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"Nothing is foreign territory to theology." -Prof. Douglas John Hall

"Beware The Person of One Book!" -Benjamin D'Israeli

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SOME TITLES FROM BISHOP JOHN SHELBY SPONG:

-Why Christianity Must Change or Die.
-A New Christianity For a New World.
-Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes.
-This Hebrew Lord.
-The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love.
-Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality.


SOME TITLES FROM MARCUS BORG:

-Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time.
-Reading The Bible Again For The First Time.
-The Heart of Christianity.
-The Meaning of Jesus (With N.T Wright.)


SOME TITLES FROM HENRI NOUWEN:

-With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on The Eucharistic Life.
-Out of Solitude.
-With Open Hands.
-The Return of The Prodigal Son.
-The Wounded Healer.


A "MUST READ" FROM CANADIAN THEOLOGIAN DOUGLAS JOHN HALL:

-The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and The Suffering World.


SOME TITLES FROM JEAN VANIER:

-Becoming Human.
-Made For Happiness: Discovering the Meaning of Life With Aristotle.
-Community and Growth.
-Drawn Into The Mystery Of Jesus Through The Gospel of John.


SOME TITLES FROM J.R.R TOLKIEN:

-The Hobbit.
-The Fellowship of The Ring.
-The Two Towers.
-The Return of The King.


SOME TITLES OF J.K ROWLING:

-Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone.
-Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
-Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.
-Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.
-Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix.
-Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. (SUMMER 2005!)


SOME TITLES FROM C.S LEWIS:

-The Chronicles of Narnia.
-The Screwtape Letters.
-A Grief Observed.


SOME TITLES FROM HANS KUNG:

-On Being a Christian
-The Church.
-My Struggle for Freedom.


LOOKING FOR GREAT THEOLOGY? THESE PEOPLE DON'T DISAPPOINT!

-Hans Kung.
-Douglas John Hall.
-Karl Rahner.
-Phyllis Tribble.
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
-Archbishop Rowan Williams.
-Jacques DuPuis, S.J.
-Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P.
-Bishop John Shelby Spong.
-Marcus Borg.
-N.T Wright.
-William Willimon
-Brian Gerrish.
-Bishop John A.T Robinson. (Honest to God is a must read!)
-John Dominic Crossan.
-Elaine Pagles.
-Thomas Merton.
-Jean Vanier.
-Henri Nouwen.
-Walter Wink.
-Martin Buber.


OUR FAMILY OF FAITH: INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND ECUMENISM:

-Archbiship Michael Ingham, Mansions of The Spirit.
-Thich Nhat Hanh. Living Buddha-Living Christ.
-Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry. (World Council of Churches)
-Rosemary Reuther, Faith and Fratricide.
-John Shelby Spong, This Hebrew Lord.
-Ovey Mohammed, S.J, Muslim-Christian Relations: Past, Present, and Future.


SOME SPIRITUALITY TITLES:

-Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ.
-Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing.
-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.
-St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night of The Soul.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha-Living Christ.
-Henri Nouwen, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on The Eucharistic Life.
-Julian Of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love.
-Meister Eckhard, Selections From His Essential Writings. (John O'Donohue Editor. Harper-Collins Spiritual Classics.)
-St. Augustine, Confessions.


GREAT NOVELS:

-Timothy Findley, Pilgrim.
-Dan Brown, Angels and Demons.
-Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.
-Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose.
-Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God.
-Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses.
-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist.
-Thomas Hardy, Tess of The D'Urbervilles.
-Thomas Hardy, Jude The Obscure.
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four.
-George Orwell, Animal Farm.
-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World.
-James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
-Simon Winchester, The Surgeon of Crawthorne.
-Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and Other Tales.
-Richard Hooker, M.A.S.H.
-Yann Martel, The Life of Pi.
-Anita Diamant, The Red Tent.
-Ernest Hemmingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls.
-Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland.
-Lewis Carrol, Through The Looking Glass.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
-Jerzy Kosinski, Being There.
-Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
-James Joyce, Ulysses.


THOUGHTS THAT PROVOKE:

-Madeline L'Engele, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art.
-Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That.
-John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium.
-Voltaire, Candide.
-Dante, The Divine Comedy.
-Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales.
-Homer, The Odyssey.
-Homer, The Illiad.
-St. Augustine, Confessions.
-St. Augustine, City of God.
-Plato, The Republic.
-Plato, The Lat Days of Socrates.
-Goethe, Faust.
-Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
-Erasmus, The Praise of Folly.
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
-Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories.
-Thomas Moore, Utopia.
-Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
-Elie Wiesel, Night.
-Elie Wiesel, Day.
-Elie Wiesel, Dawn.
-William Golding, The Lord of The Flies.
-Woody Allen, Without Feathers.
-Woody Allen, Getting Even.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison.
-Cervantes, Don Quixote.
-Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.
-Dostoyevsky, The Idiot.
-Richard Lischer, Open Secrets.
-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time.
-Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly.
-Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect.
-Sigmund Freud, The Origins of Religion.
-Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why.
-Harold Bloom, Stories and Poems For Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages.
-John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration.
-Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief.
-Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels.
-Pascal, Pensees.
-The Documents of Vatican Council II (Edited by Walter M. Abbot, S.J)
-David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance.


SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY:

-William Willimon, Sunday Dinner.
-Kenneth Stevenson, Do This: The Shape, Style, and Meaning of The Eucharist.
-Brian Gerrish, Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin.
-Laurence Hull Stookey, Baptism: Christ's Act in The Church.
-Laurence Hull Stookey, Eucharist: Christ's Feast With The Church.
-James F. White, The Sacraments in Protestant Practice amd Faith.
-James F. White, Introduction to Christian Worship.
-Daniel Donovan, Distinctively Catholic.
-Frank C. Senn, Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical.
-John De Gruchy, Liberating Reformed Theology.
-John Baycroft, The Eucharistic Way.
-Martin Marty, The Lord's Supper.




























































































































































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-Karl Rahner, S.J