Winter 2020/Pasadena

ST877/577

Kärkkäinen

ST877/577: SOTERIOLOGY (6 Units: 383 hours/4 Units: 190 hours). Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen.

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DESCRIPTION: This doctoral seminar, open to master’s level students (by the professor's approval), is designed to investigate and discuss critically what in theological tradition is named ordo salutis, the "order" of salvation. It includes topics such as election, calling, new birth, justification, sanctification, union, and glorification. Whereas contemporary international and ecumenical theology still embraces the traditional categories, it is not any more interested in fine-tuned, often abstract, distinctions in the "order." Rather, there is a lot of discussion about wider, more holistic and more comprehensive aspects of Christian salvation, including healing, empowerment, reconciliation, peace, and integrity of communities and environment. Discussing both traditional and contemporary soteriologies, this seminar will also have a comparative theology dimension: alongside Christian tradition, it studies the notions of "salvation" as submission in Islam. Where relevant, the seminar will also engage interdisciplinary approaches.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated their ability to (1) identify major choices and agendas in various traditional and contemporary soteriologies; (2) analyze critically and assess their contributions and liabilities; (3) offer a reasoned response to various proposals in light of tradition and current intellectual milieu; and (4) begin to formulate their own approach to doing systematic/constructive soteriology.

RELAIONSHIP TO PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES: “Students will have demonstrated capacities for historically informed theological and ethical reflection with a particular attention to the doctrine of salvation, soteriology, in its historical, contemporary, and interfaith aspects.”

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of student presentations and critical discussion.

REQUIRED READING:

Selections from the following works: 2600/1300 pages required for ST877 and ST577, respectively.

1. Contextual and Global Interpretations of Salvation:
   1. Comblin, J. The Holy Spirit and Liberation. Wipf & Stock Pub, 2004. ISBN: 978-1592445622, Pub. Price $28.00 [232pp.] OR Ngong, David Tonghou. The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology: Imagining a More Hopeful Future for Africa. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. ISBN: 978-1433109416, Pub. Price: $88.95. Available as an eBook in Fuller library.
   2. Global Dictionary of Theology. Ed. Dyrness, William A., Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Juan F. Martinez, Simon Chan. IVP, 2008. ISBN: 978-0830824540, Pub. Price: $55.00, 996 pp. Available as an eBook in Fuller library.

• M.D. Baker & C.C. Le Bruyns, "Salvation," pp. 778-89
• V.-M. Kärkkäinen, "Ordo Salutis," pp. 622-23; "Justification," pp.447-52; "Deification, Theosis," 227-30
• K.D. Yun, "Baptism in the Holy Spirit," pp.95-97
• R.V. Peace, P. Roy, S. Kim, "Conversion; Indian Perspective; Korean Perspective," 196-203
• D. Claydon, "Holistic Mission," pp. 402-04
• J.E. Stam and R.S. Goizueta, "Liberation Theology," pp. 485-92
• S. Chan, "Mysticism," pp. 591-94; "Sanctification," pp. 789-91
• R. Schreiter, "Peacemaking and Reconciliation," 637-41
• B.L. Myers, "Poverty," 687-96; "Relief and Development," 739-45
• C. Flanders, "Shame," 813-17
  3. eReserve (Canvas) or eBook available in Fuller library: SELECTIONS

1. African

• Emily J. Choge Kerama, “Telling Our Stories: Salvation in the African Context,” in So Great a Salvation: Soteriology in the Majority World. Majority World Theology, ed. Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo. Eerdmans, 2017, chap. 2.

2. Black, Womanist, African-American:
   • Coleman, Monica A. Making a Way out of No Way: A Womanist Theology. Fortress Press, 2008, chap. One: "Womanist Theologians on Salvation."
   • Cone, J.H. A Black Theology of Liberation. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Orbis, 1990, chap. 6: “Jesus Christ in Black Theology.” Available as an eBook in Fuller library
   • Evans, J. We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology, 2nd ed. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2012, chap. 4: “Jesus Christ, the Liberator and Mediator.” Available as an eBook in Fuller library.
3. Hispanic, Latino/a
   • González, J. Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective. Abingdon, 1990, chap 10 “And the Word was made Flesh” and chap. 11 “Life in the Spirit.” Available as an eBook in Fuller library
4. Asian-American, Korean-American
   • Lee, Sang Hyun. From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology. Fortress Press, 2010, chap. 5 “Redemption in Asian-American Context” and chap. 6 “Asian American Identity and the Christian faith.” Available as an eBook in Fuller library
   • Sung Wook Chung, “Salvation as Reconciliation: Toward a Theology of Reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula,” in So Great a Salvation, ed. Green et al., ch. 7
5. Feminist
   • Slee, N. “Holy Spirit and Spirituality,” in Parsons, S. F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002, chap. 10. Available as an eBook in Fuller library

