Just
finished three books (not much to do while keeping company with my dad)
The first one, a good intro on the Church's historical teaching about
Original Sin. However I can not recommend it in good conscience as the
premise is: The evolution of the universe contradicts the teaching of
the Church, therefore the Church should change their teachings, and by
the way, we have the right teaching for this: Process Theology. No space
here to be specific, only to say that eventually they
are forced to change the historical teaching about the nature of God in
order to make it coherent with what (they think) science tells us about
the universe. I found this part very narrowly presented, and was
surprised about their lack of "theological" originality, as well as
their complete disregard of what Cardinal Newman called "development of
doctrine".
The
second book I finished was a strong philosophical defense of miracles
by a physicist. Not enough space here for a full blown review, just that
although the tone is a bit to combative for my taste, the author does a
great job at answering objections which have been made since the
beginning of "The Enlightenment" against the events we call "Miracles". Sometimes verbose, sometimes whiny, but
some good information never the less.
http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Physics-Stanle…/…/ref=sr_1_2…
http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Physics-Stanle…/…/ref=sr_1_2…
The
third book I finished, was your basic good guys against bad guys (With a
lot of "suspend your reality" in between). I was surprised about how
this little book kept my interest all the way to the last few pages.
Much fun to read.
http://www.amazon.com/Shepherd-One-Vatican-Kn…/…/ref=sr_1_1…
http://www.amazon.com/Shepherd-One-Vatican-Kn…/…/ref=sr_1_1…
Started 4 books (All of my life I've been able to read multiple books at the same time, so this is something quite normal for me). Here they are:
The History of the Inquisition: Vol 1,2 & 3 - A series of three books, I hope to finish by the end of the year
Chaos Quarter - A sci-fi novel just for fun.
"Viva Cristo Rey!!"
"Ya Rabbi Yassou!!"
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