Dear Logos, to relieve the burden on those with large numbers of pre-publications being released

I definitely support de Lubac, though you forgot Splendor of the Church. That, Corpus Mysticum and Medieval Exegesis would be my first priorities. Brock and Schmemann would be nice too, but I can't see me affording them any time soon, unless they are very very cheap. As a new user I have too many things far higher on the list...

But how about a more general Introductory Orthodox Bundle? The EOB Bible. The Orthodox Study Bible. Something on the Liturgy (or liturgies, rather). Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church, and The Orthodox Way. Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. A Schmemann or two. The Way of a Pilgrim.  And a few more.

Actually, I would say the same thing for de Lubac. First do a From Newman to Ratzinger Collection, with the 1-3 most important works by Newman, Maritain, Garrigou-Lagrange, Thérèse of Lisieux (not a theologian, admittedly, but she is a Doctor of the Church) de Lubac, Chenu, Congar, von Balthasar, von Speyr, Rahner, Küng, Lonergan, Schillebeeckx, Vorgrimmler, Dulles, Gutiérrez, Wojtyla and Ratzinger (did I forget someone? Chesterton, Bouyer and Daniélou, maybe; and perhaps the VI and VII documents should be included, as well, or at least the most important ones; and maybe a small selection of encyclicals). Then go on to do complete collections with each individual writer, for us real geeks. At which point I would definitely support de Lubac and Ratzinger going first. 

I would go for Schmemann and Pieper. I'm not familiar with the others.

MJ. Smith said:

Mind you there are others that I could have chosen esp. Pelikan, Rahner, Congers, Herschel, Scholem, Kugel ...

I'd go for the first four of these. Haven't heard of the other two.

I would have to agree that Alexander Schmemann, Sebastian Brock, and John Breck are indispensable.

I would add Bart Ehrman with some reservation. He is a TOP notch scholar in that he provides well researched material. I just believe that he has a disconnect when he presents his conclusions from the data. So by all means, read his stuff, use the data, come to your own conclusion

MJ. Smith said:

James Kugel has become highly visible in the last few years with his How to Read the Bible and The Bible As It Was. Both of these were popular in the sense that they were carried in the major bookstores. These are books I'd place high up on the list of required reading on Biblical interpretation - plus simply great reads. I didn't put him on the list because I've not read his other works (yet).

I cannot praise this author enough. His knowledge of Second Temple period literature is encyclopedic. He also can write in a way that makes it a pleasure to read. I have found very few books I enjoyed as much as his Great Poems of the Bible.

fgh said:

did I forget someone?

What about Bernard Lonergan?

David Paul said:

H.-J.van der Wal said:

Most of the other collections also look promising. (It's just that I'm not interested in Ehrman).

Funny, Ehrman is the only one of the bunch that interests me.

STILL interested in seeing Ehrman in Logos. Not expecting anything, though. When Logos sold the response book published as part a two-book SET but neglected to offer Ehrman's book (you know, the book that the other was attempting to refute), it was pretty clear that the years of quiet neglect was deliberate and intractable. Not sure if this is spinelessness or a lack of integrity. If it's something else, the explanation is long overdue.