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Author: MJ. Smith
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Reading Plan: Armchair Theologian Series

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Heretics for Armchair Theologians

Preface | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: Why Heretics? | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: The Ebionites | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Gnosticism | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Marcion | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: The Montanists | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: The Trinity | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: The Donatists | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eight: Pelagius | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Nine: Christology | Heretics for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Ten: What Now? | Heretics for Armchair Theologians

Augustine for Armchair Theologians

Introduction: Who Is Augustine Anyway? | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: Faint Beginnings | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: Teenager in Love | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: A Young Man on His Own | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: A Professional Teacher | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: Leaving Behind | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: Treading Water: Worldly Goals of a Suffering Soul | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: Light Upon Light: Encounter with the Books of the Platonists | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eight: Converting Conversions | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Nine: Deaths and a New Life | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Ten: Confessions without End | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eleven: Career of the Bishop | Augustine for Armchair Theologians
Conclusion | Augustine for Armchair Theologians

Aquinas for Armchair Theologians

Chapter One: Beginnings: Thomas Aquinas’s Life and Times | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: Humans, Angels, and God | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Why Is There Evil? Do Humans Have Free Will? (and Other Questions You’re Better Off Not Asking) | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Metaphysics 101 (or Why We Are What We Are) | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: Law and Morality | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: The Ins and Outs of Sex | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: “Just War” and Double Effect | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eight: Abortion, the Role of Women, and Other Noncontroversial Issues | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Nine: Politics | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Ten: Reading Aquinas | Aquinas for Armchair Theologians

The Reformation for Armchair Theologians

Note that this volume has study questions.

Chapter One: On the Eve of the Reformation | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: Martin Luther and the Break with Rome | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Reform of Word and Sacrament | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Divisions | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: The Sacramentarian Controversy and the Spread of Zwinglianism | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: Catholic Reform or Counter-Reform? | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: The Empire Strikes Back | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eight: John Calvin: Biography | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Nine: “The Most Perfect School of Christ” | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Ten: Spain and the Dutch Revolt | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eleven: The Reformation in England and Scotland | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Twelve: The Reformation in France | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Thirteen: The Thirty Years’ War and the End of an Era | The Reformation for Armchair Theologians

Luther for Armchair Theologians

Introduction | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: In the Beginning ... a Preacher: What Is Proclamation? | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: Law and Gospel: God’s Two Words | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Justification by Faith Alone | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: The Simple Sense of Scripture: Letter and Spirit | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: For God, to Speak Is to Do: Pastoral Care of Souls | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: What Theology Is About: I, the Siner;God the Justifier | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: Bound and Accused: Human Will and the Law | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eight: God, Who Forgives Sin: The Gospel | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Nine: At Great Cost: How Christ’s Cross Saves Sinners | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Ten: This Is My Body: God’s Means of Grace | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Eleven: Freedom of a Christian | Luther for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Twelve: Fame and the Cross | Luther for Armchair Theologians

Calvin for Armchair Theologians

Introduction | Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: Forming a Reformer | Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: Struggle for the Light | Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Orienting Theology | Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Trials and Travail | Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: Calvin’s Children | Calvin for Armchair Theologians

John Knox for Armchair Theologians

(Re)introducing John Knox | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: From Roman Catholic Priest to Protestant Galley Slave | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: From England to Exile | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: A Turbulent Exile | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Returning to a Revolution | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: A Roman Catholic Queen and a Protestant Realm | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: More than Marys: The Other Women in Knox’s Life | John Knox for Armchair Theologians
Conclusion | John Knox for Armchair Theologians

Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians

Introduction | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter One: The Young Edwards: Exploring Divine Beauty (Even in Spiders) | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Two: An Affection for Revival | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Three: Exodus from Northampton | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Four: Freedom of the Will? | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Five: Original Sin | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Six: Creation and True Virtue | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians
Chapter Seven: A Legacy Begun: The Edwards Ethos | Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians

Wesley for Armchair Theologians

Barth for Armchair Theologians

The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians

Dorothy Day for Armchair Theologians

Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians

Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians

Martin Luther King, Jr. for Armchair Theologians

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Title: Reading Plan: Armchair Theologian Series
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2020 May 8 at 04:45