Read up
Subtitle: descriptions & discussion questions for more than 30 thoughtful books
By: [Lorraine Caulton, editor] ; foreword by C. Christopher Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780830898862; 9780830857890
Subjects: English Christian literature; Problems, exercises; Books and reading; Book clubs (Discussion groups); Littérature chrétienne anglaise; Problèmes et exercices; Livres et lecture; Clubs de lecture; LITERARY CRITICISM; Books & Reading
Description: ""In our age in which it is rapidly becoming a lost art, the importance of conversation should not be overlooked, "" writes C. Christopher Smith in the foreword of Read Up, Volume 2. ""It is in conversation that our ideas and language and dreams get forged into common structures that shape the life of our communities-church, neighborhood, workplace, etc. ... Reading is a sort of fuel for these conversations, providing energy in the form of words and ideas that bring life to and clarify our conversations.""Conversations about good books refresh us as we glean wisdom and receive understanding f.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by C. Christopher Smith; Read Up; Adventure of Ascent; Anxious; The Attentive Life; Balanced Christianity; Bedeviled; Broke; Called; The Challenge of Jesus; Delighting in the Trinity; Dwell; Embracing the Body; The Fight; Forgotten Girls ; The Gift of Being Yourself; The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas; Justice Awakening; Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe; Listen In; Redeeming Sex; The Relational Soul; Renaissance; Slow Church; Starting Something New; Teach Us to Want; Ten.; title: Things Your Mother Never Told YouVisions of Vocation; Walking the Labyrinth; The Way of Grace; A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion; What Your Body Knows About God; Leading A Book Discussion; IVP Book Club; More IVP; IVP Audio; Follow and Share.