Theology Books

One of the main things I have decided to post about on this site is Theology. Now I am not a learned scholar with degrees and plaques on my wall that make me feel important, I really am a fairly unlearned person. The things that I know about have been learned from experience, as in a job, or from having an intense like for them. I really enjoy driving fast, and oddly enough I learned about some pretty high level techniques from video games and racing manga (I can hear the scoffing now...). I learned them by TRYING them, by figuring them out, the same goes for fighting, rock-climbing, long-boarding, and multiple other activities that require specific techniques. So that being the case, I have not learned as much from reading facts and theories about things that I can't go and DO.

I have said before, I am an above average intelligence, but my strength lies in spacial reasoning. I got decent grades in school when I decided to give a damn, but always had trouble memorizing things in text. Things like math equations and sentence structure never quite clicked, but when it came to designing a CAD drawing or welding or just finishing out a piece of wood into whatever I was making, everything just flowed.

My point is, I am having a HELL of a time getting through my theology books, as in trying to read every day. They just won't hold my interest because I'm not seeing anything, its just words. I need to find a book that uses better metaphor instead of trying to fill out text with multi-syllable words to impress the other theologians. I do like 'A Shorter Summa' by Peter Kreeft, that breaks down St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologica' to its most valid and hardest-hitting points. Much of it is very philosophical, but once a point is understood it just makes you wonder how you lived without understanding something so fundamental. I also picked up H. Orton Wiley's 'Christian Theology V.1-3', but am still getting thought the defining of Theology and all of its sub-sects. If any of the few people who have seen this sight would mind informing me of any good Theology texts, I would be most thankful.