A     BOOK  &  LINKS    LIST

This book list is provided as an indicator of the Alethia platform.  There is plenty here with which to agree and disagree.  The list is merely representative, a few signposts to some of our interests and commitments. It’s a short miscellany of titles ranging widely in subject matter, purpose and intended audience.

Naturally, each of the individuals connected with The Alethia Foundation has his or her own point of view, and we are rarely in complete in agreement with each other. None of these sources is received uncritically by anyone involved in The Alethia Foundation.

Not all of these works are Christian or even religious works.  Furthermore, as you might expect, these sources do not agree with each other in every respect.    

We hope the list may suggest enough about the Alethia theological, philosophical and moral perspectives to be helpful to you.

Rembrandt van Rijn      "Philosopher Reading"     1631
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt.html

Anderson, Ray C. Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise:  The Interface Model. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1998

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1997.

Barr, David L. "Towards an Ethical Reading of The Apocalypse: Reflections on John's Use of Power, Violence, & Misogyny" Society of Biblical Literature 1997 Seminar Papers  http://www.wright.edu/~david.barr/moral.htm

Bawer, Bruce Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity. NY: Crown, 1997. First chapter: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bawer_jesus.html

Bell, Richard H. [ed.] The Grammar of the Heart: New Essays in Moral Philosophy & Theology. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1988

Boswell, John Christianity, Social Tolerance, & Homosexuality. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1988

Brown, Peter The Body & Society: Men, Women, & Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. NY: Columbia Univ., 1988.

Brueggemann, Walter Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation. MN: Fortress, 1989

Brueggemann, Walter The Prophetic Imagination. Phila.: Fortress, 1978

Brueggemann, Walter "Remembering Rachel’s Children: An Urban Agenda for People Who Notice," Word & World 14 (1994) 4:377-83

Brueggemann, Walter Revelation & Violence: A Study in Contextualization. Marquette Univ., 1986

Brueggemann, Walter "The Social Nature of the Biblical Text for Preaching," in Arthur van Seters (ed) Preaching As A Social Act. Nashville: Abington, 1983, pp.127-65

Brueggemann, Walter The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, & Weakness. ed. Charles Campbell. MN: Augsburg/Fortress, 1996

Bynum, Carolyn Walker "Paul as Mother: A Metaphor of Conversion," in Removing Anti-Judaism from the NT. ed. H. Clark Kee & I. Borowsky (1996)

California Task Force to Promote Self-esteem & Personal & Social Responsibility. Toward a State of Self-esteem. Sacramento, CA: California State Dept. of Education, 1990

Cole-Turner, Ronald The New Genesis: Theology & Genetic Revolution. Lousiville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.

The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, Children & Poverty: An Episcopal Initiative, 1996, http://www.umc.org/initiative/statement.html

Colyer, Elmer M.  How to Read T. F. Torrance:  Understanding his trinitarian and Scientific Theology.   Intervarsity Press:  Downer's Grove, IL, 2001.

Crosby, Michael H. House of Disciples: Church, Economics & Justice in Matthew. NY: Orbis, 1988

"Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions"  Nostra Aetate Second Vatican Council October 28, 1965
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

"Declaration on Religious Freedom December 7, 1965 http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html

Del Re, Giuseppe The Cosmic Dance: Science Discovers the Mysterious Harmony of the Universe. Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000

Eisler, Riane The Chalice & the Blade. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1988

Elliot, John H. A Home for the Homeless: A Sociological Exegesis of 1 Peter, Its Situation & Strategy Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins NY: Crossroads,1992

Fuglesang, Andreas & Dale Chandler Participation as Process: What We Can Learn from Grameen Bank, Bangladesh. Oslo: NORAD, The Norwegian Ministry of Development Cooperation, 1986

Furse, Margaret Lewis Mysticism: Window on a World View. Introduction to Mysticism as a Pattern of Thought & Practice. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1977.

George, Susan A Fate Worse Than Debt: World Financial Crisis & the Poor. NY: Grove/Atlantic, 1990

Harman, Willis & Hormann, John Creative Work: The Constructive Role of Business in a Transforming Society. Indianapolis, IN: Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1990

Harrelson, Walter The Ten Commandments & Human Rights. Philadelphia:  Fortress, 1980

Held, Virginia Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, & Politics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Heyward, Carter Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What it Means to be Christian. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1999       Preface – http://www.stolaf.edu/people/kchanson/sjpreface.html

Higginbotham, Jr., A. Leon Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics & the Presumptions of the American Legal Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Holman, Susan R. "Human Rights Language in the Cappadocians," Pro Ecclesia 9 (2000) 4:476-89

Jansen, Katherine Ludwig The Making of the Magdalen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000

Johnson, Elizabeth A. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse NY: Crossroad, 1992

Lathrop, Gordon W.   Holy Things:  A Liturgical Theology   Minneapolis:  Fortress, 1993.

