Module 4 Reading List
It's hard to believe. It seems like only yesterday that Eric Keck called me to see if I had any interest in pursuing another Doctor of Ministry degree this time from George Fox University. I told him to put me on the list and within a few months I entered my second DMin program, the first one culminating in 1984. Here it is the end of the third module and the beginning of the forth module to begin in January 2005. It has been a lot of fun with a lot of varied reading and writing. Below is the reading list for the last course module in this program. Of course, the reading list changes each module and is somewhat personally put together by the program's mentor, Len Sweet. The comments are from Len.
- Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 2000). The book that has shaped my thinking more than any other book. Not easy to read, but absolutely indispensable for understanding post-critical stances and participant-observer methodologies.
- Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence (Eerdmans, 1995)
- Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Columbia University Press, 2004). Argues that Muslim neo-fundamentalism is a "modern" phenomenon. In fact, the more it calls for a return to "old-time" religion, the more modern it looks.
- Jonas Ridderstrale, Kjell Nordstrom, Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind (Prentice Hall, 2004). Instead of debating whether globalization is good or bad, these two authors construct a positive economic vision. Fun read.
- Diana Butler Bass, The Practicing Congregation (Alban Institute, 2004). What might a Christianity not based on "belief" but on spiritual practice look like?
- Henry Chadwick, East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic times until the Council of Florence (Oxford University Press, 2003). The best historical treatment of the issues at stake in the divisions between Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy.
- James K. A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, eds., The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith (Brazos Press, 2004). A collection of essays that demonstrate how much Christianity needs the postmodern encounter if it is to re-discover its true self.
Posted by drwinn at November 22, 2004 08:55 PM