The Best Christian Writing 2006

by Wilson, John; Noll, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780787974756
• ISBN10: 0787974757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-03
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

The Best Christian Writing 2006 is the latest edition of the critically acclaimed series that offers a collection of the best and brightest Christian writing in one compelling volume. The Best Christian Writing 2006 contains accessible essays that provide an excellent overview of the range and depth of Christian thinking and display the unity in diversity evident in today's leading Christian writers. The contributors distill the riches of belief into lucid explorations of faith that reflect the many dimensions of lived Christianity. Well-crafted and provocative, these essays will inspire and challenge readers who seek to live their faith in a contemporary world. This important resource includes contributions from a diverse group of distinguished writers.

Author Biography

John Wilson is an editor at Christianity Today and editor-in-chief of its Christian review of literature, Books & Culture.

Mark Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Good Writing Is Clear Writing---And It's the Same for Good Christian Writing Too	v
Mark Noll
Preface	vii
John Wilson
Sermo CXCVI: Christmas #13	1	(8)
Augustine
Omit Unnecessary Words: On the Trail of Faith and Writing	9	(11)
Andy Crouch
Phil's Shadow: The Lessons of Groundhog Day	20	(9)
Michael P. Foley
Spirituality for All the Wrong Reasons: An Interview with Eugene Peterson	29	(14)
Mark Galli
On Reproduction and the Irreproducible Gift: Christ, Conception, and Biotechnology	43	(16)
Amy Laura Hall
Odd Job	59	(4)
Richard Lischer
Islamic Counter-Reformation	63	(9)
Paul Marshall
The Meaning of Christ's Suffering	72	(7)
Frederica Mathewes-Green
High Fidelity	79	(4)
Bill McKibben
Confessions of a Traveling Calvinist	83	(13)
Richard J. Mouw
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment	96	(15)
Richard John Neuhaus
Thanksgiving at Fair Acres	111	(10)
Virginia Stem Owens
Belief Unbracketed: A Case for the Religion Scholar to Reveal More of Where He or She Is Coming From	121	(9)
Stephen Prothero
My Africa Problem . . . and Ours	130	(10)
Gideon Strauss
To Skellig Michael, Monastery in the Sky	140	(17)
Daniel Taylor
Brother John	157	(11)
August Turak
Spokane: A Triptych	168	(10)
Paul J. Willis
Wedding Insanity	178	(6)
Lauren F. Winner
Picturing the Passion	184	(7)
Gregory Wolfe
Is Art Salvific?	191	(24)
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Biographical Notes	215	(4)
Credits	219