Preface: Reading, the encounter of love
Chapter 1: Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
Chapter 2: Reading: Reading St. Augustine's "Christian Culture"
Chapter 3: Doing the Humanities: Reading Earl Shorris's "Humanities of Hope"
Chapter 4: Being Pious: Reading Plato's "Euthyphro"
Chapter 5: Having Religion: Reading Karl Marx's "Preface to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"
Chapter 6: Participating in Politics: Reading Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
Chapter 7: Becoming a Leader: Reading Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Chapter 8: Obedience: Reading Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority"
Chapter 9: Love: Reading Confucius's Analects
Chapter 10: Resting_Reading Paul Lafargue's "The Right to Be Lazy"
Chapter 11: Dying: Reading Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "Death and Dying"
Chapter 12: Believing: Reading Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
Chapter 13: Doubting: Reading Descartes' "Discourse on the Method"
Chapter 14: Sacrifice: Reading "Simcheongjeon"
Chapter 15: Forgiving: Reading Jacques Derrida's "Forgiving"
Author's Note

“A record of intense thought and practice, woven with the Bible and humanistic classics as warp and weft!”
Recommended by Kim Jin-hyeok, Baek So-young, Son Seong-chan, Jeong Han-wook, Jo Young-heon, and Cheon Jong-ho

I recommend this book to those of you who are thinking about life while going through difficult days.

If you are going through difficult times in the midst of a crisis and are questioning life,

We all live our days, alternating between warm and comfortable days and harsh and desolate days.
But it is when we are weary and crushed by the weight of life that we begin to think, ponder, question and ponder life.
'Why have these hardships and crises come to me?', 'Why does God allow me to go through these times?', 'How should I solve the problems that have come upon me?', 'What meaning does this life have for me?' From topics that individuals struggle with in their daily lives, such as love and forgiveness, doubt and faith, rest and death, to issues we encounter in social relationships, such as piety, religion, and political participation, we always live with various life topics.
And for us, we need something that will show us the way to the problems and topics that we are concerned about.

Finding the Path of Life in the Bible and Humanities Classics

What Pastor Kim Ki-hyun, the author of this book, recommends to Christians going through difficult times is ‘reading.’
In this book, Pastor Kim Ki-hyun explores various topics related to life through ‘humanities classics.’
The author introduces a variety of humanities classics, spanning the East and the West, past and present, transcending ideological boundaries and breaking down genre barriers, from Plato, Karl Marx, Jacques Derrida, Confucius, and even The Tale of Simcheong.
The classics introduced in this book serve as gateways to the topics of each chapter and provide clues to the answers to life's problems.
Furthermore, the author says that the standard for all books is the scriptures, namely the Bible.
There are limits to the answers that humanities classics provide on various topics of life.
As a theologian and bibliophile, the author clearly transcends its limitations through the Bible.

This book is not just a collection of book reviews.
This book introduces classic humanities texts, allowing us to take a step closer to the themes we encounter in our lives. The author's honest stories, which reveal his true self and trace his struggles, evoke deep empathy.
As the author says, a book is an encounter with others and with oneself, this book guides us to meet ourselves, meet others, and further, see the world through the classics of humanities.

“If we conduct Bible study by reading, discussing, and writing within the communal context of the church, it is in line with the humanistic spirit and method discussed in this book.
“When the church makes people read not only general classics but also Christian classics and spiritual classics, and makes them read the Bible, the standard scripture for all books, and helps them acquire a worldview that allows them to think and view the world through the Bible, the church is hope.” _From the text