Summer 2013
Dissertation Research
Spring 2013
Dissertation Proposal:
"A Prime Minister and a Prisoner - for the Common Good: The Convergence of Abraham Kuyper's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology of Discipleship"
Winter 2013
Comprehensive Exams
> Historiography
> Church and State
> 20th Century Christianity
> Method for Christian Ethics
Fall 2012
Seminar:
Method for Concreteness in Christian Ethics, with Dr Glen Stassen
Reading:
> Just Love by Margaret Farley
> Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust by David Gushee
> A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by Stanley Hauerwas
> The Common Good and Christian Ethics by David Hollenbach
> The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
> Ethics, 2nd ed. by James McClendon
> Earth Community, Earth Ethics by Larry Rasmussen
> Scandal of Evangelical Politics by Ronald Sider
> A Thicker Jesus: Incarnational Discipleship in A Secular Age by Glen Stassen
> Disruptive Christian Ethics by Traci West
Research Topic
The Common Good in conversation with neo-Calvinism and Bonhoeffer.
Summer 2012
Course:
Theological French, with Lisa Cleath
Primary Text:
French for Reading Knowledge by Joseph Palmeri and E. E. Milligan
Spring 2012
Seminar:
Topics in Augustine and His Legacy, with Dr John Thompson
Reading:
> Confessions by Augustine
> On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Will, and Other Writings by Augustine
> City of God by Augustine
> On Christian Teaching by Augustine
> The Cambridge Companion to Augustine edited by Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann
Research Topic:
The influence of Augustine on Bonhoeffer's use and interpretation of the Psalms.
Winter 2012
Seminar:
Contemporary Issues in Christology, with Dr Oliver Crisp
Reading:
> Christ and Horrors by Marilyn Adams
> Divinity and Humanity by Oliver Crisp
> God Incarnate by Oliver Crisp
> The Person of Christ by Donald Macleod
> The Logic of God Incarnate by Thomas Morris
Research Topic:
Bonhoeffer's 1933 Christology lectures; the influence of the liberal theology of Harnack and the dialectical theology of Barth
Fall 2011
Seminar:
Historiography, with Dr James Bradley and Dr John Thompson
Reading:
> Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods by James Bradley and Richard Muller
> The Historians Craft by Mark Bloch
> What is History? by E. H. Carr
Research Topic:
Dissertation provisional first chapter, setting out the methodology and rationale for a theological/historical investigation of the development of Bonhoeffer's theology of discipleship.
Summer 2011
Course:
Theological German, with Dr James Keller
Primary Text:
German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German by April Wilson
Spring 2011
Seminar:
Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology: An Ecumenical Perspective, with Dr Howard Loewen
Reading:
> Church Dogmatics: Vols. 1-4, by Karl Barth
> Evangelical Theology by Karl Barth
> Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts by Eberhard Busch
> The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology by Eberhard Busch
> Karl Barth: God's Word in Action by Paul Chung
> Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology edited by Sung Wook Chung
> Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness by Joseph Mangina
> Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology by Bruce McCormack
> The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth edited by John Webster
Research Topic:
The theology of revelation in Bonhoeffer's concept of discipleship; the influence of Karl Barth on Bonhoeffer
Winter 2011
Seminar:
Neo-Calvinist Theology and Ethics, with Dr Richard Mouw
Reading:
> Reformed Dogmatics: Vols. 1-4, by Herman Bavinck
> A Half Century of Theology by G. C. Berkouwer
> Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader edited by James Bratt
> Creating a Christian Worldview: Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism by Peter Heslam
> Lectures on Calvinism: The Stone Lectures of 1898 by Abraham Kuyper
> Christ and Culture by Klass Schilder
Research Topic:
"Distinct Discipleship: Abraham Kuyper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Christian Engagement in Public Life." The ethics of discipleship; Christonomy and ethics in Bonhoeffer; worldview
Fall 2010
Seminar:
The Church in Modern Society, with Dr James Bradley
Reading:
> Religion and Politics in Enlightened Europe edited by James E. Bradley and Dale Van Kley
> The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890 by Charles D. Cashdollar
> The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May
> Christianity in a Secularized World by Wolfhart Pannenberg
> Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion by Alister Chapman, et al
Research Topic:
"The Possibility of Discipleship: History, Human Life and Worldview in the Development of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Tegel Theology" (How did Bonhoeffer's reading of Wilhelm Dilthey, Jose Ortega y Gasset and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker influence his theological development?)
Summer 2010
Course:
Theological Latin, with Christopher Holmes
Primary Text:
> A Primer for Ecclesiastical Latin by John F. Collins
