 | NRSV Giant Print (Burgundy 4-Volume Set) by Baker Publishing Group
Buy new: $64.90 / Used from: $47.50 Foundational: Giant print of a sound modern translation. If you are not a fan of the NRSV, try the newer ESV, which appears to be the new standard.
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 | The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition by Barclay M. Newman
Buy new: $37.77 / Used from: $31.50 Foundational: An excellent text of the Greek New Testament, without the critical apparatus. Instead, they have places lexical help in the notes for all words that appear less than thirty times. Quality binding, and a great working volume for those refreshing there greek.
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 | Book of Common Prayer Personal Genuine Leather Black
Buy new: $43.79 / Used from: $34.93 Foundational: For my devotions and the discipline of prayer. Going to the source of all truth- what can help ones thinking more than that?
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 | The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $24.41 Foundational: Daily devotional reading on how to live a disciplined life in community with a group of believers.
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 | St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine
Buy used from: $1.53 Theology: Augustine's "Confessions" should be required summer reading for every christian thinker. I love this translation. Read, and re-read!
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 | Church Dogmatics I.1: The Doctrine of the Word of God by Karl Barth
Buy used from: $59.95 Theology: The first volume of Barth's masterpiece. This volume is especially important as it concerns his theology of the Word.
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 | Conversations With Barth on Preaching by William H. Willimon
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $13.68 Theology: A helpful guide through the thought of Barth for the preacher.
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 | Plato Complete Works by Plato
Buy new: $46.22 / Used from: $37.79 Philosophy: This is supposed to be the beginning of all serious thought...as well as the finest new translation.
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 | Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy Via Plato's Apology by Peter Kreeft
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $2.50 Philosophy: A guide and introduction to Plato and his dialogues. Kreeft is highly readable, and makes learning from the great thinkers exciting.
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 | City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine of Hippo
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $7.00 Philosophy: Augustine's thought begins to address the big questions of history and its purpose, political science and how we are to live together and rule ourselves. Important for Chrisitian worldview.
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 | Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) by Shelby Foote
Buy used from: $127.50 History: I will read the last volume, as in the past two summers I read volumes 1-2.
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 | Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue) by Peter Brown
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.99 History: The context of a life is important to its thought. here is the context of Augustine's thought. Very readable.
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 | Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce
Buy new: $29.39 / Used from: $11.25 A summer to refresh my Greek skills. Highly recommended.
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 | Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition) by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.00 Poetry: The best of poetic voice of the 20th Century? Many think so.
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 | Collected Poems (Modern Library) by W. H. Auden
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $24.23 Poetry: A newly acquired taste of mine.
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 | The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
Buy new: $13.85 / Used from: $7.00 Poetry: My all time favorite voice.
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 | The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008 of the 2006 publication) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.50 Modern Literature: This is sheer entertainment.
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 | Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $15.50 Literature: A long time reading list item that i still haven't got to.
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 | The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $86.13 / Used from: $69.94 Literature: Again I will read Shakespeare, especially King Lear.
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 | Babette's Feast
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.55 Movies: When my eyes need a rest...but I still want to think.
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 | The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $13.98 Movies: When my eyes need a rest...but I still want to think.
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 | The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $10.91 Movies: When my eyes need a rest...but I still want to think.
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 | Bach: The 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.38 Music: When my eyes need a rest...and I don't want to think.
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