What are you reading?

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    bwallac2335 Well-Known Member

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    I am currently reading Sherlock Holmes and The Origins of Totalitarianism
     
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    I am reading "Unbelievers An Emotional History of Doubt" by Alec Ryrie, Prof of Divinity and like Tiffy a licenced CoE reader.
     
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    Ananias Well-Known Member Anglican

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    Knowing God by J. I. Packer (a classic and an absolute treasure)
    Karl Barth's commentary on the Epistle to the Romans
    John Stott's The Cross of Christ
     
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    I need to read the top one
     
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    https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Elephant,+Camel+(and+tea)&rh=n:2496751051&_encoding=UTF8

    The book I am reading at the moment is Elephant, Camel (and tea) by Christine J Matthews and I. E. Petrie.

    I am finding it quite delightful, and a springboard for much thinking. It is in a sense Unsystematic Theology, in the sense of the Parish Clerk who constantly finds his work interrupted, and then on reflection realise that the interruptions were the work. It is not a work of classical Anglicanism so don't expect that here, however it is a great read, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

    Our region is in a Covid19 lockdown at the moment, so this has been a fabulous piece of sunshine.
     
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    Sometimes the most thought provoking works are not overt religious works.
     
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    Holiness, by J.C. Ryle.
     
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    Volume 2 of Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee
     
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    Volume 2 of Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee
     
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    Schleiermacher’s The Christian Faith, and N.T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God.
     
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    Ecology - A very short introduction by Jaboury Ghazoul - Oxford

    Interesting, helpful, and non-polemical
     
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    Crashed, by Adam Tooze
    Grace at this Time, by C.W. McPherson
     
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    The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
     
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    Upward Trajectory New Member Anglican

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    Infant Baptism in the First four Centuries by Joachim Jeremias
     
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    The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
    by Michael Haag
     
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    Upward Trajectory New Member Anglican

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    Head and Glory: Sacred Order or Secular Chaos by Charles F Caldwell
     
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    Reading a historical fiction set in the middle ages, "The Accursed Kings" by Maurice Druon. It was the direct inspiration for the Game of Thrones, and presents a hair-raising view of the middle ages quite at odds with the pasteurized iddylicism of some Roman Catholic trads.
     
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    I've started a book review in a new thread. It will be delivered in parts as I write it.
     
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    Saving My Assassin, by Virginia Prodan. It is a first-person account of Christians suffering and courageously serving God while under severe persecution in Communist Romania.
     
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