{"id":223,"date":"2011-08-15T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/readmymind\/?p=223"},"modified":"2011-08-17T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:00:14","slug":"twenty-five-books-that-shaped-americas-faith-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/readmymind\/2011\/08\/twenty-five-books-that-shaped-americas-faith-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America’s Faith, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to continue <\/a>\u00a0my list, my rants, my reflections about spiritual books that have shaped <\/a>\u00a0America’s faith. This week the list will take me over the half way point. This section of the list has some surprises, and has more fiction than the past two installments. As always, let me know if you agree or disagree with my choices and and your own!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Cost of Discipleship <\/em>by\u00a0Deitrich Bonhoeffer<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bonhoeffer has been one of the most celebrated Protestant martyrs of the 20th Century\u00a0and this is is his seminal work about sacrifice and community.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A Wrinkle in Time <\/em>by\u00a0Madeleine L’Engle <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Her allegory about time travel\u00a0broke\u00a0 new ground in publishing and\u00a0 is still unsurpassed in my opinion\u00a0– even by Harry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chronicles of Narnia, <\/em>by C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

You just know that that more than one Lewis book has to be on this list, so let’s start with the fiction series that has influenced millions of children over the decades. People of all faiths have taken any number of spiritual lessons and images away from this magical world.<\/p>\n

Exodus<\/em> by Leon Uris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe I chose this book because I am\u00a0 a devotee of “MadMen” in which the book is referenced several times in season one as a significant and controversial book\u00a0 in its contribution to the Jewish experience.<\/p>\n

Brighton Beach Trilogy<\/em> , Neil Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0I know , he wrote plays, not books, but certainly Neil\u00a0i has been a literary- \u00a0and highly commercial –\u00a0force in bringing the Jewish experience to the stage in many plays, including the deeply spiritual “God’s Favorite.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to continue \u00a0my list, my rants, my reflections about spiritual books that have shaped \u00a0America’s faith. This week the list will take me over the half way point. This section of the list has some surprises, and has more fiction than the past two installments. 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