A Common Word documents

Alternate Labels

  • Church documents
  • Interfaith documents
  • Islamic documents
  • Christian documents

Key Passages

Reading List

Foundational document and responses

Christian responses

In English
In French
In Italian
In Russian

Jewish responses

New fruits of A Common Word

Muslim scholars

H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Sheikh Ali Goma’a
Prof. Timothy Winter
Beginners:
  • Abdel, Haleem M. A., trans. The Qurʼan (New York: Oxford UP, 2005).
  • Du Pasquier, Roger. Unveiling Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1990).
  • Emre, Yunus. The City of the Heart: Yunus Emre’s Verses of Wisdom and Love. trans. Süha Faiz (Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1992).
  • al-Haddad, Abdullah. The Book of Assistance (London: Quilliam Press, 1989).
  • Hammad, Ahmad Zaki. Lasting Prayers of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad (Bridgeview, IL: Quranic Literacy Institute, 1996).
  • Hofmann, Murad Wilfried. Islam: the alternative (Reading: Garnet, 1993).
  • Ibrahim, Izzedien and Denys Johnson-Davies. trans. Forty Hadith (Beirut, 1983).
  • Khan, Maulana Wahiduddin. Islam and Peace (New Delhi: Goodword, 1999).
  • Lawrence, Bruce. The Qur’an: a biography (New York, 2007).
  • Lings, Martin. Muhammad: his biography based on the earliest sources (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1986).
  • Maqsood, Ruqaiyyah Waris. The Muslim Marriage Guide (London: Quilliam, 1995).
  • Masri, Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad. Animal Welfare in Islam (3rd ed. Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2007).
  • Murad, Abdal Hakim. Muslim Songs of the British Isles, Arranged for Schools (London: Quilliam Press, 2005).
  • al-Nawawī, Yaḥyā Ibn-Šaraf. Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi’s Manual of Islam. trans. Noah H. Keller (Evanston: Sunna Books, 1994). English translation and appendices by Sheikh Noah Ha Mim Keller.
  • Schleifer, Aliah. Mary the Blessed Virgin of Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998).
  • Shalabi, Abdul Wadod. Islam Religion of Life (London: Quilliam Press, 1990).
  • Stockton, Peter. Transcending Jerusalem (Stockton, 2008). Link.
  • Tawfiq, Idris. Gardens of Delight: A Simple Introduction to Islam (London: Stacey International, 2007).
  • Winter, Tim, and John A. Williams. Understanding Islam and the Muslims: The Muslim Family and Islam and World Peace. (Louiville KY: Fons Vitae, 2002).
  • Wolfe, Michael. The Hadj: an American’s pilgrimage to Mecca (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993).
  • Wolfe, Michael, ed. Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim their Faith (New York: Rodale, 2002).
  • Yusuf, Hamza. The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi (Hayward CA: Zaytuna, 2007).
Intermediate:
  • Akhtar, Shabbir. A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the challenge of the modern world (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990).
  • al-Akiti, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi. Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians (U.K.: Aqsa Press, and Germany: Warda Publications, 2005).
  • Asad, Muhammad. The Message of the Quran (new edition, London: The Book Foundation, 2008).
  • Ayub, Muhammad./ Understanding Islamic Finance/ (New York: Wiley, 2008).
  • Burckhardt, Titus. Art of Islam: language and meaning. Commemorative edition (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009).
  • Esposito, John and Mogahed, Dalia. Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think (New York: Gallup Press, 2007).
  • Hallaq, Wael B. Islamic Legal Theories: an introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
  • al-Hanbali, Ibn Rajab. The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom (London: Turath Publishing, 1428/2007).
  • Helminski, Camille Adams. Women of Sufism: a Hidden Treasure (Boston: Shambala, 2003).
  • Izetbegovic, Alija. Islam between East and West (Indianapolis: American Trust Publications, 1984).
  • al-Jawziyya, Ibn Qayyim. The Invocation of God: al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al-Tayyib. Tr. Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and Moulay Youssef Slitine (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2000).
  • Kamali, Mohammed Hashim. The Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2002).
  • Legenhausen, Muhammad Islam and Religious Pluralism (London: Al-Hoda, 1999).
  • Lumbard, Joseph E.B. ed. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (Bloomington IN: World Wisdom, 2004).
  • Mahmutcehagic, Rusmir. The Mosque: the heart of submission (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2007).
  • Momen, M An Introduction to Shii Islam (London: George Ronald, 1999).
  • Roald, Anne Sofie. Women in Islam: the Western experience (London: Routledge, 2001).
  • Sheikh, Aziz and Gatrad, Abdul Rashid. eds. Caring for Muslim Patients. Second edition (Abingdon: Radcliffe, 2008).
  • Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr. Hadith Literature: its origin, development and special features (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993).
  • Tura, M. Nusret. The Path of Love (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
  • Winter, Timothy. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • Yaran, Cafer S. Understanding Islam (Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2007).
Advanced:
  • Açar, Halil Rahman. Is Scientific Knowledge Rational? (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
  • Açıkgenç, Alparslan. Being and Existence in Sadra and Heidegger (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1993).
  • Akhtar, Shabbir. The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam (London: Routledge, 2007).
  • Bakar, Osman. Classification of Knowledge in Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998)
