The next book I'm going to reflect on is not a "classic" text on theology, but it discusses many classic texts. It is Christian Ethics: A Brief History by Michael Banner. It was just published this last year.
This book comments on a few important texts for the development of Christian Ethics throughout the ages. It discusses Benedict's Rule, The City of God by Augustine (and Augustinian theology as a whole), Aquinas' work on ethics, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Karl Barth's Dogmatics as well as John Paul II's work on the sanctity of life.
But I won't be looking at each of these works individually. Rather, I'll just be making comments about the comments made. This isn't how most of the blog will be, but I want to get ahead in my writing somewhat, and this gives me a space of time to write about the next book before it's up in the blog.
BTW, the next volume after this is A.W. Tozer's The Knowledge of the Holy. We've got some other good books as well on the shelf. Poetry by Leo of Leon, Works by Pseudo-Dionysus , some Quaker Spirituality and more. Lots of fun stuff.
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