Joyce G. Baldwin. Esther: An Introduction & Commentary
Theodore Beza. The Life of John Calvin
George A. Blackburn. The Life Work of John L. Girardeau
W. Garden Blaikie. David Livingston.
A. A. Bonar. Robert Murray McCheyne
William Bradford. Of Plymouth Plantation
John Bunyan. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners : John Bunyan's Autobiography
Faith Cook. Samuel Rutherford and His Friends
_____. Selina: Countess of Huntingdon: Her Pivotal Role in the 18th Century Evangelical Awakening.
Diane D’Amico. Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time
David Daniell. William Tyndale: A Biography.
Arnold A. Dallimore. A Heart Set Free: The Life of Charles Wesley.
_____. George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth Century
_____. Spurgeon: A New Biography
_____. Susanna Wesley
Iain M. Duguid. Living in the Gap Between Promise & Reality: The Gospel According to Abraham
_____. Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace: The Gospel in the Lives of Isaac & Jacob
Eifion Evans. Daniel Rowland and the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales
Christine Farenhorst. Wings Like a Dove: The Courage of Queen Jeanne D'albret
John S. Feinberg. Where is God? A Personal Story of Finding God in Grief & Suffering
Ernest Gordon. To End All Wars
W. Andrew Hoffecker. Piety and the Princeton Theologians: Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, and Benjamin Warfield
Philip E. Howard and Jonathan Edwards. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Kathleen Jones. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti
John Knox. History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland
Bethan Lloyd-Jones. Memories of Sandfields
Sean Michael Lucas. Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life
George M. Marsden. Jonathan Edwards: A Life
W. R. Moody. The Life of Dwight L. Moody
Iain H. Murray. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
_____. The Forgotten Spurgeon
_____. Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography
_____. The Life of Arthur W. Pink
John Newton and Bruce Hindmarsh. The Life & Spirituality of John Newton: An Authentic Narrative
Heidi L. Nichols. Anne Bradstreet: A guided Tour of the Life & Thought of a Puritan Poet
J. I. Packer. A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope : Including Richard Baxter's Timeless Memoir of His Wife's Life and Death
_____. Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J. C. Ryle : An Appreciation
Mary Rowlandson. The Captive
J. C. Ryle. Christian Leaders of the 18th Century
John Sargent. The Life & Letters of Henry Martyn
Kenneth Silverman. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
C. H. Spurgeon. Autobiography
John W. Stewart & James H. Moorhead, eds. Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work
Ned Stonehouse. J. Gresham Machen
Lehman Strauss. In God’s Waiting Room
A. Moody Stuart. The Life of John Duncan
George Whitefield. George Whitefield’s Journals
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ReplyDeleteSnore.
ReplyDeleteYou want to bankrupt me! Yaargh!
ReplyDeleteI already have a great many Christian books and my weakness is good Christian biography.
Anonymous apparently thinks the world revolves about him and is designed to amuse him. Most of us, of course, realised this was not so when they started going to Kindergarten (as I'm reliably informed you call it).
You mean, a great cloud of obfuscation....
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ReplyDeleteYou want to bankrupt me! Yaargh!
I'm sure Jesus wants you to spend all your money on the derivative tripe on this list instead of feeding the hungry or clothing the poor.
I already have a great many Christian books and my weakness is good Christian biography.
Why not give all your books to the homeless? Perhaps they could burn them to stay warm this winter?
Anonymous apparently thinks the world revolves about him and is designed to amuse him.
Actually, that is what Christian theology teaches. That the universe was specially created just for man (woman was an afterthought), who was created in the image of a god, and that all the rest of the living things were created for us to have domninion over.
It's the ignorant, hubris filled mythology of a bronze age shamam trying to figure out the universe and his origins.
Even now, when the scientific evidence clearly shows that we are just a recently evolved mammal, the last surviving member of the hominin family, fundy dolts like you cling to the myth because it makes you feel special.
Anonymous apparently thinks the world revolves about him and is designed to amuse him.
And most of us start to understand the truth about the universe and the history of life on this planet and how insignificant we are when we study science. But if you'll notice, there are no science books in that Christian fundy reading list.
There are no science books on my "fundy" reading list because it's a list of Christian biographies, not a list a books about the creation/evolution debate. Sorry that Anonymous can't figure that out.
ReplyDeleteSteve thinks all "science books" must be about the creation/evolution "debate".
ReplyDeleteSteve thinks Phillip Johnson is a science author.
Fundy ingorance in full bloom.
And most of us start to understand the truth about the universe and the history of life on this planet and how insignificant we are when we study science.
ReplyDeleteYour study of science has led you to the truth of your own insignificance?
This seems a rather self-refuting exercise in that you must consider both your science and your understanding of it as significant enough to fathom the universe sufficiently in order to reach your conclusion.
ReplyDeleteThis seems a rather self-refuting exercise in that you must consider both your science and your understanding of it as significant enough to fathom the universe sufficiently in order to reach your conclusion.
More semantic blather.
Was the universe all specially created just for you EA, by a god who created you in his image, so that you could believe in the claims of some first century messianic Jewish cult leaders, and gain eternal life?
Science teaches skepticism and humility, Christianity teaches blind faith and hubris.
"Steve thinks Phillip Johnson is a science author."