  • Hacinebioglu, Ismail Latif. Does God Exist? Logical foundations of the cosmological argument (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
  • Iskenderoglu, Muammer. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and Thomas Aquinas on the Question of the Eternity of the World (Leiden: E.J.W. Brill, 2002).
  • Jackson, Sherman A. On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • Kamali, Muhammad Hashim./ Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence/ (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1997).
  • Koshul, Basit Bilal and Kepnes, Steven, eds. Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’ (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
  • al-Misri, Ibn Naqib. Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law. Trans. Nuh Keller (Beltsville: Amana, 1993).
  • Murad, Abdal Hakim. Bombing without Moonlight: the Origins of Suicidal Terrorism (Bristol: Amal Press, 2008).
  • Murata, Sachiko. The Tao of Islam: a sourcebook on gender relationships in Islamic thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Leaman, Oliver, eds. History of Islamic Philosophy (New edition. London: Routledge, 2001).
  • al-Said, Labib. The Recited Koran: a history of the first recorded version (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1975).
  • Sentürk, Recep. Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
  • al-Shafi’i. Al-Shafi’i’s Risala: Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence, tr. Majid Khadduri (Repr. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1987).
  • Shihadeh, Ayman, ed. Sufism and Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
  • Shihadeh, Ayman. The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Leiden: E.J.W. Brill, 2006).
  • Yazdi, Mehdi Ha’iri. The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1992).
Dr. Joseph Lumbard
Qur’an:
  • Izutsu, Toshihiko. Ethico-religious Concepts in the Qur’ān (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ., 2007).
  • Izutsu, Toshihiko. God and Man in the Koran: Semantics of the Koranic Weltanschauung (North Stratford: Ayer Company, 1998).
  • al-Khu’i, Al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi./ Prolegomena to the Qur’an/ (Oxford University Press, 1998).
  • Mattson, Ingrid. The Story of the Qurʼan: Its History and Place in Muslim Life (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008).
  • Rahman, Fazlur. Major Themes in the Quran (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust, 1999).
  • Sells, Michael. Approaching the Quran (White Cloud Press, 1999)
  • Tabātabāʼī, Muhammad Husayn. The Qu’ran in Islam (Tehran: Islamic Propagation Organization, 1990).
Qur’anic Commentary:
  • Ayoub, Mahmoud M. The Qur’an and its Interpreters, vol.1-2. (Albany: SUNY Publications, 1984).
  • Gatje, Helmut. The Qur’an and Its Exegesis (Oxford: Oneworld; 2Rev Ed edition, 1996).
  • Saleh, Walid A. The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur’an Commentary of al-Tha’labi, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003).
Sirah—Biography of the Prophet:
  • Lings, Martin. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society).
  • Watt, William Montgomery. Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford: Clarendon, 1953).
  • Watt, William Montgomery. Muhammad at Medina (Oxford: Clarendon, 1956).
Hadith:
  • Lucas, Scott. Constructive Critics, Hadith Scholars, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004)./
  • Motzki, Harald. The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002)./
  • Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair. Hadith Literature: Its Origins, Development and Special Features (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1996)./
Islamic History:
  • Hodgson, Marshal. T/he Venture of Islam, Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle East/ (Chicago: Chicago University, 1977).
  • Hodgson, Marshal. The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times, (Chicago: Chicago University, 1977).
  • Lapidus, Ira. A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2nd edition, 2002).
  • Saunders, John Joseph. A History of Medieval Islam (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1972).
Islamic Law:
  • Coulson, Noel J. A History of Islamic Law (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007).
  • Dutton, Yasin. Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur’an, the Muwatta’ and Madinan Amal (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002).
  • Hallaq, Wael. Origin and Evolution of Islamic Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2004).
  • Hallaq, Wael. A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1999).
  • Makdisi, George. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1981).
  • Motzki, Harald. The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002).
  • Stewart, Devin J. Islamic Legal Orthodoxy (University of Utah Press, 1998).
  • Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Islamic Texts Society, 3rd edition, 2005).
  • Rauf, Feisal Abdul. Islam a Sacred Law: What Every Muslim Should Know About Shariah, (Threshold Books, 1999).
  • Weiss, Bernard G. The Spirit of Islamic Law (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006).
Also Recommended:
  • Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. Freedom of Expression in Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1997).
Islamic Theology:
  • Jackson, Sherman. On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance on Islam (Oxford University, 2002).
  • Martin, Richard C. and Mark Woodward with Dwi S. Atmaja. Defenders of Reason in Islam, Mu‘tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1997).
  • Watt, Montgomery. An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy and Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University).
  • Wolfson, Harry A. The Philosophy of the Kalam (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1976).
Islamic Philosophy:

