4/5. One of the better summaries.
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Wilson, Douglas
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The Forgotten Heavens: Six Essays on Cosmology
3/5. Uneven qualities of essays, but refreshingly supernaturalistic.
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Wilson, Douglas
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The Silmarillion
5/5 Christian mythos at its best.
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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Being Consumed
3/5. Great on diagnosis, shorter on cure.
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Cavanaugh, William T.
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The Pilgrim Church
3/5 Great in places, careless in others. Wish it were all true.
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Broadbent, Edmund Hamer
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C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction
4/5 Amazingly concise.
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Como, James
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Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
5/5 Peerless combination of detail, clarity and insight.
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Dawson, Christopher Henry
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Paradise Lost
5/5 Soaring.
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Milton, John
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Theology of Jonathan Edwards
4/5 Excellent topical summaries.
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McClymond, Michael James
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The Practice Of Piety
3/5 Dense and scrupulous.
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Bayly, Lewis
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How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy
4/5 For us barbarians.
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Bridges, John
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Mere Fundamentalism: The Apostles’ Creed and the Romance of Orthodoxy
4/5 Insightful treatment.
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Wilson, Douglas
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A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness
4/5 The middle section on illumination is simply superb.
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Piper, John
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Live Like A Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles
3/5 Great chapter or two surrounded by others.
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Rigney, Joe
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The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer
3/5 Fantastic approach, marred by vacuous mysticism.
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Eastman, Dick
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Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God
5/5 Simply brilliant description and summary. Delightful.
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Rigney, Joe
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The Stranger in Your House
3/5 Some helpful insights on teenagers, with some psychobabble.
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Jantz, Gregory L.
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Man, The Dwelling Place Of God
4/5 Tozer rarely disappoints.
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Tozer, A.W.
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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.
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Foster, Richard J.
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Madame Guyon: A Short and Easy Method of Prayer
3/5 I don’t find it short and easy to be a quietist.
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Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvi
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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.
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Davis, John Jefferson
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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.
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Stapert, Calvin R.
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Select Sermons of George Whitefield With An Account Of His Life By J.C. Ryle
5/5 Surprisingly readable and warm.
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Whitefield, George
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Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship
4/5 Good, but not new for Piper.
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Piper, John
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
3/5 A rather odd treatment of the tale, in my opinion.
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White, T.H.
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Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man
4/5 Great insights on purity.
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Wilson, Douglas
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Imitation Of Christ
3/5 Warm and severe at the same time. Unfortunate sacerdotalism.
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Kempis, Thomas à
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Jay Sax
Thank you, David. What is the meaning of the asterisks?
David
Oh, nothing. They were a carryover from the Goodreads account. I deleted them now.