Spring 2016/Pasadena

HT501

Kärkkäinen

HT501: THE CHURCH’S UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND CHRIST IN ITS THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION (4 Units: 166 hours). Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

DESCRIPTION: HT501 is a survey of systematic and philosophical theology that focuses especially on the doctrine of God, The Trinity, Christology (comprising the person and work of Christ), and the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit. The course reflects the historic Christian church's development of trinitarian and Christological theology and creeds in its dialogue with its opponents and with its cultural context. Related topics and themes to be addressed may include the development and articulation of the Christian doctrine of God including the divine perfections and nature, as well as the doctrine of the Trinity; the development and articulation of the person and work of Christ; and Pneumatology, the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who complete HT501 will demonstrate: (1) a basic critical theological knowledge of the conceptual and normative dimensions of the doctrines of God and Christ as those and other selected doctrines emerged in the early church and developed to this day; (2) a basic competence in interpreting historic and contemporary perorations of these doctrines and an ability to evaluate these theological issues and their historical and contemporary development; and (3) a critical and sympathetic appreciation for the breadth, unity, and diversity of the Christian church.

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once weekly for three-and-half hour sessions for a total of 35 instructional hours in the classroom for lecture and discussion; plus five hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 1,100 pp. total.

1. Electronic Course Reader (Moodle) contains two kinds of materials: (total 220 pp.).

a. Historical Documents and Texts (130 pp.)

On Trinity and Christology drawn from:

Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word

Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Augustine, On the Trinity

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1

On Holy Spirit:

Excerpts from the annotated anthology: Kärkkäinen, V.M., Holy Spirit and Salvation. The

Sources of Christian Theology. WJKP, 2010. ISBN: 978-0664231361, Pub. Price $45.00 [pp. 52-57 assigned], Augustine [pp. 92-101 assigned), several Medieval mystics [pp. 118-30 assigned], Luther [pp.152-63 assigned], OR Calvin [ pp.167-76 assigned], and John Wesley [pp. assigned 219-27].

The statement of Nicea and creeds of (Nicene-) Constantinople and Chalcedon.

Strongly recommended (but not required):

Kelly, J.N.D., Early Christian Doctrines, rev. ed. Harper One, 1978. ISBN: 978-0060643348,

Pub. Price $17.99 [ch. 9 “The Nicene Crisis”; ch. 10 “The Doctrine of the Trinity”; ch. 11 “Fourth-Century Christology”].

b. Contemporary Theology (90 pp):

Bradley, James E. “LogosChristology and Religious Pluralism: A New Evangelical Proposal,”

Proceedings of the Wheaton Theology Conference 1 (1992): 190-207

Kärkkäinen, V.M..“Theologies of Religions” in Global Dictionary of Theology. Intervarsity

Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0830824540, Pub. Price $50.00 [pp. 745-753 assigned].

Kärkkäinen, V.M. &Delbert Burkett, ed. “Christology in Africa, Asia and Latin America,” in

The Blackwell Companion to Jesus. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN: 978-1405193627, Pub. Price

$50.00. [pp. 375-93 assigned].

Kärkkäinen, V.M., & Peter C. Phan, ed. “The Trinitarian Doctrines of Jürgen Moltmann and

Wolfhart Pannenberg in the Context of Contemporary Discussion,” in Cambridge

Companion to Trinity, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521701136, Pub. Price

$34.99. [pp. 412-48 assigned].

2. Plantinga, R., Thompson, T. and Lundberg, M. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521690379, Pub. Price $34.99 [pp. 1-46; 77-146; 227-312; 419-50 assigned]. This book serves as the integrative text in all four common HST courses (both historical and systematic theology options).

3. Kärkkäinen, V.M.. Christ and Reconciliation: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 1. Eerdmans, 2013. ISBN: 978-0802868534, Pub. Price $40.00 [320 pp. assigned].

4. Kärkkäinen, V.M. The Holy Spirit: A Guide to Christian Theology. Westminster John Knox, 2012. ISBN: 978-0664235932, Pub. Price $20.00 [128 pp. assigned].

