As we move into the new year of 2016, I like to review the books I have read, either complete or partial, over the past year and to identify the direction I want to take with future reading. I'll start off with what I am reading now and move backwards.
BOOKS I'M READING NOW
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (2nd edition).
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692. (I am living in Boston, so...why not?)
For a COMPLETE LIST of my reading:
READING 2015
BOOKS I HAVE READ:
Bernard Lonergan, Insight. A Study of Human Understanding, CWL 3, 1957, 1992.
B. Lonergan, Method in Theology.
B. Lonergan, various essays in the Collected Works of Lonergan.
818 - Abbot Martin Werlen, “Embers in the Ashes. New Life in the Church.” Paulist Press, 2013. Kindle edition. (NP 5).
820 - Neil Ormerod, et al (eds.), Fifty Years of Insight. Adelaide, 2011.
821 - Joseph Mudd, Eucharist as Meaning. Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology. Liturgical Press, 2014. (Kindle edition and Hardback copy).
822 - C. Hefling, “Lonergan’s Cur Deus Homo: Revisiting the ‘Law of the Cross,’” 145-66 in Meaning and History In Systematic Theology, ed. John D. Dadosky (Milwaukee, Wi: Marquette University Press, 2009).
823 - Gerald O’Collins, The Spirituality of the Second Vatican Council. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2014.
825- Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium). USCCB. 2014 and Encyclical Laudato Si.
826- (article) Michael G. Witczak, “The Manifold Presence of Christ in the Liturgy.” Theological Studies 59 (1998): 680-702. (filed under Liturgy as PDF).
827- (article) J. Michael Stebbins, “The Eucharistic Presence of Christ: Mystery and Meaning.” Worship 64 (1990) 225-36. (filed under Liturgy as PDF). (Uses Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness).
829 -Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos. The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Penguin Books, 2008, 2009.
833 - Emeka Xris Obiezu, et al (eds). It is Good for Us To Be Here. Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations. Xlibris, 2015.
835 - (Kindle edition) A. Grun, A Time of Fulfillment. Spiritual Reflections for Advent and Christmas.
836 - (Kindle edition) Dominic Arcamone. Religion and Violence. A Dialectical Engagement through the Insights of Bernard Lonergan. Pickwick Publ., 2015.
837 - (Kindle edition) John Raymaker with Ijaz Durrani, Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan’s Method. University Press of America, 2015.
838- (Kindle edition) United Nations commemoration, Dag Hammarskjold. Instrument, Catalyst, Inspirer. NY, 2012.
-(Science Fiction) Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Kindle Edition).
-Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and What it will take to stop it. The New Press, 2013.
-Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness.
-M. E. Tucker and B. T. Swimme, Journey of the Universe.
-R. Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self.
-Ramzy Baroud, Searching Jenin. Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002.
-Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
-Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
PARTIALLY READ BOOKS:
819 - Michael Vertin (ed.), Appropriating the Lonergan Idea. Univ. Toronto, 2006. (NP 4).
824- Massimo Faggioli, Pope Francis: Tradition in Transition. Paulist, 2013 (Italian), 2015 (English).
828 - Luciani, Palazzi, Filochowski (Eds.), A Prophetic Bishop Speaks to his People. The Complete Homilies of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Vol 1 (of 6), Cycle C. Trans. J. V. Owens.
834 - Ellacuria and Sobrino, Mysterium Liberationis. Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology. Orbis. 1990, English 1993.
READING NOW:
830- Ahmed Rashid, Taliban. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Second Edition, Yale University Press. 2000, 2010.
-Stacy Schiff, The Witches. Salem, 1692. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
BOOKS FOR JANUARY-JUNE, 2016
839 - (BC library copy) Michael Shute, Lonergan’s Discovery of the Science of Economics. Univ. of Toronto Press, 2010. (http://www.mun.ca/rels/mrs.htm).
-Thomas Piketty, CAPITAL in the Twenty-First Century. Trans. A. Goldhammer, Harvard, 2014.
-Steven K. Green, Inventing A Christian America: The MYTH of the Religious Founding. Oxford Univ., 2015.
-Robin Lane Fox, Augustine. Conversions to Confessions. Basic Books, NY, 2015.
831- James Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Holy Eros. Pathways to a Passionate God. Orbis, 2009.
