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2005-07-24 10:35 PM
"personal MDiv" meme

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From del.icio.us, I got this funky meme from the infamous Jordon Cooper, superstar emergent postmodernist: the "personal MDiv", based on the "personal MBA" idea. The only problem I can see is that it bears only a vague resemblance to an actual course in theology, being focused on all this post-modern dilemma stuff. Fun, but having a leg to stand on is prerequisite, frankly. Not that there's not good stuff on Cooper's list (reminded me I have to include Newbigin for instance!), but it's hard to carry on without knowing where we've come from, where we've been, what we're carrying, and what we've left behind.

My version of the meme is heavy on church history, but I feel strongly that only by looking at mistakes from other contexts can we recognize those in our own. Thus, alpha by author:

Alexander (ed.), Christian Spirituality: 5 Views on Sanctification
Athanasius, On the Incarnation -- [among other in Hardy, Christology]
Kenneth Bailey, Poet and Peasant / Through Peasant Eyes [double reprint ed'n!]
Bede, History of the English Church and People
The Book of Common Prayer
Braaten/Jenson, Christian Dogmatics [two-vol. set, 6 authors, 12 loci]
Robert Farrar Capon, Hunting The Divine Fox
Clements (ed.), Friedrich Schleiermacher: Pioneer of Modern Theology
J. Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader
Kenneth Cragg, The Call of the Minaret
Hieromonk Damascene, Christ the Eternal Tao
Dante, The Divine Comedy (trans. Dorothy Sayers)
Gary Dorrien, Reconstructing the Common Good
Jacques Ellul, Anarchy & Christianity
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History
Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians
Frend, The Rise of Christianity
Robert M. Grant, Irenaeus of Lyons [background and good selections]
Paul House, Old Testament Theology
Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa
Julian of Norwich, Showings
Kahler, The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ
Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity [or, Attack Upon Christendom]
Kimel (ed.), Speaking the Christian God
Kazoh Kitamori, Theology of the Pain of God
Kosuke Koyama, Waterbuffalo Theology
Leith (ed.), Creeds of the Churches
C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers [2nd edition!]
Luther, Commentary on Galatians
Metzger, The Text of the New Testament 
Samuel Hugh Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia
Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Allen P. Ross, Creation and Blessing
Lamin Sanneh, Translating the Message
Robert Short, The Gospel According to Peanuts [+ Parables of Peanuts]
Taylor, The Biography of Hudson Taylor [or another good Taylor bio]
Thomsen, The Word and the Way of the Cross
Timothy (Kallistos) Ware, The Orthodox Church
Charles Williams, The Descent of the Dove

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