New books, at least for me.

I was orig­i­nally plan­ning to revise a forum post I had made a while ago regard­ing the his­toric­ity of the res­ur­rec­tion and use that as my entry for today. How­ever, after find­ing the forum post and read­ing it over, I’ve decided it will need to be entirely re-written — it’s awful. Hope­fully I don’t think the same of what I’ve writ­ten here in a few years time. In any case, since I need to re-write what is essen­tially a twelve page essay, what fol­lows now will be some­thing a lot less formal.

After a fair bit of Red Alert 3, Fall­out 3 and N.T Wright’s The Res­ur­rec­tion of the Son of God, I decided I needed some­thing new, turns out I decided on some new books, which are as follows:

1. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of West­ern Thought and Cul­ture — Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer
2. A Chris­t­ian Man­i­festo: 25^th Anniver­sary Edi­tion — Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer
3. The Unaborted Socrates: A Dra­matic Debate On The Issues Sur­round­ing Abor­tion — Peter Kreeft
4. A Refu­ta­tion of Moral Rel­a­tivism: Inter­views with an Abso­lutist — Peter Kreeft

I’ve always respected Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer. I don’t think he was entirely accu­rate in his under­stand­ing of some of the move­ments he spoke in regards to. That aside, how­ever, I believe his diag­noses of ‘the prob­lem’ (rather, prob­lems) and the pre­scrip­tions he pro­vided was spot on. Of the above two books I had How Then Should We Live rec­om­mended to me by a friend while A Chris­t­ian Man­i­festo was some­thing that sim­ply perked my inter­est (prob­a­bly because it reminds me of a cer­tain com­mu­nist man­i­festo). If the books I already own are any indi­ca­tion (True Spir­i­tu­al­ity and The Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer Tril­ogy) then I should be in for some good reading.

Peter Kreeft, on the other hand, is some­one I’ve wanted to read more into but haven’t got­ten around to it for some rea­son or another. I’ve finally had enough re-watching YouTube videos and well, I fig­ure I may as well start with some inter­est­ing top­ics: rel­a­tivism and abor­tion. Kreeft, as I’ve been exposed to him, seems a highly intel­li­gent, artic­u­late philoso­pher and I don’t think pur­chas­ing these books will be in any way viewed as a mis­take (well hey, maybe I’ve just stuck my foot in my mouth?).

All in all, I should have some inter­ested read­ing the next cou­ple of weeks. As for my more for­mal entries. Well, I’m plan­ning one of the his­toric­ity of the res­ur­rec­tion. As well I’m sure theooze will have an arti­cle or two that will peak my inter­est. There’s also enough mate­r­ial in the books I already own to put some­thing together, prob­a­bly con­cern­ing post­mod­ernism (If you haven’t already been able to tell, a favourite of mine) or, more rarely, love.

Any­way, tomor­row I’ll have some­thing more sig­nif­i­cant. If you do want some­thing to hold you over…

From: http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/resources/video/What-is-postmodernism