Supporting Theological Reflection and Conversation that Strengthen the Ministry of the Church

2000-2001 Colloquy on “The Reformed Tradition and Public Ethics”
Institute for Reformed Theology
Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education

Reading List:

Barth, Karl, Church Dogmatics, vol. II, part 2, trans. G. W. Bromiley, J. C. Campbell, Iain Wilson, J. Strathearn McNab, Harold Knight, and R. A. Stewart (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1957).

__________. The Christian Life, Church Dogmatics IV,4, Lecture Fragments, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981).

Brunner, (Heinrich) Emil, Christianity and Civilisation, vols. I and II London: Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1948-49).

Calvin, John, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, 2 vols., Library of Christian Classics, vol. 20 (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960). Page references above are to this translation.

__________. John Calvin’s Sermons on the Ten Commandments, ed. and trans., Benjamin W. Farley (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1980). Readings from this volume are Calvin’s sermons on Deut. 4:44-5:3 and Deut. 5:4-7.

Edwards, Jonathan, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 8, ed. Paul Ramsey (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). Readings are from first three sections of “God’s End,” and the whole of “True Virtue.”

Gustafson, James M., Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, vols. 1 and 2 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981 and 1984).

Kuyper, Abraham, Calvinism (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1943). “Calvinism and Politics” lecture.

__________. Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, ed. James D. Bratt (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

Lynn, Elizabeth and Barbara Wheeler, “Missing Connections: Public Perceptions of Theological Education and Religious Leadership,” Auburn Studies, No. 6, September 1999: 1-31.

Milbank, John, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1990, 1993).

__________. “The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice,” First Things, March 1999, Number 91: 33-38.

Niebuhr, H. Richard, Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1943, 1952, 1955, 1960).

Ottati, Douglas F., Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today’s World (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995).

Perkins, William, His Pioneer Works of Casuistry: “A Discourse of Conscience” and “The Whole Treatise of Cases of Conscience,” ed. Thomas F. Merrill (The Hague, Netherlands: B. De Graaf, Nieuwkoop, 1966). Reading is from the third book of “The Whole Treatise of Cases of Conscience.”

Stackhouse, Max L., ed. with Peter Paris, God and Globalization,Vol. 1: "Religion and the Powers of the Common Life" (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000).

Troeltsch, Ernst, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, vol. II, trans. Olive Wyon (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960). This is Troeltsch on Calvinism and aesthetic Protestantism.

van Wijk-Bos, Johanna W. H., Reformed and Feminist: A Challenge to the Church (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1991).

Wilcox, W. Bradford, “For the Sake of the Children?: Family-Related Discourse and Practice in the Mainline,” forthcoming in Quietly Influential: The Public Role of Mainline Protestantism (2001), edited by Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).

Wuthnow, Robert, The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Yoder, John Howard, For the Nations: Essays Evangelical and Public (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).

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