Winter 2014/Phoenix
ST502
Wessling
ST502: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 2: CHRISTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY (4 Units). Jordan Wessling.
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a theological understanding of Christian beliefs about Christ, salvation, and the Holy Spirit. Topics include biblical and historical developments of Christological and pneumatological traditions, election, atonement, and salvation. A constructive theology will be articulated in dialogue with ecumenical and intercultural perspectives, and in light of the church’s mission and other religions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated (1) a basic understanding of the relevant issues in their traditional and contemporary expressions; (2) an ability to reflect theologically upon the topics within this course; (3) skills towards developing one’s own theology in critical dialogue with various views; (4) an acquaintance with a range of cultural and contextual matters that shape our understanding of theological issues; (5) an appreciation of ecumenical and cultural diversity.
COURSE FORMAT: This is a hybrid course. The class will meet for four weekends (Friday evenings and Saturday mornings), for a total of 32 hours of in class time. Class time will be divided among lectures, large and small group discussion. In addition, students will spend one hour per week in on-line discussions.
REQUIRED READING: Selections from the following works (not to exceed 1,200 pages):
Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in International, Ecumenical, and Historical Perspective. Baker Academic, 2002. ISBN: 978-0801024481, Pub. Price: $26.00. [174 pp. assigned]
_________. Christology: A Global Introduction. Baker Academic, 2003. ISBN: 9780801026218, Pub. Price: $28.00. [approx 150 pp. assigned]
Plantinga, Richard J., Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521690379, Pub. Price: $31.99 [approx. 200 pp. assigned]
Choose two of the following historical works (approx. 150-250 pp.):
Anselm of Canterbury, St. Anselm of Canterbury, The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and Gillian Evans. Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780199540082, Pub. Price: $14.95. [approx. 100 pp. assigned]
OR Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo is available for free at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anselm-curdeus.asp
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, vol. 1, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles. Westminster Press, 1960, [1559]. ISBN: 978-0664220280, Pub. Price: $80.00. [approx. 70 pp. assigned]
OR the relevant chapters (XXI-XXIV) are available for free at: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes/.
Gunter, W. Stephen. Arminius and His Declaration of Sentiments: An Annotated Translation with Introduction and Theological Commentary. Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1602585676, Pub. Price: $39.95 [approx. 150 pp. assigned]
OR Arminius’ Declaration of Sentiments is available for free at: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works1.iii.ii.html
Hardy, Edward R. Christology of the Later Fathers. Westminster John Knox Press, 1954. ISBN: 978-0664241520, Pub. Price: $40.00 [approx. 75 pp. assigned]
OR Gregory of Nyssa’s “An Address on Religious Instruction” is available for free at: http://www.johnlamoreaux.com/smu/theology/sources/gnys_address.pdf
Essays Provided by the Instructor (approx 190 pp.):
Crisp, Oliver. “Penal Non-substitution,” Journal of Theological Studies 59:1 (2008), pp. 140-168.
Cross, Richard. “Incarnation,” Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, 2001, ch. 20 (pp. 452-475).
D’Costa, Gavin. Christianity and World Religions: Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions. Wiley- Blackwell, 2009, ch. 1 (pp. 3-33).
Porter, Steven. “Rethinking the Logic of Penal Substitution,” in William Lane Craig, ed., Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide. Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 596-624.
Quinn, Philip L. “Abelard on Atonement: ‘Nothing Unintelligible, Arbitrary, Illogical, or Immoral about it’,” in Eleonore Stump, ed., Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology. Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 281-300.
Sanders, Fred. “Introduction to Christology: Chalcedonian Categories for the Gospel Narrative,” in Fred Sanders and Klaus Issler, eds., Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology. B&H Publishing, 2007, ch. 1 (pp. 3-43).
Tanner, Kathryn. Christ the Key. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 6 (pp. 247-273).
Choose one Intercultural or Interreligious text from EITHER A OR B (200 pp.; or a title of your own choice to be approved by professor):
A. Intercultural and/or “Contextual”:
Alfaro, S. Divine Compañero: Toward a Hispanic Pentecostal Christology. Pickwick, 2010. ISBN: 978-1606086995, Pub. Price $20.00 [166 pp.].
Boff, L. Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time. Orbis, 1978. ISBN: 978-0883442364, Pub. Price $35.00 [335 pp.].
Comblin, J. The Holy Spirit and Liberation. Wipf & Stock, 2004. ISBN: 978-1592445622, Pub. Price $26.00 [232 pp.].
Cone, J. H. A Black Theology of Liberation. Orbis, 2010. ISBN: 978-1570758959, Pub. Price $20.00, [192 pp.].
