On My Shelf: Life and Books with Tim Keller
| March 3, 2015
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scences glimpse into their lives as readers. I talked with Tim Keller about what’s on his nightstand, books he re-reads, biographies that have shaped him, and more.
What's on your nightstand right now?
I’m reading Augustine’s Confessions very slowly in two different translations and using a commentary on the Latin by J. J. O’Donnell. I’m reading a bit every night using all of those.
Other books I’m working through the next few months:
- Charles Taylor’s Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays
- Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- David Skeel’s True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World
- David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
- Hughes Old’s Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church
- Peter Berger’s The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age
- Grace Davie’s Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations
- Christian Caryl’s Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
- Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
- John Updike’s Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
- John Owen’s Meditations on the Glory of Christ
- Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of…
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