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Conference Book Table

by Mockingbird on Apr 26, 2010 • 6 Comments

As promised, here’s the full inventory of what we had on offer last week. It’s by no means a definitive collection or ‘canon’, just what we were able to gather up in time for the conference. They’re listed in order of author, with links to where you can purchase them. They all come highly recommended!

NON-FICTION

Basics 1. Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book).2. Brewer, Todd [ed.]. The Gospel According To Pixar. Coming Soon!4. Hawkins, David. The Useful Sinner.5. Long, Anne. Listening. 6. Manning, Brennan. The Ragamuffin Gospel.7. Norris, Sean [ed.]. Judgment & Love: Expanded Edition.8. Paulson, Steven.…

Books / Reformation / Theology / Year In Review

The Radical Gospel’s BEST BOOKS OF 2008

by MM on Jan 12, 2009 • 2 Comments

BEST BOOK: Martin Luther’s Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer.

“This way to differentiate between Christ as donum, as gift, and Christ as exemplum is necessary to avoid the moralizing that is currently widely practiced, which can be so easily linked with a teaching that advocates “Christ alone” (solus Christus). The danger of such moralizing is much greater in the present because of the influence of Kant’s thesis that religion develops out of morality, than it was at the time of Luther, in which the dominant view was an Aristotelian-ethical understanding of reality, which was transferred in the…

Conferences

CONFERENCE UPDATE

by Sean Norris on Mar 24, 2008 • No Comments

We are so excited for the upcoming Life and Ministry Conference! It’s hard to believe that it is less than two weeks away (April 3-5th). Dave and I wanted to give you a quick update on a key change to the program.

As many of you know, our scheduled keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Steven Paulson of Luther Seminary in St Paul, MN. Late last week Dr. Paulson called us with the unfortunate news that his wife was very ill, and that as a result he would not be able to join us in New York. He was…