Ten books that I read in 2014 should be
worthy of your time to read.
Andrew
Root, Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A
Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2014).
“The child
reveals personhood, for the child cannot
be without the belonging of others; a child is a distinct will in the world
that is given personhood through the will of those who act in freedom to be for
him. The child has his being in and through the acts of others who love and
care for him. He shares in others’ persons—his mother and father—and these
other persons share in him, giving him personhood through acts of love and
care” (p. 49).
Eric
Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,
Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich (Nashville: Thomas
Nelson, 2010).
“Bonhoeffer was
respectful of the students’ point of view. He never wanted his classes or the
seminary to become a cult of personality, centered on him. He was interested
only in persuading via reason. Forcing his thoughts on others was something he
thought of as fundamentally wrong, as worthy of a ‘mis-leader’” (p. 265).
“The authority
of a servant leader, as opposed to the authoritarianism of the mis-leader, came
from God and was a leadership of serving those below oneself. That was Christ’s
example to the disciples, and Bonhoeffer strove to lead that way too” (p. 269).
Paul
Borthwick, Western Christians in Global
Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church? (Downers Grove: IVP
Books, 2012).
“Our capacity to
repent and learn from our historical mistakes is itself a resource to help us
find our place in global Christianity. Perhaps our awareness of our own
historical mistakes—such as cultural imperism and leading by power rather than
by serving—will help us partner with the new missionary senders from Latin
America, Africa and Asia” (p. 69).
Michael
W. Goheen, Introducing Christian Mission
Today: Scripture, History and Issues (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2014).
“What defines
missions today is not exclusively the crossing of cultural or national
boundaries with the gospel, but creating a gospel witness where it is absent or
weak” (p. 403).
John
R. W. Stott, The Message of 1 Timothy and
Titus. The Bible Speaks Today (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press; Downers
Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1996).
“Behind the
ministry of public teaching there lies the discipline of private study. All the
best teachers have themselves remained students. They teach well because they
learn well. So before we can effectively instruct others in the truth we must
have ‘really digested’ it (The Jerusalem Bible) ourselves” (p. 116).
_____.
The Message of 2 Timothy. The Bible
Speaks Today (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press; Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity
Press, 1973).
“For God gave us
his own purpose of grace in Christ before we did any good works, before we were
born and could do any good works, indeed before history, before time, in
eternity. We have to confess that the doctrine of election is difficult to
finite minds. But it is incontrovertibly a biblical doctrine. It emphasizes
that salvation is due to God’s grace alone, not to man’s merit; not to our
works performed in time, but to God’s purpose conceived in eternity” (p. 36).
謝挺:《創世記（上）──從創造到揀選》(香港：明道社，2008)。
_____.《創世記（下）──從揀選到保守》（香港：明道社，2011）。
曾思瀚 著，蘇慧中譯：《以西結的領導學──領袖、異象、新時代》（台灣：校園，2011）。
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