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Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) (2019/2020) 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Systematic and Philosophical Theology for View Online Newcomers (THEO4125) (2019/2020) 84 items Key Resources (2 items) The Cambridge companion to Christian doctrine - Colin E. Gunton, 1997 Book | Core The Oxford handbook of systematic theology - J. B. Webster, Kathryn Tanner, Iain R. Torrance, 2007 Book | Core Other Resources (9 items) Early Christian doctrines - J. N. D. Kelly, 1977 Book Christian theology: an introduction - Alister E. McGrath, 2017 Book Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology - Daniel L. Migliore, ProQuest (Firm), 2014 Book Christian doctrine - Mike Higton, 2008 Book The modern theologians: an introduction to Christian theology since 1918 - David Ford, Rachel Muers, 2005 Book Christian theology: a brief introduction - Gareth Jones, 1999 Book The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought - Alister E. McGrath, 1993 Book Barth - John Webster, 2000 Book Aquinas - Brian Davies, 2003 Book 1/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Unit One: What is Systematic and Philosophical Theology? (11 items) The Cambridge companion to Christian doctrine - Colin E. Gunton, 1997 Book | Chapter 1 and pp. 47-59. The Oxford handbook of systematic theology - J. B. Webster, Kathryn Tanner, Iain R. Torrance, 2007 Book | Introduction Easter in ordinary: reflections on human experience and the knowledge of God - Nicholas Lash, 1990 Book | pp. 257-272 The nature of doctrine: religion and theology in a postliberal age - George A. Lindbeck, 1984 Book | Chapter 4 Transcending Boundaries in Theology and Philosophy - Martin Warner Chapter The genesis of doctrine: a study in the foundations of doctrinal criticism - Alister E. McGrath, 1997, c1990 Book | Especially Chapter 2 Further Reading for Unit One (5 items) Scripture, tradition, and reason: a study in the criteria of Christian doctrine : essays in honour of Richard P.C. Hanson - Richard Bauckham, Benjamin Drewery, R. P. C. Hanson, 1988 Book System, Story, Performance: A Proposal about the Role of Narrative in Christian Systematic Theology - D Ford Chapter The nature of doctrine: religion and theology in a postliberal age - George A. Lindbeck, 1984 Book Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology - Daniel L. Migliore, ProQuest (Firm), 2014 Book | Chapters 1 & 3 Theology after liberalism: a reader - J. B. Webster, George P. Schner, 2000 Book | Particularly Chapters 1, 4, 13, 15, & 17 Unit Two: Plato and the Forms (13 items) Republic - C. J. Emlyn-Jones, William Preddy, Plato, 2014 2/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Book | Book V-Book VII An introduction to Plato's Republic - Julia Annas, c1981 Book | Chapter 10 The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic - G. R. F. Ferrari, 2007 Book | Chapter 11 The Cambridge companion to Plato - Richard Kraut, 1992 Book | Chapters 1 & 9 Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic - Nickolas Pappas, 2003 Book | Chapter 7 Plato's Republic: a study - Stanley Rosen, c2005 Book | Chapter 10 The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic - Gerasimos Santas Chapter Further reading for unit two (6 items) Plato's thought in the making: a study of the development of his metaphysics - J. E. Raven, 1965 Book | Chapter 10 New essays on Plato and Aristotle - G. E. M. Anscombe, Renford Bambrough, c1965 Book | See Chapter by Vlastos The Line and the Cave - John Malcolm, 1962-01-01 Article The idea of the good in Platonic-Aristotelian philosophy - Hans-Georg Gadamer, c1986 Book | Chapters 1 & 2 Language in the Cave - V Harte Chapter The Blackwell guide to Plato's Republic - Gerasimos Xenophon Santas, 2006 Book | Chapters 2, 11, and 12 Unit Three: Aristotle and Our Final End (7 items) Metaphysics - G. Cyril Armstrong, Hugh Tredennick, Aristotle, 2014 Book | Book 12 The Subject and Structure of Metaphysics Book A - Helen Lang, 1993 Article 3/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Aristotle and other Platonists - Lloyd P. Gerson, 2005 Book | Chapter 6 Philosophy, God and motion - Simon Oliver, 2005 Book | Chapter 2 God and Greek philosophy: studies in the early history of natural theology - L. P. Gerson, 1990 Book | Chapter 3 Aristotle: the desire to understand - Jonathan Lear, 1988 Book | pp. 293-320 A history of ancient philosophy: from the beginnings to Augustine - K. Friis