Beside the liturgical books in the other thread, I'd also like to suggest the following:
- Henry Bettenson and Chris Maunder (eds): Documents of the Christian Church (OUP) (latest edition!). Perhaps also
- J. N. D. Kelly: Early Christian Doctrines (HarperOne)
- Philip Jenkins: The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and How It Died (HarperOne)
- Mascall, E L: especially Christ, the Christian and the Church; A Study of the Incarnation and its Consequences (Longmans), but others are interesting as well. (Anglo-Catholic Thomist with Orthodox interests)
- Thornton, LS: The Common Life in the Body of Christ (Dacre) (another Anglo-Catholic)
- David F Ford (ed): The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918 (The Great Theologians) (Blackwell)
- I believe this book is used in many colleges.
- I'm in two minds about the edition. When I compare the TOC of the latest with my 1st edition vol. 1, I find lots of added chapters, including one on de Lubac
, but I also find he's removed the specific chapters on Congar, Schillebeeckx, Küng and Lonergan
. I presume they've been worked into more generally named chapters, but still... The separate chapters on separate theologians was what made me buy the book in the first place.
- Since I bought it, it seems to have been included in a series, so I guess we should have the other volumes as well:
- Clements, Keith W: Lovers of Discord: Twentieth-century Theological Controversies in England (SPCK)
- 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...)
I believe all of these authors/editors are Anglican, except perhaps for some of the Great Theologians editors, and Keith Clements, who's supposed to be Baptist, but whose subject is Anglican enough.
It would also be nice if we could get some decent non-Evangelical fiction on Vyrso. The Anglicans I can think of right now are:
- TS Eliot: The Murder in the Cathedral
- Dorothy Sayers: The Man Born to be King
- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter): the Brother Cadfael series
- I also happened to come across Episcopal Clergy as Amateur Sleuths, which might include something worthwhile.
Also, more generally: since you're working on Anglican resources, you'll have to work with British publishers. Please try to get SCM, DLT and Blackwell on board. The first two shouldn't be too hard: it seems that they -- as well as Canterbury Press -- are related to Westminster John Knox, which Logos already works with. (And it also seems like DLT holds the rights to the much asked for Jerusalem and New Jerusalem Bibles...)