The Book Lit! By Tony Reinke Free Download
Whether books are your addiction or your phobia, Lit! offers up solid communication to help you think about reading in fresh means.
With all the practical suggestions built on a business firm gospel foundation, this book will help you flourish in the essential skills necessary for a balanced reading diet of Scripture, serious works of theology, and moving devotional works, but without overlooking the importance of how-to books from expert practitioners, the storytelling genius of historians, and rich novels written by skilled artists of fiction.
Literature scholar Leland Ryken calls it "a triumph of scholarship," merely mostly it's a practical and unpretentious book about the nigh urgent skills yous demand to relish a luminously literate life in honor of God.
The print volume is available through Amazon, Westminster Books, and CBD.
The ebook is available in Vyrso/Logos, Kindle, and iBooks/iTunes.
Endorsements
Leland Ryken, Professor of English at Wheaton Higher, literary stylist for The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, and author:
There is so much to commend about this book that it is hard to know where to starting time. The most obvious virtue of the book is its telescopic. On the field of study of reading, Reinke covers every possible topic. Each topic, in turn, is broken into all of its important subpoints. With a lesser writer, this could produce a tiresome book, but the reverse is true of this volume. Reinke says simply plenty, but not besides much. The effect is like seeing a prism turned in the light. There is never a boring moment in this volume. One time I sensed that Reinke was going to embrace all the important topics, and with unfailing skillful sense and Christian insight, I could hardly put the book down. What will Reinke say nigh THAT topic? I found myself asking. Simply to add together yet another twist, Reinke has read and then widely in scholarly and religious sources that I practice non hesitate to call the book a triumph of scholarship. Reinke writes with an infectious and winsome enthusiasm. It is hard to imagine a reader of this book who would not catch the spark for reading after encountering Reinke's excitement about reading and his advisedly reasoned defense of it.
Andrew Peterson, singer, songwriter, and novelist:
This is the perfect volume for someone who doesn't like to read, or who likes to read but isn't certain it'southward a good apply of their time — or who loves to read a fiddling likewise much and needs to continue with discernment. Tony Reinke has made a wise, theological, and edifying case for why words affair. I'll mention Lit! every fourth dimension someone asks me why in the world Christians should read fiction — a question that never fails to daze me. Now, instead of snapping, 'Are you serious?' and spouting opinions, I'll simply smile and skid them a copy of this book.
Randy Alcorn, president, Eternal Perspective Ministries and author:
I read many books, but seldom do I enjoy one more than than I did Tony Reinke's Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books. Many of my greatest childhood adventures, and much of my growth after I was converted as a teenager, came through reading imagination-expanding and life-changing books. Tony's writing is thoughtful, perceptive, concise, and God-honoring. He upholds biblical authority, and offers helpful guidance, while assuasive for a diverseness of tastes. Lit! rings truthful to my own lifetime of reading experience. Every bit a reader and writer of both nonfiction and fiction, I appreciate the breadth of Tony's treatment, which includes a multifariousness of genres. For book lovers, this is a treasure and please. For those who aren't book lovers, information technology makes a great case for condign one.
Ann Voskamp, bestselling author:
This is rich. This is a theology of literature. Exploring the art of imagination, the importance of parents raising readers, practical advice on time-management to create margin to read, and then the all important distraction direction, Reinke is the all-time, intentional reader I know of: he reads voraciously, he reads widely, thoughtfully, and he reads for transformation into the reflection of Christ. I want to someday read similar this man. This is the best Christian guide I've e'er found to becoming a ameliorate reader.
Russell D. Moore, President of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and author:
You might wonder why you lot need to read about reading. Some of y'all have piles and piles of books on your shelves, or on your nightstand, but have no idea how to choose what to read, and when. Some of you are existence contradistinct in ways you don't even recognize past digital technology such that you lot can't encounter how you're too distracted to summon the deep attention needed to read. This engagingly written volume will make you think, just information technology will likewise provide practical, winsome advice on how to become the correct kind of reader for the glory of God.
J.I. Packer, theologian and author:
If you don't read books as both a discipline and a delight, and then you should; and if yous need help hither, as in truth all of usa do, more or less, and so this is the book for y'all. Don't miss it!
Trevin Wax, blogger and author:
How to read, what to read, who to read, when to read, and why you should read — Tony Reinke answers all these questions and more than in this very practiced and (surprisingly) brief book on reading. As he shows how reading can bring celebrity to God and growth to the church building, Reinke encourages Christians to take up the bailiwick of reading widely and wisely.
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary:
Christians are people of the Book, and books are a very important part of Christian culture and Christian life. Ane of the most important gifts God has given us is the ability to read and to communicate from ane listen to others by means of the printed page. Throughout the history of the Christian church building, books have get some of the most cherished friends, teachers, and companions along the mode. But reading is a matter of spiritual bailiwick, not just a matter of literacy. In Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books, Tony Reinke helps united states of america to sympathize how Christians actually grow, non only as readers only also as Christians, through disciplined reading.
