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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. We are on hiatus for the 2009-10 academic year.

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

2007-2008

  • The Language of God: A Scientist Present Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins

2008-2009

  • Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit's Power by J. P. Moreland