books for the ‘isle of life’

The other day I was asked the question: “Suppose you were stranded on a deserted island; what three books (other then the Bible) would you want with you?”

Stranded on a deserted isle, I’d want, 1) Survival Manual: Finding Food and Shelter when you need it Most, 2) How to Build a Raft and 101 Other Ways to Escape a Deserted Island, and in case those two failed 3) Making a Hangman’s Noose.

However, I were living place where I was surrounded by people and still felt alone . . . if I was trying to live into relationality while confronted with difference and “otherness” . . . while wondering how or where or if truth fits in, I might take:

• Jürgen Moltmann’s The Spirit of Life
• Martin Buber’s I and Thou
• Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge

Honorable mention:

• St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation
• Alistair McFadyen’s The Call to Personhood
• Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality

Other suggestions?

Peace, dwight