J. Scott Jackson
My blogs
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Religion |
Occupation | Independent scholar & lay minister |
Location | Northampton, MA |
Introduction | I am a theologian and independent scholar, a lay minister and an occasional religion teacher living in Western Massachusetts with my beautiful wife and son. I studied theology at Emory University and the University of Chicago. |
Interests | English Reformation; theology of Karl Barth; Christology; covenant theology; apocalyptic theology; N.T. Wright; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; ecclesial renewal; neo-monasticism; C.S. Lewis; William Stringfellow |
Favorite Movies | The Bridge over the River Kwai, Amadeus, The Graduate, On the Waterfront, The Empire Strikes Back, The Princess Bride |
Favorite Music | John Coltrane: My Favorite Things, Blue Train; Miles Davis: Kind of Blue; Dave Brubeck: Take Six; Aretha Franklin: Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You; The Beatles: Abbey Road, The White Album, Rubber Soul; Handel: Messiah; Mozart: Requiem |
Favorite Books | C.S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces; Karl Barth: Evangelical Theology, Church Dogmatics IV/1; Walker Percy: Lost in the Cosmos; Schleiermacher: The Christian Faith; Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments; Peter Brown: Augustine of Hippo; Martin Luther (ed. Dillenberger); Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus |