I love this channel! My list this far would be Simply Good News- NT Wright Discovering an Evangelical Heritage- Donald Dayton The Sin of Certainty- Pete Enns Changing Our Mind- David Gushee Wholehearted Faith- Rachel Held Evans
Crucifixion of the Warrior God/Cross Vision is so good! It gives one theological permission to believe that God REALLY is like Jesus. And you just cant beat On the Incarnation!
Wow! Great list and so relatable about where one is is life and how certain books intersect at particular moments in our lives and profoundly reshape our perspective/worldview. Yes to Surprised by Hope. Yes especially to The Crucifixion of the Warrior God which totally repositioned the way I read and understand the Bible. And yes to The Experience of God. The other two books I will have to check out. Thanks Joel. I so very much appreciate your efforts in all this and all the interesting books and authors you expose us to. Please don't stop.
Great list, Joel! I had many of the same struggles as you and DBH has been instrumental in my journey as well. His book That All Shall Be Saved is what finally pushed me over the edge, and to this point, has been the single most influential book in my journey. My list would be (excluding Patristics): 1. That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart (truly any book written by Hart) 2. Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald 3. A Farewell to Mars by Brian Zahnd 4. A More Christlike God by Brad Jersak 5. The Crucified God by Jurgen Moltmann
@@JoelWentz It's a collection of sermons he wrote. MacDonald's prose can be challenging to keep up with, so there is a good abridged version called "Consuming Fire: The Inexorable Power of God's Love" by Jess Lederman. It breaks down the 3 volumes into 365 days of reading, but I just read each work all the way through.
It’s a shame that your faith seems to be based in books about the Bible instead of the Bible itself. These commentaries on the scriptures are based in human ideas that God died for our sins! The scriptural Messiah is a man, a real man, descended from Adam, Abraham, David! He is the son of man from Daniel 7 & Rev 4 & 5. He is the 2nd Adam raised & glorified by the Elohim Almighty. Read Acts ch 2, Peter’s sermon. He makes ZERO claims to the so called “2nd person of the Godhead”! No seriously, please read Peter’s message again, and tell me who Peter thought the Messiah was. I understand trinitarianism gives agreement to Messiah being a man and “God” at the same time, but honestly that belief is so intellectually dishonest. To be God excludes him from being a man! To be a man excludes you from being God! Billions of so called “Christians” think that the Messiah is “God in the flesh”! Does that seem like a narrow road that few travel on, or is that the broad road that leads to destruction? Trinitarianism is a belief manufactured in the Greek minds of non Jewish / Hebrew minded men, the basis of which began in the 2nd century and solidified at the Roman Catholic Cousel of Nicea! Please reconsider this idolatrous polytheistic position! Your eternal life might depend on it! I think when someone is such a prolific reader, it can be a curse. I have limited time to read and over the past 35 years I have devoted my study / reading time mostly in the scriptures. Of coarse I read books, but I can tell not the way you do. I wish I did have that gift, but I believe my weakness has been a blessing to keep me centered in the scriptures, not the writings of Men. I mean no offense and honestly wrote this for your benefit and blessing. I pray you hear me when you read this message.
read on the incarnation, so beautifully written. Short too! Will pick up the DBH book based on this glowing review
Not a Christian here but DBH's Experience of God was why I changed my metaphysical beliefs as well. It's such a beautiful book.
I love this channel!
My list this far would be
Simply Good News- NT Wright
Discovering an Evangelical Heritage-
Donald Dayton
The Sin of Certainty- Pete Enns
Changing Our Mind- David Gushee
Wholehearted Faith- Rachel Held Evans
Crucifixion of the Warrior God/Cross Vision is so good! It gives one theological permission to believe that God REALLY is like Jesus. And you just cant beat On the Incarnation!
thanks Joel. I appreciate your openness so much.
Wow! Great list and so relatable about where one is is life and how certain books intersect at particular moments in our lives and profoundly reshape our perspective/worldview. Yes to Surprised by Hope. Yes especially to The Crucifixion of the Warrior God which totally repositioned the way I read and understand the Bible. And yes to The Experience of God. The other two books I will have to check out. Thanks Joel. I so very much appreciate your efforts in all this and all the interesting books and authors you expose us to. Please don't stop.
Thanks for the encouraging words. It takes a good bit of energy to do this, and your comment means more than you realize. Thank you!
Thanks. This got to me at just the moment I needed it. Seemingly curated exactly to my nagging doubts.
Wow that's so encouraging to hear. I would love to hear what you think of these after you read them!
Great list, Joel! I had many of the same struggles as you and DBH has been instrumental in my journey as well. His book That All Shall Be Saved is what finally pushed me over the edge, and to this point, has been the single most influential book in my journey.
My list would be (excluding Patristics):
1. That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart (truly any book written by Hart)
2. Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald
3. A Farewell to Mars by Brian Zahnd
4. A More Christlike God by Brad Jersak
5. The Crucified God by Jurgen Moltmann
Awesome! I'm familiar with all of those titles EXCEPT for the MacDonald one. That's on my radar now, so thanks for that!
@@JoelWentz It's a collection of sermons he wrote. MacDonald's prose can be challenging to keep up with, so there is a good abridged version called "Consuming Fire: The Inexorable Power of God's Love" by Jess Lederman. It breaks down the 3 volumes into 365 days of reading, but I just read each work all the way through.
It’s a shame that your faith seems to be based in books about the Bible instead of the Bible itself. These commentaries on the scriptures are based in human ideas that God died for our sins! The scriptural Messiah is a man, a real man, descended from Adam, Abraham, David! He is the son of man from Daniel 7 & Rev 4 & 5. He is the 2nd Adam raised & glorified by the Elohim Almighty. Read Acts ch 2, Peter’s sermon. He makes ZERO claims to the so called “2nd person of the Godhead”! No seriously, please read Peter’s message again, and tell me who Peter thought the Messiah was. I understand trinitarianism gives agreement to Messiah being a man and “God” at the same time, but honestly that belief is so intellectually dishonest. To be God excludes him from being a man! To be a man excludes you from being God! Billions of so called “Christians” think that the Messiah is “God in the flesh”! Does that seem like a narrow road that few travel on, or is that the broad road that leads to destruction? Trinitarianism is a belief manufactured in the Greek minds of non Jewish / Hebrew minded men, the basis of which began in the 2nd century and solidified at the Roman Catholic Cousel of Nicea! Please reconsider this idolatrous polytheistic position! Your eternal life might depend on it! I think when someone is such a prolific reader, it can be a curse. I have limited time to read and over the past 35 years I have devoted my study / reading time mostly in the scriptures. Of coarse I read books, but I can tell not the way you do. I wish I did have that gift, but I believe my weakness has been a blessing to keep me centered in the scriptures, not the writings of Men. I mean no offense and honestly wrote this for your benefit and blessing. I pray you hear me when you read this message.