Fr. Jape S.J., the leading Jesuit in America today, is a dear friend of mine. He recommeds the following books on liberalism.
New Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin
Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
The Superfluous Men, ed. by Robert Crunden
The New Agrarian Mind by Allan Carlson
How Milton Works by Stanley Fish
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Quest for Community by Roger Nisbet
Deschooling Society, and Tools of Conviviality by Ivan Illich
The Meaning of the City by Jaques Ellul
What’s Wrong with the World by GK Chesterton
Heaven is our Only Home by Christopher Lasch
Materialism and Idealism in American Life by George Santayana
Any of Berry’s essays
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Is there any ranking to that list, or could there be?
I second Lost in the Cosmos ("The Last Self-Help Book"). Reading it is a completely unique experience in itself.
I haven't read it, but would anybody know if Jacques Ellul's The Politics of God and the Politics of Man would fit with this reading list as well? I have access to most of his works in a donated library upstairs at my church and I noticed that one last week that definitely looked rather interesting. It's based on II Kings, I think.
Peace,
Eric
I recently read parts of Ellul's The Technological Society. It also offers a very interesting critique of modernity, liberalism, and capitalism.
Peace,
Scott
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