Notes for Fall 2024 Semester - Seminary

Classes for Fall 2024: Part time (6 credit hours)

I'll need to compare the cost of the textbooks amongst different sites. Some are available in the library - I will need to do a bit of research. 

• FL1001 Introduction to Personal and Spiritual Formation - Tuesday evenings 5:45 - 9pm CT via Zoom
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxZssSVdxtt23SLhR_QQ-G-sJbYReO_9YBs1c_NIPfY/edit
• I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS CLASS I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH
• "Lead a spiritual practice" --> Sigils. I am gonna do sigils. 
• "Spiritual Autobiography Chapter" --> Brigid sending me Beauty from Ashes in the car as I openly screamed for help. Aine. Leading to get help for my PTSD. 
• Part C of the summaritive project: Paint a custom Oracle card & write synopsis
• Required Books:
• James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage, 1992.
• ISBN: 978-0679744726. ($10.59)
• Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology.
• ISBN: 978-0226251721. ($32.00) Available on DTL2
• Edwin H. Friedmann. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix.
• ISBN: 978-1596272798. ($29.95) Available on DTL2
• Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Penguin Vitae).
• ISBN: 978-0143134442. ($15.99) Available on DTL2
• Christian Wiman. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer.
• ISBN:978-0374534370 ($12.99 Available on DTL2)

• TR1001 Invitation to Theology: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty -  Thursday evenings 5:45-9pm CT via Zoom
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eFCi4Jr2lcqULx1PjDwO758vKfuzaS83_r2YVS062eg/edit
• This one is going to be a lot harder. I think the first one will be really fun and more explorative in a personal sense. This class will be more academic, seems a bit colder, and will definitley have more pressure. 
• Final Essay: I want to do "Take me Back to Eden" by Sleep token. I think that the lyrics carry a LOT in them that can be delved into and exampined with  a spiritual lense. 
• This class literally has 5 grades: class participation (weekly discussion board to be discussed in class), a short essay (3-4 pages), and 3 Big essyas (8 pages)
• Required books:
• John D. Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology (Columbia University Press: 2023). ISBN-13: 978-0231210959.
• William Franke (editor), On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, Volume 1: Classic Formulations (University of Notre Dame Press: 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0268028824.
• Sallie McFague, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (Fortress: 1987). ISBN-13: 978-0800620516. 
• Catherine Keller, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (Fortress: 2008). ISBN–13: 978-0800662769.
• Wesley J. Wildman, God Is … Meditations on the Mystery of Life, the Purity of Grace, the Bliss of Surrender, and the God beyond God (Cascade: 2019). ISBN-13: 978-1532659201.
• Elie Wiesel, Night, Translated by Marion Wiesel (Hill and Wang: 2006). ISBN-13: 978-0374500016.
• Dan Cohn-Sherbok (editor), Holocaust Theology: A Reader (New York University Press: 2002). ISBN-13: 978-0814716205. 
• James H. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues, Second Revised Edition (Orbis: 1992). ISBN-13: 978-0816420735.
• Kathryn B. Alexander, Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature (Fortress: 2014). ISBN-13: 978-1451472233.

** Bruh. I just checked and the first professor also offers the second course. I looked at their sylabus... I wish I had the same professor for both classes. Its not a matter of one class being harder than the other. Its the professor.... Note to self: CHOOSE PACKMAN AND AVOID WHEELER

I am sweating. Is it too late to change and I just go to work late every Thursday? T_T

**Edit:  BRUH I HAVE TO HAVE ONE OF THE TEXTBOOKS READ AND A BOOK REPORT WRITTEN BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS

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• Thrift Books Class 1
• Edwin H. Friedmann. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix - 7
• Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology. - 21
• Wesley J. Wildman, God Is … - 27
• Dan Cohn-Sherbok (editor), Holocaust Theology: A Reader - 5
• James H. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues, Second Revised Edition - 8
• Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - 15

• Abe Books 
• James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time - $8
• Christian Wiman. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer - 6
• Catherine Keller, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process - 5
• Sallie McFague, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age - 4
• Elie Wiesel, Night, Translated by Marion Wiesel - 4
• Kathryn B. Alexander, Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature - 23
• William Franke (editor), On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, Volume 1: Classic Formulations - 47

• Chegg 
• John D. Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology - 180 days for $15

• Thrift Books: $87
• order (#57739621)
• Abe Books: $98
• Sales Order # 738874182 
• Chegg (rental): 15
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