I am blessed by being in a theology reading group that meets each month. We are about to discuss what books we might read and discuss next year. Here is my rough list of suggestions, roughly in order of preference. An almost common theme is the interaction of theology with the social sciences.
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Lesslie Newbigin
The Presence of the Kingdom
Jacques Ellul
Sociology through the eyes of faith
David A. Fraser and Tony Campolo
Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom
Darren T. Duerksen and William A. Dyrness
Transformative religious experience: a phenomenological understanding of religious conversion
Joshua Iyadurai
The Gospel in Dostoyevsky: Selections from His Works
Alternatively read one of his novels.
J.I. Packer claimed, ``Dostoyevsky is to me both the greatest novelist, as such, and the greatest Christian storyteller, in particular, of all time.''
Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China
Li Ma and Jin Li
Absence of Mind:The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Marilynne Robinson
[The famous novelist discusses the relationship between science, religion, and consciousness].
[Based on her Terry lectures at Yale, available online].
Reason, Faith, and Revolution
Terry Eagleton
The Marxist literary critic responds to the New Atheists.
[Based on his Terry lectures at Yale, available online].
Wouldn't You Love to Know? Trinitarian Epistemology and Pedagogy
Ian W. Payne
Emergence of Sin
Christian Mission in the Modern World
John Stott and Chris Wright
And for something different, listen to a piece of classical church music and discuss.
e.g. Elijah by Mendelson, The Creation by Hadyn, St. John's Passion by J.S. Bach.
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