Christianity Books You've Read

aulsmith: My favorite Lewis book.

aulsmith: Definitely contributed to my leaving the fold.

aulsmith: I think this is Baldwin's plea to be accepted by the church he grew up in.

aulsmith: Read and liked

aulsmith: Best study Bible I ever had.

aulsmith: I know that some of the work is in dispute, but I still find the thesis interesting.

aulsmith: Fun

aulsmith: I thought some of Aquinas was so nit-picky as to be hilarious.

aulsmith: Got about half-way through. Boooring!

aulsmith: Awful

aulsmith: Read, but I hated the ending. Certainly drove me towards Universalism, which was not Lewis' intent.

aulsmith: Terrible.

aulsmith: I found the minister's swarminess too off-putting to say I enjoyed this.

aulsmith: I read it, but I certainly didn't understand it.

aulsmith: Worked well until the NRSV came out.

aulsmith: Loved this book when I was in college.

aulsmith: The most lyrical of the English translations.

aulsmith: The first Bible I understood.

aulsmith: Didn't get very far.

aulsmith: Yuck.

aulsmith: Got to about the 5th circle before giving up.

aulsmith: Too boring to finish

aulsmith: I tried but this was even more boring than Pilgrim's Progress.

aulsmith: Dumb.

aulsmith: I tried.

aulsmith: Read the childhood narratives in the Gospel of Thomas. What a hoot.

aulsmith: Exhausting

aulsmith: Boring

aulsmith: My least favorite of the Becket plays. Smug and hard to read.

aulsmith: The idea of fictionalizing the Jesuit Relations was interesting, but the execution had way too much masochism for my taste.

aulsmith: I found a lot of interesting information about the 4th century church here

aulsmith: Triple yuck.

aulsmith : I remember this being more about Judaism but it does explains much that I find disturbing about religion.

aulsmith : This is not about Christianity. It's about secular humanism using the trappings of Christianity to survive.

aulsmith : I'm not fond of allegory, even when the Christians are the bad guys.