Monday, May 16, 2005

Chuck Colson's Favorites

Chuck Colson's Favorite Books

The following are books identified by Chuck Colson as having been critical to his intellectual and spiritual development.

* C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (and anything else by Lewis, especially The Abolition of Man)
* Francis Schaeffer. How Should We Then Live?
* Francis Schaeffer. The God Who Is There.
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago.
* G. K. Chesterton. The Everlasting Man.
* Paul Johnson. Modern Times.
* Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Cost of Discipleship.
* Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov.
* John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
* Jerry Bridges. The Pursuit of Holiness.

Chuck also recommends

* Richard John Neuhaus. The Naked Public Square.

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