Deep-Dish Chicago-Style Bibliography
I often get requests for a general theological reading list. This latest one was quite thorough and so I thought I would post it.
Question:
Thanks
for the offer to assault me with titles. Please send along some sort of list
having to do with Barth, Moltman,
Jones, Tillich (though we didn't talk about him, I'm
still a bit interested), Rahner, etc, anyone else you
can think of. Also, do you know anything
about
Reply:
Barth
short books to start with:
Dogmatics in Outline (late 1940s) - reflections
on apostle's creed
Humanity of God (early
60s) - three excellent programmatic essays
Introduction to Evangelical
Theology (early 60s) - last lectures
Romans (early 20s) – his
early yet elusive commentary that made him famous
his extended unfinished 15 volume Church
Dogmatics:
difficult yet rewarding if you stick it out
for at least 50 pages
* = my favorites; but you can jump in
anywhere really
I/1 - Revelation (esp. method and Trinity)
I/2 - Revelation (esp. Incarnation, Spirit, Church)
II/1 - God (Reality and Perfections)
*II/2 - God (Election and Ethics)
III/1 - Creation (God the Creator)
*III/2 - Creation (The Human Creature)
III/3 - Creation (Providence, Evil, etc.)
III/4 - Creation (Ethics)
*IV/1 - Reconciliation (Lord as Servant: Christology, Justificat
*IV/2 - Reconciliation (Servant as Lord: Christology,
Sanctification, Ecclesiology, etc.)
IV/3 - Reconciliation (True Witness: Christology, Vocation, Ecclesiology,
etc)
IV/4 - Reconciliation (Baptism) [Fragment]
V - Redemption [never written]
Moltmann
short place to start with:
"In the
End-The Beginning" - a new short book of his
Also check out his excellent lecture series in
Asbury Theological Journal 1993
five part "Systematic Contributions to Theology":
The Trinity
and the Kingdom of God - God (1980)
God
in Creation - Creation (1985)
The Way of
Jesus Christ - Christology (1990)
The Spirit of
Life - Pneumatology (1991)
The Coming of
God - Eschatology (1995)
his intriguing early programmatic trilogy:
[these 3 assume more theological
background]
Theology of
Hope (1964)
The Crucified
God (1972)
The Church in
the Power of the Spirit (1975)
Tillich
short places to start:
Dynamics of
Faith (50s)
The Courage to
Be
his three volume Systematic
Theology:
[although its short, he is doing some high
level things]
It is set up in five parts consisting each of a
correlation of existential question and theological answer
Volume 1: Part 1 Reason and Revelation
Part 2 Being and God
Volume 2: Part 3 Existence and the Christ
Volume 3: Part 4 Life and the Spirit
Part 5 History and the Kingdom of God
his very helpful and illumination history of doctrine:
History of Christian Thought
Rahner
he re-instigated the genre of theological essay, so his theology is sprinkled through his multi-volume collection entitled
Theological Investigations. I especially like vol. 4
Von Balthasar
Credo – great into to his thought via short reflections on the Apostle’s Creed; one of his last writings (actually radio addresses)
Mysterium Paschale – great treatment of the Atonement structured around the Triduum: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday
His Trilogy built around the 3 transcendentals of classic philosophy:
Aesthetics (“beauty”): The Glory of the Lord (7 vols)
Dramatics (“goodness”): Theo-Drama (5 vols)
Logic (“truth”): Theo-Logic (3 vols)
I especially like Theo-Drama because of his direction narration of Christian doctrine, but the more philosophically oriented might like the others.
Serene Jones
Cartographies of Grace:
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology – of all the feminist writers, I do
enjoy her the most because of here doctrinal insight
Hauerwas
just start with the Hauerwas Reader -
it collects up a ton of his essays, which is his primary medium
If you are looking
for a complete book, try
Hope this helps get you start. Feel free to ask for additional detail or
more titles anytime
peace,
john