{"id":155,"date":"2014-04-11T00:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-08-11T22:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:03:43","slug":"the-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/the-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s assigned reading for my D.Min. was <em>12 Books That Changed the World<\/em> written by Melvyn Bragg. In the book Bragg highlights 12 books he thinks changed the world. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principia Mathematica\u00a0(1687) \u2014 Isaac Newton<\/li>\n<li>Married Love\u00a0(1918) \u2014 Marie Stopes<\/li>\n<li>Magna Carta\u00a0(1215)<\/li>\n<li>Book of Rules of Association Football\u00a0(1863)<\/li>\n<li>On the Origin of Species\u00a0(1859) \u2014 Charles Darwin<\/li>\n<li>On the Abolition of the Slave Trade\u00a0(1789) \u2014 William Wilberforce<\/li>\n<li>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u00a0(1792)<\/li>\n<li>Experimental Researches in Electricity\u00a0(three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855)<\/li>\n<li>Patent Specification for Arkwright\u2019s Spinning Machine\u00a0(1769) \u2014 Richard Arkwright<\/li>\n<li>The King James Bible\u00a0(1611)<\/li>\n<li>An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations\u00a0(1776)\u00a0 &#8211; Adam Smith<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0First Folio\u00a0(1623) \u2014 William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a few thoughts on this list. First, this list has a self-identified bias towards white male Brits. I wonder what non-British books Bragg might add? Second, not all of these are actually books, for instance, the Magna Carta and Rules of Football. To call them books in the strictest sense is a misnomer. Third and most interesting, I\u2019ve only read three of these \u201cbooks\u201d (Origin, the KJV Bible and some of the stories in Folio). Why is that? How many have you read? Am I less educated than the average bloke (to borrow a British term)? I hope not. Could it be that these books represented important ideas that became so vital that they were grafted into societies\u2019 norms and cultures? As the ideas became so vital were they unknowingly separated from their books and then the book was forgotten? If so that begs the question, what is it about these few texts that are actually still read today? What makes them different?<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>If I had to look back on my life and choose 12 books that were vital to me, that changed me in some way and whose ideas I hope will shape our culture, then here is my list<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surprised-Hope-N-T-Wright-ebook\/dp\/B0010SIPOY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176375&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hope+and+the+resurrection\">Surprised by Hope<\/a> \u2013 N.T. Wright.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Missional-Church-Sending-America-Culture\/dp\/0802843506\"> <em>Missional Church<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; edited by Darrell Guder<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Source-Life-Jurgen-Moltmann\/dp\/0800630998\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176466&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Source+of+Life+by+Jurgen+Moltmann\"><em>Source of Life<\/em> <\/a>by Jurgen Moltmann<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Commonplace-Agrarian-Essays-Wendell\/dp\/1593760078\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176494&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Art+of+the+Commonplace%3A\">The Art of the Commonplace:<\/a> The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry<\/em> by Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Walk-Freedom-Autobiography-Mandela\/dp\/0316548189\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176531&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Long+Walk+to+Freedom\"><em>Long Walk to Freedom<\/em><\/a> by Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Kind-Christian-Friends-Spiritual\/dp\/078795599X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176554&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=A+New+Kind+of+Christian\"><em>A New Kind of Christian<\/em><\/a> by Brian McClaren<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals\/dp\/0143038583\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176581&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Omnivores+Dilemma\"><em>The Omnivores Dilemma<\/em> <\/a>by Michael Pollan<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Helping-Hurts-Alleviate-Yourself\/dp\/0802409989\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176603&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=When+Helping+Hurts\">When Helping Hurts<\/a> \u2013 <\/em>Fikkert and Corbett<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebration-Discipline-Path-Spiritual-Growth\/dp\/0060628391\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176623&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Celebration+of+Discipline\"><em>Celebration of Discipline <\/em><\/a>\u2013 Richard Foster<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Resident-Aliens-Life-Christian-Colony-ebook\/dp\/B0055PTGLO\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176676&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Resident+Aliens\">Resident Aliens<\/a> \u2013 <\/em>Hauerwas and Willimon<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barbara-Kingsolver-Poisonwood-Bible\/dp\/B004S7VSQ6\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176700&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=The+Poisonwood+Bible\"><em>The Poisonwood Bible<\/em><\/a> by Barbara Kingsoliver<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Poverty-Economic-Possibilities-Time\/dp\/0143036580\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397176724&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+End+of+Poverty\"><em>The End of Poverty<\/em><\/a> by Jeffery Sacs<\/p>\n<p>So what does this list say about me?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Males wrote all the books with the exception of one. I must say that surprised my egalitarian self. Is that more of a reflection of me or of society? Or both?<\/li>\n<li>All of my books are relatively \u2018new books.\u2019 The oldest one can\u2019t be more than 20 years old.<\/li>\n<li>What else does this list say about me?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you had to create your own list of \u201812 books\u2019 what would be on there?\u00a0 What would that list say about you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s assigned reading for my D.Min. was 12 Books That Changed the World written by Melvyn Bragg. In the book Bragg highlights 12 books he thinks changed the world. 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