so, i've decided to take up reading in my spare time...

     What am I reading of late? Glad you asked.

     Here, in no particular order, is what's around me at this moment.

     Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, and State of Exception, by Giorgio Agamben;

     Brother Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling; The Sickness Unto Death; Either/Or; Papers and Journals: A Selection;

     A Contemporary in Dissent: Johann Georg Hamann as a Radical Enlightener, and Freedom in Response: Lutheran Ethics: Sources and Controversies, by one Oswald Bayer;

     Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology: With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn, a collection of essays;

     Dale B. Martin, The Corinthian Body;

     Volumes 36 & 37 of Luther's Works, which contain, among other works, the Confession Concerning Christ's Supper of 1528, Admonition Concerning the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Our Lord (1530), The Disputation Concerning the Passage, "The Word was Made Flesh" (1539), and 1544's Brief Confession Concerning the Holy Sacrament - all of which prove that the so-called Real Presence was in fact marginal to Luther throughout his entire life;

     Andrey Platonov's The Foundation Pit;
     Icon as Communion: The Ideals and Compositional Principles of Icon Painting, by George Kordis;

     Plays by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Eric Bentley;

     Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul, J. Louis Martyn;

     Richard B. Hays, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Scripture; 

     Briggflats, by Basil Bunting.

     

     And, yeah, I'll have read it all by, oh, next Tuesday, sure...