READING LIST

Culture & Christian Humanism

THE MEANING CRISIS & SECULARISM
Amythia
Loyal Rue
Zombies in Western Culture
John Vervaeke
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Alasdair MacIntyre
The Meaning of the West
Don Cupitt
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
Liquid Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman
The Secularization of the European Mind
Owen Chadwick
Western Culture: Today & Tomorrow
Benedict XVI
The Evolution of the West
Nick Spencer
The Secular Enlightenment
Margaret Jacob
Between Naturalism & Religion
Jurgen Habermas
All Things Shining
Dreyfus & Kelly
ARTICLES
Zombies in Western Cultu re
John Vervaeke
We’re in a Crisis of Mea ning
Molly Worthen
The Meaning Cris is
Mahon McCann
N avigating The Storm
Tomi Huhtanan
Reasons for the Decline
Carey Nieuwhof
Secularization of th e West: C au s es
Folmer, Beaumont, & Hamid
Do We Live in a Post-Christian Age ?
Walter Ong, SJ
The Post-Chri stian Christ ian Churc h
Simon Hallonsten
The Pa radox of Christ i anity’s Decl ine
Firmin DeBrabander
On ce There Was No Secular
Peter Leithart
CULTURE & CHRISTIANITY
Christianity & Culture
TS Eliot
The Abolition of Man
CS Lewis
Dominion
Tom Holland
Catholic Social Teaching
The Vatican. Press (Encyclicals)
The West & the Rest
Niall Ferguson
On Faith in the Public Square
Rowan Williams
Centesimus Annus
John Paul II
Gaudium et Spes
Second Vatican Council
Liberty & Nature
Rasmussen & Den Uyl
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Josef Pieper
In Tune with the World
Josef Pieper
Christianity & European Culture
Christopher Dawson
Christianity & Secular Reason
Jeffrey Bloechl, Ed.
The Victory of Reason
Rodney Stark
How to Save the West
Spencer Klavan
The War on the West
Douglas Murray
SOCIAL ISSUES
The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray
Awake, Not Woke
Noelle Mering
Strange New World
Carl Truman
Virtually Normal
Andrew Sullivan
Late Stage Capitalism
Patrick Delaney
Religious Freedom
Michael Bird
Faith Beyond Resentment
James Alison
The Rise of the New Puritanism
Noah Rothman
Race Marxism
James Lindsay
Unjust
Noah Rothman
America’s Cultural Revolution
Christopher Rufo
The Diversity Delusion
Heather Mac Donald
Irreversible Damage
Abigail Shirer
The End of Gender
Debra Soh
The Moral Defense of Homosexuality
Chris Meyers
Left Is Not Woke
Susan Neiman

Society & The Human Person

ETHICS
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? Alasdair MacIntyre
Rational Man
Henry Veatch
Human Life, Action, and Ethics
G.E.M. Anscombe
Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values
Max Scheler
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
Ethics
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Doing Good Better
William Macaskill
Agape Ethics
William Greenway
Just Love
Margaret Farley
Veritatis Splendour
John Paul II
Communities of Character
Stanley Hauerwas
Morality Is for Persons
Bernard Haring
PERSONALISM
Personalism
Emmanuel Mounier
The Acting Person
Karol Wojtyla
Love and Responsibility
Karol Wojtyla
The Selfhood of the Human Person
John F. Crosby
The Personalist Papers
John F. Crosby
The Personalism of John Paul II
John F. Crosby
The Person and the Common Good
Jacques Maritain
On the Problem of Empathy
Edith Stein
On Roots
Simone Weil
More Than Things
Paul Metzger
Who Is My Neighbor
Thomas Williams
To Flourish or Destruct
Christian Smith
Being Human
Rowan Williams
LIBERALISM
Liberty & Nature
Rasmussen & Den Uyl
Liberalism & Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama
Liberalisms
John Gray
Why Liberalism Works
Deidre McCloskey
The Once and Future Liberal
Mark Lilla
The Realist Turn: Repositing Liberalism
Rasmussen & Den Uyl
Classical Liberalism: A Primer
Eamonn Butler
Liberalism
Ludwig von Mises
Political Liberalism
John Rawls
The Road to Serfdom
F.A. Hayek
The Constitution of Liberty
F.A. Hayek
Centesimus Annus
John Paul II

