Theology II

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Tue 2/24

Beginning-of-class deadline for discussing an outline of your Theological Analysis Project with your TA.

Thu 3/4

Beginning-of-class deadline for discussing an outline of your Theological Construction Paper with your TA.

Tue 3/16

Beginning-of-class deadline for submitting your Theological Analysis Project. Submit the project in hard-copy form to your TA or, if it exclusively a web-based project, as a document attached to an email sent to your TA prior to class.

Thu 4/15

Beginning-of-class deadline for submitting the first draft of your Theological Construction Paper. Submit the draft in hard-copy form to your TA in class.

Thu 4/22

First drafts of your Theological Construction Paper are returned in class, with comments, on this day. Use the comments to refine your paper.
Fri 4/23 9am deadline for submitting reading helper quizzes

Mon 4/26

9am deadline for submitting the final draft of your Theological Construction Paper (in hard-copy form to Prof. Wildman in STH 335). Traveling Seminary Singers can turn their papers into Rev. Earl Beane as they board the bus on Monday morning.

Readings and Topics

Note on Abbreviations: “McGrath” refers to Christian Theology: An Introduction, 2nd ed. “Rahner” refers to Foundations of Christian Faith; optional readings from Rahner’s The Content of Faith are not furnished here; it is better to explore that marvelous collection at your leisure. The other references are unambiguous, relative to the list of course books. While the main books are covered in order in the schedule, some of the optional readings are out of order. Many of the recommended constructive theologies have no page numbers in the schedule but they are well organized and it usually is fairly easy to find each topic within their many pages and sometimes many volumes.

Tue 1/13

Introduction (Course Goals and Requirements; Assignment of Discussion Groups)

Thu 1/15

Inevitability and Importance of Theology

 

Required Reading: Ford, chs. 1-4

 

Optional Reading: Get oriented to the constructive theologies we are reading for this class. That is, don’t read so much as browse with a view to grasping the plan and maybe the strategy of each book.

Tue 1/20

Tasks and Scope of Theology

 

Required Reading: Ford, chs. 5-10

 

Optional Reading: Cone 1-20; McGrath 141-151; Neville 1-10

Thu 1/22

Styles of Theology

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez xiii-xv, 3-12; Hodgson & King 1-30 [Farley, Ogden], 381-406 [Niebuhr, Cone, Gutiérrez, Ruether, Hick, Kaufman]; LaCugna 1-4; Rahner xi-xv, 1-14; Tillich I 3-28

 

Optional Reading: Cone v-xx, 142-201; Bloesch I 7-23, II 235-298

Tue 1/27

Methods for Theology

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez xvii-xlvi, 13-25; LaCugna 5-29 [Carr]; Rahner 14-23; Tillich I 28-68

 

Optional Reading: Kaufman 3-93

Thu 1/29

Sources for Theology

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez 13-25; Hodgson & King 31-59 [Origen, Calvin, Möhler, Hodge, Rahner, Kelsey]; LaCugna 31-57 [Schneiders], 59-82 [Hilkert]; review Tillich I 34-46

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch I 51-87; Cone 21-39; McGrath 181-231; Neville 11-23

Tue 2/3

Introduction to a Theological System: Suchocki

 

Required Reading: Read ahead on Tillich and Rahner

 

Optional Reading: Suchocki 1-36; 237-259

Thu 2/5

Introduction to a Theological System: Tillich

 

Required Reading: Tillich I 71-105, I 106-159, II 163-210

 

Optional Reading: Read more of Tillich’s writings

Tue 2/10

Introduction to a Theological System: Rahner

 

Required Reading: Rahner 24-43, 44-89, 90-115, 116-137

 

Optional Reading: Read more of Rahner’s writings

Thu 2/12

Introduction to a Theological System: Gutiérrez

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez 27-77

 

Optional Reading: Read more of Gutiérrez’s writings

Tue 2/17

No Class: Monday schedule in effect

 

By now you should know what your Theological Analysis Project is to be about. You (and your group, if there is one) should make significant headway on that in the next week. An outline or sketch of the Project needs to be discussed with the teaching staff as soon as possible, and certainly by 2/24.

Thu 2/19

Revelation and Religious Knowledge

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 88-117 [Augustine, Luther, Tindal, Barth, Bultmann, Rahner, Pannenberg, Niebuhr]

 

Optional Reading: Cone 40-54; McGrath 152-177

Tue 2/24

God

 

Beginning-of-class deadline for discussing an outline of your Theological Analysis Project with your TA

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 60-87 [Gregory of Nyssa, Anselm, Aquinas, Hartshorne, Barth, Tillich]; LaCugna 83-114 [LaCugna]; Tillich I 211-235

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch I 24-50; Cone 55-81; Kaufman 301-373; McGrath 239-267, 292-316; ; Neville 37-49; Suchocki 39-84

Thu 2/26

God Talk

 

You should now be working out an outline for your Theological Construction Paper. This outline or sketch needs to be discussed with the teaching staff as soon as possible, and certainly by 3/4. Then you will have plenty of time to write the first draft in time for the deadline.

