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Desert Island Books: Bryan D. Estelle

Resident Faculty, Bryan D. Estelle   |   December 14, 2011   |  Type: Interviews, Office Hours Podcast
Desert Island Books: Bryan D. Estelle

Imagine yourself on a beautiful desert island. You've unplugged from the digital world. No cellphone, no twitter, no facebook, no radio, and no tv. With you on the island you have your Bible. In addition, you can only take with you five books. Which five books would you choose and why? In this episode Office Hours talks to Dr. Bryan D. Estelle, Associate Professor of Old Testament, to find out which five books he would take with him to the desert island.

Dr. Estelle's selection:

  1. Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown
  2. Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America
    by D.G. Hart J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir by Ned Stonehouse
  3. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A. G. Sertillanges 
  4. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  5. Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas F. Hornbein

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