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i’m so glad for Mandie.  Last night, we stayed up past midnight finishing cleaning up the house before Jeff and his wife arrive.  She had been awake since before 6 am and at work at 7 am (for 11 hours!).  i couldn’t do this without her.

i’d normally list the book i’m currently reading, but i’ve gotten quite a bit from the library:

1. On the Geneaology of Morals and Ecce Homo by Nietzsche (Kaufmann translation)
2. The Will to Power by Nietzsche (Kaufmann and Hollingdale translation)
3. Pathmarks by Heidegger (McNeill translation)
4. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, 2nd ed. by Kant (Carus and Ellington translation)
5. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (Crisp translation)
6. God and the Philosophers by T.V. Morris
7. Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth (Thomson translation)
8. Institutes of the Christian Religion, I by John Calvin (Baillie, McNeill, et al translation)
9. Lectures on Romans (Luther’s Works, vol 25) by Martin Luther (Oswald translation)
10. The Confessions by Augustine (Universal Library translation)

That (except for #6: God and the Philosophers, as that is for personal reading), on top of a few books from my personal collection:

1. Belief by Vattimo
2. The Transparent Society by Vattimo
3. Saint Paul by Badiou
4. Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by MacIntyre
5. Being and Time by Heidegger
6. On Certainty by Wittgenstein
7. The Fragile Absolute by Zizek
8. The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer
9. God, Here and Now by Barth
10. Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
11. Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
12. The Next Reformation by Raschke

will be the beginning materials for my thesis.
Of course, if you want to read some pretty good philosophy that has serious applicability in theology, i can definitely suggest the 12 books in my personal collection (the first 7 if you want an understanding of what postmodern philosophy looks like without getting into the majors: Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, etc).
One of these days, i’ll start a list of books i believe all Christian philosophers/theologians should read before dying.