    Chittick, William. The Heart of Islamic Philosophy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
    Izutsu, Toshiko. The Fundamental Structure of Sabzawari’s Metaphysics, (Tehran: McGill University, 1972).
    Leaman, Oliver. An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
    Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia (London: Curzon Press, 1997).
    Wisnovsky, Robert. Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
    Yazdi, Mehdi Ha’iri. The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence (Albany: SUNY Publications, 1992).

Essential Reference Works:

    Corbin, Henry. History of Islamic Philosophy. trans. Liadain Sherrard (London: Kegan Paul, 1993).
    Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Oliver Leaman. History of Islamic Philosophy/ (London: Routledge, 1996)./

Sufism:
On Sufi Thought:
  • Burckhardt, Titus. An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine(Wellingborough, 1976).
  • Chittick, William C. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination (Albany: State University of New York, 1989).
  • Chodkiewicz, Michel. The Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn al-‘Arabi (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993).
  • Lings, Martin. What is Sufism (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, New Edition, 1999).
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Sufi Essays (London: Allen and Unwin, 1972).
On Sufi History and Practice:
  • Ernst, Carl. The Shambala Guide to Sufism (Boston: Shambala, 1997).
  • Karamustafa, Ahmet T. Sufism: The Formative Period (University of California, 2007).
  • Knysh, Alexander. Sufism, A Brief History (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004).
  • Lings, Martin. A/ Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad Al-ʻAlawī; His Spiritual Heritage and Legacy /(Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993)
  • Schimmel, Annemarie. Sufism: The Mystical Dimension of Islam (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina).
  • Trimingham, J. Spencer. The Sufi Orders in Islam (New York: Oxford, 1998).
Shi’ism:
  • Amir-Moezzi, M. Ali. The Divine Guide in Early Shi’ism, (Albany, SUNY, 1994).
  • Modaressi, Hossein. Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi’ite Islam: Abū Ja’far Ibn Qiba Al-Rāzī and His Contribution to Imāmite Shī’ite Thought (Princeton: Darwin, 1993).
  • Newman, Andrew. The Formative Period of Twelver Shi`ism (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000).
  • Sobhani, Ja`far. Doctrines of Shi`i Islam:A Compendium of Imami Beliefs and Practices. trans. Reza Shah Kazemi (London: I.B. Tauris/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001).
  • Tabatabai, Allamah Hossein. Shi’ite Islam (Albany: SUNY, 1977).
  • Watt, Montgomery. The Formative Period of Islamic Thought (Oxford: Oneworld, 1998).m.
Islamic Art and Architecture:
  • Burckhardt, Titus. The Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (London: World of Islam Festival Publ. Co., 1976).
  • Burckhard, Titus. Sacred art East and West (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2001).
  • Al-Faruqi, Lois Lamya. Islam and Art(Islamabad: National Hijra Council, 1405 /1985).
  • Gonzalez, Valérie. Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture(London: I.B. Tauris, 2001).
  • Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). Revised and enlarged edition.
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic Art and Spirituality (Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1987).
Islam and the West/Islam in the Modern World:
  • Bulliet, Richard. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (New York: Columbia University, 2006).
  • Daniel, Norman. Islam and the West: The Making of an Image (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1993).
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islam and the Plight of Modern Man (Chicago: Kazi, 2002).
  • Voll, John. Islam Continuity and Change in the Modern World, 2nd Edition (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1994).
Islamic Fundamentalism:
  • Algar, Hamid. Wahhabism, a Critical Essay. (Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2002).
  • El Fadl, Khaled M. Abou. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005).
  • Lumbard, Joseph./Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by Western Muslim Scholars/ (Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom, 2004).
  • Oliveti, Vincenzo. Terror’s Source: The Ideology of Wahhabi Salafism and its Consequences, (UK: Amadeus Press, 2002).
Islam and Other Religions:
  • Parrinder, Geoffrey. Jesus in the Quran (Oxford: One World, 1995).
  • Shah-Kazemi, Reza. The Other in the Light of the One: The Universality of the Qur’ån and Interfaith Dialogue (London: Islamic Texts Society, 2006).

