Anglican Wish List

Also, Susan Howatch has a series of novels about the Church of England that is said to be good.

And there are well-known books by people like Richard Swinburne, Keith Ward and Alister McGrath that ought to be available. The first seems to have converted to Orthodoxy, but most of his works must have been written while he was still Anglican.

Btw, there was another Dorothy Sayers suggested here some days ago.

Thanks. As you probably noticed, my interests aren't all that Anglican. I'm just doing my best to find Anglican (Orthodox, Lutheran...) connections to the books I want, so that I can get them directly into the hands of a product manager.[:D]

Talking about Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List: Logos should buy one or two dozen copies of that book, put them into the hands of all the product managers, and tell them to start getting the rights to the books recommended in it. I don't think you sell even half of them. Then you should also publish the book itself and give it away for free. Take it on the marketing budget. It ought to pay for itself several times over in increased sales.

More suggestions:

• Diogenes Allen: Philosophy for Understanding Theology, Second Edition (Westminster John Knox)
• John Macquarrie
• Desmond Tutu
• The best modern church history of Britain, whatever that is.
• Who were the Anglican observers at Vatican II? Did they write something still worth reading?
• I believe Anglicans like to see themselves as ecumenical, so how about Some ecumenical books? I have to admit I find it a bit of a disgrace that Logos still doesn't have even the most important ecumenical documents. How about adding Ecumenical Product Manager to your title?[:D] Someone needs to take it on!
• Which reminds me that SPCK has published A History of the Ecumenical Movement that might also be worth having.
• Perhaps you and Gabe can cooperate on getting some of the publications from the Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius?

(Btw, have you seen SPCK Alister McGrath Collection mis-title?)

Some older 'Anglican' Suggestion threads I came upon while looking for other things:

• Commentary suggestion: Conversations with Scripture (Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Series)
• A new collection: Dialogues with N.T. Wright (one of many N T Wright threads. You can search for the others yourself, if you haven't already.)

And here's the TOC for Bettenson's Documents of the Christian Church: SUGGESTION: very broad swath of Christian church documents - please look at the table of contents not who posted this [:-)]. It's pretty impressive!

fgh said:

There's also a Martin Thornton, who's written on pastoral and spiritual subjects, but I've never quite found the time to check out the books that I have. I've had him recommended, though. (EDIT: I just realized Eugene Peterson includes no less than three Thornton's in his Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List. He calls him "the sanest pastoral theologian of the century". I guess I should read him some day...)

Seems I never said: two of the ones I've got are SPCK, one is Hodder & Stoughton. Judging from the age of the books and the lists of the author's works inside, SPCK has probably taken oven the rights from Hodder & Stoughton at some point.

Another SPCK: Kathryn Spink: A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taize.

• A Thomas More collection for CP (yes, I know he's Catholic, but he was also 'Anglian', and he was executed by an Anglican -- and I haven't managed to get Andrew to produce him yet[:D]).

Butters said:

Dix's The Shape of the Liturgy comes to mind.

Have you missed Select Works of Dom Gregory Dix (9 vols.)? It's moving embarrassingly slowly, and needs far more bids!

EDIT: And higher bids! Look at how many pages this collection is!

As high as you're willing to pay.[:)]

How could I possibly have forgotten George MacDonald, the man who mentored Lewis Carroll, whom C S Lewis called his "master" and claimed "baptized" his imagination, and Chesterton said "made a difference to my whole existence"? A perfect candidate for CP.

There's a list of his books at 4 Bibliography, though there's far too many for one collection. Phantastes, the North Wind, and the Princess ones are musts.

The Sermons can wait, since they've already been made into a PB.