The Art of Theology (CT1209T)

Content

Students will be introduced to key concepts and figures in the study of systematic theology through an analysis of the plurality of theological sources and methods. Four practice-led seminar sessions will be staggered across the course, in which the students will be led through a process of reflective artistic practice. This will provoke ongoing reflection throughout the course on the integrated nature of theological knowledge.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

This unit will serve as a general introduction to theology and prerequisite to further study in systematic theology.

Pedagogy

Practice-led reflection, lectures and discussions

Indicative Bibliography

• Coakley, Sarah. God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans., Allen Mandelbaum (London: Everyman’s Library, 1995).
  
• Dosotevsky, Fyodo , The Brothers Karamazov, trans., Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear (New York: Vintage, 2002).
• Jennings, Willie James, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
• Jenson, Robert, A Theology in Outline: Can these Bones Live? (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
• Martin, Dale B., Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty First Century (new Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
• Melville, Herman, Moby Dick (New York: Vintage, 2007).
  
• Morse, Christopher. Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Disbelief, 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
• Of Gods and Men , directed by Xavier Bauvois (2010, Mars Distribution).
• Watson, Natalie K., Feminist Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).

Assessment