ReplyDeleteNot that this will get through to Anonymous (who sadly seems as willing to listen to rational discourse as he is loathe to hurl abuse at those with whom he disagrees), but for what it's worth, perhaps to others...Phillip Johnson is a trained lawyer and legal scholar. When he takes Darwinism to task he does so more in light of the philosophy or worldview underpinning the science than the science itself. As such he doesn't necessarily speak outside his field of expertise.
Science teaches skepticism and humility, Christianity teaches blind faith and hubris.
ReplyDeleteOh sure, that humility comes through loud and clear while you're telling all us 'fundies' how stupid we are.
My dear anonymous, your zeal for book-burning has apparently blinded you to the fact that burning paper is an inefficient way to heat oneself. I, for one, prefer wood, which gives out a steady heat, is not consumed quickly, and produces fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.
ReplyDeleteMay the Lord rebuke you.
*Yawn* Anonymous/George/Celsus, your act is getting old. If you don't like Christian theology the internet is full of diversity, help yourself to the multitude of offerings out there. I'm sure you'll find a nice home out there somewhere. Perhaps there is a blog where intellectual blowhards gather to defend their own insignificance in this cruel and godless universe. You can chat about all the science books you've read. Please look, anyway, because your little tirades are boring me. If you don't like it here, don't come here, I'm tired of you throwing up on our carpet.....
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Anti-Anonymous/George/Celsus
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteHow much money have you given to the poor? How many of your science books have you given to the homeless to burn this winter?
Why don't you just admit it... you could care less about the poor and homeless. You're just looking for a way to take make Christians look worse than you so you can feel like a good person.
Anonymous said:
ReplyDelete“And most of us start to understand the truth about the universe and the history of life on this planet and how insignificant we are when we study science. But if you'll notice, there are no science books in that Christian fundy reading list.”
“Steve thinks all ‘science books’ must be about the creation/evolution ‘debate’.”
When Anonymous refers to “the truth about the universe and the history of life on this planet,” what do you suppose he’s alluding to? The creation/evolution debate.
Sorry if he can’t connect his own dots. I was responding to what he said. If he can’t remember what he said less than three hours earlier, perhaps he needs to check into a nursing home.
“Steve thinks Phillip Johnson is a science author.”
So there are no science books in that Christian “fundy” reading list of mine, but Anonymous somehow knows that I classify Phillip Johnson as a science writer.
The more these unbelievers speak, the more irrational they sound.
“Fundy ingorance in full bloom.”
Only an ignoramus would misspell ignorance.
Nullifidian ignorance in full bloom.
This guy is brilliant, he makes an assertion, ridicules you, you answer the assertion, he responds by making fun of your answer and then acts as if he said something different in his original assertion. He should be writing debate and rhetoric text books at the college level. I especially love when he calls a perfectly legitimate response to one of his tirades as "more semantic blather". That is showing some real intellectual accumen. *Sigh*, all that talent wasted on a carrot...
ReplyDeleteI especially love when he calls a perfectly legitimate response to one of his tirades as "more semantic blather".
ReplyDeleteYeah, I loved that too. As Steve has said before: "There's nothing like hyperbole to shore up a sagging case."
Next up for Anonymous, the "liar, liar, pants on fire defense."
What I love is this tendency of some atheists to give every indication of thinking the world revolves around them (viz. 'snore'), then declaring how humble they are because they are no more than the scrapings off the shoe of evolution while attacking 'fundies' as ignorant, and tells Steve what he thinks about Philip Johnson.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that anonymous would be better off practising what he preaches.
More, this chap can't quite work out that he does not have to attack all Christians all the time. I agreed with an atheists point about somethining once. Never again. I got more abuse than I'd have got if I'd disagreed.
As a historian, I have to read books. Only way to add to one's knowledge about things one can't experience, don't you know, what? And yes, a reading list that consists of biographies will by its nature NOT contain any science books (further evidence of anon's self-centredness).
On burning things, the poor (and anyone else for that matter), are quite at liberty to gather firewood from my trees, or go out into the countryside and do that.
Derivative means, according to Webster's, 3 : lacking originality , banal.
ReplyDeleteNow, how is Eifion Evans' 'Daniel Rowland', which is largely based on original research, derivative? Likewise Beza's life of Calvin (from first-hand knowledge); Bunyan's 'Grace Abounding', which is still in print today and read by non-Christians; or Andrew Bonar's life of M'Cheyne?
I could go on. Most of the books on this list are original works. Many are autobiography, while Dalimore's 'Whitefield' and Marsden's 'Edwards' are scholarly works that are to be found on college reading lists.
Or maybe Anonymous has no idea what these books are, and no idea what dervivative actually means.
I'd also add that this bibliography is semipopular. There are more scholarly resources on certain individuals. For example, the standard English language bio on D'Albret is: Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land by David M. Bryson.
ReplyDeleteThat, however, retails for $181.00!
Likewise, an excellent primary source on Christina Rossetti is Antony Harrison’s 4-volume edition of her letters.
But that will set you back $280.00!
So I tried to keep the list as practicable as possible.
ReplyDeleteLook! I've got my own fundy fan club!
Celsus,
ReplyDeleteBeat it, you're making us look stupid....
Actually, John, he make y'all look smarter. ;)
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