Posted on: February 11th, 2009 “Systematic” Theology, Anglican Style
This blog is about my theological pilgrimage (Lt. peregrinatio), and so I am going to blog about an experience I am having which is profoundly important for me. I am finally experiencing, in a formal way, one way to do (“systematic”) theology postmodern, Anglican style.
I am going to try to summarize, in one paragraph each, each of the texts we read in our “Theology I: God and Creation” class taught by Tony Baker at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX.
I do want to call attention to the selection of the texts we are reading in this class (which is sort of the first forray into theology which MDiv students at this Episcopal seminary are getting). I am grateful for my training at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, but it is interesting to compare in contrast the assigned readings in this this class versus what we were assigned to read at Westminster. I am pretty sure that, at Westminster, we did not read anything older than the reformation (in formal theology classes), and nothing from outside the Reformed tradition. (I will get back to this point and confirm it or correct it later.)
First Summary: here.
Here is the assortment of texts, portions of which we are assigned in this theology class at SSW:
Augustine, The Confessions.
Chesterton, GK. Father Brown: The Essential Tales.
Floresky, Pavel. The Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
Pickstock, Catherine. Asyndeton: Syntax and Insanity: a Study of Revision of the Nicene Creed.
Origen. Commentary on the Gospel of John.
De Lubac. Henri. Medieval Exegesis.
Augustine. On Christian Doctrine.
Hooker, Richard. Ecclesiastical Polity.
Maurice, FD. Theological Essays.
Solovyov. Vladimir. Lectures on Divine Humanity.
Florensky, Pavel. The Pillar and Ground of Truth.
Von Balthassar, Hans urs. Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, Volume IV: The Actions.
Gregory of Nyssa. Concerning We Should Not Think of Saying That There are Not Three Gods.
Johnson, Elizabeth. Basic Linguistic Options: God, Women, Equilavence.
St. Anselm: Proslogium.
Gutierrez, Gustavo. On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent.
Borges, Jorges Luis. Funes, the Memorious.
Bonhoeffer, Deitrich. Letters and Papers from Prison.
Weinandy, Thomas G. Does God Suffer?
Edwards, Jonathan. Ethical Writings.
Sayers, Dorothy. The Mind of the Maker.
Gregory of Nyssa. On the Making of Man.
Williams, Rowan. On Christian Theology.
Bauerschmidt. Holy Teaching.
Tanner, Kathryn. God, Jesus, and the World.
