On my desk

My desk is overflowing with books and paper at the moment as I read for essay's that are due all too soon.

I have four essay's due over the next few weeks.

23rd Nov I have an essay due where I'm exploring the relationship between Evangelicals, Environmentalism and Eschatology. In particular I am looking at evangelical non-involvement in environmentalism steming from the view of "why bother if God's going to destroy it all anyway, or fix it all up". I'm reading a lot of Moltmann for this essay and will use his theology of hope as a way of answering the above question.

I've two essay's due on the 7th Dec. In one I'm looking at Cyril of Alexandria's and Nestorius's view of salvation. Many of the books I wanted to use for this were out in Edinburgh but I managed to pick them up from ICC. The joys of beelining to two libraries!

In the second essay due on the 7th I'm looking at von Balthasar's propositions in Principles of Christian Morality, especially his opening line, "The Christian who lives by faith has the right to justify his moral actions on the basis of his faith". As this is a radical departure in Roman Catholic moral theology I'm looking at this in the context of the Natural Law tradition and basically asking the question of the relation between revelation (or faith) and the Natural Law. My main text on the Natural Law is Jean Porter's "Nature as Reason".

My last essay is a book report and is due on the 10th. Given I'm working a lot with Porter for the other essay I'm going to review her book for this one. It will be a bit of a challenge given "Nature as Reason" is 400pp and I've only 2000 words for this one.

Ah well, break over...back to reading Conscience in Barth's Ethics which we will be discussing in class on Friday.

Comments

[Brad]

brodie - i was just going to drop you a note and see how the re-commenced studies were going - i guess you answered that! these sound really interesting, looking forward to hearing more about them.

[jason77]

Good luck with all the reading and writing my friend!

[fernando]

Man- that's a mountain of work. But, they are all really excellent topics.

[That Hideous Man]

Then you might be interested in the this:
www.redcliffe.org/environment08 , a day conference on "Eshcatology and the Environment" in January 08, which I have just seen advertised.

[Paul]

Sounds very cool but hard work - good luck bro and be lookin forward to hearing what insights you get along the way... :)

[Margaret]

Hope you're managing to plough your way through it all!

[Graeme Clark]

You need a bigger desk!!!

Moltmann's God and Creation certainly adds a bit of colour to the picture and to theology but I am not sure it brings as much light as some of his other writings.

[brodie]

Thanks for all the comments above. First essay is in, so I'm now working hard on the others.