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Practical Theology Research Seminar
2005-2006
Time 1400-1600
Room TBA

The texts for these sessions will be available in the School office.

First Half Session: Essential Texts in Practical Theology

Wk. 1: 4/10/05 – The roots of the discipline
(Ray Anderson, Duncan Forrester)

Wk. 2: 18/10/05 – Performing the faith: Reading situations and traditions
(Edward Farley, James Fowler)

Wk. 3: 1/11/05 – Practical theology method: Mutual Critical Correlation
(David Tracy, Don Browning)

Wk. 4: 15 /11/05 – Practical theology method: Empirical theology
(Johanes Van der Venn, Gerben Heitink)

Wk. 5: 29 /11/05 – Practical theology and the social sciences
(John Milbank, Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger.)

Wk. 6: 13 /12/05 – Practical theology in Aberdeen
(Presentation by John Swinton and Brian Brock)

Second Half Session: Confession as a Practice of Transformation

Wk. 1: 3/2/06—Michel Foucault, “Technologies of the Self”

Wk. 2. 17/2/06 —Martin Luther, “ A Simple Way to Pray” Luther's Works vol. 43.

Wk. 3. 3/3/05 —Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Guilt, Justification, Renewal”, Ethics

Wk. 4. 17/3/06 —Karl Barth, “Confession”, Church Dogmatics III.4 pp. 73-86

Wk. 5. 28/4/06 —Martin Luther, “Psalm 51” Luther's Works vol. 12.

Wk. 6. 12/5/06 —Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”

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