2. “Salvation” as Submission in Islamic Traditions: eReserve (Canvas) and/or eBook available in Fuller library: SELECTIONS
   1. Harold Coward, Sin and Salvation in the World Religions: A Short Introduction. OUP, 2003, chap. 4: “Islam.” Available as an eBook in Fuller library.
   2. Kenneth Cragg, “God and Salvation (an Islamic Study),” Studia Missionalia 29 (1980):156-66. Available as an eJournal in Fuller library.
   3. Arya Roest Crollius, “Salvation in the Qur’an,” Studia Missionalia 29 (1980): 125–39. Available as an eJournal in Fuller library
   4. Jacob S. Dharmaraj, “Sin and Salvation: Christianity and Islam,” Bangalore Theological Forum 30:1-2 (1998): 45-67. Available as an eJournal in Fuller library
   5. Gordon Nickel, “Islam and Salvation: Some On-Site Observations,” Direction 23, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 3-16 (available at https://directionjournal.org/23/1/islam-and-salvation-some-on-site.html )
   6. Roland E. Miller, Muslims and the Gospel. Bridging the Gap: A Reflection on Christian Sharing. Lutheran University Press, 2005: chap. 4 (pp. 69-106) “The Muslim View of Salvation.”(pp. 69-96 available at https://books.google.com/books?id=BjC7K1j_AT8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false )
   7. James Robson, “Aspects of the Qur’anic Doctrine of Salvation,” in Man and His Salvation: Studies in Memory of S. G. F. Brandon, ed. Eric F. Shape and John R. Hinnels (Oxford: Manchester University Press, 1973), chap. 15 (pp. 205-20)
3. Constructive Soteriologies

1. Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Spirit and Salvation. A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 4 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016, Part II: “Salvation.”. ISBN: 978-0802868565, Pub. Price $45.00 [482 pp.] Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.
2. Moltmann, J. The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Fortress, 1992, Part II: “Ordo Salutis”. ISBN: 978-0800634247, Pub. Price $29.00 [380pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

4. Special Topics and Emerging Themes:

1. Hejzlar, P. Two Paradigms for Divine Healing: FredF. Bosworth, KennethE. Hagin, Agnes Sanford, and Francis MacNutt in Dialogue. Brill, 2010. ISBN: 978-9004178328, Pub. Price: eBook $25.00. Available as an eBook in Fuller library OR Yun, Koo Dong. Baptism in the Holy Spirit. An Ecumenical Theology of Spirit Baptism. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2003. ISBN: 978-0761826361, Pub. Price: $68.99.
2. Kärkkäinen, V.-M. One with God: Salvation as Deification and Justification. Liturgical Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0814629710, Pub. Price: $24.95, 152 pp. OR Macchia, F. Justified in the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Triune God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. ISBN: 978-0802837493, Pub. Price: $32.00.
3. Schreiter, R.J. The Ministry of Reconciliation: Spirituality & Strategies. Orbis, 1998. ISBN: 978-1570751684, Pub. Price: $19.00, 136 pp. Available as an eBook in Fuller library OR idem, Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order. Boston Theological Institute Bulletin 3. 1992. ISBN: 978-0883448090, Pub. Price: $17.00, 84pp. Available as Kindle-book in Amazon.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Fiddes, P. "Salvation" in Webster, John, Tanner, Kathryn, and Torrance, Iain eds. The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology. Oxford Univ. Press, 2007, chap. 10.

Dunn, James D. G. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in Relation to Pentecostalism Today. London: SCM, 1970.ISBN: 978-0664241407. Pub. Price: $30.00.

Richard Lints, “Soteriology,” in Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction, ed. Kapic, Kelly M. and Bruce L. McCormack (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), chap. 11.

Lossky, V. The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998, chap. 10: “The Economy of Union.”

McDonnell, K. & G. T. Montague. Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Michael Glazier, 1991. ISBN: 978-0814650097, Pub. Price $39.95 [416 pp.].

Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology, vol. 3. Eerdmans,[1998] 2009, pp. 135-237: “The Basic Saving Works of the Spirit in Individual Christian.”

Pinnock, Clark. A Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. InterVarsity Press, 1996, chap. 5 “Spirit & Union.”

Tanner, Kathryn. Christ the Key. Cambridge University Press, 2010, chaps. 2 (“Grace: Part One”) and 3 (“Grace: Part Two”)

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. A careful reading of the required texts prior to class. [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, 2, 3] [ST577: 1,300 pp., 90 hours/ST877: 2,600pp., 218 hours].
2. Class time with active participation in class discussions (10%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3] [30 hours].
3. ST577: DLAs include careful preparation of class presentations, questions to facilitate discussion and consultation of recommended readings per syllabus instructions [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2] [10 hours].
4. Class presentations (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2, 3, 4] [ST577: 1 pres.: 20 hours/ST877: 2 pres.: 40 hours].
5. Research paper (60%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2, 3, 4] [ST577: 12-15pp., 40 hrs; ST877: 25-30pp., 95 hrs].

PREREQUISITES: Master’s students need a permission of instructor. Prior course work in systematic and historical theology is required.

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

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.