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Good Reads
“Reading is an immense gift, but only if
the words are assimilated, taken into the soul – eaten, chewed,
gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”
- Eugene Peterson
Staff's Top Five Reads:
Good Reads:
Trygve’s Geeky Interests:
Alcohol
and Substance Abuse Resources
Provided by: Ziyah Dock, Hope College Counseling Center
Tom Kragt, Evergreen Ministries
1) Substance Abuse Awareness Group: A student-run support
and accountability group. Meets every Tuesday from 11:00-11:30am and
every Thursday from
7:00-7:30pm at the DeWitt Counseling Center. For more information, contact
Jon Zita at jonathan.zita@hope.edu or Vanessa Claus at vanessa.claus@hope.edu.
2) Alcohol Education Group: A group that provides helpful
information about the impact of alcohol and other substances while giving
support to
make healthy lifestyle choices. This group is led
by Ziyah Dock, Hope College Counseling Center and who is also a Certified
Addiction Counselor.
Will meet for four sessions on Thursdays from 11am-12noon at TBD location.
For more information contact the Counseling Center at ext. 7945
or email dock@hope.edu.
3) Bridge to Life Recovery of Evergreen Ministries:
A group that uses a 12-step approach to help people with their hurts,
habits, and hang-ups.
Meets Sunday nights from 7:30-8:40pm at Evergreen Ministries. For more
information, contact Tom Kragt at tom@egm.org or call 616.669.7700.
4) http://www.hope.edu/youdecide
Catholicism Resources
Provided by: Professor Jack Mulder
Kevin Orlin Johnson, Why Do Catholics Do That? (New York: Ballantine,
1994).
Gerald O'Collins and Mario Farrugia, Catholicism: The Story of Catholic
Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Compendium
of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism of the Catholic Church
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Faith And Learning
Bibliography
By Dr. Steven Bouma-Prediger,
Professor of Religion, Hope College
“If the book we are reading does not wake
us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?...A
book must be like an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.”
- Franz Kafka
Staff’s Top Five Reads
Trygve
- David James Duncan, The Brothers K
- Chaim Potock, The Gift of Asher Lev
- James Torrance, Worship Community & the Triune God of Grace
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Eugene Peterson, The Contemplative Past
Paul
- Richard Mouw, Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil
world
- Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?
- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
- Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christian
- Mitch Albom, Tuesday’s with Morie
Katy
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Virginia Wolfe, Mrs. Dalloway
- John Eldridge, Waking the Dead
- Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
- Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day
Barb
- Jack Deere, Surprised by Power of the Spirit
- Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child
- Dutch Sheets, Intercessory Prayer
- Ken Gire, The Work of His Hands
- Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw, Love You Forever
Bryan
- D. Arthur Fife, The Secret Place
- Bishop Joseph Garlington, Worship:The Pattern of Things in Heaven
- Edwin Louis Cole, Real Man: Your role as a Leader, Husband, Father, Friend
- David M. Edwards, Worship 365: The Power of a Worshiping Life
- John M. Frame, Worship In Spirit And In Truth
Lori
- Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child
- Wesley L. Duewel, Mighty Prevailing Prayer
- D. Arthur Fife, The Secret Place
- Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift
- Karen Kingsbury, Redemption Series
Josh
- Ranier Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
- Tim Winton Cloudstreet
- Alexander Schemann For the Life of the World
- Walker Percy Message in a Bottle
- Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Good Reads
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never
to allow yourself another new one till you have read the old one in between.
If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one for
every three new ones…Every age has its own outlook. It is
specially good seeing at certain truths and specially liable to make certain
mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the
characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means old books.”
