The books in my living room

[missionseeker]

I want to come to your house, Bro. Adam.

I only have a few but the few I have are my very own. And I'm 17 and don't have a job.

Gregorian Missal
Graduale Romanum
Catechism of the Catholic Church- Hardcover
Adoremus Hymnal Organ Edition
Gregorian Chant Master Class- Dr. Theodore Marier



There are some that are 'family books' But I will probably wind up taking some with me when I leave, one is

The History and Future of the Roman Liturgy- Denis Crouan

I don't think i got the last name right but its in the other room right now.

Those are my religious books. And I have a few bibles but no special ones.

I have quite a few other books.

[Old_Joe]

I'd be willing take some of those off your hands.

[Old_Joe]

for a small fee of course...

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Feb 28 2006, 03:53 PM']Dang.

I did that once for tracking purposes. However, I never updated it. And I've moved a couple of times since then so the list is pretty much useless.
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I was going to catalog all my homeschool books and try to keep track of who has borrowed what.... I was going to arrange them by categories and everything... but then I found something better to do and never did. And I figure that eventually all the books I've let people borrow will come back to me... I probably have some of their books, too. So....

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Mar 1 2006, 08:12 AM']I was going to catalog all my homeschool books and try to keep track of who has borrowed what.... I was going to arrange them by categories and everything... but then I found something better to do and never did. And I figure that eventually all the books I've let people borrow will come back to me... I probably have some of their books, too. So....
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My dream one day is to have a library system with all my books, complete with a card catalog and checkout pockets and everything.

I'm such a nerd.

[homeschoolmom]

I miss card catalogs

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Mar 1 2006, 08:19 AM']I miss card catalogs
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Me too.

There's something so comforting about them.

[homeschoolmom]

Yeah... but the ability to request books on line and then be able to run into the library and pick them all up at the circulation desk and renew online... that has it's upside, too.

But the idea of an "author card" a "title card" and a "[color=red]SUBJECT[/color]" card is pretty cool...

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Mar 1 2006, 08:24 AM']Yeah... but the ability to request books on line and then be able to run into the library and pick them all up at the circulation desk and renew online... that has it's upside, too.

But the idea of an "author card" a "title card" and a "[color=red]SUBJECT[/color]" card is pretty cool...
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I agree that the whole library thing has gotten much easier. And I like being able to renew online. But I still can never remember to return books ... which is why I own a bunch of them. Cheaper than late fees.

[inDEED]

It's time to either:

A. Make some friends
B. Get a TV
C. Get a job

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='inDEED' date='Mar 1 2006, 07:39 AM']It's time to either:

[s]A. Make some friends[/s] Teresa is all I need.
[s]B. Get a TV[/s] TV is horrible
[s]C. Get a job[/s] Have a job
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[Pio Nono]

JMJ
3/1 - Ash Wednesday

Others that I have at home...I don't have my books at seminary in front of me, so they're obviously not included. I've properly labelled books I think are academically shifty.

