Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Mark Shea's web site (see the link on the left column) had a nice discussion yesterday about books to read to be converted. I thought I'd grab some of them and make a summer reading list:
Miracles
The Discarded Image
C.S. Lewis
Fundamentals of Faith
Making Sense of Suffering
Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs
A Summa of the Summa
Peter Kreeft
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Story of a Soul
St. Therese of Lisieux
The Seven Story Mountain
Thomas Merton
Everlasting Man
Biography of St. Francis
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
Orthodoxy
GK Chesterton
Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and Martyr
Evelyn Waugh
Summa Theologica
Aquinas's Shorter Summa
St. Thomas Aquinas
Augustine of Hippo
Peter Brown
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
Well, of course I won't get to them all, but at least now I have a list. In particular, I don't believe I'm ready for St. Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" in a five volume set quite yet :)
Update note: I've left out C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," "Mere Christianity," and "Suprised by Joy" since I'm already reading them. I left out "The Belief of Catholics" by Ronald Knox because I've read it and also "The Essential Catholic Catechism" by Alan Schreck.
Miracles
The Discarded Image
C.S. Lewis
Fundamentals of Faith
Making Sense of Suffering
Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs
A Summa of the Summa
Peter Kreeft
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Story of a Soul
St. Therese of Lisieux
The Seven Story Mountain
Thomas Merton
Everlasting Man
Biography of St. Francis
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
Orthodoxy
GK Chesterton
Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and Martyr
Evelyn Waugh
Summa Theologica
Aquinas's Shorter Summa
St. Thomas Aquinas
Augustine of Hippo
Peter Brown
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
Well, of course I won't get to them all, but at least now I have a list. In particular, I don't believe I'm ready for St. Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" in a five volume set quite yet :)
Update note: I've left out C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," "Mere Christianity," and "Suprised by Joy" since I'm already reading them. I left out "The Belief of Catholics" by Ronald Knox because I've read it and also "The Essential Catholic Catechism" by Alan Schreck.
