Good Books
This is a beginning of a book list. We will be adding more soon.
Christian Theology
• Why Christian, Douglas John Hall (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2001)
• The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium, Walter Wink (New York, Galilee, Doubleday, 1998)
• Being Human: The Image of the Serving God, Terry Kyllo (Hopeful Press, 2004)
The Place of the Bible in Christian Community
• Biblical Authority or Biblical Tyranny? Scripture and the Christian Pilgrimage, L. William Countryman (Boston, Cowley Publications, 1994)
• The Bible Makes Sense, Walter Bruggemann (Winona, St. Mary’s Press, 1997)
Biblical Interpretation
• The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions: Marcus Borg and NT Wright
• Jesus Before Christianity: Albert Nolan
• The New Interpreter’s Bible: A Commentary in Twelve Volumes, Leander E. Keck, Ed. (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1995)
• Malina, Bruce, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (3rd edition). Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2001.
• Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels: Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh
• Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John: Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh
• Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul: Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh
• The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Abingdon
• The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible: John Pilch
• The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing (Boulder, Westview Press, 2004)
Bibles
• The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene S. Peterson (Colorado Springs, Navpress, 2002)
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version, (New York, Oxford University Press, 2001)
History
• Rise of Christianity, Rodney Stark (New York, HarperCollins, 1997)
• Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, James M. Kittelson (Minneapolis, Augsburg, 1986)
Thoughtful Contemporary Books
• Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Kathleen Norris (New York, Riverhead Books, 1998)
• Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective, Michael Schut (Denver, Living the Good News, 1999)
• For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today, Jedediah Purdy (New York, Vintage Books, 2000)
• The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need, Juliet B. Schor (New York, Harper Perennial, 1998)
• Religion and Public Life in the Northwest: the None Zone, Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk, Ed. (Walnut Creek, AltaMira Press, 2004)
Prayer and Spirituality (Practicing the Love of God)
• Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home, Richard Foster (San Francisco, HarpersSanfrancisco, 1992)
• Life of the Beloved, Henri Nouwen (New York, Crossroads, 2002)
• In Search of God: Meditation in the Christian Tradition: W. Herbstrith (New York, New City Press, 1989)