Emilie Townes's runners-up

Suppose someone who hasn't
been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years now wants to read the most
important books written during that time. What five titles would you suggest?

We posed this question to
eight theologians and published their responses in our fall books issue. Of
course, it's hard to narrow a list down to just five titles—so a couple of them
passed along some additional choices as well. We're posting these runners-up here
on the blog.

Emilie M. Townes teaches at Yale and wrote Breaking the Fine Rain of Death. Here
are her top five picks: