Book Recommendations: August 2005 Archives

John Piper's newest book, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself, is coming to stores on September 2o. Here's the promotional blurb:

"Most people, when they ponder what it means to be loved by God, think of the things that God does for us. John Piper writes that what is most loving about God is not his making much of us, but his enabling us, at great cost to himself, to enjoy making much of him forever."

You can read an on-line copy of it here.

This is the suggested reading list for our BBC faculty discussion group.

Joseph Mazur’s Euclid in the Rainforest
Edwards’ Dissertation on Virtue [aesthetics and ethics]
Milton On Education
John Locke’ Some Thoughts Concerning Education
E.F. Schumacher’ Small is Beautiful [economics, technology, ethics and education]
Nicholas Wolterstorff’ Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic
Lewis’ Til We Have Faces
Lewis’ The Weight of Glory
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Paulo Friere Pedagogy of the Oppressed
J.J. Rousseau. Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre

Here are the suggested options for proceeding this semester:

Option A
Milton
Euclid
Lear
Rousseau

Option B
Edwards
Euclid
Lewis’s Faces
Rousseau

Option C
Lewis’ Weight of Glory
Euclid
Lear
Rousseau

What would you choose?