2022 Book List

I’ve been inspired by various others on my Twitter feed to make something of a proposed book list for myself in 2022. I historically do not follow these sorts of lists very well at all, and in fact this list says far more about what I’m thinking about right now, than it does about what I will actually read this year, but perhaps in doing it I’ll give myself a little motivation. I’m sure I won’t read everything on this list, and I’m sure I’ll read many things that aren’t on this list, but everyone must start somewhere.

Modern theology:

• Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
• Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline
• D.B. Hart, The Experience of God
• N.T. Wright The New Testament and the People of God
• N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God
• Thomas Hopko The Orthodox Faith (4 vols.)
• Jake Meador, In Search of the Common Good
• Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation

Ancient Theology:

• Augustine, The City of God

  • I’ve read this through at least three times now, but I feel like I need to read it again, expecially the last half, because modern right-wing ideologues are really confused about the difference between the city of man and the city of God and I need to remind myself of sanity.

• Gregory of Nyssa, The Great Catechism

• Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection

• Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eumenius (if I really feel like it)

• Origen, De Principiis

• Gregory Palamas, The Triads

• The Cloud of Unknowing

History:

• Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (5 vols.)
• Robert Wilken, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
• D.G. Hart, The Lost Soul of American Protestantism
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History

Philosophy/Other:

• John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Via Sua
  • I’ve read this before, but it’s been a while, and I feel I’d get more out of it by reading it again
• Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
• Wittgenstein, On Certainty
• Kierkegaard, Various Selections
  • I like Kierkegaard, but I don’t know what specifically of him I want to read this year, and I’m certainly not going to read through the entirety of his selected works that I have on my shelf.

Fiction:

• Whatever my wife and brother-in-law makes me read. Heh.