Reading
📖 = in progress
📍 = next up
✓ = completed
EMBARGO = failed to complete by deadline
This Semester
Constantine Campbell, Union with Christ
Don Carson, Collected Writings on Scripture
Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
📖 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
📖 Agamben, The Use of Bodies
Agamben, The Signature of All Things
✓ Agamben, The Mystery of Evil
Agamben, The Church and the Kingdom
Agamben, The Coming Community
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
Ivan Illich, Rivers North of the Future
John Walton, The Lost World of Scripture
📖 C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
📖 Cloud and Townsend, How People Grow
✓ John Fea, Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Gregory Thornbury, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
McCarthy, Outer Dark
Next Semester
Agamben, Potentialities
Agamben, Means Without End
Agamben, The Man Without Content
Agamben, The Fire and the Tale
Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
John Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest
Andrew Root, The Pastor in a Secular Age
Stephen Chapman, The Law and the Prophets
Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise
Robert Roberts, Spiritual Emotions
McCarthy, Child of God
McCarthy, Suttree
The Distant Future
I’ve realized this semester that my list has grown too big, so now I have this section to put books that had been on my lists but are now axed.
Walls and Dongell, Why I am Not a Calvinist
Peterson and Willias, Why I am Not an Arminian
Oliver O’Donovan, Self, World, and Time: Ethics as Theology
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species
P.J. Graham, The End of Adolescence
Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy
Radner, Time and the Word
Any one book by Richard Hays
Charles Taylor, The Language Animal
John Walton, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology
John Walton, Old Testament Theology for Christians: From Ancient Context to Enduring Belief
Don Carson, Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension
Agamben Full Bibliography
Yes, I plan to read all of them. This list is from Adam Kotsko:
(The first year indicates the Italian publication, and in parentheses after I add the English translation if applicable. For ease of use, I will refer only to English titles and omit subtitles.)
1970, The Man Without Content (1999)
1977, Stanzas (1993)
1978, Infancy and History (1996)
1982, Language and Death (1991)
1985, Idea of Prose (1995)
1990, The Coming Community (1993)
✓ 1995, Homo Sacer (1998)
1996, Means Without End (2000)
1996, The End of the Poem (1999)
✓ 1998, Remnants of Auschwitz (1999)
*1999, Potentialities — essay collection originally published in English; the same collection was later published in Italian in 2005
✓ 2000, The Time that Remains, 2005
2002, The Open (2004)
✓ 2003, State of Exception (2005)
2005, Profanations (2007)
2006, What is an Apparatus? (2009)
2007, Nymphs (2013)
✓ 2007, The Kingdom and the Glory (2011)
2008, The Signature of All Things (2009)
✓ 2008, The Sacrament of Language (2011)
2009, Nudities (2011)
2010, The Church and the Kingdom (2012)
2010, The Unspeakable Girl (2014)
✓ 2011, The Highest Poverty (2013)
✓ 2012, Opus Dei (2013)
✓ 2013, The Mystery of Evil (2016)
✓ 2013, Pilate and Jesus (2015)
2014, The Fire and the Tale (2016)
📖 2014, The Use of Bodies (2016)
✓ 2015, Stasis (2015)
2015, Gusto (don’t know)
2015, L’avventura (don’t know)
2015, Pulcinella (don’t know)
📖 2016, What is Philosophy? (2018)
2018, Karman (2018)
Other books re: Agamben
2012, Democracy in What State? New Directions in Critical Theory
2009, Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction
2014, Kevin Attell, Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
2005, Andrew Norris and Thomas Carl Wall, Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer
2012, David Kishik, The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics
2013, Peter Frick, Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers: The Apostle and Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Paul in Critical Contexts)
2011, Colby Dickenson, Agamben and Theology
2011, Thomas Frost, Agamben, the Exception and Law (PhD diss., University of Southampton)
2011, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology
Fall 2018 Semester
✓ Giorgio Agamben, Opus Dei
✓ Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz
✓ Giorgio Agamben, The Highest Poverty
📖 Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies
EMBARGO Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
EMBARGO Merold Westphal, God, Guilt, and Death: an Existential Phenomenology of Religion
✓ John Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve
EMBARGO John Walton, The Lost Word of Scripture
✓ Andrew Root, Faith Formation in a Secular Age
EMBARGO Andrew Root, Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker
✓ Robert Epstein, The Case Against Adolescence
EMBARGO Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
✓ John Santrock, Adolescence
✓ Laurence Steinberg, Adolescence
✓ Colin Marshall and Tony Payne, The Trellis and the Vine
EMBARGO Don Carson, How Long, O Lord?
EMBARGO Jim Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit
✓ Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
📖 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
✓ Andrew Naselli, No Quick Fix
✓ Charlie Wingard, Help for the New Pastor
