I intend a second post at The Weblog on Rowan Williams’s short book on the Desert Fathers; together with the two posts on Donald MacKinnon and the three on Bonhoeffer, these will make up a small body of “theological” writing which I would like to go on with in some way.

One option is to try and do some serious work on Millbank, or Yoder, or someone like that, just so as to have some notion of what the Weblog crowd are on about when they talk about those people. At the same time, I suspect it would be extremely premature to try to do anything of the sort - I have unfinished business with St. Paul that probably ought to be tackled first…

So: given that I’m not actually a full-time student of theology, don’t have access to a university library, and am basically a footling amateur who can’t leave well alone…what would be a good thing to read next, given the line I’ve taken so far? Graham Ward’s book on Derrida and Barth? The De Causa Dei of Thomas Bradwardine?