When I went through Chuck Colson's Centurian Program, one of the seminar speakers was a man named Ken Boa. We were assigned his book to read, Conformed to His Image. He also, through Prison Fellowship, does a Great Books Series. You can go to: Prison Fellowship's web page and type in Great Books to find it. I tried to put the link on here, but it was too long, and would not let me type after pasting it in. I don't know what I was doing wrong. Anyway, he takes the Great Books of Western Civ., and analyzes them on CD's. It is a wonderful way to be introduced to some of these marvelous classics. It will whet your appetite for more. Below is a list of the books that he discusses this year.
July 2008: The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Aug. 2008: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Sept. 2008: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law
Oct./Nov. 2008: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Dec. 2008: The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
Jan. 2009: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Feb. 2009: My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
March 2009: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
April 2009: The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May 2009: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
June 2009: City of God by St. Augustine
July 2009: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Aug. 2009: Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
If you have never "gotten" into Classic Literature before, now might be the time for you to taste and see.
I was at a gathering not too long ago where a couple of the women were talking about Contemporary Christian Fiction. I had tried to engage them into a discussion about Tolstoy. I promptly remarked that I really didn't care for that genre of literature (with my nose in the air). I can be just like some of the characters in Tolstoy's novels. My son Oliver had brought me a book and told me, this had been some time ago, I had to read it. It was written by a Contemporary Christian Fiction author. It sat idly on my book shelf for months. I decided to pick it back up the other day...................more on that tomorrow.
Keep Reading............................Lynn
3 comments:
I'm looking forward to your comment on the contemporary Christian fiction. It's not my thing, but I've read a couple of, (I think her name is) Francine Rivers', books and they were entertaining and mildly devotional. I've learned, too, that sometimes it's best to not blurt out my taste in books.
I've read six of the books you listed, and my husband and I are in the middle of Screwtape Letters as our bedtime reading right now. East of Eden is about my favorite fiction ever. I've read it at least four times. Dante's Inferno is sitting on our coffee table right now waiting for one of us brave souls to pick it up. But I'm working my way through Milton's Paradise Lost at the moment. (It was one of my New Years Resolutions - as was the Brothers Karamozov - which, if I remember correctly - you just blogged about recently.)
Thanks for sharing your info, Lynn. I will share one with you :o). If you go to tinyurl.com, you can paste in a long adress and it copies a short one to your clipboard that you can then paste wherever you need to.
I have acquired some of the books on this list. Maybe I can get inspired to actually read them!
Thanks Candy, I have never heard of that before. I miss you. Lynn
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