Joh, W. Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. John Knox Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0664230630, Pub. Price $30.00 [184 pp.].
Küster, Volker. The Many Faces of Jesus: An Intercultural Christology. Orbis, 2001. ISBN: 978-1570753541, Pub. Price $29.00 [250 pp.].
Parsons, S. F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663274, Pub. Price $99.00 [288 pp.].
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.].
Pope-Levison, P. & Levison, J. R. Jesus in Global Contexts. Westminster John Knox, 1992. ISBN: 978-0664251659, Pub. Price $30.00 [236 pp.].
Ramachandra, V. The Recovery of Mission: Beyond the Pluralist Paradigm. Wipf & Stock, 2002. ISBN: 978-1592440641, Pub. Price $31.00 [308 pp.].
Schreiter, R. J., ed. Faces of Jesus in Africa. Orbis, 1991. ISBN: 978-0883447680, Pub. Price $24.00 [200 pp.].
B. Interreligious and/or Theology of Religions:
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 $85.00 [256 pp.].
Chung, S. W., ed. Christ the One and Only. Baker, 2005. ISBN: 978-0801028540, Pub. Price $28.00 [272 pp.].
D’Costa, Gavin. Christianity and World Religions: Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 978-1405176736, Pub. Price $35.95 [248 pp.]
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.].
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.].
Ives, C., ed. Divine Emptiness and Historical Fullness: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation with Asao Mabe. Trinity Press, 1995. ISBN: 978-1563381225, Pub. Price $16.99 [272 pp.].
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 [467pp.].
Kulandran, S. Grace in Christianity and Hinduism. Repr. Lutterworth Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0227172360, Pub. Price $52.50 [288 pp.].
Lefebure, L. D. The Buddha & The Christ: Explorations in Buddhist and Christian Dialogue. Orbis, 1993. ISBN: 978-0883449240, Pub. Price $29.00 [239 pp.].
Leirvik, O. Images of Jesus Christ in Islam. 2nd ed. Continuum, 2010. ISBN: 978-1441181602, Pub. Price $34.95 [304 pp.].
Robinson, N. Christ in Islam and Christianity. State University of New York Press, 1991. ISBN: 978-0791405581, Out of print [235 pp.].
Tiessen, T. L. Who Can Be Saved? Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions. InterVarsity Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0830827473, Pub. Price $28.00 [511 pp.].
Philip Quinn and Kevin Meeker (eds.) The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0195121551, Pub. Price $47.95 [256 pp.].
Yong, A. Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Baker, 2003. ISBN: 978-0801026126, Out of print [208 pp.].
RECOMMENDED READING:
* indicates that the text is introductory to intermediate.
** indicates that the text is intermediate to advanced.
** Adams, Marilyn McCord. Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0521686006, Pub. Price: $43.00 [344 pp.]
* Anselm of Canterbury, St. Anselm of Canterbury, The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and Gillian Evans. Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-0199540082, Pub. Price $14.95 [approx. 100 pp. assigned]
OR Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo is available for free at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anselm-curdeus.asp
** Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles, Vol. 4: Salvation. Trans. Charles J. O’Neill. University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. ISBN: 978-0268016845, Pub. Price: $19.50 [360 pp.]
** _________. Summa Theologica in 5 Vols. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Christian Classics, 1981. ISBN: 978-0870610639, Pub. Price: $245.00 [3020 pp.]
* Augustine of Hippo, St. Enchiridion on Faith. Hope and Love (various editions – see also The Ethereal Library online).
* Beilby, James, and Paul Eddy. The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views. InterVarsity Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780830825707, Pub. Price: $20.00 [208 pp.]
* Bloesch, D. Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord. IVP Academic, 2005. ISBN: 9780830827541, Pub. Price: $20.00 [304 pp.]
** Boersma, H. Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition. Baker Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-0801031335, Pub. Price $28.00 [288 pp.]
** Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Trans. Ford Lewis Battles, ed. John McNeill. Westminster Press, 1960 [1559]. ISBN: 978-0664220280, Pub. Price: $80.00 [1800 pp.]
* Comblin, J. The Holy Spirit and Liberation. Wipf & Stock, 2004. ISBN: 9781592445622, Pub. Price: $26.00 [232 pp.]
* Crisp, Oliver D. An American Augustinian: Sin and Salvation in the Dogmatic Theology of William G. T. Shedd. Wipf & Stock, 2007. ISBN: 978-1556356582, Pub. Price $24.00 [216 pp.]