[i]Turning Towards the Lord [/i]- Lang
[i]How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs [/i]- Collier & Manley
[i]Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy[/i] - Fischer
[i]Born Only Once [/i]- Baars
[i]Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology [/i]- Kereszty
[i]Liturgia de las Horas, Vol. II[/i]
[i]The Sources of Christian Ethics [/i]- Pinckaers
[i]The Way of the Lord Jesus, Vol. I [/i]- Grisez
[i]The Christian Lives by the Spirit [/i]- de la Potterie
[i]On Husserl [/i]- Velarde
[i]For the Life of the World[/i] - Schmemman
[i]Eugenics and Other Evils[/i] - Chesterton
[i]Clowning in Rome[/i] - Nouwen
[i]The Psalms[/i] - Giussani
[i]The Religious Sense[/i] - Giussani
[i]At the Origin of the Christian Claim[/i] - Giussani
[i]Why the Church?[/i] - Giussani
[i]The Risk of Education[/i] - Giussani
[i]The World's First Love[/i] - Sheen
[i]Life of Christ[/i] - Sheen
[i]To Know Christ Jesus[/i] - Sheed
[i]A Third Testament [/i]- Muggeridge
[i]A Priest for All Seasons: Masculine and Celibate[/i] - Baars
[i]Murder in the Cathedral[/i] - Eliot
[i]A Man for All Seasons[/i] - Bolt
[i]The Church at Prayer, Vols. I & II[/i] (shifty) - ed. by Martimort
[i]Living in Christ[/i] - Cardinal-designate Cafarra
[i]Revelation[/i] - Swinburne
[i]The Existence of God[/i] - Swinburne
[i]Opening to God[/i] - Green
[i]Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence[/i] - de Caussade
[i]The Portable Graham Greene[/i]
[i]Wheelock's Latin Reader[/i]
[i]Partisans and Redcoats[/i] - Edgar
[i]Fundamental Theology[/i] (shifty) - O'Collins
[i]I Want to See God[/i] - P. Marie-Eugene
[i]And Now I See[/i] - Barron
[i]The Strangest Way[/i] - Barron
[i]Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones[/i] - Groeschel
[i]The Navarre Bible[/i], OT Vols. II & III
[i]Early Dominicans, Selected Writings[/i] - Tugwell
[i]Feeling and Healing Your Emotions[/i] - Baars
[i]Physics, Philosophy & Theology[/i] - Russell
[i]The Mass of the Roman Rite[/i] - Jungmann
[i]The Eucharistic Words of Jesus[/i] - Jeremias
[i]Prayers of the Eucharist[/i] (shifty) - Jaspers & Cuming
[i]No Need for Speed[/i] - Bingham
[i]Story of a Soul[/i] - Therese of Lisieux
[i]The Golden Legend[/i] - de Voragine
[i]The Five Books of Moses[/i] - Alter
[i]The Crisis of Islam[/i] - Lewis
[i]Occidentalism[/i] - Buruma
[i]The True Life[/i] - Sturzo
[i]The Stripping of the Altars[/i] - Duffy
[i]The Eucharist in the New Testament[/i] (shifty) - Koddell
[i]The New Jerome Biblical Commentary[/i] (shifty) - Brown, et al.
[i]The Theology of Henri de Lubac[/i] - von Balthasar
[i]And You Are Christ's[/i] - Dubay
[i]Christian Ethics[/i], Vols. I & II (II is shifty) - Peschke
[i]The Wellspring of Worship[/i] - Corbon
[i]The Sicilian Vespers[/i] - Runciman (I've never felt like more of a man than when I read this book)
[i]On Ayn Rand[/i] - Gotthelf
[i]The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics[/i] - Cessario
[i]Blessed Pius IX[/i] - de Mattei
[i]Poem of the Cid[/i] - Simpson (similar feeling with Runciman)
[i]The Problem of Pain[/i] (shifty view of the human person) - Lewis
[i]On Hope[/i] - Pieper
[i]The Four Cardinal Virtues[/i] - Pieper
[i]The Development of Doctrine[/i] - Newman
[i]Apologia Pro Vita Sua[/i] - Newman
[i]Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Collected Works[/i]
[i]Catholic Evidence Training Outlines[/i] - Sheed
[i]The Return of Don Quixote[/i] - Chesterton
[i]Everything that Rises Must Converge[/i] - O'Connor
[i]Our Man in Havana[/i] - Greene
[i]The Power and the Glory[/i] - Greene
[i]St. Thomas Aquinas[/i] - Chesterton
[i]Happy Are You Poor[/i] - Dubay
[i]A Grief Observed[/i] - Lewis
[i]Triumph[/i] (shifty view of the Eastern churches) - Crocker III
[i]Christianity and European Culture[/i] - Dawson
[i]The Lord[/i] - Guardini
[i]Courage to be Chaste[/i] - Groeschel
[i]The Abolition of Man[/i] - Lewis
[i]The Spanish Inquisition[/i] - Kamen
[i]Summa Contra Gentiles[/i], Vols. I-IV - St. Thomas Aquinas
[i]Priests for the Third Millenium[/i] - Dolan
[i]Pius XII and the Second World War[/i] - Blet
[i]Animal Farm[/i] - Orwell

Well, there it is. In no particular order.

[cmotherofpirl]

So both of you name your top 5 catholic theology books.

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
3/1 - Ash Wednesday

My top five? Well, since I was pretentious enough to post them all (, I'd say...

1.) [i]Introduction to Christianity[/i] - Ratzinger
2.) [i]The Golden Legend[/i] - Jacobus de Voragine
3.) [i]The Spirit of the Liturgy[/i] - Ratzinger
4.) [i]Theology and Sanity[/i] - Sheed
5.) [i]The Spiritual Exercises[/i] - St. Ignatius Loyola

...because they're all accessible, good for spiritual growth, and are excellent basic introductions to their fields.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Mar 1 2006, 08:52 AM']So both of you name your top 5 catholic theology books.
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For non-scholars and general readers I'd have to pick, from that list,

Catholic and Christian Dr. Alan Schreck

Short exposition on the Catholic faith, answers a lot of questions that both Catholics and Protestants have on their minds today. Theologically oriented.

First Catechetical Instruction St. Augustine

The 'story' of our salvation presented perfectly.

Introduction to Christianity Ratzinger

Harder to work through, takes time to read, but if you can make it through the whole book it is indispensible. Not too technical so anyone can read it.

Spirit of Catholicism Karl Adams

Like Ratzingers introduction to Christianity

Orthodoxy Chesterton
Mere Christianity Lewis

Two classics