Thread: Semester Readings?

So, what do you plan to read this semester?
I always love hearing what others are studying--it is often encouraging and quite humbling.
(BTW, do any of you organize your life into semesters, even though neither you nor your family members are in school? It seems the most habitual way to plan, at least for me)

The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

And if I have time,

The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

God of Promise by Michael Horton
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

And hopefully

The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

That's probably about all.

1st and 2nd Samuel. Romans and James.

Other than that...

Medical-Surgical Nursing by Heitkemper and Lewis
Pathophysiology
Pharmacology - A Pathophysiological Perspective
Maternity and Womens Health

oh, yeah...The Valley of Vision.

Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo

The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

And if I have time,

The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

God of Promise by Michael Horton
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

And hopefully

The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

That's probably about all.

I like Elizabeth Warren's works. She is one smart cookie. She was in "Maxed Out" - the debt documentary along with the famous Dave Ramsey.

By Class (Give you one guess as to which one I am taking at PTS):

Doctrine of Human Nature

John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion
Robert E. Reymond, Systematic Theology
A.A. Hodge, The Westminster Confession: A Commentary
John Murray, Vol. II Collected Works

Doctrine of Last Things

Cornelis Venema, The Promise of the Future
Philip E. Hughes, Interpreting Prophecy
Marcellus Kik, An Eschatology of Victory
Dennis Prutow, The Visions of Revelation

Church and Sacraments

John Burgess, After Baptism
Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body

Covenant Theology

O. Palmer Robertson, The Christ and the Covenants
John Ball, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace

Selections from:

Geehardos Vos, Covenant Theology
John Murray, The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology
Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity
William Ames, The Marrow of Theology
Robert Shaw, Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith
A.A. Hodge, The Westminster Confession: A Commentary

Originally Posted by FrielWatcher

Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo

The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

And if I have time,

The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

God of Promise by Michael Horton
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

And hopefully

The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

That's probably about all.

I like Elizabeth Warren's works. She is one smart cookie. She was in "Maxed Out" - the debt documentary along with the famous Dave Ramsey.

Prof. Warren is definitely a rock star and a wonderful teacher, but I didn't realize she was that famous among normal people!

You callin' me normal?!!
I lived in Rhode Island AND eastern CT for five years!

What is everyone else reading?

My list of work reading is always changing but I can guarantee I will be knee deep in the tax regulations and probably the McKee treatise on partnership taxation.

On the personal side, we are reading through Calvin's Institutes for Sunday school; I'm studying Hebrews (with the help of John Owen's fabulous commentary) in my personal study; I'm currently reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and Ficciones by Jorge Borges (again) and plan to read Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and maybe One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Work reading you're probably not interested in

However, on the bedside table are:

Martyrland: A Tale of Persecution from the Days of the Scottish Covenanters, R. Simpson

Scotland Saw His Glory, R. O. Roberts

A Path to True Godliness, W. Teelinck

Sermons on Acts, J. Calvin

Orations I & III (in Greek), Lysias
Apology (exercepts in Greek), Plato
Odes (approx. 40 poem selections in Latin), Horace
Annals (selections from books I, II, V, XI, XIV, and XV in Latin), Tacitus
Epistulae (12-13 letter selections in Latin), Pliny the Younger
Numerous articles on German law and sociology (in German)

Georgics (in translation), Virgil
Eclogues (in translation), Virgil
Annals (in translation), Tacitus
Scribes and Scholars, Reynolds & Wilson
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
From a Sabine Jar, Edmunds
Emperors of Rome, Teaching Company Audio
Medieval Philosophy, Teaching Company Audio
Aeneid, Virgil (Teaching Company Audio)

Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew (Vol. I), John Chrysostom
The Bible (selections of both testaments in English, of the New Testament in Greek)

Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo

The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

And if I have time,

The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

God of Promise by Michael Horton
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

And hopefully

The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

That's probably about all.

Evie: Here's a book you might be interested in: Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). This is a topic I'm interested in, although I haven't read this yet. Berman (1918-2007) was an expert in this subject. Just in case you're not familiar with it.

My current reading, in no particular order:

Milton's Creation: A Guide Through "Paradise Lost" by Harry Blamires (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1971)

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004)

The Doctrine of the Christian Life by John M. Frame; A Theology of Lordship series (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008)

The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires (New York: The Seabury Press, 1963)

By the way, if you like English literature and would like a good introduction to its history, try: A Short History of English Literature second edition; by Harry Blamires (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1984 [1974])

I guess I'm on a Blamires kick.

Originally Posted by bookslover

Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo

The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

And if I have time,

The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

God of Promise by Michael Horton
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

And hopefully

The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

That's probably about all.

Evie: Here's a book you might be interested in: Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). This is a topic I'm interested in, although I haven't read this yet. Berman (1918-2007) was an expert in this subject. Just in case you're not familiar with it.

Berman looks very good; he's written some very interesting stuff. I spent the summer before I started law school reading stuff like this and Lawrence Friedman and all four Blackstone volumes. I can't say that any of it helped me through law school though. My advice to Evie: read your casebooks (and supplements) and on your breaks read Forster. Oh, and read anything by Amar and do it during that bankruptcy course.

For the first half or two-thirds of the semester I plan to read...
All the Power in the World by Peter Unger
A Short History of Ethics by MacIntyre
Introduction to 20th century Metaethics
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art in Action
Moral Skepticisms by Walter Sinnott-Armstrongh
Meaning scepticism / edited by Klaus Puhl
Philosophical writings by Jonathan Edwards, Works Volume 6
Sensualistic Philosophy by Dabney
Moral Discourse and Practice by Allan Gibbard
Calvin and Classical Philosophy
Recovering the Reformed Confessions by Clark
Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries Vol. 1

So far I've read...
How to do Things with Words. J.L. Austin.
Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy. Alasdair MacIntyre.
The Evolution of the Soul, Revised Edition. Richard Swinburne.
Essays on Religion, Science, and Soceity. Herman Bavinck.
Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. J.P Moreland and Scott Rae.
Art and the Bible. Francis Schaeffer.

Wish I was reading more Bavinck and exegetical studies, though.