(I know I should simply just link to LibraryThing, and get around to entering things there, but this seems faster for now, as seriously using LibraryThing will open up whole worlds of procrastination that this little page nicely evades. Thoughts? Comments?)
Currently Reading (a.k.a., sitting by my bed or on my windowsill, either waiting to be read, in the midst of being read, or temporarily abandoned for other fun mind-fodder)
- Nathan Mitchell, Meeting Mystery: Liturgy, Worship and Sacraments (Orbis Books: Maryknoll NY, 2006). A Jesuit friend recommended these. So far, lots of Deleuze.
- James Alison, Faith Beyond Resentment: fragments catholic and gay (Crossroad Publishing Co.: New York, 2001). Midway through. See below!
- Luke Timothy Johnson, The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters (Image, 2004).
- more to come…
Recommendations (these are books I’ve -more or less- finished.)
- Br. Guy Consolmagno, Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist (McGraw-Hill: New York, 2000).
- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, trans. William Weaver. Reprinted a gazillion times. I have a Warner books paperback, 1984. Can you think of a more fun way to learn the basics of the medieval controversies over evangelical poverty? I can’t.
- Pedro Arrupe, Essential Writings, selected & ed. Kevin Burke (Orbis Books: Maryknoll NY, 2004), in the Modern Spiritual Masters series.
- James Alison, On Being Liked, (Herder & Herder, 2004). An excellent collection of essays — it was immensely helpful for me as I thought about entering the Church.
- Elizabeth Johnson, She Who is (10th anniversary ed., 2002); Truly Our Sister (2006), and Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology (1992). All of them immensely helpful to me on my way into the Church.
- …more to come…
