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1.03.2010

Some influential books from different eras of the life of an eventual Christian


History:

Youth - General, universal world histories (such as Welles, Spengler, J. M. Roberts)
Young man - classical historians (ancient: Herodotus/Thucydides, Plutarch; Machievelli, Gibbon, Montesquieu; general 20th century history not excepting the history of tyranny)
Adult - Biblical Theology - John Owen (general histories of redemption)

Philosophy (including practical, or worldly):

Youth - Emerson, Plato
Young man - Nietzsche
Adult - Ouspensky, von Clauswitz, Adam Smith, Reformed Theology

Imaginative Literature (this category tends to merge more than others and refuses to line up to life eras):

Youth - classic novels (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Fielding, Cervantes; the usual 20th century line up)
Young Man - Pilgrim's Progress, von Eschenbach
Adult - Homer, Shakespeare

Sacred Writings:

Youth - general reading of all world religions
Young Man - general reading and seeking of more practical levels of religion, mystics, etc.
Adult - Old and New Testaments

Posted by c.t. at 1/03/2010

1 Comments:

Anonymous ct said...

Still trying to be positive...

When eschatology makes everything NOW it makes death now too.

You're in your death now, pilgrims. You won't learn that in any seminary.

(Well, that wasn't very positive. Slamming the shallowness of seminaries like that.)

Positive, positive, positive...

January 3, 2010 at 6:03 AM  

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