Through this blog I hope to tap others experience and insight.
Whether you are atheist or agnostic, Baptist, Lutheran or Catholic, or anything really, I invite you to share your thoughts and ideas. So long as your comments are constructive of course. I hope this blog will help me catalog my journey so in a year or so, I can look back and see if any progress has been made.
I do intend to solicit opinions from Christian forums, blogs and whoever else I may come across. I understand online opinions aren't the best, but there have been a few gems out there and it is my goal to attract a few of them to help me on my way.
I am also receptive to book suggestions. Below I've listed just a few of the books I've read so far.
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Catholic and Christian by Alan Schreck
The Shape of Catholic Theology by Aiden Nichols
The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life by Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange
Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Catechism of the Catholic Church
They do have a Catholic slant but that is because most of them were suggested by the priest I mentioned in my first post, An Introduction. This shouldn't stop you from making a suggestion though!
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"The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, there's a book of poems by the same author that is quite good. The former book is more of a didactic sort of work.
"Orthodoxy" by Chesterton.
ReplyDeleteAvailable free online here (and elsewhere):
www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/orthodoxy/orthodoxy.html
I hope the Bible is going to make it to that list too. I recommend you get a good study bible of a good translation such as the English Standard Version, or the New International Version. Any decent Christian book is just going to be a filter of the Bible anyway.
ReplyDeleteI wish you well in your journey to Christ.
Thank you for the suggestions and encouragement guys!
ReplyDeleteDarren.Broad -
The bible is a bit of an ongoing project, though I have read several large chunks. Now whether a Christian book will "filter" the bible, well, I think I may have to disagree. Good books tend to help you understand by offering additional insight into what you're reading.
It's exactly what study bibles do.
You might enjoy reading "Traveling Mercies" by Anne Lamott -- someone from a nontheist/atheist background who had a very gradual and interesting journey into (non-fundamentalist) Christianity.
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