Fall 2012/Houston

ST501

Miller

ST501: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 1: THEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Kris A. Miller.

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a theological understanding of Christian beliefs about revelation and Scripture, the triune God, creation and providence, human beings as the image of God, and the fall, evil, and sin. On the basis of biblical and historical developments, a contemporary theology will be constructed.

SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: An essential part of spiritual development and preparation for Christian ministry is to learn to think theologically through issues of faith and ministry.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated (1) a basic understanding of issues in their classical and contemporary expressions; (2) an ability to reflect theologically and analytically upon the course topics; (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 enhanced awareness of their own place in the historical, global Christian community; (6) an appreciation of ecumenical and cultural diversity of the Christian tradition; (7) increased awareness of the implications of this course’s theological topics for one’s own life and ministry.

COURSE FORMAT: Meets once per week on Wednesday evenings for three-and-one-half-hour sessions (6:00-9:30pm) for lectures, student presentations and discussion.

REQUIRED READING:

Grenz, Stanley.J. Theology for the Community of God. Eerdmans, 2000, pp. 1-242. ISBN: 9780802847553. Pub.price $40.00.

Harrison, Nonna Verna. God’s Many-Splendored Image: Theological Anthropology for Christian Formation. Baker, 2010. 207 pp. ISBN: 080103471X. Retail Price: $22.00

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. The Doctrine of God: A Global Introduction. Baker, 2004. 301 pp. ISBN: 0801027527. Pub.price $30.00.

Introducing classical texts. Choose one from either A or B:

A. Doctrine of God

Athanasius, On the Incarnation. Popular Patristics Series. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1996. 120pp. ISBN: 0913836400. Pub. price $9.95. (Also at The Ethereal Library online).

Anselm of Canterbury, St. The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and Gillian Evans. Oxford University Press, 1998. “Monlogion,” “Proslogion,” “Pro Insipiente,” and “Reply to Gaunilo.” Pp. 5-122. ISBN: 9780199540082. Retail price: $14.95. (Also at The Ethereal Library online).

Augustine of Hippo, St. Enchiridion on Faith. Hope and Love (Also at The Ethereal Library online).

Augustine of Hippo, St. On The Trinity. Trans. by Edmund Hill, O.P. New City Press, 1991, 2012. (Also at The Ethereal Library online).

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologiae.. Vols. 1 & 2, questions 1-11. Various translations. (Also at Ethereal Library online.)

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics. Vol. I.1. Chapter 2, “The Revelation of God.” 198pp. T&T Clark, 1936.

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Vol. 1. Ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles. Westminster Press, 1960. Book 1. 234pp. ISBN: 978-0664220280. Retail price: $80.00.

Gregory of Nazianzus, St. On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780881412406. Retail price: $16.00.

Irenaeus of Lyons, St. On the Apostolic Preaching. Trans. by John Behr. Popular Patristics Series. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997. 121pp. ISBN: 0881411744. Pub. price $17.00

John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Book I. Pp. 23-68. Veritatis Splendor Publications, 2012. ISBN: 978-1470093761. Pub. price. $8.95.

B. Anthropology

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologiae.. Vols. 11 & 13, questions 75-83 & 90-102. Various

translations. (Also at Ethereal Library online.)

Basil the Great, St. On the Human Condition. Trans. by Nonna Verna Harrison. Popular Patristics Series. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005. 126pp. ISBN 0881412945. Pub. price $16.00

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics. Vol. III.2. Chapter X, “The Creature,” sec. 43-44, 199pp. T&T Clark, 1960.

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Vol. 1. Ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles. Westminster Press, 1960. Book 2, Chapters I-V. Pp. 239-339. ISBN: 978-0664220280. Retail price: $80.00.

Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man. Various editions. (Also at Ethereal Library online).

John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Book II. Pp. 69-147. Veritatis Splendor Publications, 2012. ISBN: 978-1470093761. Pub. price. $8.95.

Pope Paul VI, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: Guadium et Spes, Documents of Vatican II. Pauline Books and Media, 1966. 112pp. ISBN: 978-0819858542. Pub. price. $5.95.

Special topic, choose one:

Beilby, J.K. & P.R. Eddy. Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views. InterVarsity Press, 2001, 221 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0830826520. Pub. price $20.00.

Bouma-Prediger, S. For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care. 2nd ed. Baker Academic. 240 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0801036958. Pub. price $24.99.

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

Fisher, Christopher. Human Significance in Theology and the Natural Sciences: An Ecumenical Perspective with Reference to Pannenberg, Rahner, and Zizioulas. Pickwick, 2010. ISBN: 9781606080535. 351 pp. Pub. price $40.00.

