Kaz Trypuc

Eric has tagged me, so here it goes...

Name three (or more) theological works from the last 25 years (1981-2006) that you consider important and worthy to be included on a list of the most important works of theology of that last 25 years (in no particular order).

1. The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder--the book that got so many people rethinking Jesus. It lays the groundwork for so many of today's radical understandings of Jesus' life and ministry. I realize this does not fit into the above timeframe, but I don't care. This is all hypothetical anyway.

2. Theopolitical Imagination, William Cavanaugh--this book is short and by no means his best, but it brings together so many threads from so many different places that it's hard to overlook. Tying together sociology, theology, liturgics, political theology, Christian ethics, history, pre- and post-modern philosophy, and Biblical theology it does no less than provide a primer for Christians to reimagine the whole of space and time.

3. Paul Among the Postliberals, Douglas Harink--like Cavanaugh's this book draws from a wealth of resources. In collapsing theology, philosophy, ethics, sociology of religion, and Biblical studies into one (through the Apostle Paul) Harink relies on an all-star list: Barth, Berkhof, Cavanaugh, D'Costa, James D.G. Dunn, Stephen Fowl, Frei, Paul J. Griffiths, Hauerwas, Yoder, Milbank, Richard B. Hays, Kallenberg, Lohfink, Lindbeck, Placher, Stackhouse, Stendahl, Stout, Volf, Wink, NT Wright, and Yoder. No easy task but he succeeds admirably and brings Paul (and thus Jesus) into a whole new light.