Metanoia is the greek word for “to change one’s mind.”
Below are a number of my personal favorite books including and beyond the ones I share in the video above. Each one has helped me “to change my mind” about many a topic in life.
Read them at your own caution. They will disrupt your life in the best way possible.
Spirituality
- No Man is an Island and New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
- The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen
- Silence by Shusaku Endo
- The Enneagram and Falling Upward by Fr. Richard Rohr
- Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault
- The Showings by Julian of Norwich
- The Writings of St. Francis
- The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
- Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
- The Spiritual Disciplines by St. Ignatius of Loyola
- Purity of Heart and Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
- The Confessions by St. Augustine
Theology/Philosophy
- Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
- I and Thou by Martin Buber
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Soul’s Journey into God by St. Bonaventure
- The Divine Milieu and The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
- The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio
- Any book by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Evangelical, Ecumenical and Reformed by George Hunsinger
- Incarnation and Atonement by TF Torrance
Psychology
- Why Did I Do That? by Joseph Burgo
- Spiral Dynamics by Beck and Cowen
- Spiral Dynamics in Action edited by Don Beck
- A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedmann
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero
- People of the Lie by Scott Peck
- Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie
