Re: What book are you reading? #4

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Currently reading The Lord by Romano Guardini. I have a couple books I put on the backburner for now:

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

Just finished High-Rise by J. G. Ballard which was excellent. Thinking of another novel to read. Maybe Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
 
I_am_learning said:
Hi all! None at the moment.
However, I am beginning to get into reading the Bible!
Also, I am ordering a few books from the Shop.
I have:
Answering Atheism
Essential Catholic Survival Guide
How to read the Bible everyday
and a few other small things in my shopping cart.

Other things on my wishlist are:
Marching orders
20 answers series
Love unveiled
The Protestants dilemma

Hows my list look? **Any others you reccomend for a person growing rapdly in thirst for Faith and knowledge and evangelization skills? **
Gee, I wish I could buy everything! 😛
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Theology and Sanity. My favorite. Clearest explanation of the Trinity I’ve read.

And anything by Peter Kreeft.
 
Befriending Silence; Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality, by Carl McColman
 
I’m reading the Book of Mormon as well as Reliance of The Traveller (a Shafi’i handbook about Islamic law). I can only read the Book of Mormon in short bursts because it’s really dry (no offence to mormons who may be reading this). 😊
 
Strangers and Sojourners by Michael D. O’Brien
I just wrapped up his Island of the World and am very much looking forward to reading more of his work.
 
I’m always reading several books at once, and just finished “The Glory of the Crusades” by Steve Weidenkopf (excellent book for a more positive perspective of the Crusades). Some I’m currently reading include:
  1. Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed - has really helped my understanding of the Trinity
  2. The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton - second attempt to get through this
  3. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - slow, but sure progress
  4. The Bible and the Qur’an by Jacques Jomier, O.P. - started a while ago and about halfway through it
  5. Unabridged Christianity: Biblical Answers to Common Questions About the Roman Catholic Faith by Fr. Mario P. Romero - excellent apologetic work and nearly finished; lots of cross references to the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  6. The New Testament: New Catholic Version: Illustrated St. Joseph Edition by Catholic Book Publishing - very interesting new Bible translation which appears to be a mix between the NABRE and the RSV-2CE; has a lot of commentary throughout. Would like more information the translation though as there isn’t much at all out there about this. Would also like to see the entire Bible (the Psalms have been available in this translation for a few years but I just ran across them too).
  7. Mass Revision by Jimmy Akin
  8. Crossing the Tiber by Steve Ray
  9. Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
  10. Introduction to a Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales - always try to read something classic on an ongoing basis
Rick
 
rosinski said:
I’m always reading several books at once, and just finished “The Glory of the Crusades” by Steve Weidenkopf (excellent book for a more positive perspective of the Crusades). Some I’m currently reading include:
  1. Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed - has really helped my understanding of the Trinity
  2. The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton - second attempt to get through this
  3. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - slow, but sure progress
  4. The Bible and the Qur’an by Jacques Jomier, O.P. - started a while ago and about halfway through it
  5. Unabridged Christianity: Biblical Answers to Common Questions About the Roman Catholic Faith by Fr. Mario P. Romero - excellent apologetic work and nearly finished; lots of cross references to the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  6. The New Testament: New Catholic Version: Illustrated St. Joseph Edition by Catholic Book Publishing - very interesting new Bible translation which appears to be a mix between the NABRE and the RSV-2CE; has a lot of commentary throughout. Would like more information the translation though as there isn’t much at all out there about this. Would also like to see the entire Bible (the Psalms have been available in this translation for a few years but I just ran across them too).
  7. Mass Revision by Jimmy Akin
  8. Crossing the Tiber by Steve Ray
  9. Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
  10. Introduction to a Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales - always try to read something classic on an ongoing basis
Rick
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This sounds like a great reading list!
 
Father Elijah: An apocalypse by Michael D. O’Brien and Then and Now: The World’s Center and the Soul’s Demesne by Eva Brann.
 
Finally finished *Deeply Odd *by Dean Koontz and I’m starting on Saint Odd.
 
I’m reading “Life Under Compulsion,” by Anthony Esolen. It’s subtitled, “ten ways to destroy the humanity of your child.”
 
I haven’t read it yet, but I’ll have to add it to the list:

A Deeper Vision, by Robert Royal

“Most people – even most Catholics – don’t realize it, but the twentieth century, or at least the first two-thirds of it, were a kind of golden age for Catholic intellectual and cultural life. In philosophy, theology, scripture studies, culture, literature, and music, Catholics produced some of the most remarkable work across a wide variety of fields as they have in virtually any age in the two millennia of the Church’s existence.”
 
I am just about to read ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ by Franz Werfel. My husband got it for me for Christmas from Amazon, at my request.

Franz Werfel also wrote ‘The Song of Bernadette’.
 
Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down; The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox, by Roger Lipsey, which was another thoughtful Christmas gift, much appreciated.
 
I just finished Troublemaker, by Leah Remini. It was about her time in Scientology. It turns out that Scientology is even worse than I thought. It’s a good read.
 
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