Pre-Theology

RETHINKING GOD
The Experience of God
David Bentley Hart
We Who Wrestle With God
Jordan Peterson
The History of God
Karen Armstrong
The Meaning of God
Mordecai Kaplan
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
The Folly of God
John Caputo
Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris
The Weakness of God
John Caputo
READING SCRIPTURE
How to Read the Bible and Remain a Christian
John Dominic Crossan
How to Read the Jewish Bible
Marc Brettler
The Prophets
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Who Wrote the New Testament
Burton Mack
The Face of Water
Sarah Ruden
Historical-Critical Methods
Joseph Fitzmyer, SJ
Hermeneutics
John Caputo
Primer on Biblical Methods
Corrine Carvalho
The Lost Art of Scripture
Karen Armstrong
EARLY CHRISTIANITY
The Didache
Thomas O’Loughlin
The Patient Ferment: Early Christianity
Alan Kreider
The Rise of Christianity
Rodney Stark
Paul Among the People
Sarah Rudden
Acts & Christian Beginnings
Smith & Tyson
Cultural Christians in the Early Church
Nadya Williams
After Jesus, Before Christianity
Hal Taussig, et al
God & Empire
John Dominic Crossan
Cities of God
Rodney Stark
Heretics
Cathrine Nixey
Ancient Christianities
Paula Fredriksen
The Greco-Roman World
James Jeffers
The Birth of Christianity
John Dominic Crossan
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Christianity After Religion
Diana Butler Bass
Emergence Christianity
Phyllis Tickle
The Great Emergence
Phyllis Tickle
Christianity: The First 3,000 Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch
A People’s History of Christianity
Diana Butler Bass
Christian Origins
Richard Horsley
HISTORICAL JESUS STUDIES
The Historical Jesus
John Dominic Crossan
The Historical Jesus: Comprehensive Guide
Mertz & Theissen
The Historical Jesus in Context
Crossan & Levine, Eds
Jesus: A Marginal Jew (Vol 1-5)
John P. Meier
Jesus Before the Gospels
Bart Ehrman
Revolutionary
Tom Holland, Ed.
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
John Dominic Crossan
The God of Jesus
Stephen J. Patterson
Beyond the Passion
Stephen J. Patterson
The Forgotten Creed
Stephen J. Paterson
Who Is Jesus?
John Dominic Crossan
Jesus Before Christianity
John Nolan
The Sermon on the Mount
Amy Jill Levine
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet
Bart Ehrman

Anglo-Catholic Theology

THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH

The General Councils
Christopher Bellitto
Vatican II
The Councilar Documents
Toward a Truly Catholic Church
Thomas P. Rausch, SJ
Models of the Church
Avery Dulles, SJ
The Eucharist
Edward Schillebeeckx
Corpus Christi: Anglicans & Eucharist
Gerald McDermott
The Meaning of Tradition
Yves Congar, OP
Diversity & Communion
Yves Congar, OP
True and False Reform in the Church
Yves Congar, OP
Anglican Spirituality
Greg Peters
Catholic Anglicanism
Camlin & Earlandson
Catholicism
Henri de Lubac, SJ
The Splendor of the Church
Henri de Lubac, SJ
A Church That Can and Cannot Change
John Noonan, Jr.
Creative Fidelity
Francis A. Sullivan, SJ
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
Systematic Theology
Thomas P. Rausch, SJ
The Craft of Theology
Avery Dulles, SJ
Anglican Theology (Doing Theology)
Mark Chapman
Deep Anglicanism
Gerald McDermott
Anglican Spirituality
Greg Peters
Catholic Anglicanism
Camlin & Earlandson
The Interpretation of The Bible in The Church
J.L. Houlden
The Interpretation of Scripture
Joseph Fitzmyer, SJ
Anglican Dogmatics (Vol I - II)
Francis J. Hal
The Mystery of the Supernatural
Henri de Lubac, SJ
The Glory of the Lord (Vol 1-7)
Hans urs von Balthasar, SJ
On Christian Theology
Rowan Williams
Chalice of God
Aidan Nichols, OP
Doing Catholic Theology
Tracey Rowland
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
John Henry Newman
Ressourcement
Flynn & Murray
Nouvelle Theologie
Hans Boersma
SOCIAL THEOLOGY
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church
Encyclicals, Vatican Press
Catholic Social Thought
O’Brien & Shannon
The Encyclicals of John Paul II
Vatican Press, Eds
Anglican Social Theology
Brown & Suggate
Theology Reforming Society
Stephen Spencer
Theology & Social Theory
John Milbank
After Writing
Catherine Pistock
Radical Orthodoxy
James K.A. Smith
Radical Orthodoxy Reader
John Milbank
Radical Orthodoxy - A Catholic Enquiry
Laurence Hemming, Ed
Prayer As a Political Problem
Jean Danielou, SJ
Faith Beyond Resentment
James Alison
The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland
Gerald Bray
Being Christian
Rowan Williams
Love Alone is Credible
Hans Urs von Balthasar, S.J.

Quakerism, Celtic Christianity, & Spirituality

QUAKERISM
The Quakers: A Short Introduction
Ben Dandelion
Living The Quaker Way
Philip Gulley
Faith & Practice
British Quakers
If the Church was Christian
Philip Gulley
Quaker Roots & Branches
John Lampen
Quaker Shaped Christianity
Mark Russ
Testimony
Rachel Muers
Holy Silence
J. Brent Bill
Mind the Light
J. Brent Bill
The Faith & Practice of the Quakers
Rufus Jones
Communion in the Manner of Friends
Jim Wilson
CELTIC CHRISTIANITY
Christ of the Celts
J. Philip Newell
Celtic Theology
Thomas O’Loughlin
History of the Church in Britain & Ireland
Gerald Bray
Journeys on the Edges
Thomas O’Loughlin
The Salmon in the Spring
Jason Kirkey
Aidan of Lindisfarne
Simon Webb
The Story of Iona
Rosemary Power
CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
The Works of Mercy
Mark Shea
A Generous Orthodoxy
Brian McLaren
Finding Our Way Again
Brian McLaren
Voluntary Simplicity
Duane Elgin
An Ocean of Light
Matthew Laird
Sabbath as Resistance
Walter Brueggeman
Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World
Jon Wilson
The Liturgical Year
Joan Chittister
The Sacred Meal
Nora Gallagher
Jesus & Nonviolence
Walter Wink
Solus Jesus
Swan & Wilson
Saving Jesus from the Church
Robin Meyers
Christian Humanism & The Moral Imagination (Series)
Catherine M. Wallace