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I know... I'm so ashamed...

I also read Harry Potter (and liked it). I hated the Hunger Games. Loved LOTR (of course). And I am re-reading the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones). I have never bragged about my taste in fiction.

 

....and I thought it was just a bad movie

I'll admit I've read a few of Anne Rice's vampire books.

There's some interesting theology in those early vampires stories but they have evolved into a confusing hodgepodge of neo-vampish forever-teens.

Yeah, Hunger Games was a looser that just kept getting worse with each book, the last one took about an hour to skim.

Rob

 

No, read them as you find them, no particular order. My listing is nor an exhaustive list, but a representative one.

Happy reading.

 

My idea of a deep read would be one where the author assumes a familiarity or working knowledge of biblical languages.

I think that hand in hand with this assumption is another one - that the reader is well read.

The references, quotes, footnotes are going to reflect these assumptions. Someone who is not well read, nor familiar with related arguments, nor familiar with biblical languages and the verbiage employed in such discussions will be overwhelmed.

For me, the best reading is a doctoral dissertation. They're challenging, usually presenting nuances not previously encountered. Not always, though.

Try Googling "Electronic Theses and Dissertations" and maybe add Christian or Theology

You can find all sorts of very interesting, deep reads

 

Just finished two series of novels:

1. Divergent/Insurgent/Allegiant - Not that great, bad ending. (Man-card revoked)

2. Wingfeather Saga, (4 books, by Christian musician Andrew Peterson) - Really really good, similar in feel to the Chronicles of Narnia...Possibly almost as good. Read them, you won't regret it! Great Gospel undertones.

 

Just curious though as to how many of those authors would have a view on the Bible as being the inspired/infallible word of God though?

For if they miss that regarding the scriptures, then whatever they have to offer will be a less than...

 

That doesn't make the book a shallow read. I was listing criteria for what might be considered a "deep read". Doctrinal preference does not enter the debate for me. If it did, then an alternate view would likely be even deeper (i.e. not inspired views) just because there are critical ideas that you would have to work through and try to understand.

 

Also for something different: Read all of the Isaac Asimov books, from I Robot all the way through the Robot novels, the Empire Novels, and the Foundation series. It's an intriguing Universe he has imagined.

 

Perhaps the measure of a "deep" book is how much you, the reader, are changed at the closing of the last page?

 

Does that mean it is not deep if you do not finish it completely?

 

But how much light can a person have to write on the bible and things of the faith if they deny that it is even trustworthy though?

Can understand that in lexicons or dictionaries one can profit from a less than critical source, but in theology itself?

 

Also would add the Dune series to that!

 

Good question; and I would answer by saying that the reading is a journey. Such changes don't occur only on the last page.