Canterbury Fellowship - Learning Resources

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:14-15

Bible Study

• Mounce's Greek for the Rest of Us. This is an online class in 14 lessons, keyed to an inexpensive book, that will give you a good introduction to Biblical Greek. There's no intent to make you a scholar, but it will enable you to use the better commentaries, the lexicons, as well as the various computer programs that help with understanding what the Greek Bible actually says.

Clinical Pastoral Education for Health Sciences Students

• The Spiritual Gifts of Lay and Ordained Ministry. Notes from Oden's Pastoral Theology.
• Spiritual History Taking. A summary of some of the literature, with references.
• Prayer. Notes from Oden's Pastoral Theology with comments.
• Visiting the Sick. Notes from Oden's Pastoral Theology with comments.
• God, Human Suffering, and the Pastoral Consolations. Notes from Oden's Pastoral Theology with comments.
• Healing in the Kingdom of God. A survey of the Judeo-Christian healing tradition.
• I, God, Am Your Healer. Moses, the bronze serpent, and healing.
• A Homily for the Feast of St. Luke. God's works will never be finished; and from him health spreads over all the earth. A sermon by Dr. Barbara Allison-Bryan
• Selected Notes on Oden's Pastoral Theology. Sections on spiritual gifts, prayer, visiting the sick, crisis ministry, theodicy and human suffering, death and dying.
• The Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care. Letting others know about how you want things to be.

Spiritual Growth

• Spiritual Direction for Health Science Students. The ancient practice of spiritual direction.

Ethics and Clinical Decision Making

• 1. Vices and Virtues: Empiric Ethics. An introduction to Virtue Ethics.
• Routine Elective Circumcision of the Newborn: A Judeo-Christian Perspective. A brief survey of a complex topic.

Personal Devotions

• Mission St. Clare. This is a simple site for the Daily Office. You can make this the home page of your web browser.
• St. Bede's Breviary. A more complex site offering many options.

Recreational Reading

• The Bible
• Anything by CS Lewis
• Downing, Raymond (2008). Death and Life in America: Biblical Healing and Biomedicine. (Recommended by Dr. Nathan Wilson)
• Dearmer, Percy. Body and Soul: An Enquiry Into The Effect Of Religion Upon Health, With A Description Of Christian Works Of Healing From The New Testament To The Present Day. (Recommended by Dr. Bill Dolen. Historical interest, yet practical for today. Much of the biology is a bit dated.)
• Taylor, Barbara Brown (2009). An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith. (Recommended by Dr. Bill Dolen. Worship isn't something that we just do on Sunday. Find God in the world around you.)
• Mitchell, Leonel L (1991). Praying Shapes Believing: A Theological Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer. (Recommended by Dr. Bill Dolen. Anglicanism 101.)
• Anonymous. The Cloud of Unknowning. The classic primer on centering prayer.
• Hughes III, Robert Davis (2008). Beloved Dust: Tides of the Spirit in the Christian Life. This book is a brilliant, modern presentation of ancient ideas about our mystical relationship with God through the person of the Holy Spirit. It's not a fast read.

Resources for Scientific Theology

• Christians in Science. A UK-based international organization for study and discussion of the relationship between Christian faith and science.
• Alister McGrath Home Page. Dr. McGrath is a leading proponent of scientific theology, and author of a major textbook of historical theology.

Some Podcasts

• Christian Theology, An Introduction. A concise, free introduction to basics of theology by Fr. Alister McGrath
• Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology. An extensive series of free audio podcasts covering classic theology.

What's Fr. Dr. D. reading these days?

• McGrath, Alister E. (2004). The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology. McGrath is an English priest with a background in science. He argues that science and theology are not mutually exclusive realms. This is an introduction to a 3-volume systematic theology that challenges the tenets of the Enlightenment era.

Miscellany

• Religious Thermodynamics. For GA Tech physics majors.
• Thermodynamics of Hell. More for GA Tech physics majors.
• The Anglican Health Network - A Ministry of the Anglican Communion
• Father Matthew Presents - An Augusta native takes a look at "the treasures of Christianity, one video at a time."

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