Winter 2013/Houston

ST502

Miller

ST502: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 2: CHRISTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY. Kris A. Miller.

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a theological understanding of Christian beliefs about Christ, salvation, and the Holy Spirit. The primary theological loci are the biblical and historical developments of Christological and Pneumatological traditions and their relation to the topics of the Incarnation, the ministry of Jesus/the kingdom of God, atonement, the resurrection, the new covenant, Pentecost, salvation, forgiveness, receiving the Spirit/Spirit-baptism, and spiritual gifts. On the basis of biblical and historical developments, a contemporary theology will be constructed in dialogue with ecumenical, intercultural and inter-religious perspectives.

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-hour and fifteen minute sessions (6:00-9:15pm) for lectures, student presentations and discussion.

REQUIRED READING:

Grenz, Stanley.J. Theology for the Community of God. Eerdmans, 2000, pp. 243-460. ISBN: 9780802847553. $40.00.

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Pneumatology. Baker Academic, 2002, 177pp. ISBN: 978-0801024481. $26.

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Christology: A Global Introduction. Baker Academic, 2003, 290pp. ISBN: 978-0801026218. $28.

(NOTE: Besides the above three required reading texts, please do not purchase any of the books below until we make choices on the first day of class.)

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

A. Christology

Anselm of Canterbury, St. Cur Deus Homo. Books I & II only. ISBN: 978-1440058554. Retail price:

$9.31. (Free online resources).

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Vol. 48, questions 1-6. Approx. 80pp. ISBN: 978-0521029568. Cambridge, 2006. (Free online resources).

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

Augustine of Hippo, St. On The Trinity. Book I and IV, 68pp. Trans. by Edmund Hill, O.P. New City Press, 1991, 2012. (Free online resources).

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics. Vol. V.1. Chapter 58, “The Doctrine of Reconciliation (Survey).” 75pp. 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 Two, Chapters XII-XVII. 70pp. 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. Orations 27-30 only, pp.25-116. ISBN: 9780881412406. Retail price: $16.00.

Irenaeus of Lyons, St. Against Heresies. Book III, chap. XVI-XXV, 57pp.. Paulist Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0809105892. Pub. price $25.58. (Free online resources).

John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Book III only, pp. 148-230. Veritatis Splendor Publications, 2012. ISBN: 978-1470093761. Pub. price. $8.95. (Free online resources)

Maximos the Confessor, St. “Two Hundred Texts on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God.” In The Philokalia. The Complete Text. Volume 2, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth, translated by G.E.H. Palmer with Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware, 114-163. London: Faber & Faber, 1981.

B. Pneumatology

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Vol. 7: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, questions 36-38, approx. 20pp (in English). ISBN: 978-0521029155; ANDSumma Theologiae. Vol. 24: The Gifts of the Spirit, questions 68-70, Approx. 35pp (in English). ISBN: 978-0521029322. Cambridge, 2006. Pub. price: $48.00 each. (Free online resources).

Athanasius, The Letters of Saint Athanasius [to Serapion] Concerning the Holy Spirit. London: Epworth Press, 1951. pp. 58-189. ISBN:30114000433808. (Free online resources).

Augustine of Hippo, St. On The Trinity. Trans. by Edmund Hill, O.P. New City Press, 2012. Book I AND Book XV only, approx. 120pp. (Free online resources).

Basil the Great, St., On the Holy Spirit. (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press: Popular Patristics Series, 2011). 128pp. ISBN: 978-0881418767. Pub. price $14.70. (Free online resources).

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Vol. 1. Ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles. Westminster Press, 1960. Book Two, Chapter II, pp. 255-289; AND Book Three, Chapters I-II. pp. 537-592. ISBN: 978-0664220280. Retail price: $80.00.

Gregoryof Nazianzus, St. “The Fifth Theological Oration (Oration 31): On the Holy Spirit,” in On

God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002), pp. 117-147. ISBN: 9780881412406. Retail price: $16.00; AND “On Pentecost” (Free online resources).

Gregory of Nyssa, “On Not Three Gods,” 10pp, “On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit,” 8pp., “On the Holy Spirit,” 10pp. (Free resources online).

Irenaeus of Lyons, St. Against Heresies. Book V, chaps. I-XV, 38pp.. Independent Publishing, 2012. ISBN: 978-1475100600. Pub. price $15.65. (Free online resources).

Photios, Saint, The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit. Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2005. 120pp. ISBN: 978-0916586881. Pub. price: $8.95. (Free online resources).

Wesley, John. “Christian Perfection (1741),” 14pp., “Scriptural Christianity (1744),” 14pp., “The Witness of the Spirit, discourse 1 (1746),” 12pp., “Scriptural Way of Salvation, (1765),” 10pp., “The Witness of the Spirit, discourse 2 (1767),” 12pp., “On Zeal (1781),” 10pp., in Albert Outler, ed., John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology. Abigdon, 1991. ISBN: 978-0687204953. Pub.price: $18.21. AND “The Baptism with the Holy Ghost (1783),” “The General Spread of the Gospel (1783),” “On Faith (1788).” (Free online resources).

Engaging a special topic. Choose one book from any of the seven topics:

Incarnation

Thomas F. Torrance. Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. (IVP Academic, 2008). 344 pp. ISBN: 9780830828913.

