2013 Books

So 2013 has been quite a year. I’m sure I could write any number of retrospectives that would be meaningful to no one but me. But as I do every year, I thought I’d post the list of books I read in the past year. It as much as anything is a record of where I have been and what has been shaping me. It always fascinates me to hear what others are reading as I see that as one of the biggest insights into who they are, so this is a slice of me from this past year. Feel free to comment of the list or make suggestions for what I should read next year!

Non-fiction

•  Silence: A Chistian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
•  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
•  Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World by Tsh Oxenreider
•  The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps by John Caputo
• After Magic: Moves Beyond Super-Nature by Kester Brewin
•  Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
•  Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism by Diane M. Kennedy and Rebecca S. Banks
•  Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology by Johann Baptist Metz
•  Eros Toward the World: Paul Tillich and the Theology of the Erotic by Alexander Irwin
•  God, Desire, and a Theology of Human Sexuality by David Jensen
•  The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox
•  The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
•  9.11.01: African American Leaders Respond to an American Tragedy edited by Martha J. Simmons and Frank A. Thomas
•  New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views edited by Mary E. Hunt and Diann L. Neu
•  Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline edited by Virginia Burns and Catherine Keller
•  Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker
•  Radical Theology and the Death of God by Thomas J.J. Altizer and William Hamilton
•  Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts edited by Christopher Bell
•  The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation by Peter Berger
•  God’s Democracy: American Religion after September 11 by Emilio Gentile
• Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God by Carter Heyward
•  Introducing Body Theology by Lisa Isherwood and Elizabeth Stuart
•  The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion by Richard Kearney
•  On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva by Richard Kearney
•  Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 by Bruce Lincoln
•  Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless by William Lynch
•  Origins of the Theology of Hope by Douglas Meeks
•  The Solidarity of Others in a Divided World: A Postmodern Theology after Postmodernism by Anselm Kyongsuk Min
•  In the End—The Beginning: The Life of Hope by Jurgen Moltmann
•  The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation by Jurgen Moltmann
•  Body Theology by James B. Nelson
•  Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture by Sherry B. Ortner
•  Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary Radford Ruether
•  Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America by Stacy Takacs
•  Toward a New Christianity: Readings in the Death of God Theology Edited by Thomas J.J. Altizer
•  Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications by Paul Tillich
•  Liberty, Equality, Sisterhood: On the Emancipation of Women in Church and Society by Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel
•  Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power by Rita Brock

Fiction

•  Royal Airs by Sharon Shinn
•  Autumn Bones: Agent of Hel by Jacqueline Carey
•  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
•  Allegiant by Veronica Roth
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
•  The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
•  The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
•  The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
•  The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
•  The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
•  The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
•  Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness