What are some of your favorites
2007-03-13 06:17:36 · 36 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd call it more of a "library" than a "bookcase.
Let's see....there are 50 individual shelves - with about a 15-book per shelf average...that's about 750.
Plus the ones I use daily here in my office - that's another 50 or so.
Favorites: Book of Common Prayer (1928), "Christ, the Christian and the Church" by Fr. E.L. Mascall, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, "Christian Proficiency" by Fr. Martin Thornton - and one I'm reading now: "Armchair Mystic" by Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ.
2007-03-13 06:23:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
The I-Ching, Tao Te Ching, 4 Bibles(Different languages if you must know why), 2 Qur'ans (English and Arabic), The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants(also Mormon), Feng Shui, a bunch of books about Buddhism and its philosophies, Some religious and social critique books written by Christian authors (The Sign, Case for a Creator, Defeating Darwinism, Godless, ect.) and many social critique books written by atheists and agnostics (The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, Atheist Universe, History of Religion, ect.). I have many publications about Chi and Eastern medicine, which are always labled here in the West as Eastern philosophy and books about Quantum Physics that seem borderline Eastern Philosophy.
I still would like to get the Mahabharata, the Tripitaka, and the Torrah (original New Testament)
About 80% of my library is composed of Asian studies and foreign lanuage books with audio material and dictionaries.
2007-03-13 06:50:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kai Dao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist (and don't have any religion or spirituality myself), but probably hundreds, including numerous different versions of the Bible and many theology and philosophy of religion texts. I have an even larger collection of folklore and mythology books, though. I just find the stuff fascinating.
I can't really pick an all-time favorite, but my favorite to read at the moment is "The Cambridge Companion to Atheism", a surprisingly good overview of many different topics in theist-atheist discourse (including dozens of the kinds of discussions that pop up here on R&S all the time).
2007-03-13 06:27:36 · answer #3 · answered by Rob Diamond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last I took a quick count, I came up with over 200. And I've added more since.
My favorites are the actual Scriptures of various religions:
I have the complete unabridged Mahabharata (in English),
several copies of the Bhagavad Gita,
Upanishads,
3 versions of the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali
Tao Te Ching (2 versions)
Several Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible, and other Bibles,
Dhammapada,
A very nice collection of Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures,
the Ramayana (abridged)
3 translations of the Qur'an
Stories from the Bhagavata Purana
The Book of Mormon
etc, etc.
Besides the actual Scriptures, some of my favorities are:
Huston Smith's World Religions,
4 Volumes of the Encyclopedia of Religions (I'd love to have the whole set, but it's over $1000!),
The Camphor Flame (about popular Hinduism),
The Way of Torah,
Oxford History of Islam,
Oxford History of the Biblical World,
oh there's too many to name! I love reading about religions!
2007-03-13 07:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, half a dozen. I just finished "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. There's also a copy of the Apocrypha, and one of the Nag Hammadi texts. There's The God Hypothesis and Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. There's several others too, but the bookcases are across the room and I don't have my glasses on...
2007-03-13 06:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't counted them, it's more like a library. Books on Catholicism (to include the Bible and the Catechism 2nd ed.), several versions of the Bible, books on the saints, apologetics etc., The Book of Mormon and books on that religion, many books on Hinduism, several copies/translations of the Q'uran (authorized and not-recommended) books from Shia, Sunni, women's, clerics, fundamentalist, etc. povs, apologetics, books that denounce Islam, etc., books on neo-Paganism/Wicca/Shamanism, History of religions, books for and against Christianity and the various versions of it... then there's my ever-growing collection of books on Buddhism. I have an entire bookcase for R&S, one for medicine/nursing, one for military subjects/studies, one for LGBT issues/studies, politics, sciences, etc. and then there are the fiction books too.
Some R&S faves: "The Case Against Christianity", "The Christ Conspiracy; the Greatest Story Ever Sold", "Answering Islam" (Catholic apologetic), "The Bible, The Quran and Science" (Islamic), "Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism", "Diary Divine Mercy In My Soul" (about Saint Faustina and the Divine Mercy), books on apparitions of the BVM, PJPII's "The Theology Of the Body", and ALL of my books on Buddhism.
Disclaimer: Favorites don't indicate agreement nor disagreement with the content or support or failure of support for any one religion, just that they were interesting and informative from the viewpoints given. I have lots more faves but this has gotten ridiculously long as it is...
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2007-03-13 06:46:04 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have a whole study full of books. I have been cleaning it out and selling some stuff on ebay. My favorites that I have kept are the different versions of the Bible, John Maxwell books, Christian books on healing and the gifts of the Spirit, Strong's Concordance, E.M. Bounds on Prayer, books by C S Lewis, watchman Nee.. and many others...thanks for a nice question.
2007-03-13 06:22:40 · answer #7 · answered by 1sweet lady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Carl Sagan, Steven Soter, Ann Druyan (Editor)
November 2006
It is a must read for theists and atheists alike.
2007-03-13 06:27:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 20. Some of my favorites are Jehovah Unmasked by Nathaniel Merritt, The Mystic Christ by Ethan Walker III, and The Gnostic Bible.
2007-03-13 06:25:25 · answer #9 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over 300.
1. Bible (about 6)
2. How Now Shall We Live by Chuck Colson
3. Blue Like Jazz
4. Wild at Heart
5. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry
6. Greek New Testament
7. Lexicon to the Greek & Hebrew
8. Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
9. One Size Doesn't Fit All
10. Love & Respect
2007-03-13 06:21:05 · answer #10 · answered by Jeff- <3 God <3 people 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We have about 8 Bibles, differing translations and a Catholic one. Then there are probably a dozen or so that would be considered books about Christianity.
My favorite to pick up from time to time casually is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
2007-03-13 06:33:03 · answer #11 · answered by cmw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