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Over the years, the Wesley Advocates class has read and discussed a wide variety of different books. Here is a list of the books. We will be adding more information about this list later in the year.
Methodism, Bible, Church, Faith
Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism
The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church
Evans and Tov, eds., Exploring the Origins of the Bible
The Book of Job
Knuth, 3:16: Bible Texts Illuminated
Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
Darr, The Book of Ezekiel, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Keck, The Gospel according to Mark, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Keck, The Gospel according to Matthew, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Tillich, The Courage to Be
The Dynamics of Faith
Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
Smith, The World’s Religions
Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain
Armstrong, A History of God
The Case for God
A Short History of Islam
The Battle for God
Wright, The Evolution of God
Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and
Heretics
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Revelation: Visions, Prophecies, and Politics
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story behing Who Changed the Bible and Why
Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Spong, A New Christianity for a New World
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianith of Integrity, Love, and
Equality
Weatherhead, The Will of God
Short, The Gospel according to Peanuts
Mailer, The Gospel according to the Son
Merton, The Seven-Storey Mountain
Gomes, The Good Book
Crossan, The Essential Jesus
Johnson, The Real Jesus
Wilson, Jesus: A Life
Borg and Wright, The Meaning of Jesus
Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Horsley and Silberman, The Message and the Kingdom
Gordon, Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels
Classics and Literature
Sin-leqqi-unninni, The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. Jackson
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore
Augustine, Confessions
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf, trans. Heaney
Dante, Inferno
The Wakefield Plays (medieval miracle, mytstery, and morality plays), ed. ____
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I
Hamlet
Cymbeline
King Lear
Macbeth
Donne, The Divine Poems and “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day”
Milton, Paradise Lost
Areopagitica
Scott, Ivanhoe
Eliot, Adam Bede
Scenes of Clerical Life
Daniel Deronda
Dickens, Bleak House
Joyce, Dubliners
Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Conarroe, ed., Six American Poets
Frost, The Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Hesse, Siddartha
Walter, ed., The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
The Cocktail Party
The Confidential Clerk
“Ash Wednesday”
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Faulkner, Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Capote, A Christmas Memory
Gulley, Christmas in Harmony
Greene, The Power and the Glory
The End of the Affair
O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Complete Short Stories
Camus, The Plague
Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies
Cacoyannis, Iphigeneia at Aulis (film based on Euripides play))
Trojan Women (film based on Euripides play)
Eyre, Macbeth (film)
History
Cline, Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel
Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace
Johnson, Ghost Map
The Crusades (13-week video course)
Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Nicolson, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
From Jesus to Christ (PBS Frontline Series)
God in America (PBS Frontline Series)
Ehrman, From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity (12-week
video series)
Wiesenthal, The Sunflower
Methodism, Bible, Church, Faith
Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism
The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church
Evans and Tov, eds., Exploring the Origins of the Bible
The Book of Job
Knuth, 3:16: Bible Texts Illuminated
Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
Darr, The Book of Ezekiel, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Keck, The Gospel according to Mark, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Keck, The Gospel according to Matthew, The New Interpreter’s Bible
Tillich, The Courage to Be
The Dynamics of Faith
Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
Smith, The World’s Religions
Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain
Armstrong, A History of God
The Case for God
A Short History of Islam
The Battle for God
Wright, The Evolution of God
Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and
Heretics
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Revelation: Visions, Prophecies, and Politics
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story behing Who Changed the Bible and Why
Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Spong, A New Christianity for a New World
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianith of Integrity, Love, and
Equality
Weatherhead, The Will of God
Short, The Gospel according to Peanuts
Mailer, The Gospel according to the Son
Merton, The Seven-Storey Mountain
Gomes, The Good Book
Crossan, The Essential Jesus
Johnson, The Real Jesus
Wilson, Jesus: A Life
Borg and Wright, The Meaning of Jesus
Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Horsley and Silberman, The Message and the Kingdom
Gordon, Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels
Classics and Literature
Sin-leqqi-unninni, The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. Jackson
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore
Augustine, Confessions
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf, trans. Heaney
Dante, Inferno
The Wakefield Plays (medieval miracle, mytstery, and morality plays), ed. ____
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I
Hamlet
Cymbeline
King Lear
Macbeth
Donne, The Divine Poems and “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day”
Milton, Paradise Lost
Areopagitica
Scott, Ivanhoe
Eliot, Adam Bede
Scenes of Clerical Life
Daniel Deronda
Dickens, Bleak House
Joyce, Dubliners
Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Conarroe, ed., Six American Poets
Frost, The Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Hesse, Siddartha
Walter, ed., The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
The Cocktail Party
The Confidential Clerk
“Ash Wednesday”
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Faulkner, Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Capote, A Christmas Memory
Gulley, Christmas in Harmony
Greene, The Power and the Glory
The End of the Affair
O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Complete Short Stories
Camus, The Plague
Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies
Cacoyannis, Iphigeneia at Aulis (film based on Euripides play))
Trojan Women (film based on Euripides play)
Eyre, Macbeth (film)
History
Cline, Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel
Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace
Johnson, Ghost Map
The Crusades (13-week video course)
Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Nicolson, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
From Jesus to Christ (PBS Frontline Series)
God in America (PBS Frontline Series)
Ehrman, From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity (12-week
video series)
Wiesenthal, The Sunflower