Recommended Readings
This is a list of books that have influenced me, or that I regard as being particularly interesting and important without being as well known as they deserve to be.

 


C. FitzSimons Allison: Guilt Anger and God, and The Rise of Moralism

Gustav Aulen: Christus Victor

W. H. Auden: his Collected Poems and The Dyer's Hand

Nicholas Baker: The Mezzanine, The Fermata

Hans Urs von Balthasar: Prayer

Karl Barth: most everything but particularly Dogmatics in Outline, The Humanity of God...

Stewart Brand: How Buildings Learn

Robert Brandom: Making It Explicit

Emil Brunner: The Mediator

Sietze Buning: Style and Class (SB's works are available from The Middleburg Press, Orange City, Iowa:                    cvmeulen@nwciowa.edu )

Frederick Buechner: all his books, including Wishful Thinking, The Book of Bebb (Lion Country, Open Heart, Treasure Hunt, Love Feast), Godric, The Hungering Dark, The Magnificent Defeat, Peculiar Treasures...

William Calvin: The River That Flows Uphill

Robert Farrar Capon: The Parables of Judgment, The Supper of the Lamb, Between Noon and Three

John Caputo: Against Ethics

Paul Churchland: Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, The Neurocomputational Perspective, The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul

L. William Countryman: Dirt, Greed and Sex; The Good News of Jesus

Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker

Daniel Dennett: Content and Consciousness, Brainstorms, The Intentional Stance, Elbow Room, Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel

Vernard Eller: Christian Anarchy

Jerry Fodor: RePresentations, Psychosemantics, A Theory of Content and Other Essays

Jacques Ellul: all his books, perhaps especially The Ethics of Freedom, Anarchy and Christianity and The Subversion of Christianity

Owen Flanagan: Varieties of Moral Personality, Self-Expressions

David Friedmann: The Machinery of Freedom

George Gamow: One, Two, Three...Infinity

Alan Gibbard: Wise Choices, Apt Feelings

Mark Halprin: Refiner's Fire, Winter's Tale

Zenna Henderson: Pilgrimage: The Book of the People and The People: No Different Flesh

Robert Heinlein: Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

Zane Hodges: Absolutely Free!

Douglas Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach

James P. Hogan: The Two Faces of Tomorrow

Richard Hooker: Essay on Justification

Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Alan Jones: Soul Making

Ursula K. LeGuin: The Dispossessed

Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible

C. S. Lewis: The Space Trilogy (Out of the SilentPlanet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength), 'Til We Have Faces, The Great Divorce, The Chonicles of Narnia

Martin Luther: The Heidelberg Disputation, Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses, The Freedom of a Christian

Michael Malone: Handling Sin

Ruth Garrett Millikan: Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories

Jurgen Moltmann: The Crucified God

Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia

Iris Murdoch: all of her many novels; The Book and the Brotherhood, Under the Net, Bruno's Dream, The Philosopher's Pupil among others

Stephen Pinker: How The Mind Works

William Placher: Narratives of a Vulnerable God

Virginia Postrel: The Future and Its Enemies

Kenneth Rexroth: An Autobiographical Novel

Rudy Rucker: The Fourth Dimension, Infinity and the Mind

J. D. Salinger: Nine Stories, and Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters

Roger Scruton: Modern Philosophy

Thomas Sowell: Knowledge and Decisions

Wilfrid Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (originally published as an essay in the 1950's but recently published as a book with commentary by Robert M. Brandom (supra))

L. Neil Smith: The Probability Broach

Lee Smolin: The Life of the Cosmos

Stephen Stich: Deconstructing the Mind

Peter van Inwagen: Metaphysics, Material Beings

Charles Williams: Descent Into Hell, The Theology of Romantic Love

Hans Walter Wolff: Anthropology of the Old Testament

Paul F.M. Zahl: Who Will Deliver Us?

John Zizioulas: Being As Communion

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