FAVORITES

The Sacred Canopy: Sociological of Religion by Peter L. Berger (Doubleday & Company, 1969)

Why Christianity Must Change or Die by Bishop John Shelby Spong (Harper Collins, 1998)

CLASSICS

Honest to God by John A. T. Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich (Westminster Press, 1963)

I and Thou by Martin Buber (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970)

A Question of Conscience by Charles Davies (Hodder & Stroughton, 1967)

The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Harper & Row, 1965)

Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant (Harper & Row, 1960)

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (Crowell-Collier, 1968)

Theology of Culture by Paul Tillich (Oxford University Press, 1972)

The Shaking of the Foundations by Paul Tillich (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948)

The Religions of Man by Houston Smith (Harper & Row, 1965)

BIBLICAL

Wide as the Waters: English Bible & Revolution It Inspired by Benson Bobrick (Simon & Schuster, 2001

Don’t Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis (William Morrow & Company, 1998)

Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by John Shelby Spong (Harper Collins, 1996)

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by Bishop John Shelby Spong (Harper Collins, 1991)

FEMINISM

Women and Redemption: A Theological History by Rosemary Radford Reuther (1998)

Sexism and God Talk by Rosemary Radford Reuther (Beacon Press, 1983)

Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly (Beacon Press, 1985)

STANDARDS

The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God by Charles Hartshorne (Yale U Press, 1967)

God, Man, and the Thinker: Philosophies of Religion by Donald A. Wells (Dell, 1962)

The Death of God: Our Post-Christian Era by Gabriel Vahanian (George Braziller, 1961)

Seduction of the Spirit: Use & Misuse of People’s Religion by Harvey Cox (Harper & Row, 1969)

Paradigm Change in Theology by Hans Kung (T&T Clark)

The Meaning and End of Religion by Wilfred Cantwell Smith (New American Library, 1962)

Sheila Harty is a published and award-winning writer with a BA and MA in Theology. Her first book, Hucksters in the Classroom, won the 1980 George Orwell Award for Honesty & Clarity in Public Language. She worked for ten years in Washington, D.C., with Ralph Nader as head of his Center for Study of Responsive Law.  She also worked as an editor with the U.S. Congress, the World Bank, and the United Nations University. She moved to Florida in 1996 to join her aging parents. She is available for theology talks and can be reached at 904 / 826-0563 or stharty@aug.com.