Schedule (Please complete the noted readings before each week’s seminar.)
22 Sept., Introduction to seminar topic (Brock) and to Barth’s Theological Existence Today (Zeigler).
Readings: Christopher Morse, “Paul Lehmann as Nurturer of Theological Discernment” and Paul Lehmann, “Barmen and the Church’s call to Faithfulness and Responsibility”
29 Sept., Two context readings: Bernd Wannenwetsch, “My strength is made perfect in weakness: Bonhoeffer and the War over Disabled Life,” and Eberhard Busch, “‘Doing theology as if nothing had happened’—The freedom on theology and the question of its involvement in politics”.
6 Oct., No seminar
13 Oct., “Theological Existence Today” (1933) first section
20 Oct., “Theological Existence Today” second section
27 Oct., “The Church and the Political Question of Today” (1938), §§1-4
3 Nov., “The Church and the Political Question of Today,” §§5-8
10 Nov., “Letter to Great Britain” (1941)
17 Nov., “The Church Between East and West” (1949)
24 Nov., No seminar
1 Dec., “Letter to a Pastor in the German Democratic Republic” (1958)
8 Dec., Concluding discussion: criticism and implications
There are a range of lectures and readings groups - open to all - this semester.
Please see here the Programme for the Classical Association of Scotland: Aberdeen and North of Scotland Centre: https://casnorthscotland.com/.
Further to this Programme of events, Sam Newington (Dr) will be hosting fortnightly reading groups in Greek and Latin. For the Greek reading group, we will be exploring Homer's Iliad 22 and for the Latin Virgil's Aeneid 6. If you are interested in joining please contact Dr Newington: s.newington@abdn.ac.uk.
