Theologian in Training
I started this Blog with the intention of providing simple reviews for the books which I have found useful thus far in my Theology degree, which i will continue to add to as I progress. I have also decided to add a bit of my own writing into the mix, just for fun really and to keep me in the habit of writing articles which aren’t exegesis or Sermons.
I am about to start my second year on my Degree in Theology and Minesterial Sudies and hopefully later this year will find out if I am suitable for Ordination in the Church of England. The past year has been quite a rollercoaster ride. I started my Degree course purely as an ‘Independant’ Student, I had felt a calling to God prior to this but fear prevented me from exploring vocation so I started the course to subdue these feelings. This didn’t work and the feeling of being called got more and more intense until I had to act upon it. To cut a long story short(who knows I may need that story to put in a book in the future) I followed my heart and what I thought God was calling me too and I go to local selection pretty soon.
Academically the challenges have been fast coming, I have studied to quite a high level in the past but in I.T. related subjects and for the past 12 years I.T. is the industry I have worked, particularly Media and Online Marketing. The style and requirements for assignments was somewhat alien to me. If I needed a video creating I got the media, compiled it and produced the output, the same applied in my studies, a challenge was set and I worked out a solution and produced the output as needed. Now I needed to read what other people think, see their ideas, their theologies and use them in my thought processes before drawing my own conclusions, which isn’t dis-similar to checking other websites for ideas and adapting them. I am now required to list the people I use for inspiration, those people I read, whether i think they’re any good or not I have to include them as influencing my ideas in someway. In other words a Bibliography, in the early stages very much a swear word, but Im getting better as I progress, a full list including author, publisher, year and place of publication and ISBN. Sometimes this can take me more time than writing the actual assignments.
So why this site, well over the past 12 months I have bought, borrowed and begged many books which have been of great use to me, some however haven’t, my aim is to include here all those books which I hope will be of use to you, the reader. Of course if any of you have a book you wish to be included then bu all means let me know and I’ll include it. What do I ge out of it, well aside from the satisfaction of sharing these books with you, I may earn enough to fund a book or two if you click and buy any of the books listed here.
Take care, and thanks for taking the time to read. Im about to head off the the GreenBelt Festival, fingers crossed for some good weather, will tel you all about it when I get back, maybe even see some of you there.
