DESCRIPTION:

The course will be divided into four parts, which will treat, respectively, (1) revelation and theology, (2) God, especially the doctrine of the Trinity, (3) creation, and (4) theological anthropology, including hamartiology.

This course is designed to provide an introduction to some of the central doctrines of the Christian faith, especially those foundational to the Christian teaching of salvation, the church and her ministry.

Lectures and discussion, in a two-week intensive, meeting daily for four-hour sessions.

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics, vol. 1/1. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1975, especially pp. 187-383.

Gunton, Colin E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, chapters 1-10.

Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology 2. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994, pp. 1-275.

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics, vol. 3/2. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1960.

Gunton, Colin E. A Brief Theology of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.

_________. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991/1997.

Hart, Trevor. Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology. InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation. Fortress Press, 1993.

Schwoebel, Christoph, ed. Trinitarian Theology Today. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.

Zizioulas, John. Being as Communion. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1985.

Two 15-page research papers either integrating a number of the four parts of the course, or on two distinct topics.

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Meets M.Div. core requirement in Systematic Theology "a" (STA).

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