I read a lot of great books in 2008, but here is my top ten list.
1. A Precarious Peace by Chris K. Huebner
2. States of Exile by Alain Epp Weaver
3. Being Consumed by William Cavanaugh
4. On Suicide Bombing by Talal Asad
5. The Truce of God by Rowan Williams
6. Story and Promise: A Brief Theology of the Gospel about Jesus by Robert W. Jenson
7. Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference by Kristen Deede Johnson
8. God Still Matters by Herbert McCabe
9. Love Alone is Credible by Hans Urs von Balthasar
10. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
This may prove to be a most difficult question, but if you could name one book that dramatically changed your life what would it be? For me, this is a difficult question because a number of books have changed me in a variety of ways. And as I look back I realize that certain books have helped prepare the way for the impact of others. The most important book for my personal and theological development has to be Rowan Williams’ book Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel. In all honesty, this book more than any other was fundamentally integral to my faith journey. Reading this (after four years of heavy doses of biblical criticism) I began to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus again. Runners up include William Cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination and Stanley Hauerwas’ The Peaceable Kingdom. Again, I’m not limiting this to theology books, so let’s hear it. What is the one book that dramatically changed your life? Why and in what ways?
One of our great faculty members in the Department of Theology at St. Thomas, William T. Cavanaugh, was recently interviewed by The Other Journal. Check out the interview here.
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