Theological Notebook: "Theology as Knowledge: A Symposium" from FIRST THINGS

[novak]

This is the article I've been opening my Introduction to Theology course with, these two semesters. I've alluded to it before, and linked to it, but First Things, the journal in which it appeared, is now reformatting their website and this is no longer accessible to non-subscribers, and so I thought I'd directly copy it into my journal

Comments

[sigerson]

Thank you for posting this. I've known for a while that my MTS degree is really a Master of Religious Studies in content, and reading your thoughts about your Intro to Theology course have confirmed it.

Would it be possible for me to see a syllabus for the course? I'd like to do more reading on this; right now, these articles spur a lot of thinking, but no conclusions.

[sigerson]

To clarify: It's my planning, not an intrinsic feature of the courses or the Divinity School, that has shaped my master's degree to be religious studies, not theology. There are other MTS students who are definitely theologians.

[novak]

Hey Sigerson, sorry: much distraction/zoning out the last few days. Can you give me an email address where you would like me to send this thingie? I think it'll survive better as a Word document than me posting it here. It's definitely a freshman intro course, with me trying to both not kill them with readings but also making them read a certain variety of things, mostly through a reader we've established here in the Marquette faculty. Anyway, if you don't want to post an address here, email me at NovakFreek@aol.com.

[sigerson]

Certainly! You can reach me at ooblet at gmail dot com; it's not my primary address, but I do check it fairly often. I would love to see the syllabus and work at supplementing my classes with articles akin to these.