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We found 26 product mentions on r/RadicalChristianity. We ranked the 147 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ
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2. What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
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3. A Black Theology of Liberation
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4. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
5. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
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Oxford University Press USA
6. The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha
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Oxford University Press USA
7. Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Studies in Continental Thought)
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8. Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith (Philosophy of Religion)
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9. Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters
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10. The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity
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Columbia University Press
11. After the Death of God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
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12. The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
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15. The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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16. All About Love: New Visions
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17. God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
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18. The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised & Updated
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/u/Demon_Nietzsche made a good point about the various interests which comprise this community. That being said, a lot of ideas here are founded on philosophy (especially continental philosophy and critical theory) and radical politics (Marxism, etcetera).
This thread from /r/askphilosophy might interest you. Here are some recommendations I gave:
> In the vein of religious existentialists, the big ones that I can think of are Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel, Paul Tillich, and Nikolai Berdyaev. The Russians Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky might also be thrown into that list.
> Postmodern philosophy, in general, can get quite complex, and very quickly, too. Here are some books I would recommend if you haven't done too much background reading:
Hey, TBM.
I happened to be exploring a particular website, and when I searched "Altizer", this appeared as the first result (of two): Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School. Thomas Altizer is certainly the Altizer involved, but I don't know what his relation to the book is. The book seems pertinent to your interests so I figured I'd run it by you.
By the way, and I don't know how to say this without it seeming creepy, but, through knowing some about your interests and, sharing some of them, having subscribed to the same groups, I think that I've figured out who you are on Facebook.
If anyone would prefer the physical edition, also an explanation for the pricing differences from my blog.
Update: Due to popular feedback, I decided to make split versions of the ebook edition for anyone who found 2554 pages too daunting but are still interested in reading my book. In case any of you are still interested.
Part I Only.
Part II Only.
Explanation on pricing can be read here.
I would get a good academic study bible that goes into depth about the authorship of each book as well as the socio-historical context of the whole thing. I have the New Oxford Annotated edition and it's fantastic. Putting it in context and breaking away from the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch or that Paul wrote some of the Epistles helped me break away from incorrect reductive fundamentalist understandings of the bible.
The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology is a good survey.
I second Cone's God of the Oppressed.
Jesus Acted Up by Robert Shore-Goss is a good intro for gay/queer liberation theology.
Look into anything Bonhoeffer, Christians and Marxists, Saint Oscar Romero (there is a movie about his life with Raul Julia that is good), Torture and Eucharist is a good scholarly introduction to liberation ideas, A Black Theology of Liberation, or for more current stuff, The Irresistible Revolution
Amazing! Have you ever heard about Alain Badiou's hypertranslation? He does this on his retelling of Plato's Republic. Some buddhists (link) are doing this with the suttas. Wonderful work.
I try to some of this too. I read the Bible a lot, but not so often.
I actually have two other study bibles: the Harper-Collins Study NRSV Bible and Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha -- think those would be okay?
I'm not sure if I need anything more than that, but I wanted to make sure I was getting everything I needed to get out of reading it. I'm kind of afraid of trying to interpret everything myself without expert advice backing me up.
The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins
All About Love by bell hooks
EDIT: I also have a few poetry books that I love, but I can't remember the names of them, so I'll post again later when I'm in my room.
I never read a study Bible, I've always read the Bible by myself and drew on material that was written about it like The Tribes of Yahweh or God and Empire
Get yourself one of these.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
Torture and Eucharist by William T. Cavanaugh
Simone Weil - Gravity and Grace
Gustav Landauer - Revolution and Other Writings
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed
I just finished Plato's Gorgias, and The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies. I have a book of essays called The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages that I intend to read out of. I also have selected poems of Li Po at my bedside waiting to be read. But for the most part, I feel like I'm stuck in reading limbo. I don't have much of a coherent reading plan and I'm used to that. I guess my focus now is to look at how the practice of and approach to the Bible has fluctuated over time. The answer is quite a bit.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha is the standard.
I also highly recommend the Jewish Annotated New Testament.
Edit: My bad I thought you were asking for study bible recommendations.
What is it you’re wanting? Are you wanting to study biblical criticism and history? Or is this for spiritual practice and fulfillment?
Here is a whole list of suggested books from a podcast I listen to, they are called Almost Heretical. I haven't read any of them myself, but here is the list.
American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty by George Tinker
A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone
Black Theology and Black Power by James Cone
The Cross And The Lynching Tree by James Cone
Liberating Black Theology by Anthony Bradley
Jesus And The Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Womanist Theological Ethics (Collection edited by Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, and Angela D. Sims)
On the Side of the Poor: The Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez and Gerhard Ludwig Muller
Christ The Liberator: A View from the Victims by Jon Sobrino
No Salvation Outside the Poor by Jon Sobrino
Sisters in the Wilderness by Delores S. Williams
The Scandal of Redemption by Oscar Romero
Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology (Collection edited by Kwok Pui-Lan)
Mujerista Theology by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
Bible of the Oppressed by Elsa Tamaz
Water Buffalo Theology by Kosuke Koyama
Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American and Feminist Theology by Mihee Kim-Kort and Grace Ji-Sun Kim
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? and The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event by John Caputo.
Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel.
Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
The Gay Science and The Antichrist by Nietzsche
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
After the Death of God by John Caputo and Gianni Vattimo