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Areopagus Book Clubs
Areopagus Faculty/Graduate Student Book Clubs
Areopagus Book Clubs meet during the school year to discuss books or articles of interest to Christian faculty and graduate students.
The Friday Book Club meets at noon in the Nook in the Memorial Union Food Court. Our current book is Rene Dubos' The God Within.
For more information, contact Dave Schweingruber (dschwein@iastate.edu).
When choosing books, we are particularly interested in:
- Books about connections between Christianity and academia
- Books that provide a Christian perspective on the topics of academic disciplines, e.g., the arts, humanities, social and physical sciences
- Books that provide a Christian perspective on cultural and political issues
- Books by leading scholars of Biblical studies, theology, ethics, etc.
Previous books
2002-2003
- The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George Marsden
- Selected essays from The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley Hauerwas
- The Search for Christian American by Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch and George Marsden
- Divided by Faith by
Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
2003-2004
- Christian America? by Christian Smith
- Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God ed. Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff
- The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins
- Why Bother Being Good? by John Hare
2004-2005
Friday Book Club
- Speaking My Mind by Tony Campolo
- The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
Monday Book Club
- Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
2005-2006
- Coming to Peace with Science by Darrel Falk
- Science & Its Limits: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective by Del Ratzch
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience by Ronald Sider
2006-2007
- Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship by Fred Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon, and Raymond H. Brand
- The Last Word by N.T. Wright
2007-2008
- Belief in God in An Age of Science by John Polikinghorne
