dwight’s top 10 – books of 2009
By Dwight J. Friesen | December 4th, 2009 | Category: Resources | No Comments »
I realize this may be just a bit early but here is my list of 2009 titles that gave me pause to think, delight and wonder.
In no particular order:
1. Peter Rollins’ The Orthodox Heretic and other impossible Tales
2. Graham Ward’s The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens
3. John Franke’s Manifold Witness: The Plurailty of Truth
4. Samir Selmanovic’s It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian
5. Peter Heltzel’s Jesus & Justice: Evangelicals, Race & American Politics
6. Otto Scharmer’s Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
7. Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
8. Chris Hedges’ Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
9. Soong-Chan Rah’s The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
10. Merold Westphal‘s Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
Bonus Picks:
- Mary Oliver’s Red Bird
- Michael Gorman’s Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology
Peace, dwight