Books, Books and More Books

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My passion and hobby is to read books. Catholic books so that I can learn my faith from them. Books of the Saints, of the Mass, Scripture, Relics, apparitions of the Blessed Mother, Apologetics of the faith, Excorcisms, Miracles, The Vatican, Church history, etc…I could go on with all this knowledge.
Since Catholics have so much to read concerning their faith and their church, what do Protestants read other than Scripture?
 
I’m sure these re great books, but I kind of meant books about faith, things that may have happened in non-Catholic faiths. What I am trying to get at is we have things like the saints, the blessed Mother’s Apparitions, excorcisms from the Catholic church, the papacy, etc…along the lines of Christianity, what books do you read other than Scripture? Would it be just other Protestant ministrys? Like Benny Hinn? Because my church is Holy, we have things of that nature. Do you?
 
Tsuzuki is far from a mainstream Christian. I wouldn’t call him a Protestant at all. He holds some decidedly unorthodox positions. He thinks one can be a confirmed Catholic, a sealed Mormon, and an occultist at the same time. Neither the Catholic Church nor the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints allow dual membership; and as far as I know both condemn occultism. Tsuzuki’s real “faith” is something he calls “paradigm piracy.” I think it is some odd form of syncretism.

I’m a former “non-denominational” Christian. Some of the authors I read then that are still on my bookshelves are:

C. S. Lewis (especially “Mere Christianity”),
Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest),
Tom Wright,
the Jewish New Testament Commentary by David Stern,
and I still treasure my Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer. It has the marraige vows DH and I took.

There were several other books that I used to read, too, but have disposed of since I became a Catholic. There is plenty of Non-Catholic Christian literature out there! If you like romances, Grace Livingston Hill wrote many that I enjoyed. They’re full of faith - it’s just not Catholic.

Hope this helps,

Ruthie
 
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Tsuzuki is far from a mainstream Christian. I wouldn’t call him a Protestant at all. He holds some decidedly unorthodox positions. He thinks one can be a confirmed Catholic, a sealed Mormon, and an occultist at the same time. Neither the Catholic Church nor the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints allow dual membership; and as far as I know both condemn occultism. Tsuzuki’s real “faith” is something he calls “paradigm piracy.” I think it is some odd form of syncretism.

I’m a former “non-denominational” Christian. Some of the authors I read then that are still on my bookshelves are:

C. S. Lewis (especially “Mere Christianity”),
Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest),
Tom Wright,
the Jewish New Testament Commentary by David Stern,
and I still treasure my Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer. It has the marraige vows DH and I took.

There were several other books that I used to read, too, but have disposed of since I became a Catholic. There is plenty of Non-Catholic Christian literature out there! If you like romances, Grace Livingston Hill wrote many that I enjoyed. They’re full of faith - it’s just not Catholic.

Hope this helps,

Ruthie
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Your last line stating “it’s just not Catholic” when in fact everything was in fact Catholic back in the day. I know some Protestants read Catholic Literature (the saints, apparitions, etc…), maybe they are closet Catholics. :cool: 😃
 
Your last line stating “it’s just not Catholic” when in fact everything was in fact Catholic back in the day.
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I was referring specifically to Grace Livingston Hill’s romances. I’m not sure what church she belonged to, and reflected in her books, but it definitely wasn’t Catholic. They are still full of faith in God, and some of them actually helped me in my faith journey.

You *were *asking about non-Catholic Christian books, weren’t you? :confused:

God bless us,

Ruthie
 
I used to see and in a lot of cases read thousands of Protestant books (Some are still in the house):
Joyce Meyer’s many books, The “Power of a Praying —” series by Stormie Omartian (o-MAR-tee-un), Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen, several books by T.D. Jakes, the piles of writing by Tim LaHaye, including the LaHaye-originated Left Behind series by Jerry Jenkins, the three books written by Ruth Bailey writing as Rebecca Brown, M.D., the writings of Lauren Stratford under various names, Mike Warnke’s books, Bob Larson’s books, the books of Ed Smith, Bill Schnoebelein, Ed Dekker, Dave Hunt, Paul Crouch, Berit Kjos, Pat Robertson, Tal Brooke, Randall Baer, John Hagee, and many many more. These add up to enough books to keep a person reading, working, sleeping a little and going to church functions 24-7 for life (I guess that’s the point).
Catching a little time for more difficult reading, there was always C.S. Lewis, whom some worried was a liberal and therefore perhaps not a real Christian:ouch:, Dietrich Von Bonhoffer (sp?), “God’s Smuggler” (author’s name not coming to mind right now), the work of Martin Luther, and that of Watchman Nee and so many more authors there was no time even to learn who they were.
 
Well, when I was a member of the Church of Christ. My preacher back then wrote a book, but I was too young to read it. I do remember however, reading a book called “Why I am a member of the Church of Christ”.

There is not much history when it comes to books written by Protestants. I know someone will argue that statement, but there just is not a history compared to Catholics.
 
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