 

Required Reading: Kaufman 412-425; Tillich II.II 235-289

 

Optional Reading: Tillich III 283-299

Tue 3/2

God, Creation, and Cosmology

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 118-146 [Augustine, Calvin, Spinoza, Hegel, Ford, Tillich]

 

Optional Reading: Kaufman 237-297; McGrath 267-279; Neville 25-36; Tillich II 3-16, III 3-110

Thu 3/4

Human Condition

 

Beginning-of-class deadline for discussing an outline of your Theological Construction Paper with your TA

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 147-175 [Augustine, Schleiermacher, Barth, Niebuhr, Rahner]; LaCugna 139-160 [O’Neill]

 

Optional Reading: Cone 82-109; Kaufman 97-234; Neville 51-62; Tillich II 19-44

Tue 3/9

No Class: Spring Recess

Thu 3/11

No Class: Spring Recess

Tue 3/16

Evil, Sin, Suffering, and Satan

 

Beginning-of-class deadline for submitting your Theological Analysis Project. Submit the project in hard-copy form to your TA or, if it exclusively a web-based project, as a document attached to an email sent to your TA at least 30 minutes prior to the beginning of class.

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 176-204 [Augustine, Luther, Tennant, Kierkegaard, Niebuhr, Ricoeur, Farrer]

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch I 88-119; McGrath 423-459; Neville 63-74; Tillich II 44-96

Thu 3/18

Liberation and Salvation

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez 79-105; Rahner 138-175

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch 148-252; McGrath 386-420; Neville 75-99; Tillich II 165-180

Tue 3/23

Jesus Christ

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 205-236 [Nicea, Athanasius, Chalcedon, Anselm, Schleiermacher, Bultmann, Barth, Moltmann]; LaCugna 115-137 [Johnson]

 

Optional Reading: Cone 110-128; McGrath 319-356; Neville 127-151; Suchocki 87-125; Tillich II 97-138

Thu 3/25

Varieties of Christology

 

Required Reading: Rahner 176-206, 285-311

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch I 120-147; Kaufman 374-411; McGrath 358-384; Rahner 206-285; Tillich 138-150

Tue 3/30

Theology, Christology, and the Religions

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 351-380 [Justin Martyr, Troeltsch, Barth, Pannenberg, Cobb]; Rahner 311-321

 

Optional Reading: Kaufman 429-461; McGrath 521-538; Suchocki 164-179; Tillich 150-165

Thu 4/1

History, Politics, and Eschatology

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez 106-140

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch II 174-210; Cone 129-142; Tillich III 297-393

Tue 4/6

Ethics

 

Required Reading: LaCugna 211-234 [Cahill]; Rahner 402-411

 

Optional Reading: McClendon I

Thu 4/8

Church

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 237-264 [Cyprian, Aquinas, Second Helvetic Confession, Schleiermacher, Gustafson, Paris, Gutiérrez]; LaCugna 161-184 [Hines]

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch II 104-173; McGrath 461-492; Neville 153-169; Rahner 322-401; Suchocki 129-151; Tillich III 162-245

Tue 4/13

Church, Culture, and Ethics

 

Required Reading: Gutiérrez 141-174; Hauerwas and Willimon 15-111

 

Optional Reading: Neville 101-113; Tillich III 245-282

Thu 4/15

Ministry and Spirituality

 

Beginning-of-class deadline for submitting the first draft of your Theological Construction Paper. Submit the draft in hard-copy form to your TA in class.

 

Required Reading: Hauerwas and Willimon 112-172; LaCugna 235-259 [Conn]

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch II 71-103;

Tue 4/20

Sacraments and the Christian Life

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 265-294 [Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, Luther, Kant, Schmemann, Rahner]; LaCugna 185-209 [Ross]; Rahner 411-430

 

Optional Reading: Bloesch II 6-70; McGrath 494-518; Neville 115-126; Suchocki 152-163

Thu 4/22

The Spirit and Spirituality

 

First drafts of Theological Construction Paper returned in class.

 

Required Reading: Hodgson & King 295-322 [Isaac of Syria, Aquinas, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Law, Rauschenbusch, Williams]

 

Optional Reading: McGrath 279-288; Tillich III 111-161

Fri 4/23

Final Deadline for Quizzes
9am deadline for submitting reading helper quizzes

Mon 4/26

Final Deadline for Paper

 

9am deadline for submitting the final draft of your Theological Construction Paper (in hard-copy form to Prof. Wildman in STH 335). Traveling Seminary Singers can turn their papers into Rev. Earl Beane as they board the bus on Monday morning.

Tue 4/27

NO CLASS: Seminary Singers on the road

 

We traded this class (on Kingdom of God and Eternal Life) for the writing workshop!

 

Optional Reading: Hodgson & King 323-350 [Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Bultmann, Tillich, Pannenberg, Moltmann]; Rahner 431-447
More Optional Reading: Bloesch II 211-234; McGrath 540-561; Suchocki 183-236; Tillich III 394-423

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