1) The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, by Louis Bouyer
2) Ideas Have Consequences, by Richard M. Weaver
3) The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science, by Peter Harrison
I've started Bouyer and will be posting about it soon. He gives Catholics and Protestants both fodder which will either upset or challenge them.
I'm a sucker for older books. Bouyer's was first published in 1956, Weaver's in 1948. Of course there are parts which show their age, but there can be advant-ages to paying attention to older works:
1) The reader sees the role the book played in how and why we are where we are today;
2) Such books have withstood a test of time, so may often be more "nutritious" than the latest Christian publishing phenomenon.
3) Their weaknesses are more readily apparant (and are often quite humorous!)
Online Etymology Dictionary - advantage
1330, "position of being in advance of another," from O.Fr. avantage, from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded L.L. *abantaticum, from L. abante (see advance). The -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of Latin ad- words. Meaning "a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of disadvantage) is from 1483. Tennis score sense is from 1641, first recorded in writings of John Milton, of all people. Phrase to take advantage of is first attested 1393.
I'm a sucker for older books. Bouyer's was first published in 1956, Weaver's in 1948. Of course there are parts which show their age, but there can be advant-ages to paying attention to older works:
1) The reader sees the role the book played in how and why we are where we are today;
2) Such books have withstood a test of time, so may often be more "nutritious" than the latest Christian publishing phenomenon.
3) Their weaknesses are more readily apparant (and are often quite humorous!)
Online Etymology Dictionary - advantage
1330, "position of being in advance of another," from O.Fr. avantage, from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded L.L. *abantaticum, from L. abante (see advance). The -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of Latin ad- words. Meaning "a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of disadvantage) is from 1483. Tennis score sense is from 1641, first recorded in writings of John Milton, of all people. Phrase to take advantage of is first attested 1393.
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