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Dr. Henry W. Spaulding I am not sure if I chose this discipline or if it chose me. When I was in High School I read Nietzsche’s Gay Science and I was enthralled it, shortly after, I read selections from Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. One day I noticed these books on the family book shelf. I have always found philosophy very intriguing. It asks some of the most fundamental questions. I ran across the theology of Paul Tillich while at TNU and his philosophical theology interested me from the beginning. So to put it as succinctly as possible this discipline has attracted me because of the questions it raises and the implications of those questions for people of faith.
Hank Spaulding I guess the journey begins much later for me. I came to Trevecca majoring in music with the intention to dabble with a few religion courses. It was that dabbling, along with the confirmation of a call to ministry that I had received in 2003 in Houston, TX at the Nazarene Youth Congress that lead me to become a full time religion major. Philosophy captured my attention between my freshman and sophomore year when I was introduced to radical orthodoxy. From this point, I began to read all the philosophy I could get my hands on. I started reading people like Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Plato, Hegel, Kant, Aristotle, MacIntyre, and Plotinus. These philosophers helped me to more fully understand theology. I also began to read John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward who have defined a new theological school called radical orthodoxy. I started to see a philosophical thread in the struggles, pains, and thoughts of history and culture. I read philosophy and theology so that I will be better equipped to deal with the issues that confront our world.
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