Book Review

In case you didn’t notice in the comments of my June 16 posting on Theodicy there is a review of David Bentley Hart’s The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? The review can be found here over at The Wonders For Oyarsa blog site, which is a much better blog than I can ever hope to produce and well worth a visit.

There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

A review of the Book, “There Is a God”:
When preeminent philosophical atheist Antony Flew announced in 2004 that he had come to believe in God’s existence and was probably best considered a deist, the reaction from both believers and skeptics was “off the chart.” Few religious stories had this sort of appeal and impact, across the spectrum, both popular as well as theoretical. No recent change of mind has received this much attention. Flew responded by protesting that his story really did not deserve this much interest. But as he explained repeatedly, he simply had to go where the evidence led. (full review)

Top 20 Books Nobody Reads

Back in 2007, over at the Touchstone blog Mere Comments:
..So that has set me to wondering if I could come up with a top 20 list of great underrated or underread books. The problem these days would be in limiting them to 20. My criterion is not greatness simply, or oblivion, but the degree to which a book has been neglected and doesn’t deserve to be. Here’s the list:

And I’ve tried to find as many as I could and linked them on the right. I’ll be starting my summer reading early this year.