I was in a charity shop the other day when I saw a nice copy of John Buchan's novella, The Thirty Nine Steps.(Published by Polygon). I started reading it and half way through remembered that some years before I had bought a very nice illustrated hardback edition and so started reading that edition. (That one is pubkished by Chatto & Windus). It's a great little thriller with plenty of good background material on London and Scotland. The plot is a little unlikely, of course, but still a good yarn. I wonder of the other books in the Richard Hanney series are any good.
The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
The Thirty Nine Steps
I was in a charity shop the other day when I saw a nice copy of John Buchan's novella, The Thirty Nine Steps.(Published by Polygon). I started reading it and half way through remembered that some years before I had bought a very nice illustrated hardback edition and so started reading that edition. (That one is pubkished by Chatto & Windus). It's a great little thriller with plenty of good background material on London and Scotland. The plot is a little unlikely, of course, but still a good yarn. I wonder of the other books in the Richard Hanney series are any good.
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