Christian scholars

Dr. Mirolslav Volf
Seminal Works in Christian Theology:
  • Anselm, and Sidney Norton. Deane. Cur Deus Homo (Fort Worth, TX: RDMc, 2005).
  • Augustine, Saint. The Trinity (Washington: Catholic University of America, 1963).
  • Barth, Karl, Helmut Gollwitzer, and Geoffrey William. Bromiley. Karl Barth: Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: Clark, 1961).
  • Damascene, John. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St John Damascene – the Complete Text St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church. Web. 08 July 2010.
  • Calvin, Jean, and Henry Beveridge. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publ. Company, 2001).
  • Edwards, Jonathan. Freedom of the Will (Vancouver: Eremitical, 2009).
  • Edwards, Jonathan, and John E. Smith. Religious Affections (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1987).
  • Gregory, Palamas, and Robert E. Sinkewicz. The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters (Toronto, Ont., Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988).
  • Kierkegaard, Søren, Howard Vincent. Hong, and Søren Kierkegaard./Philosophical Fragments/ (Princeton N.J: Princeton Univ., 1985).
  • Luther, Martin, and Mark D. Tranvik. The Freedom of a Christian (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008).
  • Norris, Frederick W., and Gregory. Faith Gives Fullness to Reasoning: the Five Theological Orations of Gregory Nazianzen (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990).
  • Rahner, Karl. Foundations of Christian Faith: an Introduction to the Idea of Christianity (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 1978).
  • Thomas. The Summa Theologica (Charleston, S. C.: BiblioBazaar, 2009).
Introductions to Christianity
  • Benedict. Introduction to Christianity (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2004).
  • Gregory, Palamas, and Christopher Veniamin. The Saving Work of Christ: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas (Waymart, PA: Mount Thabor Pub., 2008).
  • Hardon, John A. The Catholic Catechism: A Contemporary Catechism of the Teachings of the Catholic Church (New York: Doubleday, 1981).
  • Jatlaoui, Hadi and Ali Makhlabi, Doha El Khatib, Afef Mouqou. The True Meaning of the Gospel and Acts in Arabic (Beirut: Dar Al Farabi, 2008).
  • Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity (London: Harper Collins, 2001).
  • Luther, Martin, and Martin Luther. The Large Catechism of Martin Luther (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1961).
  • McGrath, Alister E. Christianity: an Introduction (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006).
  • Miller, William McElwee. Beliefs and Practices of Christians: (a Letter to a Friend) (Ft. Washington, PA: WEC International, 1989).
  • Noll, Mark A. American Evangelical Christianity: an Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
  • Stott, John R. Basic Christianity (Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity, 1974).
  • Volf, Miroslav. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2005).
  • Williams, Rowan. Tokens of Trust: an Introduction to Christian Belief (Louisville:Westminster John Knox, 2007).
  • Wright, N. T. The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1999).
Spiritual Classics
  • Augustine, and Garry Wills. Confessions (New York: Penguin, 2006).
  • Endo, Shusaku. A Life of Jesus (New York: Tuttle, 1982).
  • Graham, Billy. How to Be Born Again (Waco, Tex.: Word, 1977).
  • Thomas, Kempis. Imitation of Christ (General, 2010).
  • The Way of a Pilgrim Sā’iḥ Rūsī ʿalā Durūb Al-Rabb. Web. 08 July 2010.
Christian Books that Engage Muslims
  • Accad, Fouad Elias. Building Bridges: Christianity and Islam (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1997).
