pat loughery

A while back, I posted a blog entry about the authors that I would love to commit to reading all of their work (or at least a large majority of it).

Then, I said this:

I was thinking today, as I sat down to do some book summary papers for my next class in the doctoral program, about all the books that are piling up that I want to read but are not on the list for my upcoming classes. There are a lot of onesy books that are building up – but also, there are authors that I really want to dive deep into.

I’d love to read the entire catalog of works by these authors:

• Thomas Merton
• N. T. Wright
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Elizabeth O’Connor (I’ve read all but, I think, 2 of her books, but need to re-read them all)
• Kathleen Norris

Seems to me that I’m missing somebody. But it’s not coming to me right now. I used to want to read all of Eugene Peterson‘s stuff, but I find it hard to finish his books these days.

Nowadays, I think I’d leave those people on the list; I’d also add these:

• Esther de Waal writes on Benedictine and Celtic spirituality
• Henri Nouwen
• Jean Vanier

How about you? Which authors would you like to dig deeply into?