832 - Christian W. Troll, Dialogue & Difference. Clarity in Christian - Muslim Relations. Orbis, 2009.
BOOKS I'M READING NOW
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (2nd edition).
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692. (I am living in Boston, so...why not?)
For a COMPLETE LIST of my reading:
READING 2015
BOOKS I HAVE READ:
Bernard Lonergan, Insight. A Study of Human Understanding, CWL 3, 1957, 1992.
B. Lonergan, Method in Theology.
B. Lonergan, various essays in the Collected Works of Lonergan.
818 - Abbot Martin Werlen, “Embers in the Ashes. New Life in the Church.” Paulist Press, 2013. Kindle edition. (NP 5).
820 - Neil Ormerod, et al (eds.), Fifty Years of Insight. Adelaide, 2011.
821 - Joseph Mudd, Eucharist as Meaning. Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology. Liturgical Press, 2014. (Kindle edition and Hardback copy).
822 - C. Hefling, “Lonergan’s Cur Deus Homo: Revisiting the ‘Law of the Cross,’” 145-66 in Meaning and History In Systematic Theology, ed. John D. Dadosky (Milwaukee, Wi: Marquette University Press, 2009).
823 - Gerald O’Collins, The Spirituality of the Second Vatican Council. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2014.
825- Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium). USCCB. 2014 and Encyclical Laudato Si.
826- (article) Michael G. Witczak, “The Manifold Presence of Christ in the Liturgy.” Theological Studies 59 (1998): 680-702. (filed under Liturgy as PDF).
827- (article) J. Michael Stebbins, “The Eucharistic Presence of Christ: Mystery and Meaning.” Worship 64 (1990) 225-36. (filed under Liturgy as PDF). (Uses Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness).
829 -Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos. The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Penguin Books, 2008, 2009.
833 - Emeka Xris Obiezu, et al (eds). It is Good for Us To Be Here. Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations. Xlibris, 2015.
835 - (Kindle edition) A. Grun, A Time of Fulfillment. Spiritual Reflections for Advent and Christmas.
836 - (Kindle edition) Dominic Arcamone. Religion and Violence. A Dialectical Engagement through the Insights of Bernard Lonergan. Pickwick Publ., 2015.
837 - (Kindle edition) John Raymaker with Ijaz Durrani, Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan’s Method. University Press of America, 2015.
838- (Kindle edition) United Nations commemoration, Dag Hammarskjold. Instrument, Catalyst, Inspirer. NY, 2012.
-(Science Fiction) Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Kindle Edition).
-Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and What it will take to stop it. The New Press, 2013.
-Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness.
-M. E. Tucker and B. T. Swimme, Journey of the Universe.
-R. Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self.
-Ramzy Baroud, Searching Jenin. Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002.
-Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
-Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
PARTIALLY READ BOOKS:
819 - Michael Vertin (ed.), Appropriating the Lonergan Idea. Univ. Toronto, 2006. (NP 4).
824- Massimo Faggioli, Pope Francis: Tradition in Transition. Paulist, 2013 (Italian), 2015 (English).
828 - Luciani, Palazzi, Filochowski (Eds.), A Prophetic Bishop Speaks to his People. The Complete Homilies of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Vol 1 (of 6), Cycle C. Trans. J. V. Owens.
834 - Ellacuria and Sobrino, Mysterium Liberationis. Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology. Orbis. 1990, English 1993.
READING NOW:
830- Ahmed Rashid, Taliban. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Second Edition, Yale University Press. 2000, 2010.
-Stacy Schiff, The Witches. Salem, 1692. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
BOOKS FOR JANUARY-JUNE, 2016
839 - (BC library copy) Michael Shute, Lonergan’s Discovery of the Science of Economics. Univ. of Toronto Press, 2010. (http://www.mun.ca/rels/mrs.htm).
-Thomas Piketty, CAPITAL in the Twenty-First Century. Trans. A. Goldhammer, Harvard, 2014.
-Steven K. Green, Inventing A Christian America: The MYTH of the Religious Founding. Oxford Univ., 2015.
-Robin Lane Fox, Augustine. Conversions to Confessions. Basic Books, NY, 2015.
831- James Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Holy Eros. Pathways to a Passionate God. Orbis, 2009.
832 - Christian W. Troll, Dialogue & Difference. Clarity in Christian - Muslim Relations. Orbis, 2009.