Green, Joel. B. Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible. Baker Academic, 2008. ISBN: 978-0801035951. 240 pp. Pub. price: $24.00.

Hoekema, Anthony A. Created in God’s Image. Eerdmans, 1986. ISBN: 0802808506. Pub. price:

$24.00.

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. The Trinity. Global Perspectives. WJKP, 2007 (relevant sections). ISBN: 9780664228903. Pub. price $39.95.

Lossky, Valdimir. The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. James Clarke & Co., 1957. 249pp.

ISBN: 0913836311. Retail price $22.00.

Louth, Andrew, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys,

Clarendon Press, 1981. 244 pp. ISBN: 0199291403. Pub. price: $44.00.

McKim, D.K. The Bible in Theology & Preaching. Wipf & Stock, 1999, 250 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1579102449. Pub. price $26.00.

McFadyen, A. Bound by Sin: Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780521438681. Pub. price $35.99.

McFadyen, A. Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 340 pp. ISBN: 9780521409292. Pub. price $38.99.

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

Murphy, N. Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies? Cambridge, 2006. 164 pp. ISBN: 9780521676762. Pub. price $25.99.

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

Plantinga, A. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. Eerdmans, 1996. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-0802842183. Pub. price $22.00.

Polkinhorne. J.C. Science and Providence: God’s Interaction with the World. Templeton Press, 2005. 140 pp. ISBN: 9781932031928. Pub. price $14.95.

________. Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality. Yale University Press, 2004. 180pp. ISBN: 9780300115307. Pub. price $17.00

Schwarz, H. Creation, 216 pp. Eerdmans, 2002. ISBN: 978-0802860668. Pub.price: $29.00.

Shuster, M. The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners. Eerdmans, 2003. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0802809940. Pub. price $30.00.

Torrance, T.F. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church.

T&T Clark, 1991, 2000. 340pp. ISBN: 0-56729219-3. Pub. price: $48.00

Webster, John. Holy Scripture, A Dogmatic Sketch. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 152pp. ISBN:

978-0521538466. Pub. price: $26.99.

Wright, N. T. The Last Word: Scripture and the Authority of God. HarperOne, 2005 (978-0060872618), 146 pp., Pub. price $13.

Volf, M. Exclusion and Embrace. Abingdon, 1996. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780687002825. Pub.price $28.00.

Yong, Amos. The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination. Eerdmans, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6612-7. 228pp. Pub. price $24.00.

A contextual/intercultural/interreligious study (relevant sections), choose one:

Barnes, M. Theology and the Dialogue of Religions. Cambridge, 2002. 292 pp. ISBN: 9780521009089. Pub.price $43.00.

Boff, L. Trinity and Society. Orbis, 1988. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781597521383. Pub.price $30.00.

Cone, J.H. God of the Oppressed. Orbis, 1997. 257 pp. ISBN: 9781570751585. Pub.price $20.00.

Evans, J. We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology. Fortress, 1992. 192 pp. ISBN: 9780800626723. Pub.price $20.00.

Gonzáles, J. Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective. Abingdon, 1990. 186 pp. ISBN: 9780687230679. Pub.price $20.00.

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

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Trinity and Religious Pluralism. Ashgate, 2004. 197 pp. ISBN: 978-754636465. Pub.price $29.95.

Kapolyo, J. M. The Human Condition: Christian Perspectives through African Eyes. InterVarsity Press, 2005. 170 pp. ISBN: 978-0830833023. Pub.price $16.00.

Kimmel, A.F., Jr., ed. Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism. Eerdmans, 1992. 348 pp. ISBN: 9780802806123. Pub.price $32.00.

McDermott, G. R. Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions? InterVarsity Press, 2001.233 pp. ISBN: 9780830822744. Pub.price $18.00.

Parratt, J. Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today. Eerdmans, 1995. 228 pp. ISBN: 9780802841131. Pub.price $21.00.

Tennent, T.C. Christianity at the Religious Roundtable. Baker Academic, 2002. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-0801026027. Pub.price: $27.00.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. 1,200 pages of required reading and 15 pages of critical reflections (25%)

2. Three, 4-5 page book reviews (15%)

3. Student Presentation (25%)

4. A 10-12 page research paper (25%)

5. In-class discussion and participation (10%).

PREREQUISITES: None. 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 Systematic Theology “a” (STA); meets MAT, MATM (2010 revision) requirement.

This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification.                                           Updated April 2012