28 books
its my birthday. come get to know me through my favorite books.
I turn 28 today. If (for some reason) you want to get to know me, here are (in no particular order) 28 books of my favorite books.
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Norman Wirzba, This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World
Henri Nouwen, Return of the Prodigal Son
Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone: 50 Entries Against Despair
James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
Danielle Allen, Justice by Means of Democracy
Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Christian Faith
John West, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
George Lindeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age
Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
James Davidson Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
Heath W. Carter, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
Christain Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer
Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Kevin Hector, Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
James K.A. Smith, Who’s Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
Bishop Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way
Hans Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
Oliver O’Donnovan, Entering into Rest (Ethics as Theology, Vol. 3).
Nella Larson, Passing
Athanasius, On the Incarnation
Olov Hartman, Holy Masquerade
Happy Birthday, Amar!!!