I suggest that you spread the pain by putting some of these collections into the pre-publication stream. I'm quite sure it would help spread the pain.
Alexander Schmeman1. For the Life of the Wordl: Sacrament and Orthodoxy2. The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom3. Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism4. Celebration of Faith: The Virgin Mary5. Introduction to Liturgical Theology6. Great Lent: Journey to Pascha7. Our Father(and/or others)Sebastian Brock1. Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life2. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem3. Ephrem the Syrian: Selected Poems4. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient5. Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy6. St. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns of Paradise7. The Bible in the Syriac Tradition8. The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian(and/or others)John Breck1. Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Orthodox Church2. Longing for God: Orthodox Reflections on Bible, Ethics and Liturgy3. God With Us: Critical Issues in Christian Life and Faith4. Stages on Life's Way: Orthodox Thinking on Bioethics5. The Shape of Biblical Language: Chiasmus in the Scriptures and Beyond6. Spirit of Truth: The Holy Spirit in Johannine Tradition: The Origins of Johannine Pneumatology7. The Power of the Word: In the Worshiping ChurchJohanna Manley1. The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox 2. Grace for Grace: The Psalter and the Holy Fathers : Patristic Christian Commentary, Meditations, and Liturgical Extracts 3. Wisdom, Let Us Attend: Job, the Fathers, and the Old Testament 4. Isaiah Through the Ages 5. The Lament of EveHenri de Lubac1. Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man2. Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages3. The Discovery of God4. Exégèse médiévale5. A Brief Catechesis on Nature and Grace6. The Mystery of the Supernatural7. The Drama of Atheist Humanism8. Paradoxes of Faith9. More Paradoxes
Josef Pieper1. Leisure: The Basis of Culture2. The Four Cardinal Virtues3. Faith, Hope, Love4. Abuse of Language Abuse of Power5. Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation6. Happiness and Contemplation7. Guide to Thomas Aquinas8. The Concept of Sin9. In Tune With the World: A Theory of Festivity10. Scholasticism: Personalities and Problems of Medieval Philosophy
Bart D. Ehrman1. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)2. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why3. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings4. Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament 5. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 6. God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer7. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed8. A Brief Introduction to the New Testament9. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium10. Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend11. The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader12. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament13. Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."
I'm not sure how this would help my bank account, but the thought of a Sebastian Brock Collection brightens my day.
Most of the other collections also look promising. (It's just that I'm not interested in Ehrman).
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.
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fgh: 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.
Some of these books have been suggested before (at least Timothy Ware and the Orthodox Study Bible).
I'm curious about the second volume of Ratzinger's trilogy on Jesus which is due to appear next year. It would be nice to have it in Logos.
Hendrik-Jan van der Wal:I'm curious about the second volume of Ratzinger's trilogy on Jesus which is due to appear next year. It would be nice to have it in Logos.
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Hendrik-Jan van der Wal: (It's just that I'm not interested in Ehrman).
Not surprising but I was trying to cover as broad a spectrum as I could and couldn't bring myself to Borg or Spong. Ehrman is popular enough that I find it useful to follow his thought.
fgh: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.
I would definite purchase a more generalized set ... but "Collected Works of XXX" keep being requested on the forums. More often than not I've never heard of Mr. XXX. I thought it was time to request an XXX that I actually knew. Mind you there are others that I could have chosen esp. Pelikan, Rahner, Congers, Herschel, Scholem, Kugel ... I'm very flexible because there are so many that are not yet available.
MJ. Smith: Mind you there are others that I could have chosen esp. Pelikan, Rahner, Congers, Herschel, Scholem, Kugel ...
Mind you there are others that I could have chosen esp. Pelikan, Rahner, Congers, Herschel, Scholem, Kugel ...
I can already hear my chequebook weeping!
MJ. Smith: Ehrman is popular enough that I find it useful to follow his thought.
Ehrman is popular enough that I find it useful to follow his thought.
You're certainly right that he is popular enough. We had to read Ehrman for our introductory New Testament class and I wouldn't be surprised if his book is the standard textbook at most dutch universities.
Edit: I checked the websites of 7 dutch universities and four of them mention Ehrman's The New Testament as an introductory textbook.
I would go for Schmemann and Pieper. I'm not familiar with the others.
I'd go for the first four of these. Haven't heard of the other two.
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Rosie Perera:I would go for Schmemann and Pieper. I'm not familiar with the others.
You did very well. I think you, and many others, would like Sebastian Breck (Syrian studies) and John Brock (Orthodox) in that they have both done very interesting work on the Bible in the Church and Bible interpretation.
Johanna Manley is more obscure but she does anthologies of Orthodox church fathers on Scripture and should have a broad appeal if people see samples of her work.
Henri de Lubac is simply an influential Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. I am personally fond of him but then again I'm fond of Teilhard de Chardin. I'd have to admit that there are other Catholic theologians deserving collections prioritized above him but hey it's my list.
Ehrman was raised evangelical but considers himself to be an agnostic (or is it atheist) who writes top sellers for public consumption. He's worth knowing because he is representative of a class of scholarship one needs to know is out there if you have any interest in apologetics. I'm sure some would be horrified to see him in Logos, but I would find it useful specifically for apologetics.
Scholem may be pushing a bit too far - he is the major contemporary scholar of Jewish mysticism. One can't understand Judaism without knowing Scholem. He was a favorite of the late 60's San Francisco crowd. He was a professor in Jerusalem who died in the early 80's. I consider him essential but omitted him because of his emphasis on mysticism which I don't think Logos has quite built the market for - or, at least, the pressure for including him should come from their Jewish publishing partners.
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 think that introduces you to all the unfamiliar names.
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: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.
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yet another bump
fgh:did I forget someone?
What about Bernard Lonergan?
H.-J.van der Wal: 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.