Brian Zahnd Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Pastor of @WOLC. Author of When Everything's on Fire, Postcards From Babylon, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water To Wine, A Farewell To Mars, etc.

The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
“Bluegrass is speed metal without the embarrassment of Spandex and junior high school devil worship.” -Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern song 😂
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James Joyce
@thegreginator @CharChristian It’s a wild ride for sure, but it’s not rambling. There’s a genius at work behind it all — though it’s as difficult to access as Joyce’s “Ulysses.”
Paperback, 1990
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Three very difficult novels: 1. Ulysses ~ James Joyce (Took me three attempts.) 2. The Sound and the Fury ~ William Faulkner (Who is the narrator?) 3. What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? ~ António Lobo Antunes (Why Carlos? And does the title sound familiar?) Thoughts?
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Life
Holy Spirit
Every time I come to the excavations of Beit She’an I take this picture. Why? Because… I believe in Holy Spirit The holy catholic Church The communion of saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen https://t.co/s171TmAH8w
Paperback, 2017
$7.00$3.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Gospel
John The Evangelist
The Gospel of John decidedly and deliberately differs from Matthew, Mark, and Luke. John the Evangelist wants to give us a theological Gospel containing the highest possible Christology. In his opening sentence John tells us that this one who is the Word of God is fully divine. https://t.co/2wun0RsKe6
Paperback, 2021
$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forgiveness
Holy Spirit
Every time I come to the excavations of Beit She’an I take this picture. Why? Because… I believe in Holy Spirit The holy catholic Church The communion of saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen https://t.co/s171TmAH8w
Paperback, 2017
$7.00$3.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition
Walter Brueggemann
How deeply a book impacts us has a lot to do with when/where we read it. The most influential works of biblical scholarship for me have been: The Prophetic Imagination ~ Walter Brueggemann Jesus and the Victory of God ~ N.T. Wright I read them 16/14 years ago, both in Israel. https://t.co/TjzLCRLHaN
Paperback, 2018
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I’ve read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” four times (and parts of it dozens of times). Today I finished listening to David McDuff’s translation narrated by Luke Thompson. 💯👍🏼 “Hurrah for Karamazov!”
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The Gospel
St Luke
The Gospel reading for this Sunday is Luke's account of the Gerasene demonic. I'll preach from that text and my sermon will simply be called... DEMONS Will I draw heavily upon "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky? Does the sun rise in the east? (That book changed my life in 2004.) https://t.co/jRRqbBT8DI
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Ulysses
James Joyce
Three very difficult novels: 1. Ulysses ~ James Joyce (Took me three attempts.) 2. The Sound and the Fury ~ William Faulkner (Who is the narrator?) 3. What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? ~ António Lobo Antunes (Why Carlos? And does the title sound familiar?) Thoughts?
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