Allen, John. Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger. Continuum, 2005. Originally published in 2000 as Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican’s Enforcer of the Faith.
Carroll, James. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Gaines, James R. Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment. Harper Collins, 2005.
Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian. Little, Brown and Company, 2005. A novel, based on the Dracula myth.
Lathrop, Gordon W., and Timothy J. Wengert. Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age. Fortress Press, 2004.
Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Marty, Martin. Martin Luther. Viking Penguin, 2004.
Moore, Christopher. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Harper Collins, 2002. A novel.
Pahl, Jon. Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place. Baker Book House, 2003.
Senn, Frank C. Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical. Fortress Press, 1997.
Wallis, Jim. God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Harper San Francisco, 2005.
The American Religious Experience
http://are.as.wvu.edu/
According to a review in the May 1999 “Site Scene” by Professor Samuel Pearson of Southern Illinois University: “This superb site, hosted by the University of West Virginia and drawing on editorial assistance from fine scholars across the country, should be regarded as the appropriate starting point on the web for all scholars and students engaged in the study of American religion.”
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org/
This site contains primary source materials from the Early Church up through the Reformation. The collections of the "Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers" will be especially helpful. The site is maintained by Calvin College in Michigan.
The Colonist’s Library: Primary Sources Pertaining to Early American History
http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/primarysources.html
Sightings
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/index.shtml
In an active retirement, myteachermartinmarty (it's all one word!) presides over an institute for the advanced study of religion at the University of Chicago. Sightings is a weekly analysis of things seen in the world of (usually North American) religion. |