** _________. Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0521695350, Pub. Price $32.99 [202 pp.]
** _________, ed. A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 9780567031464, Pub. Price: $44.95 [392 pp.]
** _________. Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology. IVP Academic, 2011. ISBN: 9780830839285, Pub. Price: $22.00 [209 pp.]
** _________. Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Ashgate, 2011. ISBN: 978-1409430056, Pub. Price: $39.95 [166 pp.]
_________. God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 9780567033482, Pub. Price: $34.95 [200 pp.]
** Edwards, Jonathan. The End of Creation. In The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 8: Ethical Writings. Ed. Paul Ramsey. Yale University Press, 1989. ISBN: 978-0300040203, Pub. Price: $120.00 [808 pp.]
** Flint, Thomas P., and Rea, Michael C., eds. The Oxford Handbook to Philosophical Theology. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199596539, Pub. Price: $55.00 [624 pp.]
* Green, J. B., and M. D. Baker. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross. 2nd ed. IVP Academic, 2011. ISBN: 978-0830839315, Pub. Price: $22.00 [287 pp.]
** Gunter, W. Stephen. Arminius and His Declaration of Sentiments: An Annotated Translation with Introduction and Theological Commentary. Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1602585676, Pub. Price $39.95 [approx. 150 pp. assigned]
OR Arminius’ Declaration of Sentiments is available for free at: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works1.iii.ii.html
** Hardy, Edward R. Christology of the Later Fathers. Westminster John Knox Press, 1954. ISBN: 978-0664241520, Pub. Price $40.00 [approx. 75 pp. assigned]
OR Gregory of Nyssa’s “An Address on Religious Instruction” is available for free at: http://www.johnlamoreaux.com/smu/theology/sources/gnys_address.pdf
** Heim, S. M. Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross. Eerdmans, 2006. ISBN: 978-0802832153, Pub. Price $30.00 [246 pp.]
** Jenson, Robert W. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: The Triune God. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195145984, Pub. Price: $35.00 [256 pp.]
** _________. Systematic Theology, Vol. 2: The Works of God. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195145991, Pub. Price: $35.00 [392 pp.]
** Kärkkäinen, V.-M. One with God: Salvation as Deification and Justification. Liturgical Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0814629710, Pub. Price: $16.95 [160 pp.]
* Letham, Robert. The Work of Christ. InterVarsity Press, 1993. ISBN: 978-0830815326, Pub. Price: $22.00 [284 pp.]
* Macleod, Donald. The Person of Christ. InterVarsity Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-0830815371, Pub. Price: $22.00 [303 pp.]
* McCormack, Bruce L., ed. Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges. Baker Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-0801031311, Pub. Price: $28.00 [277 pp.]
* O’Collins, Gerald. Christology: A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Study of Jesus. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199557875, Pub. Price: $35.00 [400 pp.]
* Parsons, Susan .F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521663274, Pub. Price: $99.00 [288 pp.]
** Plantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780195131932, Pub. Price: $29.99 [528 pp.]
** Schmid, Heinrich. The Doctrinal Theology of The Evangelical Lutheran Church. Wipf & Stock, 2008. ISBN: 9781606081037, Pub. Price: $59.00 [692 pp.]
** Tanner, Kathryn. Christ the Key. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780521732772, Pub. Price: $31.99 [322 pp.]
* _________. Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology. Fortress, 2001. ISBN: 978-0800632939, Pub. Price: $19.00 [134 pp.]
* Tiessen, T. L. Who Can Be Saved? Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions. InterVarsity Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780830827473, Pub. Price: $28.00 [511 pp.]
** Torrance, Thomas F. Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ. IVP Academic, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830828920, Pub. Price: $40.00 [489 pp.]
** _________. Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. IVP Academic, 2008. ISBN: 9780830828913, Pub. Price: $40.00 [371 pp.]
** Turretin, Francis. Institutes of Elenctic Theology. 3 Vols. Presbyterian & Reformed, 1997. ISBN: 9780875524566, Pub. Price: $83.80 [2311 pp.]
* Weaver, Denny J. The Nonviolent Atonement. 2nd ed. Eerdmans, 2011. ISBN: 978-0802864376, Pub. Price $28.00 [362 pp.].
** Webster, John, Kathryn Tanner, and Iain Torrance, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199569649, Pub. Price: $55.00 [pp. 160-75].
* Yong, A. Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Baker, 2003. ISBN: 9780801026126, out of print [208 pp.]
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
PREREQUISITES: None. Yet at least one course in biblical studies and in historical theology/church history as well as philosophical theology are strongly recommended.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets MDiv core requirement in Systematic Theology “B” (STB).
FINAL EXAMINATION: Yes.