This week on Facebook a
relatively well-known Sydney Evangelical theologian put out a request to his
4,998 Friends. “Theological books that would be suitable for a staff reading
group? We've done Bernard of Clairvaux, Robert Jenson, John Chrysostom, and the
Anglican Homilies thus far.” I’m not naming the Facebook names, but here is the
bibliography listing all the responses from the Friends, they being other
relatively well-known Australian theologians, as well as several
non-Australians. Given the tradition of the Facebooker, some titles are
predictable, others though are not. Some entries on the list simply state
favourite authors, others give specific titles. If this is what our colleagues endorse
amongst themselves and encourage us to read outside study time as favourite
discussion material, shouldn’t we have these works in our libraries? How many
are in your library? Theologians from other traditions would doubtless have
different but no less extensive lists of best reads
Aldrich, Joe, ‘Lifestyle
evangelism’
Angelou, Maya, ‘I know why
the caged bird sings’
‘Anglican Books of Homilies,
The’
Athanasius, Saint, ‘On the
Incarnation’
Augustine, Saint, ‘On
Christian teaching’
Barber, William
Barth, Karl, ‘Church
dogmatics IV, 1’
Barth, Karl, ‘Evangelical
theology’
Basil of Caesarea, Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, ‘The
cost of discipleship’
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, ‘Life
together’
Boyer, Steven &
Christopher Hall, ‘The mystery of God’
Bruce, F.F., ‘The letter of
Paul to the Romans’
Calvin, Jean, ‘Golden booklet
of the true Christian life’
Calvin, Jean, ‘The institutes
of the Christian religion’
Chapple, Allan, ‘True
devotion’
Coakley, Sarah, ‘God,
sexuality, and the self’
Coakley, Sarah, ‘The new
asceticism’
Day, Dorothy
Edwards, Jonathan, ‘Sermons’
Ellul, Jacques, ‘Money and
power’
Evans, Mari, ‘Continuum’
Ferguson, Sinclair, ‘The
whole Christ’
Fox, George, ‘Journal’
Francis, Pope, ‘The joy of
the Gospel’
Francis, Pope, ‘Laudato si’
Gonzalez, Justo, ‘The story
of Christianity’
Graham, Billy, ‘Where I am’
Gunton, Colin, ‘Act and
being’
Gunton, Colin, ‘The one, the
three, and the many’
Gunton, Colin, ‘The promise
of trinitarian theology’
Hart, David Bentley
Hauerwas, Stanley, ‘A
community of character’
Herbert, George
Hooks, Bell, ‘Ain’t I a woman’
Jenson, Robert
Jewel, John, ‘Apology’
John Chrysostom, Saint
Julian of Norwich, Dame
Kandiah, Krish,
‘Paradoxology’
Keller, Tim, ‘The reason for
God’
King, Martin Luther
Lane Fox, Robin, ‘Augustine:
conversions to confessions’
L’Engle, Madeleine, ‘A wrinkle
in time’
Lloyd, Mike, ‘Café theology’
Lubac, Henri de
Luther, Martin
Manton, Thomas
Matthew the Poor, ‘The communion
of love’
Moltmann, Jürgen, ‘Theology
of hope’
Newman, John Henry
Norris, Kathleen, ‘The
cloister walk’
O’Connor, Flannery
O’Donovan, Oliver, ‘Self,
world, and time’
Owen, John, ‘Communion with
God’
Owen, John, ‘The glory of
Christ’
Packer, J.I., ‘Knowing God’
Robinson, Marilynne, ‘Gilead’
Sanders, Fred
Shaw, Ed, ‘Plausibility
problem’
Sibbes, Richard, ‘The bruised
reed’
Smith, James K. A., ‘You are
what you love’
Still, William, ‘Towards
spiritual maturity’
Swinton, John, ‘Raging with
compassion’
Temple, William
Teresa of Avila, Saint,
‘Interior castle’
Teresa of Avila, Saint, ‘The
way of perfection’
Thacker, Justin, ‘Global
poverty’
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, ‘Summa
theologiae’
Torrance, Thomas
‘Tracts for the times, The’
(1833-1841)
Vanier, Jean, ‘Community and
growth’
Volf, Miroslav, ‘The end of
memory’
Webster, John, ‘Holiness’
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John, ’44 sermons’
Woolf, Virginia, ‘A room of
one’s own’
Wright, Christopher, ‘The
mission of God’
Wright, N.T.
One Friend drew attention to
this list of women theologians: https://maggidawn.net/2015/08/11/there-are-no-women-on-my-theology-bookshelf-2/
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