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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 12:30 AM Original message |
Let's have a religious book thread |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. Currently reading: Challenging the Verdict |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Sounds good. I read excerpts |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I own, and have read, GA Wells' "Who was Jesus?" According to wikipedia, Wells' work |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Thanks. I'd like to |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 03:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I actually wasn't much impressed by it. I suppose "Jesus is a myth" is an interesting |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Thanks again! |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. "The Book (on the taboo against knowing who you are)" by Watts and Burns |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. I haven't read any Watts for a long time. In the early 70s, some of his shorter works |
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AlecBGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 08:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Here I must confess my prejudices: religious fundamentalists all around me, when I was |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. "The Idea of Natural Rights" by Brian Tierney |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 08:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. The Tierney book looks interesting. Here's a link to a short paper (pdf) in which |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 09:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I will check that out, thank you. I've read a few of Tierney's other works |
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Leontius (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. Two that I'm doing a bit of re-reading are |
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Thats my opinion (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. "The Heart of Christianity" Marcus Borg |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 09:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I haven't read it. I did like Borg-Crossan "The First Paul" which I read in May |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. "Christ on Trial" by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 09:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. "Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion" by Sara Miles, maybe? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yes, that's the one |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 10:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I'll get and read this book. The google excerpts suggest it's exactly the kind of theology |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Here's a 2007 PBS story about Miles |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. Frazer's The Golden Bough |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I must say I never read the final twelve volume version, though I read a thousand or so page |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Frazer’s approach |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I didn't say Frazer was a Jungian; I said I had liked the book because it has the flavor |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 11:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. I didn't mean to suggest I thought you said Frazer was a Jungian. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
26. I thought I'd add a few books I'm reading. These are all on Buddhism, though. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Thanks for the link. It's an interesting summary that explains some Buddhist ideas clearly |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-20-11 02:10 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. "In the Buddha's Words" is the place to start. |
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