TH 291 - Inquiring After God

Professor: Ellen T. Charry Ph.D.
Margaret W. Harmon Associate Professor of Systematic Theology

Class Description: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Themes of inquiring after God are considered through the readings of classic and contemporary writers. The class required 15 interaction papers on these writings. The background information on the writers/writings as well as the interactions are linked below.

Inquiring After God Through Theological Study
Classic Text - Prosogion The Soul's Journey into God	Contemporary Text - Intellectual Inquiry and Spiritual Formation
St. Anselm of Cantebury St. Bonaventure	Diogenes Allen
No Interaction Written	No Interaction Written

Inquiring After God by Means of Scientific Study
Classic Text - Summa Theologiae	Contemporary Text - Inquiring After God through Creation
St. Thomas Aquinas St. Bonaventure	Nancey Murphy
No Interaction Written	Interaction
10-05-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God Through Discernment
Classic Text - Showings	Contemporary Text - Julian Norwich and the Drama of Christian Discernment Notes
Julian of Norwich	Elisabeth J. K. Koenig
No Interaction Written	Interaction
10-07-04 Class Notes	10-12-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God When Working
Classic Text - Commentaries on the Psalms	Contemporary Text - Loborem Exercens: Elements for a Spirituality of Work Inquiring after God in our Work
John Calvin	Pope John Paul II Edward Collins Vacek, SJ
No Interaction Written	No Interaction Written
	10-14-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God Through Friendship
Classic Text - Spiritual Friendship	Contemporary Text - Inquiring after God through our Neighbor
Aelred of Rievaulx	Caroline J. Simon
No Interaction Written	Interaction
10-19-04 Class Notes	10-21-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God In Marriage
Classic Text - The Good of Marriage	Contemporary Text - from Money, Sex and Power
St. Augustine of Hippo	Richard Foster
Interaction	No Interaction Written
11-02-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God When Afflicted
Classic Text - A Treatise to Prove that no one can Harm the Man who does not Injure Himself	Contemporary Text - The Love of God and Affliction
St. John Chrysostom	Simone Weil
No Interaction Written	Interaction
11-09-04 Class Notes	11-11-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God By Repentance and Forgiveness
Classic Text - Dialogue Notes	Contemporary Text - A Fire of Holy Longing Notes
St. Catherine of Siena	L. Gregory Jones
Interaction	Interaction
11-16-04 Class Notes	11-18-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God When Meditating on Scripture
Classic Text - Homilies on the First Epistle of John Notes	Contemporary Text - Augustinian Exegesis and the Nature of Christian Inquirers Notes
St. Augustine of Hippo	C. Clifton Black
Interaction	Interaction
	11-30-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God When Preaching
Classic Text - Confessions Institutes of the Christian Religion	Contemporary Text - Bringing God Home through Preaching
St. Augustine of Hippo John Calvin	Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
Augustine Interaction Calvin Interaction	No Interaction Written
12-02-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God At the Lord's Table
Classic Text - The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ	Contemporary Text - The Eucharist, Chapter 12
Martin Luther	Raymond Moloney, SJ
Interaction	Interaction
12-07-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God Through Art
Classic Text - Icon Painting - The Position of the Byzantium Iconoclasts Issued by the Synod of Hieria in 754 A.D.	Contemporary Text - adapted from Art in Action
Synod of Hieria	Nicholas Wolterstorff
John of Damascus Interaction	Interaction
12-09-04 Class Notes	12-14-04 Class Notes

Inquiring After God When At Prayer
Classic Text - Commentary on the Our Father	Contemporary Text - The Orthodox Way, Chapter 6
St. Maximus Confessor	Bishop Kallistos Ware
No Interaction Written	No Interaction Written