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WinnerByDefault

Post subject: book suggestion?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:26 pm

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I've been scanning Amazon and can't find what I have a hard time believing doesn't exist. Does anyone know of a good reader that presents introductions, explanations and excerpts from a variety of major Roman Catholic thinkers in the last two centuries? The 2 volumes of Modern Christian Thought by James Livingston has several Catholic thinkers in it, but I was hoping to find something more explicitly Catholic with more thinkers and more pages per thinker.

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Post subject: Re: book suggestion?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:48 pm

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WinnerByDefault, as a matter of principle I avoid replying in the "catholic theology" section because I am not in favour of theological ghettos.

I think your best bet for a summary of major Catholic thinkers is in a series of books dealing with modern Catholic theology. I don't own copies of these volumes, but I believe Amazon.com has them available. A search in Amazon under "catholic theology" should yield some good fruit for you.

I am replying here because I received a private message asking about your message and I gave it some consideration and decided that helping you was more important than my "secret" principle.

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Post subject: Re: book suggestion?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 8:44 am

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Sorry I don't personally own (nor know of) such a volume. However, instead what I would recommend would be actually finding persons who speak for the Catholic Church and actually reading them (instead of only a guided reader...which can be helpful but is always selective). I personally have benefited from reading volumes by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), and Henri Nouwen. They are all fantastic writers (the first two are quite philosophical, and the first three are definitely of the European theological persuasion...they are also all from the last sixty years). I hope to read more of their works and similar ones by others in the near future.

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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 8:25 pm

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just as well I don't have any problems posting in the Catholic section

Seriously DB it is no different than having an Evangelical section, or any of the other sections this forum is divided into.

But I like reading Peter Kreeft, and he has a lot of good articles on his website (which you should be able to find through Google),

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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 11:57 am

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WinnerByDefault wrote:

A book that I happened upon at a used book store has proved to be very interesting indeed. Though it doesn't carry the imprimateur or nihil obstat that marks an "officially approved" text, Catholicism by Richard P O'Brien is an excellent resource.

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