Fall 2018/Fuller Online

TH569

Crisp

TH569: DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT. (4 Units: 160 hours). Oliver Crisp.

DESCRIPTION: This course is an elective course focused on the doctrine of atonement. It offers a critical engagement with key themes and texts in the development of the doctrine in Christian theology.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated their ability to (1) analyze critically and assess the contribution of the authors studied to the doctrine of atonement; (2) offer a reasoned response to various proposals offered by these theologians in light of tradition and current intellectual milieu; and (3) begin to formulate their own systematic/constructive views on the atonement in light of this reading.

COURSE FORMAT: This course will be conducted online on a ten-week schedule aligned with Fuller’s academic calendar for a total of 40 instructional hours, which is outlined below in the assignment and assessment section. Students are required to interact with the material, with each other, and with the instructor regularly through online discussions, reading, and other assignments that promote active learning.

REQUIRED READING: 1,100 pages required.

Aulen, Gustav. Christus Victor. Wipf & Stock [reprint], 2003 [1931]. ISBN: 978-1592443307. Pub. Price $26.00. [161 pages assigned.]

Boersma, Hans. Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition. Baker Academic, 2006, 288pp. ISBN: 978-0801031335, Pub. Price: $28.00. [pp. 99-201 assigned = 102 pages]

Johnson, Adam. Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed). T&T Clark, 2015. ISBN: 978-0567254023, Pub. Price: $29.95. (Available electronically via the David Allan Hubbard Library.) [188 pages assigned.]

Peacore, Linda. The Role of Women’s Experience in Feminist Theologies of Atonement. Wipf and Stock, 2010, 221 pp. ISBN: 978-1556358036, Pub. Price: $30.00. [pp. 101-221 assigned = 120 pages]

St. Athanasius. On The Incarnation. St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0881414271. Also available online at: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation. Pub. Price $16.00. [110 pages assigned.]

St. Anselm. Cur Deus Homo. Available online at: http://www.jasper-hopkins.info/CurDeusI.pdf and http://www.jasper-hopkins.info/CurDeusII.pdf [94 pp. assigned.]

Additional essays/papers/videos provided via Canvas will include a number of different authors not represented in the Required Reading, e.g. Joanne Carlson Brown and Rebecca Parker, “For God So Loved The World?” in Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn, eds. Christianity, Patriarchy and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Pilgrim Press, 1989.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Beilby James and Paul R. Eddy, eds. The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views (IVP Academic, 2006), 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0830825707. Price: $24.00.

Belousek, Darrin W. Snyder. Atonement, Justice and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church (Eerdmans, 2011), 684 pp. ISBN: 978-0802866424. Price: $55.00.

Crisp, Oliver D. ed. A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology (T&T Clark, 2009), 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0567031464. $47.95.

Davis, Steven T. Daniel Kendall and Gerald O’Collins, eds. The Redemption (Oxford University Press, 2006), 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0199288755. Price: $50.00.

Fiddes, Paul S. Past Event and Present Salvation (Westminster John Knox, 1989), 254 pp. ISBN: 978-0664250362. Price: $30.00.

Finlan, Stephen. Options on Atonement in Christian Theology (Michael Glazier, 2007), 147 pp. ISBN: 978-0814659861. Price: $17.95.

Franks, R. S. The Work of Christ (Thomas Nelson, 1962) 708pp. (No current ISBN or price – out of print.)

Girard, René. The Scapegoat (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0801839177 Price: $28.00.

Gunton, Colin E. Actuality and Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition (T&T Clark, 1988), 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0567080905. Price: $55.00.

Grotius, Hugo. A Defence of the Catholic Faith Concerning the Satisfaction of Christ Against Faustus Socinus (English translation available at http://yoel.info/sitemap.htm).

Hill, Charles E. and Frank A. James III, eds. The Glory of The Atonement: Biblical, Theological and Practical Perspectives (IVP Academic, 2004), 495 pp. ISBN: 978-0830826896. Price: $40.00.

Jenson, Robert W. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1 The Triune God (Oxford University Press, 2001), 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0195145984. Price: $35.00.

Jersak Brad and Michael Hardin, eds. Stricken by God? Nonviolent Identification and The Victory of Christ (Eerdmans, 2007), 527 pp. ISBN: 978-0802862877. Price: $32.00.

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. One with God: Salvation as Deification and Justification. (Liturgical Press, 2004). 144pp. ISBN: 978-0814629710. Retail price: $19.95.

MacDonald, Gregory. The Evangelical Universalist (Cascade Books, 2006), 201 pp. ISBN: 978-1597523653. Price: $24.00.

O’Collins, Gerald. Jesus Our Redeemer: A Christian Approach to Salvation (Oxford University Press, Price: 2007), 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0199203130. Price: $36.95.

Owen, John. The Death of Death in The Death of Christ – available through the ethereal library (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/owen/deathofdeath.html).

Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology Vol. 2 (Eerdmans, 1994), 515 pp. ISBN: 978-0802837073. Price: $60.00. Ch. 11.

Rashdall, Hastings. The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology, Being the Bampton Lectures for 1915 (Macmillan and Co., 1919), 502 pp. Available through http://books.google.com.

Sanders, John ed. Atonement and Violence: A Theological Conversation (Abingdon Press, 2006), 170pp. ISBN: 978-0687342945. Price: $24.99.

Sobrino, Jon. Jesus the Liberator: A Historical-Theological Reading of Jesus of Nazareth (Orbis, 1994), 308pp. ISBN: 978-0883449301. Price: $34.00, Part II: The Cross of Jesus.

Spence, Alan. The Promise of Peace: A Unified Theory of Atonement (T&T Clark, 2007), 144pp. ISBN: 978-0567031181. Price: $29.95.

Tidball, Derek David Hilborn, Justin Thaker eds. The Atonement Debate (Zondervan, 2008), 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0310273394. Price: $18.99.

Trelstad, Marit ed. Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today (Augsburg Books, 2006), 340pp. ISBN: 978-0800620462. Price: $29.00.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

  1. In preparation for each topic, reading of required material. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1-3.] [72 hours.]
  2. Weekly online post interacting with required reading for each topic and other media posted by the professor (20%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1] [40 hours for constructing and writing 250-word weekly posts & 2 replies].
  3. One theological textual analysis (1,500 words) (20%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2, 3] [10 hours].
  4. One final research paper on an assigned topic (3,000 words) (30%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1-3] [24 hours].
  5. One final quiz (20% of grade). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1-3] [6 hours].
  6. One final reflective paper on the implications for one theological topic in the course for Christian ministry and vocation (1,500 words) (10%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1-3] [8 hours].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH4 requirement in the 120 MDiv and 80 MAT Programs (Fall 2015).

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.

NOTE: This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. Textbook prices are set by publishers and are subject to change.