Books I am reading on the plane to Austin:
- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver - a must read for any Post-colonial missionary or minister in a cross-cultural setting.
- From the Renaissance to Romanitcism: Trends in style in art, literature and music, 1300-1830, by Frederick Artz (published 1962). I have been absolutely hooked on this book and have been reading it on every bus trip around Prague. There are so many similarities between the world of today and other eras. Early postmodernity is similar to the Age of Mannerism (extremism, edges, remixing old - no wonder that MTV has been referred to as neo-mannerist), and our present age bears striking similarities to the early Renassaince (experimentation based on re-estimation of Roman architechure) Anyway, I wont bore you with details. Not yet, anyway.
- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver - a must read for any Post-colonial missionary or minister in a cross-cultural setting.
- From the Renaissance to Romanitcism: Trends in style in art, literature and music, 1300-1830, by Frederick Artz (published 1962). I have been absolutely hooked on this book and have been reading it on every bus trip around Prague. There are so many similarities between the world of today and other eras. Early postmodernity is similar to the Age of Mannerism (extremism, edges, remixing old - no wonder that MTV has been referred to as neo-mannerist), and our present age bears striking similarities to the early Renassaince (experimentation based on re-estimation of Roman architechure) Anyway, I wont bore you with details. Not yet, anyway.
