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A few years ago, a student in Costa Rica asked me to share a list of books that have been important to me. I wrote down what came to me at that time. For what its worth, here they are in no particular order (despite the numbering on the left). The list may offer some clue about why my postings take the tack they do. Consider this an addendum to my series on why I left the priesthood.
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The Holy Bible | Various |
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2 |
Food First | Frances Moore Lappé |
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Hunger for Justice | Jack Nelson Pallmeyer |
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Is Religion Killing Us? | Jack Nelson Pallmeyer |
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Saving Christianity From Empire | Jack Nelson Pallmeyer |
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Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time | Marcus Borg |
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Manufacturing Consent | Noam Chomsky |
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Binding the Strong Man | Ched Meyers |
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Who Will Roll Away the Stone? | Ched Meyers |
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A Theology of Liberation | Gustavo Gutierrez |
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Meditation | Eknath Easwaran |
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying | Sogyal Rimpoche |
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God Makes the Rivers to Flow | Eknath Easwaran |
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The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels |
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Letters and Papers from Prison | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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The Ideological Weapons of Death | Franz Hinkelmmert |
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And God Said What? | Margaret Ralph |
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Communism in the Bible | José Miranda |
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Marx and the Bible | José Miranda |
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Theological Investigations | Karl Rahner |
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The Secular City | Harvey Cox |
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Christ the Sacrament of Encounter with God | Edward Schillebeeckx |
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Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of Poetry | Various |
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The Second Sex | Simone De Beauvoir |
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The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm |
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A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn |
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The Open Veins of Latin America | Eduardo Galeano |
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Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
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Looking Backward | Edward Bellamy |
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Antigone | Sophocles |
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The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
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Jesus, Symbol of God | Roger Haight |
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Triumph of a People | Black |
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I, Rigoberta Menchú | Rigoberta Menchú |
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Confronting the Powers | Walter Wink |
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The Power of Now | Exhart Tolle |
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The New Earth | Exhart Tolle |
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Practicing the Power of Now | Exhart Tolle |
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A Kinder and Gentler Tyranny | Peggy & Mike Rivage-Seul |
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Grassroots Postmodernism | Gustavo Esteva |
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Escaping Education | Gustavo Esteva |
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity | Neil Postman |
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire |
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Education for Critical Consciousness | Paulo Freire |
| 45 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X with Alex Haley |
| 46 | Letter From a Birmingham Jail | Martin Luther King |
| 47 | Christian Attitudes Towards Peace and War | Roland Bainton |
| 48 | “How Poverty Breeds Overpopulation” | Barry Commoner |
| 49 | World Hunger: 12 Myths | Frances Moore Lappé |
| 50 | You Shall be as Gods | Erich Fromm |
| 51 | What a Difference could a Revolution Make? | Joseph Collins |
| 52 | Small is Beautiful | E.F. Schumacher |
| 53 | Limits to Growth | Club ofRome |
| 54 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| 55 | When Corporations Rule the World | David Korten |
| 56 | Patents | Vandana Shiva |
| 57 | Globalization and its Discontents | Joseph Stiglitz |
| 58 | Are you Running with Me, Jesus? | Malcolm Boyd |
| 59 | The Imitation of Christ | Thomas Kempis |
| 60 | The Story of a Soul | Theresa of Liseaux |
| 61 | The Way of a Pilgrim | Anonymous |
| 62 | A Theology of Hope | Jűrgen Moltmann |
| 63 | Demythologizing the Gospel | Rudolph Bultmann |
| 64 | Civilization and its Discontents | Sigmund Freud |
| 65 | Beyond Belief | Elaine Pagels |
| 66 | Adam and Eve and the Serpent | Elaine Pagels |
| 67 | The Gnostic Gospels | Elaine Pagels |
| 68 | Liberation Theology | Rosemary Ruether |
| 69 | The Starry Messenger | Galileo Galilei |
| 70 | Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina | Galileo Galilei |
| 71 | Principia | Sir Isaac Newton |
| 72 | The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| 73 | The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin |
| 74 | The Ascent of Man | Jacob Brownowski |
| 75 | Western Civilization | Jackson Spielvogel |
| 76 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 77 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Peter Mathiessen |
| 78 | Storming Heaven | Denise Giardina |
| 79 | Rules for Radicals | Saul Alinsky |
| 80 | Who Runs Congress? | |
| 81 | Myths (to or Men) Live By | Allan Watts |
| 82 | Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell |
| 83 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| 84 | Classical Mythology | Edith Hamilton |
| 85 | Marx for Beginners | Ruiz |
| 86 | Honest to God | Bishop Robinson |
| 87 | Honest to Jesus | Robert Funk |
| 88 | Cry of the People | Penny Lernoux |
| 89 | Social Analysis | Joe Holland & Peter Henriot |
| 90 | Analisis de Coyuntura | Helio Gallardo |
| 91 | Roots | Alex Haley |
| 92 | Bitter Fruit | Stephen Kinzer |
| 93 | El Hurucán de la Globalización | Franz Hinkelammert |
| 94 | La Critica de la Razón Utopica | Franz Hinkelammert |
| 95 | El Asalto as Poder Mundial | Franz Hinkelammert |
| 96 | Why ? The Untold Story Behind the Terrorist Attacks o f Sept. 11,2001 | J.W. Smith |
| 97 | Democratic Capitalism | J.W. Smith |
| 98 | Crossing the Rubicon | Michael Ruppert |
| 99 | Bread for the World | Bread for the World Organization |
| 100 | Rich Christians and the Poor Lazarus | Helmut Golwitze |
| 101 | The Unsettling of America | Wendel Berry |
| 102 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Victor Frankl |
Recommended Authors/Read Everything by:
v Noam Chomsky
v Erich Fromm
v Franz Hinkelammert (Spanish Only)
v Helio Gallardo (Spanish Only)
v Eknath Easwaran
Favorite Web Sites
v OpEdnews
Information Clearing House
v Znet
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