March 2004 Bookshelf
A biography of Lenin, an excellent analysis of power by Noam Chomsky, a not-so-hot analysis of 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, a good piece of mind-candy, a Nobel Prize winning economist's treatise on globalization, some of the questions of athiests in relation to Christianity, C.S. Lewis' The Weight of Glory, a wonderful book about life in Afghanistan and others in the March 2004 Bookshelf.Why Do Spiritual People Object to Christianity?
If Christians are serious about sharing their faith with others, they must be willing to address the most thorny of issues. Perhaps no more difficult set of issues revolves around questions of the character of God, the reason for existence, and the complexities of religion across time and history. Richard Harries has the courage to analyze these difficult issues in his book, God Outside the Box.A Disagreement Among Friends: A Review of Dispensational Theology
No one can get under our skin like our own family; even the best of friends get on each other's nerves from time to time. It is with such a two-fold realization, first that we are family and friends, and second, that we are prone to disagreement within those same institutions, that any meaningful discussion about politics, spirituality or theological systems should develop. Saint Augustine famously said "on the essentials unity, on the non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity." Dialogue over systematic theologies is an area where Christians must sensitively tread, realizing that theologies develop around people's world views and cultural contexts. As such, love and charity must characterize these intra-familial debates.A Man I Can’t Seem to Understand: Reflections on President Bush
President Bush is not a bad man, and I think it shows the ugliness of the current debate to attempt and portray him as a man with damaged ethics. He is, by all accounts, a very decent, genuine and sincere man. But sincere men can be badly misguided. It is possible to be both completely sincere and completely wrong. Within this type of distinction, between someone being a good person but an incapable leader, that too much analysis of President Bush goes astray. It should not be necessary to make him out as a bad person in order to question certain parts of his abilities just as it should not have been necessary to make President Clinton out to be a terrible man to disagree with his politics.Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
No word in the lexicon of Western Christianity is more loaded with meaning than that of the word "salvation." Regardless of your religion, the word salvation denotes less the essence of faith and more the hoped upon result of faith. You may be a Christian, a Muslim, a Mormon or from some other religious perspective, but for each religion the desire to obtain salvation is of primary importance.The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why
Depending on the size of your world, this book will either refresh you in its challenge to accept the perspectives and ways of thinking of other cultures, or it will frustrate you for the very same reason. To label this book as purely a cultural commentary would be a mistake; rather, this book is about the development of thought in Eastern and Western cultures.Biting Off More Than They Can Chew
Love or hate the current Bush administration, Americans are making a grave mistake if they do not invest some time in learning what is forming the current administration's foreign policy. This book is a first-hand insight into the set of issues revolving around the fight against terrorism and the invasion of Iraq.About MysteriousFaith
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