Good Books

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8 Responses to “Good Books”

  1. Longing for Holiday Says:
    March 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    I am lookingfor anyone of taste (and your book selection denotes taste) who has read The Shack? It’s a big bestseller in the Christian world, and, not surprisingly, void of good theology. Have you heard of it?

  2. amybaker Says:
    March 10, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    I have not personally read this book although it has been on my list for a bit for a few reasons..
    -it is being touted as “fictional emergent literature” which is the first book i have heard described that way,
    -many people are reading it, and I teach and lecture a lot so I am sure i will be asked about it at one point
    -(without reading it) My guess on its popularity is much the same as the popularity of the worship song “Blessed be your name” the song actually is not that great from a musical perspective, but Christianity so rarely deals with pain and suffering well through fiction and the arts that when it comes along and is even quasi-authentic, it draws a crowd.

  3. Longing for Holiday Says:
    March 11, 2008 at 2:03 am

    Check it out. I don’t think the author had the depth to realize that he reduces who God is in order to address suffering…

  4. Joel Says:
    March 11, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    “blessed be your name” is one of the 4-5 most W fun songs to play but I know what you’re getting at.

  5. Meade Says:
    March 11, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Yeah, I like that song a lot too.

  6. amybaker Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    For anyone interested… I am reading Lush life right now, by Robert Price, and he is a literary genius. I am embarrassed I have not read him sooner. I will do a formal review once I finish it. (the shack comes next).

  7. maria Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 10:16 am

    have just finished Velvet Elvis. Is that off limits or on? Comments.

  8. Meade Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I really liked Velvet Elvis. It’s largely about non-foundational theology which I essentially agree with. There’s problems with it of course. I think he gets too much heat for the “Jesus fathered by Larry” thing. It was a thought experiment, not a statement of belief. He said he actually believed the historically orthodox position on the virgin birth.

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