Takeaway: I read on the basis of a recommendation from Eugene Peterson’s book Pastor. It was good, especially for free.
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I read Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor: A Memoir (my review) twice in the two months after it came out. It is very good. I want to pick up Peterson’s Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List. It sounds like my kind of book, a long list of books with short statements of why they are useful/important/interesting. I will pick it up eventually, but first I am reading a couple books Peterson’s mentioned in The Pastor.
Fosdick’s The Meaning of Prayer is the first.
Peterson interviewed Fosdick for a project in seminary after reading this book. Fosdick was thought of not only as a liberal, but a heretic and worse in some circles. Peterson was struck that no one could have written this book and been a heretic and even more struck once he met Fosdick. This helped shape Peterson’s understanding of the way that we often characterize those that disagree with us.
It is free on Google Books (I read it on my ipad mostly, with a little on my android phone, there is very good syncing.)