Reading List

+READING LIST FOR A LICENTIATE IN SACRED THEOLOGY

The First Term: Tonsure
1. Taylor; The Coming of the Saints
2. Flavia Anderson; The Ancient Secret
3. Esther de Waal; Every Earthly Blessing
4. Bede; The History of the English Church and People
5. Fr. David Adam; Fire of the North: The Life of St. Cuthbert
6. Adomnan; The Life of St. Columba
7. Brendan Lehane; The Quest of the Three Abbots / Early Celtic Christianity
8. Nigel Pennick; The Celtic Saints
9. Shirley Toulson; The Celtic Year
10. Edward Selner; The Wisdom of the Celtic Saints
11. Michael Mitton;’ The Soul of Celtic Spirituality in the lives of its Saints
12. Thomas Cahill; How the Irish Saved Civilization
13. Fr. David Adam, A Desert in the Ocean: The Spiritual Journey According the St. Brendan the Navigator
14. Fr. David Adams, The Cry of the Deer
15. James P. Mackey, An Introduction to Celtic Christianity
16. Davies & Bowie,ed., Celtic Christian Spirituality: An Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources
17. John Skinner, ed., The Confession of Saint Patrick
18. Philip Newell, Listening for the Heartbeat of God
19. Timothy J. Joyce, Celtic Christianity
20. Ted Olsen, Christianity and the Celts

The Second Term: Porter
1. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
2. Robert N. Gray, Managing the Church
3. Brian E. Brown, ed., Collected Materials on the Ecumenical Free Catholic Communion
4. Kathleen Hughes and Ann Hamlin, Celtic Monasticism
5. Christopher Bamford and William Parker Marsh, Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness
6. Brian E. Brown, ed., The Rule of the Order of the Shepherd’s Heart
7. George G. Hunter III, The Celtic Way of Evangelism
8. James Parick Derum, The Porter of Saint Bonzventure
9. Ian Bradley, Celtic Christian Communities
10. Brian E. Brown, ed., The Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of the Shepherd’s Heart

The Third Term: Lector
1. Sally Lowe Whitehead, The Truth Shall Set You Free
2. William Barclay, Introducing the Bible
3. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Modern Use of the Bible
4. G. E. Wright, Biblical Archaeology
5. John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
6. John Shelby Spong, Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
7. William Barclay, The Apostles’ Creed for Every Man
8. Raymond-Jean Frontain, ed., Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture
9. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
10. Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
11. Elaine Pagels ,The Origin of Satan
12. Alice K. Turner, The History of Hell
13. Robert L. Short, The Parables of Peanuts
14. C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
15. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

The Fourth Term: Exorcist
1. Dr. Bob and Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous
2. William A. Klebsch and Charles R. Jackle, Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective
3. C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion
4. J. Richards, But Deliver Us From Evil: An Introduction to the Demonic Dimensions in Pastoral Care
5. Philip Weller, The Rite of Exorcism from The Roman Ritual
6. Robert Warren Cromey, In God’s Image
7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
8. John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
9. John Shelby Spong, Living In Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
10. Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages
11. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
12. Kenneth C. Haugk, Christian Caregiving a Way of Life
13. Lucy Bregman, Beyond Silence & Denial
14. Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying
15. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying
16. Harold Ivan Smith, When Your People Are Grieving
17. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
18. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
19. Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
20. Morton T. Kelsey, Healing and Christianity

The Fifth Term: Acolyte
1. J. A. Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite
2. F. E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church
3. Brian E. Brown, ed., The Collected Liturgical Material for Use in the OSH and the DSWO
4. H. Norris, Church Vestments
5. Harvey Cox, The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy
6. Dom Gregory Dix, Shape of the Liturgy
7. Pat Robson, A Celtic Liturgy
8. Northumbrian Community, Celtic Daily Prayer
9. William John Fitzgerald, A Contemporary Celtic Prayer Book
10. Brendan O’Malley, A Celtic Eucharist

The Sixth Term: Sub-Deacon
1. Hans Kung, Christianity: Essence, History, and Future
2. A. Vos, ed., Duns Scotus on Divine Love: Texts & Commentary on Goodness & Freedom, God & Humans
3. Nicholas Zernov, The Russian Religious Renaissance of the Twentieth Century
4. Thomas Corbishley, Roman Catholicism
5. Matthew Spinka, Christian Thought From Erasmus to Berdyaev
6. T. Ware (Archbishop Kallestos) The Orthodox Church
7. J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers
8. C.B. Moss, The Old Catholic Movement: It’s Origins and History
9. Allison C. FitzSimmons, The Cruelty of Heresy
10. Joan O’Grady, Early Christian Heresies
11. Karen Jo Torjesen, When Women Were Priests
12. Karl Pruter, Bishops Extraordinary
13. Karl Pruter, The Old Catholic Church
14. Kevin Orlin Johnson, Why Do Catholics Do That?
15. E.B. Pusey, trans., The Confessions of Saint Augustine

The Seventh Term: Diaconate
1. St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
2. Karl Pruter, The Teachings of the Great Mystics
3. Karl Pruter, The Mystic Path
4. Karl Pruter, One Day With God
5. Karl Pruter, Prayers For Peace
6. Richard Gribble, The History and Devotion of the Rosary
7. Daniel P. Guernsey, Adoration: Eucharistic Texts and Prayers Throughout Church History
8. Evelyn Underhill, An Anthology of the Love of God
9. Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart
10. John Michael Talbot, The Music of Creation
11. J.K. Kadowaki S.J., Zen and the Bible: A Priest’s Experience
12. Donald Miller, Zen and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance
13. Bishop Mack, An Anthology of Angels
14. Matthew Fox & Rupert Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels
15. Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul
16. Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
17. Matthew Fox, Wrestling with the Prophets
18. Karl Rahner, On Prayer
19. Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace
20. Karl Pruter, Peace Through Prayer

The Eighth Term: Priesthood
1. Bruce Bawer, Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
2. Barbara Brown Taylor, Gospel Medicine
3. Philip Gulley & James Mulholland, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person
4. Marilyn Alexander & James Preston, We Were Baptized Too
5. John Shelby Spong, A New Christianity for a New World
6. John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change or Die
7. Matthew Fox, Original Blessing
8. Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality
9. Matthew Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest
10. Mel White, Stranger at the Gate
11. Richard Cleaver, Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology
12. Dorthee Soelle, On Earth as in Heaven: A Liberation Spirituality of Sharing
13. Brian D. McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
14. Joseph F. Girzone, Joshua
15. Mother Teresa, In My Own Words