Paul Connell

2008

This unit will only proceed with an enrolment of at least eight students.

A weekly two-hour seminar will examine the argument for a dialectical theism developed by the distinguished British theologian, John Macquarrie, in his book In Search of Deity. The central themes to be studied will include the problem of conceptualising and imaging God, the nature of God’s relationship with the world and the challenge to classical theism of a contemporary world view.

Prerequisites:	three levels of systematic theology
Assessment:	one 6,000 word essay

Bibliography

Carroll, D. A Pilgrim God for a Pilgrim People. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1988.

Clarke, W. N. The Philosophical Approach to God: A Neo-Thomist Perspective. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1979.

Hill, W. J. Search for the Absent God: Tradition and Modernity in Religious Understanding. New York: Crossroad, 1992.

Macquarrie, J. In Search of Deity: An Essay in Dialectical Theism. London: SCM Press, 1984.

Macquarrie, J. Principles of Christian Theology. Rev. ed. London: SCM Press, 1977.

Macquarrie, J. Thinking about God. London: SCM Press, 1975.