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4.20.2007

5 Book List

Here is a good list of books, balanced, complete, for Christian knowledge and practice:

Holy Bible, AV1611
Manual of Christian Doctrine - Berkhof
Human Nature in its Fourfold State - Boston
Pilgrim's Progress - Bunyan
Fourth Way - Ouspensky

Now...

Here is why this is a solid list:

It's not pretentious. Notice mostly they are popular level influences.

There is no massive overlap.

It contains philosophy (the Berkhof [systematic theology]), poetry (the Bunyan [imaginative literature]), and history (the Boston, history of redemption presented in a way - a hook - where one can grasp it, from the angle of the four states of man).

Then it has the Bible, of course, and the Fourth Way for the deeper level of practice.

The Boston covers all the covenant theology, but in a popular graspable way.

The Bunyan is a course corrective, i.e. it keeps one awake regarding what is most important.

I didn't try to include secular works that may be helpful (Homer), but that get this kind of list all out of whack.

The Berkhof contains most all the systematic theology one really needs to know for the basics.

And all five titles are 'on the mark'.

Five is the number for fusion.

Posted by c.t. at 16:44