I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick? Here is the next installment.

John Mark Reynolds is a gifted academic.  He is the founder of the Torrey Honors Program at Biola and currently serves as Provost of Houston Baptist University.  Here is John Mark’s list:

Plato’s Republic

C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength or Abolition of Man

Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

Schmemann, For the Life of the World

Dante’s Divine Comedy