  • Aquinas, Thomas. De Rationibus Fidei: Reasons for the Faith.
  • Bruce, F. F. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
  • Cragg, Kenneth. Jesus and the Muslim: an Exploration (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1985).
  • Kateregga, Badru D., and David W. Shenk. Islam and Christianity: a Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981).
  • Newman, N. A. The Early Christian-Muslim Dialogue: a Collection of Documents from the First Three Islamic Centuries, 632-900 A.D. : Translations with Commentary (Hatfield: Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute, 1993).
  • Mallouhi, Mazhar. Qirā’a Ṣufiyya li-Injīl Yūḥannā.
  • Sweetman, James W. Islam and Christian Theology (London: Lutterworth, 1947).
  • Zalāwī, Father Elyās. awl al-Injil wa-“Injīl Barnābā. (Regarding the Gospel and ‘The Gospel of Barnabas’).
  • F.F. Bruce. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
Reverend William Sachs
  • Borg, Marcus J. The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
  • Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity (London: Harper Collins, 2001).
  • Marty, Martin E. The Christian World: a Global History (New York: Modern Library, 2007).
  • Smith, Huston. The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005).
Dr Nicholas Adams
  • McGrath, Alister. Understanding Doctrine, Understanding the Trinity, Understanding Jesus, Justification by Faith (Zondervan, 1997).
  • McGrath, Alister. Historical Theology: Introduction to the History of Christian Thought (Wiley Blackwell, 1998).
  • McGrath, Alister. Reformation Thought: An Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 2000).
  • McGrath, Alister. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Wiley Blackwell, 2003).
  • McGrath, Alister. Christian Theology: An Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 2006).
  • McGrath, Alister. The Christian Theology Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2006).
  • McGrath, Alister. Theology: The Basics (Wiley Blackwell, 2007).
  • McGrath, Alister. Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution – A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First (SPCK, 2007).
  • McGrath, Alister. Heresy: a History of Defending the Truth (SPCK, 2009).
  • Migliore, Daniel. Faith Seeking Understanding (Eerdmans, 2004).
  • Ozment, Steven. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Mediaeval and Reformation Europe (Yale University Press, 1981).
Roland Schatz
In General:
  • Aristoteles, and W. D. Ross. Aristotelis De Anima (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990).
  • Descartes, René, and Donald A. Cress. Meditations on First Philosophy: in Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1993.
  • Hobbes, Thomas, and J. C. A. Gaskin. Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008).
  • Kant, Immanuel, and Heinrich Kunhardt. Grundlegeng Zur Metaphysik Der Sitten in Einer Fasslichen Sprache Dargestellt Und Ihrem Haupt-Inhalte Nach Geprüft Von Heinrich Kunhardt (Lübeck Und Leipzig: Friedrich Bohn, 1800).
  • Kant, Immanuel, Jürgen Zehbe, and Moses Mendelssohn. Was Ist Aufklärung?: Aufsätze Zur Geschichte Und Philosophie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck Und Ruprecht, 1994).
  • Mill, John Stuart, and Gertrude Himmelfarb. On Liberty (London: Penguin., 2003).
  • Plato, and David Gallop. Phaedo (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999).
  • Popper, Karl Raimund. The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1966).
  • Popper, Karl R., and Laura J. Bennett. In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years (Routledge, 1995).
  • Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1973).
