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Name: The Rev. Randall Foster
Location: Bedford, Texas, United States

I am a priest serving in the Episcopal diocese of Fort Worth, Texas (Anglican Church in North America, also affiliated temporarily with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone), as an assisting priest at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, Bedford, and as chaplain and a teacher of religion and social studies at our Cathedral School. I am also a doctoral student in New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago. I am presently at work on my dissertation, which examines the rhetoric of the correspondence of St. Athanasius of Alexandria.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Tagged for Christian Books


Richard of Richard's Ramblings has tagged me to identify the ten Christian books I would take with me onto a desert island. Well, here goes:

1. The Oxford Study Bible in its RSV edition, with Apocrypha.

2. Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th Edition.

3. Irenaeus, Against Heresies

4. Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word

5. Augustine, Confessions

6. Anselm, Cur Deus Homo?

7. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

8. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World

9. The Catechism of the Catholic Church

10. Michael D. O'Brien, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse

If I were "spotted" my Greek and English Bibles, I think I would replace them with a copy of the Apostolic Fathers (Greek and English) and William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.

Again, since I have already tagged the folks I would tag this time, I am going to hold off on tagging anyone. I hope this doesn't bring some sort of curse down on me!

PS--On second thought, if Father Peregrinator or Father Nelson cared to comment, I would enjoy seeing their lists. But no official "tag." No pressure, gentlemen.

3 Comments:

Blogger Julian said...

That looks more like a tropical paradise than a desert island there!

11:21 PM  
Blogger texanglican said...

One couldn't really concentrate on one's books unless there was proper shade to recline under, could one? Best wishes for a spiritually enriching Ash Wednesday, my friend.

6:23 AM  
Blogger Father Nelson said...

A response to your request has been posted on my blog. Thanks for the opportunity.

9:38 AM  

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