Brandon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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BA @ouachita, MA @WheatonCollege, PhD @TEDS Usually tweeting funny things my kids say or serious unconscious biases that shape my faith
Zero-Sum: Stories
Joyce Carol OatesBrandon@IARichter I haven't! Will check him out. (No relation to J. Gresham Machen, I assume?) I'm reading a collection of stories I found at a local bookstore, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
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Better Safe than Sorry: Picture Books for Early Readers and Beginning Readers: Proverbs for Preschoolers
Matthew AshcraftBrandon@matthew_podszus I like to think I was in the "low risk" category to begin with but, hey, better safe than sorry.
Paperback, 2016
$9.75$4.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph HenrichBrandon@StefanPaas Joseph Henrich includes interesting research in The WEIRDest People in the World about how Western text/word-based society changes our brains such that we are poorer at spatial reasoning, facial recognition etc. Maybe the West prioritizes reason, language, analysis
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology
Timothy LarsenBrandon"Christianity in 19th-century England was strong & pervasive, but it was also forcefully & vehemently attacked from without and given to rancorous disputes between different factions & versions of Christian thought within." —Timothy Larsen, _Contested Christianity_
Paperback, 2004
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Do They Hear?: Bridging the Gap Between Pulpit & Pew
Mark Allan PowellBrandon"Why did the Prodigal Son (Lk 15) end up starving in a pigpen?" according to * American seminarians: because he wasted his money * Russian sem: bc of a famine * African sem: bc no one gave him anything —Mark Allan Powell, _What Do They Hear?_
Paperback, 2007
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth BenedictBrandonA powerful observation applicable to any peoples: "Japanese babies and Japanese children do not have these [common American] experiences and as adults they cannot therefore reproduce our attitudes." —Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Paperback, 2006
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Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture
David A. DesilvaBrandon@DavidDzimianski I've been thinking about this a lot, too, as I've been reading David deSilva's excellent book (Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity) and re-reading essays by Andrew Walls on the gospel's cross-cultural move from its Jewish origins into Greco-Roman cultural frames.
Paperback, 2022
$42.99$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be
Mark a. NollBrandon@donytop5 Mark Noll uses the word “fissiparous” to describe evangelicals. I like that word.
Paperback, 2019
$35.99$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
E. Randolph RichardsBrandonHe shook my hand and asked, "Are you the Brandon O'Brien who co-authored Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes?" "Yessir," I said. I was pleased he was familiar with it and was eager to hear what he thought of it. 2/
Paperback, 2012
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett FischerBrandon@studyprotestant Yes, thank you. I still haven't read the book but I read several of his articles with great interest a few years ago. Very interesting indeed. I'd love to read it alongside Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America to see how closely the two analyses line up.
Paperback, 1991
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book