About the Books
About three years ago I received a rather large addition to my personal library. In addition to the over a thousand books in my office, nineteen banker’s boxes full of books was given to me by a former seminary professor.
This professor of theology, a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Seminary and a contemporary of David Platt, was from Canada. When his work permit in America expired he found himself unable to ship his library back home – the cost was prohibitive. Therefore, he offered them to me to keep and use in his absence. He said, “If I don’t come back in a couple of years, just consider them yours to keep.”
It’s now been three years, and I’m just now starting to unwrap the “gift.” I hope he forgot me.
The Box
I’ve seen how people have been writing poems by using the titles of books. Linda Kruschke is a good example (click HERE to read her latest poem, My Soul Feels Peace).
So, what I did was open up one of the boxes of books (one of which I’d already written the contents on the lid), reached down inside and pulled out a decent stack, and then arranged the stack into a pyramid…largest book on the bottom, smallest on the top.
The poem that I proceeded to write was based on the titles of the books from top to bottom.
The Poem
The Science Question
The Science of God is the study of God
It’s something we call Theology.
The Apostolic Fathers taught it well,
Setting the standards for what would be.
The science would produce Three Views on Eastern
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism
But Apologetic Preaching would come along
To combat what we’d come to call pluralism.
What’s True for You, but Not for Me
May give you A New Perspective on Jesus,
But be mindful of The Origin of Christology
And don’t neglect to peruse some Aquinas.
There’s something about The Passionate Intellect
That leads some to question, “Does God Exist?”
But the wise understand Creation Out of Nothing
Was breathed by the God of The Ten Commandments.
And now that the Fathers are long past gone
The Cross of Christ is the message they give.
This new generations of scientific theologians
Who preach as they ask, “How Should We Then Live?”
Selah. A musical notation calling us to pause, to rest for moment and consider what has just been said. In this verse we are told to “commune” with our own hearts upon our beds. What about? Let’s think about it.
Oh, I did…again! This wasn’t the first time I’ve received a notification that my email has been hacked (#*!%#@! Yahoo!). And, it’s not easy keeping up with new passwords, much less when you constantly have to change them after some boob has hacked your email! Dang it!!
The Recovering Legalist 