- C.S. Lewis on good reads
Getting Started
- The Bible
- Apostles Creed
- Nicene Creed
- Heidelberg Catechism
- John Stott, Basic Christianity
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- Trevor Hart, Faith Thinking
- Eugene Peterson, Answering God
- Jerry Sittser, The Will of God As a Way of Life
- Debra Rienstra, So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
Classics
- Augustine, The Confessions
- Athanasius, On The Incarnation
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies
- Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care
- Teresa of Avila, The Collected Works
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Augustine, City of God
- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- Bonaventure, The Souls Journey into God/The Tree of Life/The Life
of St. Francis
- John of the Cross, The Collected Works
- Soren Kiekegaard, Purity of Heart
- Karl Barth, The Church Dogmatics
- Hans Urs Von Bathasar, The Glory of the Lord
- Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theological
Good Books to Reshape the Imagination
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov/Crime & Punishment/The
Idiot
- David James Duncan, The Brothers K/The River Why
- George Elliot, Middlemarch
- George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
- George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces/The Chronicles of Narnia
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
- Sigrid Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose/Crossing to Safety
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
- Susan Howatch, Glittering Images
- Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Flannery O’Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge
- Chaim Potock, The Chosen/My Name is Asher Lev/The Gift of Asher
Lev/The Promise
- Leaf Enger, Peace Like a River
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
- Frederick Buechner, Godric
- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Illych
- Tony Morrison, Beloved
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
- Shusako Endo, Silence
- Kathleen Norris, Dakota
- Walker Percy, The Second Coming
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
- Walter Wangerin, The Book of the Dun Cow
- Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe
- William Shakespeare, anything
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserable
- Forrest Carter, Education of Little Tree
Poets for those who love words
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Richard Wilbur, Poems
- Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems
- George Herbert, The Temple
- John Donne, The Holy Sonnets
- Luci Shaw, A Widening Light
- Czeslaw Milosz, The Collected Poems
- T.S. Elliot, The Four Quartets/The Wasteland
- Wendell Berry, The Timbered Choir
- Seamus Heaney, The Collected Poems
- Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall\
- Garrison Keillor, ed., Good Poems
Prayer
- The Psalms, (The Bible)
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
- P.T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer
- Frederic von Hugel, The Life of Prayer
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, I am an Impure Thinker
- Friedrich Heiler, Prayer: A study in the History and Psychology
of Religion
- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
- Jacques Ellul, Prayer and Modern Man
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Meaning of Prayer
- Steven Chase, The Tree of Life
- James M. Houston, The Transforming Friendship
- Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home
- The Book of Common Worship
- John Bailie, A Diary of Private Prayer
- David Adam, The Edge of Glory: Prayers in the Celtic Tradition
- John Oliver Nelson, ed., The Student Prayerbook
- Ben Patterson, Deepening Your Conversation with God
- Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind Fresh Fire
- Wesley L. Duewel, Mighty Prevailing Prayer
Spiritual Theology
- Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: Reorientation
- Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places/ Eat This
Book
- Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Spiritual Care
- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
- Benedict, The Rule
- Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Christian Character
- Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man/The Prophets
Spiritual Direction & Disciplines
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
- P.T. Forsyth, The Cure of Souls
- Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
- Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship
- Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life/Letters of Spiritual
Direction
- Thomas Merton, Spiritual Direction/Seven Story Mountain
- Keith Anderson, Spiritual Mentoring
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu
- Martin Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being
- Eugene Peterson, Under The Unpredictable Plant/Five Smooth Stones/Subversive
Spirituality/Working the Angles/The Contemplative Pastor
- Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual
Life
- Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey, Now and Then,
and Telling Secrets
- A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God and Knowledge of the Holy
- Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos
- Dorthy Day, The Long Lonliness
- Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
- J.I. Packer and Loren Wilkinson, eds., Alive to God: Studies
in Spirituality
- Basil M. Pennington, Lectio Divine: Renewing the Ancient Practice
of Praying Scripture
Worship
- James Torrance, Worship Community and the Triune God of Grace
- Evelyn Underhill, Worship
- Marva Dawn, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down/A Royal Waste of
Time
- Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone to Talk
- J.G. Davies, Westminster Dictionary of Worship
- Robert Weber, Ancient Future Faith
- Sally Morgenthaler, Worship Evangelism
- James F. White, An Introduction to Christian Worship
- Don E. Saliers, Worship & Spirituality
- Edward Folwy, From Age to Age
- Frank Senn, Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical
- James 0’Connor, The Hidden Manna: A Theology of the Eucharist
- Tim Dearborn and Scott Coil, Worship At the Next Level: insight
from contemporary voices
Mission & Evangelism
- Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon, Resident Aliens
- Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western
Culture
- Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community
- James Davidson Hunger, Cultural Wars
- Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christia
- David Bosch, Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of
Western Culture
- David Bosch, Transforming Mission: paradigm Shifts in Theology
and Mission
- Darrell Guder, Missional Church: Toward an Ecclesial Christian
Ethic
- George Hunsberger & Craig Van Gelder, The Church Between Gospel
and Culture
- Patrick R. Keifert, Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology
of Worship and Evangelism
- Robert Weber, Liturgical Evangelism
- Stanley Hauerwas, After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave
If Freedom, Justice and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
- Norman Kraus, The Community of the Spirit: How the Church Is
in the World
- Sherwood Lingenfelter & Marvin Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally:
an Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
- John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus
- Charles VanEngen, Mission on the Way: issues in Modern
Theology
- Michael Green, Evangelism in the Early Church
- Hippolytus, The Treatise on the “Apostolic Tradition.”