Lathrop, Gordon W.   Holy Things:  A Liturgical Ecclesiology   Minneapolis:  Fortress, 1999.

Loder, James E. & W. Jim Neidhardt The Knight’s Move: The Relational Logic of the Spirit in Theology & Science. Colorado Springs, CO: Helmers & Howard, 1992.

Lowe, Mary Elise "Woman Oriented Hamartiologies: A Survey of the Shift from Powerlessness to Right Relationship," Dialog 39 (2000) 2:119-39

McFague, Sallie Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1982

Mack, Burton L. A Myth of Innocence: Mark & Christian Origins. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988

McNeill, John J. The Church & the Homosexual. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1976. Preface to the Fourth Edition (1993) http://www.johnjmcneill.com/TCTH.HTML

Marsden, George M. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

May, Rollo The Cry for Myth. NY: W.W. Norton, 1991

Miles, Margaret R. Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness & Religious Meaning in the Christian West. London: Burns & Oates, 1989

Miles, Margaret R. Practicing Christianity. NY: Crossroads, 1988

Miles, Margaret R. Reading for Life: Beauty, Pluralism, & Responsibility. NY: Continuum, 1997

Murphy, Nancy Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, & Ethics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997

Murphy, Nancy & George F.R. Ellis On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology & Ethics. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg/Fortress, 1996.

Myers, Ched Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994

Nuth, Joan M. Wisdom’s Daughter: The Theology of Julian of Norwich.  Mahwah, NJ: Crossroad, 1991.

The Other Side   Douglas Davidson, Dee Dee Risher, Editors.   Philadelphia   http://www.theotherside.org

Pagels, Elaine Adam, Eve, & the Serpent.  NY: Random House, 1988

Pagels, Elaine The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters.  Valley Forge: Trinity, 1992

Polkinghorne, John The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Reuther, Rosemary Radford Women & Redemption: A Theological History. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998

Ringe, Sharon Wisdom's Friends: Community & Christology in the Fourth Gospel. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1999.

Rollins, Wayne Gilbert Jung & the Bible. Atlanta: John Knox, 1983

Ruddick, Sara Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1989.

Russell, Keith A. In Search of the Church: New Testament Images for Tomorrow’s Congregations. NY: Alban Institute, 1994

Sakenfeld, Katharine "Feminist Perspectives on Bible & Theology: An Introduction to Selected Issues & Literature," Interpretation 42 (1988) 1:5-18

Sanders, James A. God Has a Story, Too   Phila: Fortress Press, 1979
http://www.religion_online.org/cgi_bin/relsearchd.dll/showbook?item_id=800

Schroer, Silvia Wisdom Has Built Her House: Studies on the Figure of Sophia in the Bible. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000

Swidler, Leonard "Jesus Was a Feminist" Catholic World 214 (1971) 177-83   http://www.microweb.com/burnside/html/fem1.htm

Tavard, George H. Women in Christian Tradition. Notre Dame,IN: Univ. Notre Dame, 1973

Torrance, T.F. Divine & Contingent Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981

Torrance, T.F. Divine Meaning: Studies in Patristic Hermeneutics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.

Torrance, T.F. The Ground and Grammar of Theology. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1980.

Torrance, T.F. Space, Time and Incarnation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969

Torrance, T. F. Space, Time and Resurrection. Grand Rapids, MI, 1976

Torrance, T.F. Theological Science Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969

Torrance, T.F. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988

Trible, Phyllis God & the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia:  Fortress, 1978

Trible, Phyllis Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Phila.: Fortress, 1984   http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

The United Nations & The Advancement of Women 1945-1995. United Nations Department of Public Information, 1995. See esp. the document "The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women." (CEDAW)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

The United Nations & Human Rights 1945-1995. United Nations Department of Public Information, 1995. See esp. the document "The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights."  http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

Wertheim, Margaret The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. NY: Doubleday, 1999

Wertheim, Margaret Pythagoras' Trousers: God Physics, & the Gender Wars. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995

White, C. Dale Making A Just Peace: Human Rights & Domination Systems. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1998

White, Mel Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America. NY: Plume/Penguin, 1994.

Wilken, Robert L. Remembering the Christian Past. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995

Wilson-Kastner, Patricia, et.al. A Lost Tradition: Women Writers of the Early Church. Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1981

Wink, Walter "Jesus & the Domination System," Society for Biblical Literature 1991 Seminar Papers. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991 pp. 265-86

Wink, Walter Engaging the Powers: Discernment & Resistance in a World of Domination Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1992

Yoder, John Howard The Politics of Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1972

Young, Frances M. From Nicaea to Chalcedon. A Guide to the Literature & its Background. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983

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