Schedule

reading assignments

Week 1

Aug. 21

Girard, “The First Stone”
https://lib.tcu.edu//staff/bellinger/60013/Girard_First_Stone.pdf

Alasdair MacIntyre, excerpt from After Virtue

David Bentley Hart, excerpts from Atheist Delusions

Week 2

Aug. 28

Gill: ch. 4-5 (NT)

vocabulary quiz
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/vocab_quiz.pdf

Excerpts from Kierkegaard

http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/65013/Kierkegaard-excerpts.pdf

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/kierkegaard/untruth/files/untruth.html

Bellinger, The Trinitarian Self: 14-26

Week 3

Sept. 4

Gill: ch. 2 (traditions)

Frei comment:
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Frei-on-Barth.pdf

Karl Barth: “Barmen Declaration”
http://www.ucc.org/beliefs_barmen-declaration

“The Way of Theological Ethics”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-sec/Barth-Way-Ethics.pdf

excerpt from The Christian Life
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-sec/Barth-Xian-Life.pdf read from p. 131 “There is one point …” to p. 133 “… subjectively by man.”

Bonhoeffer: Ethics, 1-10, 25-30, 38-47
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Ethics_A.pdf

Bonhoeffer: Ethics, 145-166
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Ethics145-166.pdf

Week 4

Sept. 11

Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Bonhoeffer_Discipleship.pdf

Overview article on the Niebuhr brothers:
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Niebuhr_bros.pdf

Reinhold Niebuhr:
“Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/Niebuhr-not-pacifist.pdf


“The Bombing of Germany”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/Niebuhr-bombing.pdf

John Ford: “The Morality of Obliteration Bombing” excerpt http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/Ford-bombing.pdf read from p. 158 “As to obliteration …” to p. 162 “… gravely immoral.”

C. Bellinger commenting on H. Richard Niebuhr:
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/CKB-on-HRN.htm

Week 5

Sept. 18

Gill, ch. 6 (natural law)

excerpts from Gandhi on Non-Violence, edited by Thomas Merton
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Merton-Gandhi.pdf

King: “Loving Your Enemies”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/MLK-enemies.pdf

King: “Nonviolence and Racial Justice”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/MLK-1957.pdf

King: “A Time to Break Silence”
http://www.crmvet.org/info/mlk_viet.pdf

King: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/MLK-Letter.pdf

Week 6

Sept. 25

Gill: ch. 13 (war)

Karl Barth: “On War [from Church Dogmatics III/4]”
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Barth_War.pdf

John Howard Yoder: The Politics of Jesus
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Yoder_Pol_Jesus.pdf

Rachel Waltner Goossen: “Failure to Bind and Loose”
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Goossen-failure-to-bind-and-loose.htm

Jean Bethke Elshtain: “Is the War Against Terrorism Just?”
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Just_War_Against_Terror_Elshtain-4.pdf

Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Bethke Elshtain
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/10/war-peace-jean-bethke-elshtain

Week 7

Oct. 2

James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, xiii-92

Reinhold Niebuhr excerpts:
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Niebuhr-race.pdf

Week 8

Oct. 9

reading week 

Week 9

Oct. 16

James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, 93-166

womanist reading
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Emilie_Townes.pdf

Francis Wayland reading
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Wayland.pdf

"The Gospel of Mary Brown" by W.E.B. DuBois
https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Mary_Brown.pdf

Week 10

Oct. 23

Bellinger: ix-13, 27-82

King: “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”
http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/Vol06Scans/28Feb1960TheThreeDimensionsofaCompleteLife.pdf

Week 11

Oct. 30

Gill: ch. 7 (virtue)

Bellinger: 82-156

optional extra readings:

George W. Bush, Speech given on Sept. 20, 2001, http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/bush_speech_sept20.htm

Brian McLaren, "The Speech That Was Never Given" http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/rel-viol/McLaren.pdf

Week 12

Nov. 6

Gill: ch. 19 (sexuality)

Alison: Intro., ch. 1-4

Week 13

Nov. 13

Gill: ch. 9 (liberation)

Alison: ch. 5-7, 9

https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60013/Girard-Anti-Semitism.pdf

Week 14

Nov. 20

Gill: ch. 8 (gender)

Parsons: 1-120

Week 15

Nov. 27

Gill: ch. 16 (ecology)

Parsons: 121-242

Week 16

Dec. 3

Week 17

Dec. 10