  • Walzer, Michael. The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic, 2002).
  • Höffe, Otfried. Den Staat Braucht Selbst Ein Volk Von Teufeln: Philosophische Versuche Zur Rechts- Und Staatsethik (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1988).
With a Focus on Christianity:
  • Anselm, Thomas Williams, Gaunilo, and Anselm. Proslogion: with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm (Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2001).
  • Aquinas, St Thomas. Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas (S.l.: Bookworld, 1988).
  • Augustine, and Henry Chadwick. Confessions (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998).
  • Best, Ernest E. The Letter of Paul to the Romans (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1967). (Chapter 8) and Corinthians 1
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Gemeinsames Leben (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, 2006).
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, and Eberhard Bethge. Widerstand Und Ergebung Briefe Und Aufzeichnungen Aus Der Haft (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, 2005).
  • Calvin, Jean, and Otto Weber. Unterricht in Der Christlichen Religion = Institutio Christianae Religionis (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1984).
  • Erasmus, Desiderius, and Emil Major. Das Lob Der Torheit (Wiesbaden: Panorama, 2003).
  • Kierkegaard, Søren, Emanuel Hirsch, and Søren Kierkegaard. Zur Selbstprüfung Der Gegenwart Anbefohlen ; Erbauliche Reden 185051 ; Urteilt Selbst/ (Simmerath: Grevenberg Verlag Dr. Ruff &, 2003).
  • Küng, Hans. Existiert Gott?: Antwort Auf Die Gottesfrage Der Neuzeit (München: Piper, 2006).
  • Luther, Martin. Von Der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, 2006).
For Kids:
  • Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994).
  • Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist (New York: Knopf, 1992).
  • Frank, Anne. T/he Diary of Anne Frank/ (London: Pan Horizons, 1989).
  • Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De. Le Petit Prince (Paris: Gallimard-Jeunesse, 2007).
  • Strasser, Todd. The Wave (New York: Dell, 1981).
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Jean Fagan. Yellin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008).
  • Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002).
  • Uris, Leon. Exodus: Roman (München: Heyne, 1986).
  • Uris, Leon. Haddsch: [Roman] (München: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Knaur, 1987).
  • Vasconcelos, José Mauro De. O Meu Pé De Laranja Lima (São Paulo: Melhoramentos, 1995).
Movies:
  • Ben Hur. Dir. William Wyler. Prod. Sam Zimbalist. By Karl Tunberg. Perf. Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe, Cathy O’Donnell, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longden, Andre Morell, Marina Berti, George Relph, Adi Berber, Stella Vitelleschi, Jose Greci, and Laurence Payne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959).
  • Children of a Lesser God. Dir. Randa Haines (Paramount Pictures, 1986).
  • Dead Poets Society. (Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, 1989).
  • Holocaust. Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky (1978).
  • La Traviata. Dr. Franco Zeffirelli (Universal Classics, 1982).
  • Luther. Dir. Guy Green. 1974 Mit meinen heißen Tränen. Dir. Fritz Lehner (1986).
  • On Franz Schubert One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. (MGM/United Artists Entertainment, 1975).
  • The Chorus (Les Choristes). Dir. Christophe Barratier (Miramax, 2004).
Last modified 2011 April by MJ. Smith

Copyright 2009–2022 Faithlife

Logos Topics

Welcome, Guest! (sign in)