Bloesch, D. Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord. (IVP Academic, 2005), 250pp. ISBN: 978-0830827541. Pub. price $ 20.00.

The Mission of Jesus/Kingdom of God

Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions (London: SCM, 1990), 342pp. ISBN: 978-0800628260. Pub. price $24.71.

C. Norman Kraus, Jesus Christ Our Lord: Christology from a Disciple’s Perspective (Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press, 1987), 264pp. ISBN: 978-1592447893. Pub. price $26.03.

Wright, N.T. How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels (HarperOne, 2012), 304pp. ISBN: 978-0061730573. Pub.price $16.45.

Atonement

Beilby, J. & Eddy, B.R., The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views (InterVarsity Press, 2006), 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0830825707. Pub. price $13.83.

Green, J.B. and M.D. Baker. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross. (InterVarsity Press, 2000), 236pp. ISBN: 978-0830815715. Pub. price $11.56.

Weaver, Denny J. The Nonviolent Atonement. 2nd ed. (Eerdmans, 2011). 362 pp. ISBN: 978-0802864376. Price: $18.10.

Holy Spirit

Pinnock, Clark H. Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. (InterVarsity Press, 1996), 288pp. ISBN: 978-0830815906. Pub. price $15.98.

Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit and the People of God (Baker Academic, 1996), 224pp. ISBN: 978-0801046247. Pub. price $11.55.

Taylor, John V. The Go-Between God (SCM Press, 1^st ed., 1979; 2^nd ed., 2010), 272pp. ISBN: 978-0334029694. Pub. price $35.00.

Spiritual Gifts

Blue, Ken. Authority to Heal (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1987), 168pp. ISBN: 978-0830817009. Pub. price $10.02.

Ruthven, Jon. On the Cessation of the Charismata: The Protestant Polemic on Postbiblical Miracles (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), 340pp. ISBN: 978-0981952628. Pub. price $27.95.

Salvation: Justification and Deification

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. One with God: Salvation as Deification & Justification. Liturgical Press, 2004), 160pp. ISBN: 978-0814629710. Pub.price $13.37.

“Lutheran World Federation, Roman Catholic Church, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.” (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), 47pp. ISBN: 978-0802847744. Pub.price $8.00

Norman Russell, Fellow Workers with God: Orthodox Thinking on Theosis (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary, 2009), 174pp. ISBN: 978-0881413397. Pub. price $18.00

Salvation: Calvinism & Arminianism

Michael S. Horton, For Calvinism (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 208pp. ISBN: 978-0310324652. Pub.price $11.55.

Roger E. Olson, Against Calvinism (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 208pp. ISBN: 978-0310324676. Pub.price $11.20.

Witherington III, Ben. The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Wesleyanism (Baylor, 2005), 294pp. ISBN: 978-1932792423. Pub. price $31.31.

An intercultural/interreligious study. Choose one:

Alfaro, Sammy. Divino Compañero: Toward a Hispanic Pentecostal Christology. Pickwick Publ., 2010. ISBN: 978-1606086995. Pub. price $20.00.

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

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

Boff, Leonardo. Jesus Christ Liberator: A critical commentary for our time. Orbis, 1978. ISBN: 978-0883442364. Price $25.41.

Costas, Orlando. Christ outside the Gate: Mission beyond Christendom. Wipf & Stock, 2005. 254pp. ISBN: 978-1597523417. Price $27.00.

Chung, S. W., ed. Christ the One and Only. Baker, 2005. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780801028540. Price: $28.00.

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

Imbach, J. Three Faces of Jesus: How Jews, Christians and Muslims See Him. 2nd ed. Templegate, 1993. 151 pp. ISBN: 9780872431942. Price: $12.95.

Ives, C., ed. Divine Emptiness and Historical Fullness: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation with Asao Mabe. Trinity Press, 1995. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1563381225.

Kulandran, S. Grace in Christianity and Hinduism. Repr. Lutterworth Press, 2004. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0227172360. Price: $52.50.

Küster, Volker. The Many Faces of Jesus: An Intercultural Christology. Orbis, 2001. 250 pp. 9781570753541. Price: $29.00.

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

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

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

Ramachandra, V. The Recovery of Mission: Beyond the Pluralist Paradigm. Wipf & Stock, 2002. 308 pp. ISBN: 9781592440641. Price: $31.00.

Robinson, N. Christ in Islam and Christianity. State University of New York Press, 1991. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-0791405581.

Sobrino, Jon. Jesus the Liberator: A Historical-Theological Reading of Jesus of Nazareth. Orbis, 1998. 308pp. ISBN: 978-0883449301. Price: $32.98.

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

Tiessen, T. L. Who Can Be Saved? Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions. InterVarsity Press, 2004. 511 pp. ISBN: 9780830827473. Retail price: $28.00.

Yong, A. Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Baker, 2003. 208 pp. ISBN: 9780801026126. Price: $39.98.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1,200 pages of required reading, in-class discussion and participation (20%).
Three, 2-3 page book reviews (10% each=30%)
Student Presentation (20%)
A 10-12 page research paper (30%)

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 “b” (STB); meets MAT, MATM (2010 revision) requirement.

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.