Tim Chester, director, The Porterbrook Plant, and author:
According to Lit, if you read one book a week for the next 50 years you'll read about 2,600 books. Not a lot when you think of all the books you could read. And then should you include this book about books in your list? Aye. Because Lit will help you read the right books in the right fashion. Tony Reinke sets our reading in a biblical framework too every bit providing applied tips to make the near of books. I warmly commend it.
Eric C. Redmond, pastor, writer, and blogger:
With a discerning eye, Reinke captures the importance of the gospel story for our habits of reading, thus providing a worldview for reading. He challenges us to beware of how the carved images of the Internet can draw us away from the grace of reading for comprehension and simple delight. Withal he as gives a proper identify to secular literature amidst all types of works that those who love Christ should appreciate. This is the sort of volume that I take longed to place into the hands of believers in club to help churches recapture a love for literature and literacy — both biblical and extra-biblical. Practical and enjoyable, Lit! is an outstanding and valuable gift to the church building.
Jon Smith, pastor and director of ONEU Maryland, a college campus outreach:
I loved Tony's book, Lit! It's clear, concise, thoroughly Biblical, Christ-exalting, and practically helpful for me personally. In it Tony helped me discover a number of areas in my thinking and my approach to reading that needed to alter. Lit! is a book I can't wait to give away to college students and to other campus directors who I trust volition take a similar experience.
Tim Challies, blogger and writer:
Tony Reinke does not but read, but he reads well, and these are two very dissimilar things. If you lot are not much of a reader, consider Lit a part of your education. Tony will teach you to read, to read widely and to read well. If y'all are already an avid reader, consider Lit an investment that will instruct y'all in how to read better.
Marcia Somerville, president, Lampstand Printing, and author of the Tapestry of Grace homeschool curriculum:
Since God has chosen that ideas are best expressed in words, and that THE Thought—the revelation of His Son as Lord and Savior—is to exist learned through His timeless and matchless Word, Christians dare not lose sight of the primacy of books amidst the torrent of fast-moving, visual images of our culture. Tony Reinke compelling argues from Scripture and lessons he has learned in life that "reading is a style to preserve and cultivate the sustained linear concentration we need for life." Equally an educator, I couldn't agree more! Sustained reading must remain the heartbeat of whatsoever worthy educational program that seeks to produce Christian thinkers, leaders, and apologists. Homeschooling parents who are trying to craft reading lists every bit they raise Christian children will find gracious and principled guidance hither. More, Tony offers great ideas for parents to foster a dear for reading, beginning with their own example.
Translations
- Dutch: Lees! (ISBN: 9789088970535)
- Korean: 독서신학 (ISBN: 9788960922846)
Supplemental Guides
- Study questions adult by blogger, author, and seminary professor David Murray. Download them as a Word doc or PDF.
Author Interviews
- Written interview on reading with the newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad (May 24, 2014): "The Finish of Books" (English), "Rustig lezen als feestmaal voor de ziel" (Dutch; PDF).
- Radio interview on Chris Fabry Live!, Moody Radio, Chicago (forty minutes). Listen hither.
- Radio interview on The Paul Edwards Plan, WLQV, Detroit (23 minutes). Heed here.
- Written dialogue on Christianity Today's Books & Culture blog with Karen Swallow Prior. Indexed hither.
- Written interview with Trevin Wax. See hither.
- Written interview with The Gospel Coalition and John Starke: "Death to Dostoevsky by Aroused Birds."
Tabular array of Contents
Office 1: A Theology of Books and Reading
i. Newspaper Pulp and Etched Granite: Laying the Cornerstone of Our Theology of Books
2. Wide-Eyed into the Son: How Personal Sin and the Gospel Shape Our Literacy
3. Reading Is Assertive: Savoring Books in an Eye-Candy Culture
4. Reading from across the Canyon: How a Biblical Worldview Equips Us to Benefit from Books
5. The Giver'south Vocalisation: Vii Benefits of Reading Non-Christian Books
6. The God Who Slays Dragons: The Purifying Power of Christian Imagination
Part two: Some Practical Advice on Book Reading
7. Read with Resolve: Vi Priorities That Determine What Books I Read (and Don't Read)
eight. How to Read a Book: 20 Tips and Tricks for Reading Nonfiction Books
9. Literature Is Life: Tapping into the Benefits of Fiction Literature
10. Likewise Decorated to Read: Vi Ways to Find (and Protect) the Fourth dimension You Demand to Read Books
eleven. Driven to Distraction: How Internet Habits Cripple Book Reading
12. Marginalia: The Fine art of Defacing Books with Pencils, Pens, and Highlighters
13. Reading Together: Building Community One Book at a Fourth dimension
14. Raising Readers: How Parents and Pastors Can Ignite in Others a Honey for Book Reading
15. Happily Ever Afterward: Five Marks of a Healthy Book Reader
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