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Looking forward to in 2009

Reading:
The Deliverance of God by Douglas A. Campbell
Baptist Sacramentalism 2 edited by Anthony Cross and Philip Thompson
On Being the Church by Brian Haymes, Anthony Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne
Christian Ethics by Michael Banner
Lectures in Christian Dogmatics by John Zizioulas
New Dictionary of Theology (Rev. Ed.) edited by John McDowell, Stephen Holmes and Tim Grass
The Nineteenth Century Theologians edited by Christoph Schwoebel
The Cross-shattered church by Stanley Hauerwas

The Suspicions of Mr. Wicher by Kate Summerscale

Watching (film):
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
Role Models
Doubt
Sunshine Cleaning
(TV):
Dollhouse (new Joss Whedon)
A History of Christianity
Lost
Mad Men
Damages

And also
seeing friends and family
completing my MTh
getting two articles published

The Best of 2008

Best film I saw - The Dark Knight; Gone Baby Gone
Best album I heard - Viva la Vida (Coldplay); To the pine roots (Iain Archer)
Best fiction book I read - The Poisonwood Bible
Best theological book I read - Revelation and Reason by Colin Gunton; The Book of Revelation by Simon Woodman
Best Baptist book I read - Under the Rule of Christ edited by Paul Fiddes
Best bargain book purchased - The Church in the Power of the Spirit by Moltmann (I got it for 75p)
Best TV comedy - Gavin & Stacey; Outnumbered
Best TV drama - Damages; Spooks; Mad Men

Films Watched in 2008

A Girl With a Pearl Earring 4 out of 5
Fantastic Four 3 out of 5
A Lot Like Love 3 out of 5
Ladder 49 3 out of 5
Superbad 3 out of 5
Brick 4 out of 5
Fantastic Four 2: The Rise of the Silver Surfer 2 out of 5
The Chronicles of Riddick 2 out of 5
Babel 3 out of 5
Ned Kelly 3 out of 5
Juno 4 out of 5
When Did You Last See Your Father? 3 out of 5
Zodiac 4 out of 5
Black Book 3 out of 5
Man Dancin' 4 out of 5
Half Nelson 3 out of 5
Stardust 3 out of 5
Sideways 4 out of 5
The Heartbreak Kid 1 out 5
The Ex 3 out of 5
Tin Men 3 out of 5
Michael Clayton 4 out of 5
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 3 out of 5
The Shape of Things 3 out of5
Into the Wild 4 out of 5
Hilary and Jackie 4 out of 5
The Waitress 3 out of 5
Into the Blue 3 out of 5
The Dreamers 3 out of 5
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2 out of 5
28 Weeks Later 3 out of 5
Three days of the Condor 3 out of 5
Deja Vu 4 out of 5
Apocalypto 4 out of 5
Run Fat Boy, Run 2 out of 5
The Darjeeling Limited 3 out of 5
Blade 3: Trinity 2 out of 5
Separate Lies 3 out of 5
Charlie Wilson's War 4 out of 5
The Other Boleyn Girl 2 out of 5
Red Eye 3 out of 5
S.W.A.T 2 out of 5
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 3 out of 5
Rendition 4 out of 5
In the Valley of Elah 4 out of 5
Miss Potter 3 out of 5
The Kingdom 3 out of 5
The Dark Knight 5 out of 5
Margot at the Wedding 3 out of 5
Hellboy 3 out of 5
The Accused 3 out of 5
Derailed 2 out of 5
Definitely, Maybe 3 out of 5
Dan in Real Life 4 out of 5
Michael Collins 3 out of 5
Tropic Thunder 3 out of 5
Gone Baby Gone 5 out of 5
I am Legend 3 out of 5
Quantum of Solace 3 out of 5
The Upside of Anger 4 out of 5
The Savages 4 out of 5
Junebug 3 out of 5
The Brothers Grimm 3 out of 5
Surviving Christmas 1 out of 5
Iron Man 2 out of 5
Seabiscuit 3 out of 5
Sky High 3 out of 5
Nicholas Nickleby 3 out of 5
Wallace and Grommit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit 3 out of 5

Modern Theology, January 2009

No werewolves in theology? Transcendence, immanence, and becoming divine in Gilles Deleuze = Jacob Holsinger Sherman

Envy's narrative scripts: Cyprian, Basil and the monastic sages on the anatomy and the cure of the invidious emotions - Paul M. Blowers

Poetry against evil: A Bulgakovian theology of poetry - Ryan McDermott

Through a different lens: Rethinking the role of sexual difference in the theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar - Barbara K. Sain

"Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good": An orientational approach to suffering and evil - Matthias Gockel

K. H. Ting's contribution to the contextualization of Christianity in China - Mikka Ruokanen

Friendship as a mode of theological engagement: David Ford's exploration of Christian wisdom' - Iain Torrance