This is a take-off of the other thread about worship music by "Heretics, Arminians, and/or Women OK if Content is Orthodox".

I have some friends who are Calvinists but like reading Brennan Manning and Henri Nowen - both Catholics. There are also some Calvinistic web sites who recommend Intro to the Bible books by Norman Geisler. What do ya'll think? Any other authors that apply to this kind of question?

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

When I was in college a few years back, I had a professor who said,

"Gentlemen, if you only read what you are in 100 percent agreement with, you'll do very little reading indeed."

I don't think we need to be afraid to read these authors.

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Ayn Rand. For one example.

I think of the First Things Magazine that can be helpful. And edifying too.

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

Absolutely worth reading. I have appreciated a lot of critiques of modernity by postmodernists. They actually helped me abandon some of my own idolatrous modern constructs.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Agreed! I love Chesterton & Kreeft, both thoroughly Catholic.

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

Absolutely. I love reading many Catholics. I have listened to all of Kreeft's lectures.
The Official Peter Kreeft Site

And am currently reading Henri de Lubac and Hans urs von Balthasar.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Basically I think the difference is that books, orthodox or not, aren't being used in the worship of God as those songs and hymns are being used in that capacity.

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Scott - Dallas, Texas - PCA

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." - Edmund Burke

What of de Lubac are you reading, and what do you think of it? I've always been intrigued by his volumes on medieval exegesis.

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Philip A - Member, High Desert United Reformed Church, Apple Valley, CA.

"Reason also is choice" - Milton, Paradise Lost
"And then shall every word also seem consistent to him, if he for his part diligently read the Scriptures in company with those who are presbyters in the Church, among whom is the apostolic doctrine, as I have pointed out." - Irenaeus, Against Heresies, IV:XXXII.
"where there is text, there is hope" - Richard A. Muller

The Drama of Atheist Humanism, but the medeival exegeses sound good too.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Nouwen is one of my favorites. Anyone in leadership should read [u]In the Name of Jesus[u].

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Dwayne S. Watts, Pastor
Riverside Advent Christian Church
Fort Worth, Texas

And I agree with Grymir, First Things has some great articles.

C.S. Lewis was an Arminian, and one of my favorite authors...

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Mason
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18