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Theological & Spiritual Biographies: Select 'Favorites' from Luther Sem Faculty (and others)

Theological & Spiritual Biography: 'Favorites'

Georgia Harkness: for such a time as this by Rosemary Skinner Keller
Call Number: BX8495.H255 K45
ISBN: 0687132762
Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Recommended by Dr. Alan Padgett
John Wesley: a biography by Stephen Tomkins
Call Number: BX8495.W5 T65
ISBN: 0802824994
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Recommended by Dr. Alan Padgett
T. F. Torrance an Intellectual Biography by Alister E McGrath 1953-
Call Number: BX4827.T67 M32
ISBN: 0567086836
Publication Date: 1999-03-10
Recommended by Dr. Alan Padgett
Confessions by Augustine; Sarah Ruden (Translator)
Call Number: BR65.A6 C62 2017 (also see EBOOK edition)
ISBN: 9780812996562
Publication Date: 2017
Augustine of Hippo: a biography by Peter Brown
Call Number: BR1720.A9 B7 2000
ISBN: 0520228359
Publication Date: 2000-11-24
A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message by Winn Collier
Publication Date: 2021
Not yet available at Luther
Recommended by Library Staff
A Life of John Calvin: a study in the shaping of Western culture by Alister McGrath
Call Number: BX9418 .M18
ISBN: 0631163980
Publication Date: 1991
Recommended by Dr. Alan Padgett
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 0300096933
Publication Date: 2003-03-11

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Dakota by Kathleen Norris
Call Number: F656.2 .N66
ISBN: 0395633206
Publication Date: 1993
Recommended by Dr. K. Schifferdecker
Acedia and Me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life by Kathleen Norris
Call Number: BT732.4 .N67
ISBN: 9781594489969
Publication Date: 2008
Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's epistolary autobiography (EBOOK) by Bradley K. Storin
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780520972940
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Aquinas and His Role in Theology by Marie Dominique Chenu; Paul Philibert (Translator)
Call Number: B765.T54 C468
ISBN: 9780814650790
Publication Date: 2002-06-01
Recommended by Dr. Dirk Lange
Julian of Norwich: autobiography and theology by Christopher Abbott
Call Number: BV4832.2.J853 A23
ISBN: 0859915484
Publication Date: 1999-07-15
Julian of Norwich: a contemplative biography (2010) by Amy Frykholm
Call Number: BV5095.J84 F79
ISBN: 9781557256263
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
C. S. Lewis - A Life: eccentric genius, reluctant prophet by Alister McGrath
Call Number: PR6023.E9 Z724
ISBN: 9781414339351
Publication Date: 2013
Recommended by Dr. Alan Padgett
Elisabeth Elliot: a Life by Lucy S. R. Austen This biography takes readers on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot--her marriage to Jim Elliot, her years of international missions work, and her prolific career as a writer and speaker.
Call Number: (Minitex)
ISBN: 9781433565915
Publication Date: 2023

... Still more:

Karl Barth: his life from letters and autobiographical texts by Eberhard Busch; John Bowden (Translator)
Call Number: BX4827 .B3 B87
ISBN: 0800604857
Publication Date: 1976-11-01
Recommended by Library Staff
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : man of vision, man of courage by Eberhard Bethge
1970 definitive biography of DB by Eberhard Bethge, German theologian, pastor and Bonhoeffer's close friend. ISBN:978-0060607715
Godric by Frederick Buechner
Call Number: PS3552.U4 G6
ISBN: 0060611626
Publication Date: 1999-12-22
Recommended by Library Staff
Brendan: a novel by Frederick Buechner
Call Number: PS3552.U4 B7
ISBN: 0060611782
Publication Date: 2000-05-16
Recommended by Library Staff
Dusk, Night, Dawn : on revival and courage by Anne Lamott
Call Number: PS3562.A46 Z464
ISBN: 9780593189696
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
Recommended by Library Staff
The Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi by Ëloi Leclerc; Marie-Louise Johnson (Translator)
Call Number: not yet available at Luther
ISBN: 9780932727459
Publication Date: 1991-09-15
recommended by Dr. Dirk Lange

Random EBOOKS on Spiritual Biography

An Odd Cross to Bear: a biography of Ruth Bell Graham (2022)

Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila**

We Will Be Free: the life and faith of Sojourner Truth, 2023

The Mind in Another Place: my life as a scholar (Luke Timothy Johnson, 2022)

Catherine Booth : laying the theological foundations of a radical movement

Circuitous Journeys : modern spiritual autobiography

Excessive Saints: gender, narrative, and theological invention in Thomas of Cantimpré's mystical hagiographies

George Whitefield : America's spiritual founding father

John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: a biography

Juan Antonio Monroy: an autobiography

Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972

Søren Kierkegaard: a biography

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila : a biography

The Long Loneliness: the autobiography of Dorothy Day

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: a spiritual life

The way things are : conversations with Huston Smith on the spiritual life

Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: a biography

Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America

For further consideration:

Missionary Biographies--dozens of brief bios from Boston Univ School of Theology
Top Biography Recommendations from 12 Christian Historians (a 2016 blogpost)
The Value of Spiritual Biography, by John Haverland
"Prose and Prayer: Teaching the Art of Spiritual Autobiography.” by Kaya Oakes. in America 209. 9 (Oct. 7, 2013): 13–15

Select Brief Articles from ATLA on Spiritual Biography
includes biographical snippets from lives of Barth, Bonhoeffer, FF Bruce, J.Edwards, St.Gregory, Huss, Kato, Kierkegaard, Luther, Niebuhr, Padilla, Petto, Rooy, JKA Smith, Warfield, Zwingli, et al.