Challenge: 50 Books discussion

In the year 2007, I read 79 books.
In the year 2008, I read 100 books.
In the year 2009, I read 165 books.
In the year 2010, I read 145 books.
In the year 2011, I read 82 books.
In the year 2012, I read 62 books.
In the year 2013, I read 90 books.
In the year 2014, I read 87 books.
In the year 2015, I read 126 books.
In the year 2016, I read 113 books.
In the year 2017, I read 153 books.
In the year 2018, I read 100 books.
In the year 2019, I read 102 books.
In the year 2020, I read 64 books.
In the year 2021, I read 117 books.
In the year 2022, I read 65 books.
In the year 2023, I read 116 books.
In the year 2024, I read 87 books.

Last year, I managed to achieve my goal (80) despite some challenges (MLIS coursework definitely among them), but largely because, as I've been preaching my way through the Book of Genesis and rounded the end of chapter 11 late last year, I naturally finished many commentaries devoted specifically to the Primeval History section. I won't have that advantage this year.

Actually, if my progress to date is any indication, I likely should have lowered my expectations somewhat! Nevertheless, I'm going to hope I can hit 80 this year anyway, even though I'm no longer confident it's realistic. (My saving grace may be a sabbatical I'm desperately hoping for later in the year... but we'll see.)

I begin, then, with the following:

1) The Papacy: Revisiting the Debate Between Catholics and Orthodox by Erick Ybarra

2) God's Future for Animals: From Creation to New Creation by Raymond R. Hausoul

3) On the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium from Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council by John Joy

4) An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Millennium Edition) by St. John Henry Newman and edited by James Tolhurst

5) Asiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt: Perceptions and Reality by Phyllis Saretta

6) Obsequium in the Church: Sacred Tradition, Second Vatican Council, 1983 Code, and Sacred Liturgy by Justin M. Wachs

7) Revelation, History, and Truth: A Hermeneutics of Dogma by Eduardo Echeverria

8) Luther's Works, vol. 2: Lectures on Genesis 6-14 by Martin Luther and translated by George V. Schick

9) Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13 (Themes in Biblical Narrative 26) by Dan Rickett

10) Ecclesiology by Guy Mansini

11) John Henry Newman on Truth and Its Counterfeits: A Guide for Our Times by Reinhard Hütter

12) Love for the Papacy and Filial Resistance to the Pope in the History of the Church by Roberto de Mattei

13) Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark A. Noll and Carolyn Nystrom

14) Melchizedek's Alternative Priestly Order: A Compositional Analysis of Genesis 14:18-20 and Its Echoes Throughout the Tanak by Joshua G. Mathews

15) Melchizedek and the Last Supper: Biblical and Patristic Evidence for the Sacrifice of the Mass by Erick Ybarra

16) The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins

17) Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue by Mark E. Powell

18) The Faith Once for All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology, edited by Kevin L. Flannery

19) Roman Catholic Theology and Practice: An Evangelical Assessment by Gregg R. Allison

20) Staying Human in an Era of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph Vukov

21) Principles of Sacred Liturgy: Forming a Sacramental Vision by Christopher Carstens

22) Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II by Eduardo J. Echeverria

23) Fontes Nicaenae Synodi: The Contemporary Sources for the Study of the Council of Nicaea, 304-337, edited by Samuel Fernández

24) A Pauline Theology of Justification: Forgiveness, Friendship, and Life in Christ by James B. Prothro

25) Commentary on Genesis by Didymus the Blind and translated by Robert Charles Hill

26) Pope Peter: Defending the Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis by Joe Heschmeyer

27) Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol by Nina E. Livesey

28) The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy

29) Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (Themes in Biblical Narrative 13), edited by Martin Goodman, George H. van Kooten, and Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten

30) The Apostle to the Foreskin: Circumcision in the Letters of Paul by Ryan D. Collman

31) The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account by Guy Mansini

32) The Road from Hyperpapalism to Catholicism: Rethinking the Papacy in a Time of Ecclesial Disintegration: Volume 1 by Peter Kwasniewski

33) Information and Society by Michael Keeble Buckland

34) The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1–17 by Victor P. Hamilton

35) Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages by Mark Gregory Pegg

36) Righteous by Promise: A Biblical Theology of Circumcision by Karl Deenick

37) Sodom's Sin: Genesis 18-19 and its Interpretations (Themes in Biblical Narrative 7), edited by Ed Noort and Eibert Tigchelaar

38) Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism by Matthew Levering

39) The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society by Brad S. Gregory

40) Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults, and Identities during Late Antiquity by Valentina A. Grasso

41) What was the Sin of Sodom: Homosexuality, Inhospitality, or Something Else?: Reading Genesis 19 as Torah by Brian Neil Peterson

42) Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme

43) Homilies on Genesis, 18-45 by St. John Chrysostom and translated by Robert C. Hill

44) The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and Its Interpretations (Themes in Biblical Narrative 4), edited by Ed Noort and Eibert Tigchelaar

45) Unity in Christ: Bishops, Synodality, and Communion by Anthony Fisher

46) The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity by Jon D. Levenson

47) On Genesis (Translated Texts for Historians 48) by St. Bede and translated by Calvin B. Kendall

48) Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith by Terence E. Fretheim

49) Luther's Works, vol. 3: Lectures on Genesis 15-20 by Martin Luther and translated by George V. Schick

50) Nicaea 325: Reassessing the Contemporary Sources by Samuel Fernández