Johansen, 1998 Book | Chapter 22 Unit Four: Augustine and privatio boni (10 items) Confessions - Henry Chadwick, Augustine, 2008 Book | Reproduced in Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, below. Philosophy of religion: a guide and anthology - Brian Davies, 2000 Book | Chapter 54 Evil and the Augustinian tradition - Charles T. Mathewes, 2001 Book | Part 1 Being reconciled: ontology and pardon - John Milbank, 2003 Book | Chapter 1 Further reading for unit four (6 items) The doors of the sea: where was God in the Tsunami? - David Bentley Hart, c2005 Book Augustine on evil - G. R. Evans, 1990 Book Theology and the problem of evil - Kenneth Surin, 1986 Book The Cambridge companion to Augustine - David Vincent Meconi, Eleonore Stump, 2014 Book | Chapter 3 Religion and morality - D. Z. Phillips, 1996 Book | Essays by Marilyn McCord Adams and Rowan Williams (included in the readings pack) The problem of evil and the problem of God - D. Z. Phillips, 2004 4/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Book Unit Five: Thomas Aquinas and God-talk (3 items) Summa theologiae: Latin text and English translation, introductions, notes, appendices, and glossaries - Thomas Aquinas, 1964-1981 Book | 1a.13 Aquinas: God and action - David B. Burrell, c2008 Book | Chapter 4 Aquinas on God: the 'divine science' of the Summa theologiae - Rudi A. te Velde, c2006 Book | Chapter 4 Unit Six: Revealed and Natural Theology (7 items) Church dogmatics - Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas F. Torrance, 2004 Book | Vol. 1, Part 1, par. 4.3-4 As in a mirror: John Calvin and Karl Barth on knowing God : a diptych - Cornelis van der Kooi, 2005 Book | Chapter 6 Revelation - Trevor Hart Chapter Further reading for unit six (4 items) Models of revelation - Avery Dulles, 1992 Book A brief theology of revelation: the 1993 Warfield lectures - Colin E. Gunton, 2005 Book Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology - Daniel L. Migliore, 2014 Book | Chapter 2 Concept of Revelation - John Webster Chapter Unit Seven: The Triune God (22 items) Church dogmatics - Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas F. Torrance, 2004 Book | Vol. I, part 1, read I/1, ch. 2 5/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham As in a mirror: John Calvin and Karl Barth on knowing God : a diptych - Cornelis van der Kooi, 2005 Book | Chapter 7 The Trinity - Alan Torrance Chapter Further reading for unit seven (19 items) In Defence of Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Trinity - Iain Taylor, 2003-03 Article The reproach of modalism: a difficulty for Karl Barth's doctrine of the trinity - Dennis W. Jowers, 2003-5 Article Barth - John Webster, 2000 Book | Chapter 3, especially pp. 57-64 Barth on the Triune God - Rowan Williams Chapter On Christian theology - Rowan Williams, 2000 Book | Chapter 9. Originally published in Modern Theology 2(3), 1986, pp. 197-212. THE REVELATION OF THE HOLY OTHER AS THE WHOLLY OTHER: BETWEEN BARTH'S THEOLOGY OF THE WORD AND LEVINAS'S PHILOSOPHY OF SAYING - GRAHAM WARD, 1993-04 Article The Trinity - Edmund Hill, John E. Rotelle, Augustine, Augustinian Heritage Institute, c1991 Book | Especially books 1, 9, 10 & 11 Augustine on the triune life of God - Lewis Ayres Chapter | Chapter 3 De Trinitate - Mary Clark Chapter | Chapter 7 Augustine and the Trinity - Lewis Ayres, c2010 Book Gregory of Nyssa - Anthony Meredith, Gregory, 2003 Book | Chapter 2 The Cappadocians - Anthony Meredith, c1995 Book Early Christian doctrines - J. N. D. Kelly, 1977 Book | Chapter 10 6/7 10/01/21 Systematic and Philosophical Theology for Newcomers (THEO4125) | University of Nottingham Powers and submissions: spirituality, philosophy and gender - Sarah Coakley, c2002 Book | Chapter 7 Nicaea and its legacy: an approach to fourth-century Trinitarian theology - Lewis Ayres, 2004 Book The Trinity: an interdisciplinary symposium on the Trinity - Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, Gerald O'Collins, Oxford University Press, 1999 Book | Especially chs. 1, 5, 7,8, 11 & 12 The search for the Christian doctrine of God: the Arian controversy 318-381 - R. P. C. Hanson, 1988 Book | Note: this is a huge work. Select sections relating to the formulation of Trinitarian doctrine. Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology - Daniel L. Migliore, 2014 Book | Chapter 4 Modern trinitarian perspectives - John Thompson, ebrary, Inc, 1994 Book 7/7.
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