My Library
a tour of
This is a post merely for the use of me linking my collection of books for the use of the seminary I am applying to. A few quotes first:
“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men [or women], setting out in life, it is there only capital” ~ Thomas Jefferson.
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” ~ Francis Bacon.
"The true university of these days is a collection of books" ~ Thomas Carlyle.
“A home without books is a body without soul” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero.
"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read" ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't" ~ Mark Twain.
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends” ~ Dawn Adams
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“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now is all there is” ~ Allan Bloom.
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Tour Intro: A small introduction and a quote to get the tour started off. (Includes a quick commentary on a game that I played during the break between classes.)
First Bookcase: Political-science, philosophy, current affairs, history, systematic theology, political commentary, Constitutional matters, philosophy of law, editorial cartoons, environmental issues, why we were in Vietnam, U.S. history, military history, and the like.
Second Bookcase: Bible-helps, Greek and Hebrew concordances and dictionaries, church history and biographies, Christian living, eschatology, Islam, conspiratorial view of history (which I no longer adhere to), Bibles, interlinear Bibles, commentaries, word-faith movement, theology, Greek lessons and CD-Roms, and the like
Third Bookcase/DVDs: Comparative-religions, world religions, cults, the occult, new age, angelology, Jehovah's Witnesses (J-Dubs), Mormons (Latts), Islam, religious holy books (got most of them), word-faith movement, heresies, encyclopedias of religions, dictionaries of religions; (DVDs): Intelligent Design, young-earth creationism, philosophical naturalism vs. theism, debates, political commentaries and documentaries, Iraq/Saddam, eschatology, and the like.
Fourth Bookcase[s]/DVDs: Apologetics, creation vs. evolution, Intelligent Design vs. philosophical naturalism, atheism vs. theism, historical Jesus, Christian history, evidences for God, and the like.
