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The Christian Century<\/em> – I believe it’s still the flagship periodical of US mainline Protestantism – asked eight theologians to name five essential theology books of the past 25 years<\/a>. Below I’ve excerpted the titles they gave. You’ll want to go to CC’s<\/em> website to read the theologians’ descriptions of the books they chose, and why they chose them.<\/p>\n

Not\u00a0a lot\u00a0on liturgy here – but there is Schmemann on Eucharist and Cavanagh on torture and Eucharist. It’s good to see so much on spirituality. It’s also interesting to note how many books\u00a0take up\u00a0the core beliefs of Christianity – the creed, the Trinity – in some innovative relationship to human experience. I’m looking at, for example,\u00a0\u00a0Kathryn Tanner, Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology<\/em>, or Eugene F. Rogers, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God.<\/em> It’s not your grandparents’ systematic theology, and I think that’s a good thing. <\/em>Volf, Exclusion and Embrace<\/em>, appears twice, and Milbank on theology and social theory appears three times.<\/p>\n

More than a few books here which I haven’t read. I’m making a vow, my religious superiors and the abbey business office will be glad to know, not to go near amazon.com for the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

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Stanley Hauerwas\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age<\/em>. \u00a0Robert Jenson, Systematic Theology<\/em>. James Wm. McClendon Jr., Systematic Theology<\/em>. John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amos Yong\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Nancy L. Eiseland, The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. <\/em>Clark H. Pinnock, Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. <\/em> Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.<\/em> J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account<\/em>. \u00a0Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emilie M. Townes\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Katie Geneva Cannon, Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community.<\/em> Charles H. Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Inter\u00adpretation of Religion.<\/em> Peter J. Paris, The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse.<\/em> Larry L. Rasmussen, Earth Community, Earth Ethics<\/em>. \u00a0Kathryn Tanner, Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lawrence S. Cunningham\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Bernard McGinn, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism<\/em>. \u00a0Herbert McCabe, God Matters <\/em>and God Still Matters.<\/em> John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. <\/em>David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Coakley\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys<\/em>.\u00a0 Steven Payne, John of the Cross and the Cognitive Value of Mysticism: An Analysis of Sanjuanist Teaching and Its Philosophical Implications for Contemporary Discussions of Mystical Experience. <\/em>Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God.<\/em> Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter, editors. Feminist Epistemologies. <\/em>William T. Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Kevin J. Vanhoozer\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. <\/em>John Webster, Word and Church: Essays in Church Dogmatics. <\/em>N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God<\/em>. \u00a0Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks.<\/em> John D. Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church.<\/em><\/p>\n

George Hunsinger\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Thomas F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church. <\/em>Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist. <\/em>Sarah Coakley, Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender. <\/em>J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account. <\/em>Derek S. Jeffreys, Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Willie James Jennings\u2019s 5 picks:
\n<\/strong>Sallie McFague, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology.<\/em> John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason.<\/em> Eugene F. Rogers, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God. <\/em>Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. <\/em>Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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