Library
The books, essays, and articles I’ve been reading. (Check out my reading list!) Subscribe via Atom or JSON feed (what’s a feed?).
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2021
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Apr
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06
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Three considerations on reading the Bible
Webster expounding/expanding on Bonhoeffer and Barth.
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04
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“…our enemies, sin, the curse and death, are beaten.”
“If you have heard the Easter message, you can no longer run around with a tragic face and lead the humourless existence of a man who has no hope.”
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Mar
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Jan
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25
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A path away from Kant?
Koyzis’ provocative thesis on authority and liberty.
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05
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04
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03
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02
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01
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2020
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Dec
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28
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27
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21
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20
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19
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03
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02
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01
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Nov
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30
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28
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan’s debut novel was just astonishing.
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Oct
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Sep
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28
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs
A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.
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Politics & The Order of Love
A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.
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19
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A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice
What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?
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07
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All is broken and incomplete, and politics can not heal the rupture.
Summarizing the basic shared commitments of all Augustinian liberals, whatever their many other differences
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Aug
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22
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the mixed moral qualities of any age
In which Eric Gregory makes it clear that this book is extremely for me.
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16
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Good theology demands good theologians
How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.
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15
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13
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Polemic is Hard
One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.
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theological self-criticism
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08
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03
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Christian Theology’s Place in the University
Or, John Webster cracking very wise.
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02
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Jul
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31
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24
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An anti-culture
What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.
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20
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18
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Jun
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21
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Sourdough
Easily the most delightful book I’ve read in years.
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Mar
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29
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21
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The Lost World
Not quite as spectacular as the first entry… but still a lot of fun.
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15
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Jurassic Park
A book that knows it is both a sci-fi thriller and sociotechnological commentary.
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03
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01
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Feb
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13
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Adding a Reading List Page
A central place to see what I’ve read and what I’ve said about it!
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Jan
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26
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Problematic
You keep using that word. I’m not sure you know what you think it means.
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Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies
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23
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Tiamat’s Wrath
The things only the eighth book in a series can do.
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12
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Tell Me Your Priors!
A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.
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2019
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Dec
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31
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Dark Matter
I could not put this book down. Also, it was kind of creepy.
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Recursion
Blake Crouch’s latest thriller is — delightfully — about something.
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10
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson’s imagination is provocative in the best ways.
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