Topical reading lists and bibliographies of books we recommend
Mon 09 Jul 2007 by Stefan G. Lanfer
This reading list is from Stefan Lanfer’s bibliography for his 2006 MBA thesis, “Believing at Work,” which is summarized here.
Fri 23 Feb 2007 by TTF Staff
Here are some books and links for further reading on Wilberforce and his circle. We're pleased to see that the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade is leading to much new publishing activity. Our Entrepreneurs of Life curriculum also has a section on Wilberforce.
Let us know if we missed anything!
Tue 21 Mar 2006 by Peter Edman
In
addition to our own seminar curriculum and study guide, The
Journey, these are books on the journey of faith and the search
for meaning that we recommend. If you have other books or resources
to suggest, please contact the .
Thu 16 Feb 2006 by Peter Edman
These are some of the resources we found useful in considering how to respond to technology as we were compiling our new curriculum, Children of Prometheus: Technology and the Good Life, directed by Dan Russ (and afterwards as well).
Tue 10 Jan 2006 by TTF Staff
The problem of evil and suffering is addressed in our curriculum, But Not Through Me, edited by Os Guinness. Dr. Guinness has also expanded on the underlying argument of this curriculum in his book, Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror. These resources will also be of interest—and hopefully comfort—to people who want to pursue this topic further.
If you would like to suggest additions to this list, please .
Wed 07 Dec 2005 by Peter Edman
One of my own areas of interest and study is what is sometimes called the “moral imagination.” Given the caricature of business leaders these days, people might be surprised at how many leaders I come across who are interested in this topic.
Many of you have asked for more resources on developing the moral imagination, which is a key component of becoming a “humane business” leader, in Russell Kirk’s term. It is related directly to our deepest human impulses and best ideals. A good introduction to the concept is an essay by my friend Vigen Guroian, ”Why Should Businessmen Read Great Literature.” In answer to the rhetorical question of his title, he asserts:
The answer is simple: to be free, and in that freedom to grow into fuller, more complete, virtuous, and interesting human beings who share with each other a living and life-giving culture.
In the modern world, achieving this freedom often requires an active effort to escape—escaping from the prison of our all-consuming culture and its presuppositions, from the reductionist jailers who tell us that the world we can see is the only reality.
Mon 28 Nov 2005 by TTF Staff
We have a deep hunger for “spirituality,” but often little idea of how to meet it. Fortunately, the Christian faith has a deep tradition that addresses the need. The earliest versions of the curriculum now called Entrepreneurs of Life had a section on “Our Spiritual Resources” that dealt with the spiritual disciplines and practical advice for following Jesus. This list includes some of those selections as well as other related recommendations for moving deeper in your faith. These resources can help you direct your hunger toward constructive ends by focusing on the resources of the spiritual disciplines (like study, prayer, silence, and solitude) and the ways we can use them to become disciples of Jesus.
The introduction to that section included these comments, and the list below is assembled in this spirit:
Anyone who knows the modern world and discovers the compelling power of answering the call of Christ soon confronts the need for more than ordinary resources. As G. K. Chesterton quipped, the Christian life is not difficult, it is impossible. . . .
How then can we develop a spiritual life that leads toward spiritual maturity yet can be simple, practical, and regular? The readings in this session open up a view of the spiritual disciplines that is straightforward for those who are just setting out on the pilgrimage of faith, yet offers many possibilities of deeper growth for those who have been on the pilgrimage longer.
Mon 28 Nov 2005 by TTF Staff
Resources on calling and discovering your calling.
From Os Guinness and the Trinity Forum
The Trinity Forum Study Series: Entrepreneurs
of LifeFrom other writers:
The
Power of Uniqueness: How to Become Who You Really Are, by Arthur
F. Miller, Jr. (formerly titled Why You Can't Be Anything You Want
to Be)
Mon 28 Nov 2005 by TTF Staff
These are some books we recommend for further reading on the topic of Friendship, the subject of our Reading by Cicero.
Richard Lamb, The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2003). An in-depth and practical contemporary handbook on spiritual friendship with annotated bibliography.Page 1 of 1.
Life has taught me that active loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken.
A new biography based on previously unpublished papers.
Orthodoxy: Georgetown’s Father Schall reviews G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy on its 100 year anniversary. “In coming to believe in Christianity, Chesterton, as he tells us, did not read a single Christian book in the process. Rather, he read book after book of those who maintained that Christianity could not possibly be true. After he had read many of these tractates, he suddenly realized that the intellectual opponents of Christianity were constantly contradicting themselves about what they were opposing. Chesterton, the most logical of men, figured that anything so odd as to be opposed for the exact opposite reasons must either be quite strange or, in fact, rather normal and true.” A helpful introduction to a lovely book. (James V. Schall, SJ, InsideCatholic.com , 2008 05 05)
Where Were Obama’s Friends?: Friendship under fire: “As for the supersized candidates, what strikes one most about them is their ‘aloneness.’ They look so solitary. Indeed, it is possible that the old and honorable notion of ‘standing with’ a candidate like Obama simply didn’t occur to his famous supporters this week. Everyone has become used to watching celebrity stars and athletes take it in the neck on their own. Even someone running for the nation’s presidency looks like just another personal crack-up.” Makes one pause. (Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal , 2008 05 01)
There’s no way you’re going to convince me: Catholic professor Scott Carson covers the current debates on evil between N T Wright and Bart Ehrman on Beliefnet: “[H]aving had a look at this most recent exchange I have to say that it continues to astound me how simplistic and thoughtless the popular treatment of the problem has become. . . . It’s as if generations of sophisticated and complex theological and philosophical argument amount to nothing when compared to the emotional attitudes of a single individual living in a highly particularized time and place. . . . Just as atheists and agnostics are often—perhaps way too often—tempted to assume that believers only believe for emotional or psychological reasons, so too, it seems rather obvious to me, every non-believer almost certainly has emotional and psychological reasons for not believing that will trump any and every legitimate argument posed against them.” (extensive links from the article to the primary sources) (An Examined Life , 2008 04 27)
The Way We Weren’t: “The fifties really were a time when the culture broadly affirmed Christianity as a Good Thing. I was there. I saw it; I heard it. And yet some kind of demurral is strongly indicated: some sign of recognition that no human society, whatever its good intentions and methods, has lived unburdened, unencumbered by the crushing weight of human fallenness. Good as life may appear to have been in the cities and universities of France and Italy in the thirteenth century, or amid the sweaty fervor of the camp meetings in nineteenth-century America, or among the fierce faith of the emancipators, always human pride and general nuttiness were there to spoil the broth.” (William Murchison, in Touchstone , 2008 04 23)
• Not on Sale (2008 04 14)
• Seven New Deadly Sins, Suitably Updated (2008 04 10)
• The Pope Comes to America (2008 04 09)
• Both Read the Same Bible (2008 04 09)
• Muslims Outnumber World’s Catholics (2008 03 31)