Last week, I began my second semester in the PhD program at Southwestern Seminary. It’s a tremendous opportunity and honor to be able to continue in these studies, but the workload is no joke. I’m taking two reading seminars and a theological German class.
Below are the books that are assigned for my classes.
Systematic Theology Reading Seminar
- Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics
- Hunsinger, George. How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of his Theology
- McCormack, Bruce L. and Kelly M. Kapic, eds. Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction
- Moltmann, Jürgen. Theology of Hope
- Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God
- Moltmann, Jürgen. The Trinity and the Kingdom of God
- Moltmann, Jürgen. The Coming of God
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich. The Christian Faith
Preaching Reading Seminar
- Allen, David L. “A Tale of Two Roads: Homiletics and Biblical Authority,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43, no. 3 (2000): 489-516.
- Allen, David L. “Preaching and Postmodernism: An Evangelical Comes to the Dance,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 5, no. 2 (2001)
- Andersen, Peter A. Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions
- Buttrick, David. A Captive Voice: The Liberation of Preaching
- Cargal, Timothy. “Seeing a Sermon,” Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon
- Crowley, David and Paul Heyer. Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society
- Eslinger, Richard L. The Web of Preaching, New Options in Homiletic Method
- Franklin, Robert M. “What is the Relationship of Technology to Theology?” The Journal
of the Interdenominational Theology Center 24 (1996-97) - Heath, Chip and Dan Heath. Made to Stick
- Horch, Jeff. “A Survey of Visual Resources for Preaching,” Preaching 23:1 (2006)
- McCroskey, James. An Introduction to Rhetorical Communications
- McKim, Donald K. The Bible in Theology & Preaching, How Preachers Use Scripture
- McLuhan, Eric and Frank Zingrone, eds. Essential McLuhan
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show
Business - Schmidt, Wayne. “The Value of Video: Why Adding Multimedia to Your Sermon May
Be Worth the Effort,” Real Worship (1999) - Temple, George. “Why Use Video in Preaching?” Preaching 22:1 (2006)
- Wood, Nancy V. Perspectives on Argument
- Zuckerman, Mortimer. “The Tyranny of Imagery,” U.S. News and World Report (2006)
Intermediate Theological German
- Durrell, Martin, Katrin M. Kohl, and Gurdrun Loftus. Essential German Grammar
