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James’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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James B. Nance
Goodreads Author
Born
in Seattle, Washington, The United States
Member Since
January 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jimnance
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| I know it’s a repeat of essays and portions of books I’ve already read. But it gave me a chance to read one focused idea—what C. S. Lewis thought about reading books—from scores of angles. Worth it. | |
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| As a story it fills in possible details the scriptures leave out, but this is accompanied by some anachronistic goofiness and obvious errors. Similar to other books of its time like The Robe. | |
“Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.”
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“Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
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“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
Christian Goodreaders
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This is a group for any Goodreads member who is a follower of Christ.
Classics & Coffee
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— last activity Apr 11, 2021 07:18AM
We formed many years ago as a group of teachers wanting to improve ourselves through reading. We met for years in a local coffee shop.
