Reporter 18/6/03: Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part I, 2004: Special subjects and prescribed texts

Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part I, 2004: Special subjects and prescribed texts

The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part I, in 2002 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 405):

Paper A1. Scriptural languages and texts

A.	Hebrew Genesis 37 and 40-45.
B.	New Testament Greek John 17-21.
C.	Sanskrit Mahāabhāarata 2.66-68 (Poona edition, 1933-66). Hitopadeśa, extracts 2-11 (C. R. Lanman, A Sanskrit Reader, pp. 16-35). Bhagavadgītā ch. 3-4.
D.	Qur'anic Arabic The Qur'ān, I:1-7, II:1-23, IV:93-100, LIII:1-40. al-Bukhāarāī, al-Jāmi' al-Sahīh (Cairo, 1313 ah), vol. I, pp. 1-10. al-Isfarā'īnī al Tabsīr fi'l-dīn (Beirut, 1983 ce), pp. 45-6, 97-9.

Paper A2. One God? Hearing the Old Testament

Exodus 1-3; Deuteronomy 5-7; Ruth; Psalms 29 and 93; Proverbs 8; Isaiah 44-46; Hosea 1-3.

Paper A3. From Bethlehem to Rome: Luke - Acts and the origins of Christianity

Luke 4 and 23; Acts 2 and 15.

Paper A4. Christianity and the transformation of culture

Set topics:

A. The conversion of northern Europe to AD 1000.

B. Roman Catholic missions in the 16th and 17th centuries.

C. British Protestant missions from the late 18th century.

Set Texts:

There are no set texts for this paper.

Paper A5. The shaping of modern theology

Karl Barth, Preface to the first six editions of The Epistle to the Romans (Oxford, 1968), pp. 1-26; Hans Martin Rumscheidt, Revelation and Theology. An Analysis of the Barth-Harnack Correspondence of 1923 (Cambridge, 1972); Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christology (Trs J. Bowden, Introd. E. H. Robertson, London, 1971) pp. 27-67; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' in John Beer (ed.) Coleridge. Poems (Everyman Classics, London, 1986) pp.173-189; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit (Ed. H. StJ. Hart, London, 1956); Feodor Michailowitsch Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 1880 (Tr. R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky, Vintage, London 1992), Bk 5 'The Grand Inquisitor'); George Eliot, Middlemarch 1871-72 (Penguin Classics, London, 1994) Chap.80 and Epilogue; Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (trs G. Eliot, Harper, New York, 1957), Chap.1; Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (Tr. J. Strachey, Penguin Freud Library, Vol. 12., London, 1985), Chs III-VI; Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' in W. H. Gardner and N. H. MacKenzie Eds, The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford, 1970), pp. 51-63; Soren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments (ed./tr. H.V. and E. Hong, Princeton, 1992) Chapter 2 pp. 28-45; Karl Marx, Texts on 'alienation' and 'Historical Materialism' in D. McLellan, The Thought of Karl Marx (London, 1980), pp. 123-133, 138-149; John Henry Newman, The Dream of Gerontius (London: Mowbray, 1986); Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ (tr. R. J. Hollingdale, London, 1957); F. D. W. Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers 1821 (Tr. R. Crouter, Cambridge 1988) First and Second Speeches; Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'In Memoriam' in C. Ricks Ed., The Poems of Tennyson (London, 1969).

Paper A6. Understanding contemporary religion

There are no set texts for this paper.

Paper A7. World religions in comparative perspective

There are no set texts for this paper.

Paper A8. Philosophy of religion and ethics

There are no set texts for this paper.

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