Some notes from 2/17 Meeting, Topic: Reading
Handout
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Indicates book being re-read as a benchmark for changes in thinking
or new discoveries,
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indicates books on tape read over and over for pure delight
To
examine the nature of humankind, the good the bad and the complex.
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Bellevue:
Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied
Hospital, by David
Oshinsky, Doubleday, 2016. " ...a chronicle of Bellevue's rise
from a wretched almshouse infirmary ... to a revered public hospital
and trauma center for visiting world leaders. ...interweaves the
evolution of American medicine ... with New York's growth as the
nation's preeminent city. ... In the dramatic story of Bellevue,
David Oshinsky finds all the social calamity, human suffering, and
scientific ingenuity that have fueled American medicine for three
hundred years."
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Shantung
Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure,
by Langdon Gilkey, Harper & Row, 1966. Written from the author's
journal which he kept during his internment, this book describes
life in an civilian internment camp in North China during the war
against Japan. " ... One of those rare glimpses of the nature
of men and of their communal life..."
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The
Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the
So-Called Psychopathic Personality,
by Hervey Cleckley, M.D. Third Edition (1955), Echo Point Books and
Media, LLC. "... many psychopathic personalities go
undiagnosed because they maintain a social mask that conceals their
disorder and enables them to blend in with society. Furthermore,
many of these affected individuals appear to function normally in
accordance with standard psychiatric criteria."
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*People
of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil,
by M. Scott Peck, M.D. (Touchstone, 1983)
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Enneagram:
A Christian Perspective,
by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert, Crossroad Publishing Company,
2016 (original copyright in the German, 1989.) Examination of "
... an ancient personality-type system" takes the reader
through " ... the process of identifying and analyzing each of
the Enneagram types and traits."
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*The
Essential Enneagram
(Daniels and Price); The
Complete Enneagram
(Beatrice Chestnut, PhD)
To
examine the dialogue between modern scientific theories and theology
from the starting point of scientific method, and the intersection of
physics with metaphysics.
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Theology
and Science (a quarterly
journal) from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
(CTNS) Graduate Theological Union, Berkley published by Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group, UK.
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The
Physics of Christianity,
by Frank Tipler (Doubleday 2007)
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*Belief
in God in an Age of Science,
by John Polkinghorne (Yale University Press, 1998)
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Introduction
to Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger trans. Gregory Fried &
Richard Polt (Yale University Press, 2000)
To
examine current events from the perspectives of theology and
philosophy:
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Theological
Studies (a quarterly
journal) a Jesuit publication, Sage Publishing Co., UK
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Commonweal:
A Review of Religion, Politics and Culture
(bi-monthly magazine) includes editorials, letters, articles, book
reviews, art reviews, poetry, etc.
**Books
on tape - mystery/human interest genre
feel good about humankind
Alexander
McCall Smith (retired professor of medical law and bioethics,
Edinburgh) citizen of UK, born in Rhodesia. Series: No. 1 Ladies
Detective Agency; 44 Scotland Street; Isabel Dalhousie series and
more. Explores the problems, joys and moral questions in everyday
life.
Along
the same lines, M.C. Beaton (UK) series: Hamish McBeth (highland
policeman); Agatha Raisen (idiosyncratic lady detective). Lillian
Jackson Braun (US) "The Cat Who ..." series takes place in
quaint area "400 miles north of everywhere."
Books
on Tape Crime stories:
by various authors including John Sanford, Jo Nesbø and many
others,to amuse myself when I clean the house.
Magazines
for tea drinking: HGTV
Magazine, Southern
Living, Good
Housekeeping, Better
Homes and Gardens, Eating
Well, Consumer
Reports .... For fun
color, food, etc.
Grapes of Wrath -- by Steinbeck; Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick;
Reading on Birds
Harlem Globetrotters,
Bill Walton/John Wooden,
Frank Luntz
NPR,
WWW,
Teilhard deChardin,
Richard Rohr,
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen, Laos to ...,
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh,
Thomas Merton,
Parker Palmer,
Rolf Dobelli