5. SPECIAL FOCUS ON “CONTEXTUAL,” INTERCULTURAL, AND INTERRELIGIOUS THEMES (or a choice of your own by instructor’s permission; choose relevant sections, max. 200 pages):

Alfaro, S. Divine Compañero: Toward a Hispanic Pentecostal Christology. Pickwick, 2010. ISBN: 978-1606086995, Pub. Price $20.00 [166 pp. assigned].

Baker, G. A.ed. Jesus in The World’s Faiths: Leading Thinkers from Five Religions Reflect on His Meaning. Orbis Books, 2005. ISBN: 978-1570755736, Pub. Price $20.00 [198 pp.].

Baker, G. A. & Gregg, S. E., eds. Jesus Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0199553457, Pub. Price $29.95 [256 pp. assigned].

Boff, L. Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time. Orbis. 1978. ISBN: 978-0883442364, Pub. Price $35.00 [335 pp. assigned].

Boff, L. Trinity and Society. Orbis, 1988. ISBN: 978-1597521383, Pub. Price $30.00. [288 pp. assigned].

Chung, S. W., ed. Christ the One and Only. Baker, 2005. ISBN: 978-0801028540, Pub. Price $28.00 [272 pp. assigned].

Clooney, F. Hindu God, Christian God:How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0199738724, Pub. Price $24.95 [220 pp. assigned].

Comblin, J. The Holy Spirit and Liberation. Wipf & Stock, 2004. ISBN: 978-1592445622, Pub. Price $26.00 [232 pp. assigned].

Cone, J.H. God of the Oppressed. Orbis, 1997. ISBN: 9781570751585. Pub. Price $20.00 [257 pp. assigned].

Cone, J.H. A Black Theology of Liberation. 2nd ed. Orbis, 1986. ISBN: 978-0883446850, Pub. Price $22.00 [200 pp. assigned].

Hagner, D. The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus: An Analysis and Critique of the Modern Jewish Study of Jesus. Wipf & Stock, 1997. ISBN: 978-1579100315, Pub. Price $33.00 [341 pp. assigned].

Imbach, J. Three Faces of Jesus: How Jews, Christians and Muslims See Him. 2nd ed. Templegate, 1993. ISBN: 978-0872431942, Pub. Price $12.95 [151 pp. assigned].

Joh, W. Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. John Knox Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0664230630, Pub. Price $30.00 [184 pp. assigned].

Johnson, E. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. Continuum, 1992. ISBN: 9780824519254, Pub. Price $29.95 [344 pp. assigned].

Küster, Volker. The Many Faces of Jesus: An Intercultural Christology. Orbis, 2001. ISBN: 978-1570753541, Pub. Price $29.00 [250 pp. assigned].

Lee, Sang Hyun. From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology. Fortress Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0800696689, Pub. Price $29.00 [200 pp. assigned].

Lefebure, L. D. The Buddha & The Christ: Explorations in Buddhist and Christian Dialogue. Orbis, 1993. ISBN: 978-0883449240, Pub. Price $29.00 [239 pp. assigned].

Leirvik, O. Images of Jesus Christ in Islam. 2nd ed. Continuum. 2010. ISBN: 978-1441181602, Pub. Price $34.95 [304 pp. assigned].

Robinson, N. Christ in Islam and Christianity. State University of New York Press, 1991. ISBN: 978-0791405581, Pub. Price $192.00 [235 pp. assigned].

Parsons, S. F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663809, Pub. Price $30.99 [288 pp. assigned].

Peacore, L. D. The Role of Women’s Experience in Feminist Theologies of Atonement. Pickwick, 2010. ISBN: 978-1556358036, Pub. Price $28.00 [254 pp. assigned].

Pope-Levison, P. & Levison, J. R. Jesus in Global Contexts. Westminster John Knox, 1992. ISBN: 978-0664251659, Pub. Price $30.00 [236 pp. assigned].

Pui-lan, Kwok. Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. John Knox, 2005. ISBN: 978-0664228835, Pub. Price, $20.00 [256 pp. assigned].

Schimmel, A. M., & Abdoldjavad Falaturi, eds. We Believe in One God. Burns & Oates, 1980. ISBN: 978-0860120780, Pub. Price: not available, find used on Amazon. [200 pp. assigned].

