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Not in that order.
Posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:27 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
What books have influenced your political, religious, or historical reasoning?
The Holy Bible and Atlas Shrugged
Not in that order.
World of Time series by Robert Jordan (currently 11 books)
1984.....
Beowulf.....
The Jungle....
The Metamorphosis (in English and German)...
Uncle Tom's Cabin.....
Faust by Goethe
The Bible.
The Prince, Machiavelli.
The Art of War, Sun Tzu.
Whatever Happened to the Human Race, Francis Schaeffer.
Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought, Ludwig Von Mises
The City of God, St. Augustine.
How Now Shall We Live
Underworld
Israel: The Blessing or the Curse
Forbidden Archeology
Osama's Revenge
Atomic Iran
Two Seconds Under the World
Thats it.Thanks for rekindling the memory of that excellent narrative.
Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged
Modernity Without Restraint by Eric Voegelin
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard
Liberty or Equality by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
And now to bed....
Unfit For Command - John O'Neill
The Bible, especially the writings of Paul and Ecclesiastes. There isn't any other book that has come close to the Bible's influence in my life.
Some Bible-based literature that has influenced me would be "Mankind's Search for God", "Is There a Creator Who Cares About You", and "Draw Close to Jehovah" which had a profound influence on my relationship with God and thus effected my worldview completely.
Politically, William Bennett's book "The Death of Virtue" is what finally helped me understand the problems of Bill Clinton and the Democrat party.
Plato's writings on Utopia have also had some influence in how I see things.
Michael Behe's "Darwin's Black Box" did as well.
Francis Beckwith's "Politically Correct Death" had a strong influence in my perspective on the abortion debate. Also his book "Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air" woke me up to the dangers and illogic of moral relativism.
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
Spiritual Torrents, Jean Guyon
The Prisoner in the Third Cell, Gene Edwards
The School of Christ, T. Austin-Sparks
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
Baffled to Fight Better, Oswald Chambers
The Story of the Other Wise Man - Henry Van Dyke
Light From Many Lamps - L.E. Watson
The Complete Works of Robert Frost
The Urantia Book
Witness - Chambers
Discourses On The First Ten Books Of Titus Livy - Machiavelli
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
The Fall Of The Dynasties - Taylor
The Second World War - Churchill
The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
History Of Western Philosophy - Russell
Reflections On The Revolution In France - Burke
Rights Of Man - Paine
May those I've forgotten forgive me.
The Bible
A little devotional book called the Splendor of Sorrow
Pilgrim's Progress
Story of a Soul
Autobiography of St. Augustine
Imitation of Christ
Little Flowers of St. Francis
Isaac Asimov's Thinking Man's Guide to Science
The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague de Camp
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
The Wasteland and Other Poems T.S. Elliot
The Morte Arthur
(there are others, I am sure)
bump for later
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