Postgraduate Reading List

MA Christian Theology

Over the summer, before you join the programme proper, you may be itching to get stuck in to theology. We want to encourage you in this, and would suggest the following resources as being good places to start. I’ve put them under various headings, so that you can pick the ones that might be most helpful to you. We look forward to seeing you in the new academic year!

Rev Dr Martin Poulsom SDB
Degree Convenor

If you’ve not done theology before…

Ford, David F., Theology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Kinast, Robert L., What Are They Saying About Theological Reflection? (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000)

‘Heavier’ introductions that might also help during the course

McGrath, Alister, Christian Theology: An Introduction, 3rd edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)

Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo: A Life (Oxford: OUP, 2008, 2010)

Evans, G.R. (ed), The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology
in the Medieval Period (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)

Ford, D.F. and Muers, R. (eds), The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) (This work also exists in a number of previous editions, which might be easy to find second hand.)

More advanced books if you’d like to focus a little more

Charry, Ellen T. (ed), Inquiring after God: Classic and Contemporary
Readings (Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)

Ford, D.F., Quash, B. and Soskice, J.M. (eds), Fields of Faith: Theology
and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Gunton, C., Holmes, S., Rae, M.A., (eds), The Practice of Theology: A
Reader (London: SCM Press, 2001)

Kerr. F., Twentieth Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)