Vocation
- Richard Bolle, How to Find your Mission in Life
- Robert Coles & Brian Mahan, Forgetting Ourselves On
Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition
- Craig Dykstra, Growing into the Life of Faith: Education and Christian
Practice
- Gill Farnham & Ward McLean, Listening Hearts: Discerning Call
in Community
- Os Guiness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose
of Your Life
- Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief
and Behavior During the University Years.
- Gregory L. Jones and Stephanie Paulsell, ed., The Scope of Art:
The Vocation of the Theological Teacher.
- Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of
Vocation
- Sharon Daloz Parks, Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young
Adults in Their Search for Meaning , Purpose, and Faith.
- Cornelius Plantinga, Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision
of Faith, Learning, and Living.
- Mark Schwen, Exiles in Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation
in America
- Gerald Sittser, The Will of God as a Way of Life
Trygve’s Geeky Interests
Preaching
- Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
- Karl Barth, Homiletic
- Fred Craddock, As One Without Authority
- Frederic Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy,
and Fairytale
- P.T. Forysth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind
- John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
- Walter Brueggemann, Finally Comes the Poet
- Walter Ong, Orality & Literacy
- Richard Eslinger, The Web of Preaching
- Richard Jensen, Thinking in Story
- C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students
- Robert Jacks, Getting the Word Across
- Richard Lischer, The Company of Preachers
- Thomas Long, Preaching the Literary Forms of the Bible//The Witness
of Preaching
- Henry Mitchell, Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art
- Eugene Lowry, The Homiletical Plot
- Paul Scott Wilson, The Practice of Preaching
- Michael J. Quicke, 360 Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and
Living the Word
- John Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today
Haddon Robinson, Biblical Preaching
- Thomas Long & Cornelius Plantinga Jr., A Chorus of Witnesses
- Ronald J. Allen, Patterns of Preaching; A Sermon Sampler
- Barbara Brown Taylor, The Preaching Life
- William Willimon, Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized
- Robert Farrar Capon, The Foolishness of Preaching
Theology & Imagination
- Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
- E.J. Furlong, Imagination
- Richard Kearney, The Wake of Imagination/Poetics of Imagining
- Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
- Mary Warnock, Imagination
- Paul Avis, God and the Creative Imagination
- Ian Barbour, Myths, Models & Paradigms
- Jeremy Begbie, Voicing Creation’s Praise
- E. Bevan, Symbolism & Belief
- Walter Brueggemann, The Bible and Postmodern Imagination
- Garrett Green, Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination
- John MacIntyre, Faith, Theology and Imagination
- Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the Sacred
- J. Martin Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language
- Amos Wilder, Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination
- George MacDonald, “Imagination” from A Dish of Orts
- Mary Warnack, Imagination
Culture & Theology
- Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment
in American Life
- George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology
in a Post Liberal Age
- Hans-George Gadamer, Truth and Method
- Charles Jencks, The Postmodern Reader
- Graham Ward, The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader
- Catherine H. Zuckert, Postmodern Plato’s: Nietzsche, Heidegger,
Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida.
- Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
- Lawrence Cahoone, ed., From Modernism to Postmodernism
- Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full
Wealth of Conviction
- Walter Truett Anderson, Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be.
- Tom Beaudoin, Virtual Faith
- Stephen L. Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law
and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion.
- David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into
the Origins of Cultural Change
- Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism
- Charles Lernert, ed., Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classical
Readings
- Stanley Grenz, A Primer on Postmodernism
- Millard J. Erickson, The Evangelical Left: Encountering Postconservative
Evangelical Theology
- Richard J. Middleton and Brian J. Walsh, Truth Is Stranger Than
It Used to be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern World
- Alister McGrath, A Passion for Truth: The Intellectual Coherence
of Evangelism
- Thomas Oden, After Modernity…What? Agenda for Theology?
- Timothy Philips and Dennis Okholm, Christian Apologetics in the
Postmodern World
- Leonard Sweet, Faith Quakers
- Dave Tomlinson, The Post-Evangelical
- David Wells, Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its
Moral Vision
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