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Henry Imler May 24th, 2008
Scott, over at Grace is Unfair, is is reading through When War Is Unjust by John Howard Yoder and looking at Christians and Just War theory. Please go check out Part I (Stances towards war), Part II (Selective Objection), and Part III (Training for Peace). I have yet to see local congregations talk openly and honestly about the stance of the body of Christ to war beyond the “we support out troops” rhetoric. A discerning and nuanced stance may be there, I just have not seen it (but I have been blind plenty of times).
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I put together a desk and two bookcases and sorted through a bunch of books since 1:30AM. I am not quite sure how to sort through my books. I have a section for languages I am working on and a section for thesis. After that is where it gets a bit hairy. There are philosophy, science, the study of religion, devotional scholarship, devotional books, theology, history, Christian history, ancient Christian scholarship, comics, novels, and political thought.
The problem is that most of these categories overlap. On top of all of that, I have had fantasies of going dewy decimal with my books ever since I saw my brother in law Casey’s library at his church. Anyone know of amateur ways of doing this?
With that, I may just now go to bed.
Listening to: By Babylon by Psalm from Waking up the Storm
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Amateur way of organizing your books…lets see
1. First, you could organize by height (biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest).
2. Second, you could organize by the number of pages each book has. This method would be great if you needed to find a book that had exactly 329 pages.
3. Third, you could alphabetize the books (either by title or author). But I would probably avoid using the “The’s” as beginning words to alphabetize–cause it makes the “T’s” long.
4. Fourth, try organizing by the date of publication. That way–you would know how many older (classical) books you have and how many newer books you have.
5. Fifth, might be my favorite–the publishing company. The one question I always ask before I read a book is “who made it.” For it to be any good– It has to be from USA and hopefully Midwestern (no german philosophy).
Casey
ps. let me know if you do any of these…so I can laugh
JR. and i are organizing all of his books at the office, and we ran into the same problem. We decided to put the books in the category that he would most likely think of them being in, and then we’re going to enter all of his books in a database, labeling them with 2-3 tags, or labels, that best describes them.
For example, in the theology section, some books are about the holy spirit, so we label those as such and place them together on the bookshelf.
Some of the other categories we included (big sections on the bookshelves): Culture, Old Testament, New Testament, Reference, Church Praxis.
Tiffany, Thanks for the input. You and several other people have suggested such an organizational format. I think I will go with something like this.
HMI
Casey,
I tried all of those methods and found them to be as full of viability as the truth claims in this sentence.
HMI