Schreiter, R. J., ed. Faces of Jesus in Africa. Orbis, 1991.ISBN: 978-0883447680, Pub. Price $24.00 [200 pp. assigned].

Volf, Miroslav. Allah: A Christian Response. HarperOne, 2011. ISBN: 978-0061927072, Pub. Price: $15.99. [336 pp. assigned].

Ward, P. Concepts of God. Images of the Divine in Five Religious Traditions. Oxford: One, 1998. ISBN: 978-1851680641, Pub. Price: $14.95. [208 pp. assigned].

RECOMMENDED READING:

Adams, Marilyn McCord. Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0521686006, Pub. Price $40.00 [344 pp.].

Beilby, James and Eddy, Paul eds. The Nature of the Atonement, Four Views. IVP, 2006. ISBN: 978-0830825707, Pub. Price $20.00.

Bloesch, D. Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord. InterVarsity Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780830827541, Pub. Price $20.00.

Coakley, Sarah God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity.’ Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0521899499, Pub. Price $29.99.

Crisp, Oliver D. Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0521695350, Pub. Price $30.99.

Crisp, Oliver D. God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 978-0567033482, Pub. Price $34.95.

Crisp, Oliver D. Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Ashgate, 2011. ISBN: 978-1409430046, Pub. Price $28.00.

Crisp, Oliver D. and Sanders, Fred eds. Advancing Trinitarian Theology, Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, eds. Zondervan Academic, 2014. ISBN: 978-0310517092, Pub. Price $22.99.

Crisp, Oliver D. and Sanders, Fred eds. Christology Ancient and Modern: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. Zondervan Academic, 2013. ISBN: 978-0310514961, Pub. Price $22.99. [NOTE: videos of the plenary addresses at LATC2013 and LATC2014 on Christology and the Trinity respectively, can be found online at: http://latheology.com/past-years. Students are encouraged to watch these.]

Emery, Gilles, and Levering, Matthew eds. The Oxford Handbook of The Trinity. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0198712138, Pub. Price $50.00 [607 pp.]

Fiddes, P. Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity. Westminster John Knox, 2001. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780664223359. Pub.price $29.95.

Holmes, Stephen R. The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity. IVP Academic, 2012. ISBN: 978-0830839865, Pub. Price $26.00.

Kärkkäinen Veli-Matti,Trinity and Revelation: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, volume 2. Eerdmans, 2014. ISBN: 978-0802868541, Pub. Price $40.00.

Moltmann, The Crucified God. The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, Fortress, 1993, 364pp. ISBN-13: 978-0800628222. $25.00.

Moltmann, J. The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God. SCM, 1991. 276 pp. ISBN: 9780800628253. Pub.price $23.00.

Morris, Thomas V. Our Idea of God. University of Notre Dame Press, 1991 [reprinted by Regent College Publishing, 1997]. ISBN: 978-1573831017, Pub. Price $24.95

Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology, vol. 1. Eerdmans, 1991, chs. 4, 5.ISBN-13: 978-0802865038. $55.00.

Parsons, S. F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663809, Pub. Price $30.99.

Phan, Peter C. ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity. Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0521701136, Pub. Price $34.99 [439 pp.].

Pinnock, C. Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God’s Openness. Baker, 2001. 218 pp. ISBN: 9780801022906. Pub.price $24.00.

Tanner, Kathryn. Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology. Fortress Press, 2001. ISBN: 978-0800632931. Pub. Price $ 17.00 [134 pp.].

Tanner, Kathryn. Tanner, Kathryn Christ the Key. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521732772, Pub. Price $29.99 [302pp.]

Webster, John, Tanner, Kathryn, and Torrance, Iain eds. The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology. Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0199245765, Pub. Price $55.00 [pp. 160-175].

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. Class time [35 hours].

2. 1,100 pages of required reading [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 3] [73 hours].

3. DLA (Directed Learning Activities), including extra time for reading, reflection, and preparing for assignments either individually or in groups [5 hours].

4. Two quizzes (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2]. [10 hours].

5. Two 1,000-word critical response essays (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2]. [18 hours].

6. A research essay on an assigned topic [2,500 words] (40%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2, 3]. [25 hours].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH1 or TH4 requirement in the 120 MDiv Program. Meets the STA requirement in the 144 MDiv Program.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.