It's only mid-February and already I'm off track with my ambitious 2009 Reading List.
While I have completed a few of the titles on my list I've gotten "sidetracked" into a few books that weren't on my list. I knew this would happen, but I always naively underestimate the degree to which it will happen.
Currently I'm reading...
- Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination, by Colin Greene and Martin Robinson
- The Orthodox Heretic and other Impossible Tales, by Peter Rollins (advance proof copy from the publisher). Available March 1.
- Manuscript of a the forthcoming Pacific Press publication, The Promise of Peace, by Charles Scriven.
I need to finish Scriven's manuscript this week to submit a blurb. So far this is a very good book that I am looking forward to using in my ministry with new members.
The Orthodox Heretic is outstanding so far. This is a book of short parables followed by equally short commentaries about the parables. Some are original with Rollins. Others are his adaptations of previously existing stories. Still others are retellings of biblical stories with major plot twists designed to draw attention to neglected aspects of God and faith.
As you probably know we will be hosting Peter Rollins here in Hollywood in two weeks for a gathering we've entitled Beyond Evandalism. You can read more about that here.
I'm about one third of the way through Metavista and I need more time before I can write anything cogent about this book. So far it has revisited the philosphical ground that I've read several times before in different ways about modernity and postmodernity. However, I would say if you feel you've been playing around the edges of philosophy and want to go deeper into this issues this book can help you. If you are not familiar with the various philosophers and their key ideas you will find yourself getting lost from time to time, but it is important to wrestle with these thoughts at this level. I will say more about this book soon.
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