Friday, December 7, 2012

Speaking of Books - The Great Ones Are Out There and Being Ignored.
The Bright Side of Lutheran Backsliding


Anticipating the next question from Joel Lillo -
"What's the connection between the books post and that Medieval dude?"

quercuscontramalum (http://quercuscontramalum.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Lasting Values":

Speaking of books, a local thrift shop displayed 20 or so volumes of Luther's Works on the shelf next to Purpose Driven Life and The Prayer of Jabez.The comic collections of Garfield the Cat were $2, and each volume of LW was a bargain at $1.50. Note the decimal. The Blessed Reformer's thoughts on Galatians, Romans, and Genesis will be fine company this long winter.

The Galatians volume had the only sun-faded cover, which I hope means the previous owner kept it separate from the rest of LW because it was the most-referenced. The great joys of buying used theological books are the margin notes, highlights, underlined passages, and dogeared pages.