What Are You Reading? Part II

The “What Are You Reading?” summer series continues this week with a list of books from Garrett-Evangelical President Philip Amerson and Dr. Osvaldo Vena, Professor of New Testament Interpretation.

President Philip Amerson’s List:
•    Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
•    Allah: A Christian Response by Miraslov Volf
•    The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
•    Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays by John A. Haines
•    The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson
•    The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
•    Song Yet Sung by James McBride

Dr. Osvaldo Vena’s List:
•    Democratizing Biblical Studies. Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (WJK, 2009).
This book proposes a new paradigm for biblical study, one which is less competitive and which allows for a variety of voices to be equally heard in a democratic dialogue. It tries to subvert the idea that the study of the bible is the domain of either the church or the academy and places it in the public domain.
•    Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor by Leonard Boff, a Brazilian theologian.
It is a book on ecological theology that applies the principles of liberation theology to answering the questions of poverty and ecological degradation.
•    In order to keep up with my Latin American heritage I am reading also the complete works of Jorge Luis Borges.