Fall 2011/Pasadena
ST503
Kärkkäinen
ST503: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 3: ECCLESIOLOGY AND ESCHATOLOGY. Veli-Matti
Kärkkäinen.
DESCRIPTION: This course discusses Christian beliefs about ecclesiology and
eschatology. The topics include the church, its nature as expressed in various
ecclesial traditions, ministry and mission, sacraments/ordinances, as well as
various approaches to the last things: parousia, death, resurrection, new
creation, judgment, millennium, heaven and hell. A contemporary Evangelical
theology will be construed in dialogue with ecumenical and
contextual/intercultural perspectives and in light of the religious plurality
of the contemporary world.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: An essential part of 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 traditional and contemporary
expressions; (2) an ability to reflect theologically 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, contextual, and
religious matters that shape our understanding of theological issues; (5) an
appreciation of ecumenical and cultural diversity.
COURSE FORMAT: Meets twice weekly for two-hour sessions of lecture, discussion
& student presentations.
REQUIRED READING:
- Course Reader (Moltmann, Pannenberg, and others, as well as a
number of entries from Global Dictionary of Theology, ed. Dyrness &
Kärkkäinen; available at Moodle website).
- Grenz, S.J. Theology for the Community of God. Eerdmans, 2000
(selections) ISBN: 978-0802847553. Pub.price: $40.00 (required in all three
systematics courses taught by Dr. Kärkkäinen).
- Kärkkäinen, V.-M. An Introduction to Ecclesiology.
InterVarsity Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0830826889. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Schwartz, H. Eschatology. Eerdmans, 2000 (selections). ISBN:
978-0802847331. Pub.price: $36.00.
- Missional Church/Missional Ecclesiology: CHOOSE ONE:
- Frost, M. & Hirsch, A. The Shaping of Things to
Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church. Hendrickson,
2003. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1565636590. Pub.price: $19.95.
- Van Gelder, C. The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the
Spirit. Baker, 2000. ISBN: 978-0801090967. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Gelder C. van, ed. Confident Witness. (Gospel and Culture Series.)
Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN: 978-0802846556. Pub.price: $29.00.
- Van Gelder, C. & Zscheile, D.J. The Missional Church in Perspective:
Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation. Baker Acad., 2011.
208 pp. ISBN: 0801039134. Pub.price: $19.99.
- Guder, D.L. & Barrett, L., eds. Missional Church. Eerdmans,
1998. ISBN: 978-0802843500. Pub.price: $28.00.
- Hirsch, A. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church.
Brazos, 2009. 304 pp. ISBN: 1587431645. Pub.price: $19.99.
- Roxburgh, A. & Boren, S.M. Introducing the Missional Church: What It
Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One. Baker, 2009. 200 pp. ISBN:
978-0801072123. Pub.price: $17.99.
- Roxburgh, A. Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood. Baker,
2011. 196 pp. ISBN: 978-0801072314. Pub.price: $16.99.
- A text on a special topic: CHOOSE ONE from either A or
B.
- A. Ecclesiology
- Braaten, C.E. & Jenson, R.W. The Ecumenical Future.
Eerdmans, 2004. ISBN: 978-0802826718. Pub.price: $24.00.
- Basden, P. & Dockery, S.D. eds. The People of God: Essays on the
Believers' Church. Wipf & Stock, 2009. 367 pp. ISBN:
978-1606088944. Pub.price: $40.00.
- Callen, B.L. Radical Christianity: The Believers Church Tradition in
Christianity's History and Future. Evangel Publishing House, 1999.
221 pp. ISBN: 978-0916035631. Pub.price: $14.95.
- George, T. Pilgrims on the Sawdust Trail: Evangelical Ecumenism.
Baker, 2004. ISBN: 0801027640. Pub.price: $19.99.
- Harper, B. & Metzger, P.L. Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical
and Ecumenical Introduction. Baker, 2009, 352 pp. ISBN: 1587431734.
Pub.price: $21.80.
- Hauerwas, S. & Willimon, W.H. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian
Colony. Abingdon, 1989. ISBN: 978-0687361595. Pub.price: $17.00.
- Gibbs, E. & Bolger, R.K. Emerging Churches. Baker, 2006. ISBN:
978-0801027154. Pub.price: $19.99.
- Husbands, M. & Treier, D.L., ed. The Community of the Word: Toward
an Evangelical Ecclesiology. InterVarsity Press, 2005, 293 pp. ISBN:
978-0830827978. Pub.price: $23.00.
- Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Toward a Pneumatological Theology:
Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology, and
Theology of Mission. Ed. Amos Yong. UPA, 2002. ISBN: 978-0761823896.
Pub.price: $65.50.
- Moltmann, Jürgen. The Church in the Power of the Spirit. SCM
Press, 1977. ISBN: 978-0800628215. Pub.price: $25.00.
- Newbigin, L. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society. Eerdmans, 1989.
ISBN: 978-0802804266. Pub.price: $24.00.
- Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology. Vol. 3. Eerdmans, 1997
(ecclesiology or sacraments). ISBN: 978-0802864567. Pub.price: $55.00.
- Rausch, T. Towards a Truly Catholic Church: An Ecclesiology for the
Third Millennium. Liturgical Press, 2005. 248 pp. ISBN:
978-0814651872. Pub.price: $24.95.
- Stackhouse, J.G., ed. Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality or Illusion?
Baker 2003. ISBN: 978-0801026539. Pub.price: $24.00.
- Thomas, J.C. Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: The Church and the
Fivefold Gospel. CPT Press, 2010. ISBN: 1935931008. Pub.price: $17.99.
- Volf, M. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of God.
Eerdmans, 1998. ISBN: 978-0802844408. Pub.price: $32.00.
- B. Eschatology
- Bauckham, R. & Hart, T. Hope Against Hope: Christian
Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium. Eerdmans, 1999. 247 pp.
ISBN: 978-0802843913. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Bloesch, D. The Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory.
336 pp. ISBN: 978-0830827572. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Clouse, R.G., ed. The Meaning of Millennium: Four Views.
InterVarsity Press, 1977. 224 pp. ISBN: 0877847940. Pub.price: $17.00.
- Fudge, E.W. & Peterson, R.A. Two Views of Hell. InterVarsity
Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0830822553. Pub.price: $17.00.
- Grenz, S.J. The Millennial Maze. InterVarsity Press, 1994. ISBN:
978-0830817573. Pub.price: $18.00.
- Moltmann, J. The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology. SCM Press,
1994 (selections). ISBN: 978-0800636661. Pub.price: $25.00.
- Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology. Vol. 3. Eerdmans, 1997
(eschatology). ISBN: 978-0802864567. Pub.price: $55.00.
- A contextual/intercultural/interreligious text (sections
relevant for the course): choose one:
- Barr, W. Constructive Christian Theology in the
Worldwide Church. Eerdmans, 1997. OP. ISBN: 978-0802841438. No price
available from publisher.
- Boff, L. Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church.
Orbis, 1986. ISBN: 978-0883442142. Pub.price: $22.
- Evans, J. We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic
Theology. Fortress, 1993. ISBN: 978-0800626723. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Fiorenza, E.S. Discipleship of Equals: Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy
of Liberation. Crossroad, 1993. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0824512446.
Pub.price: $29.95.
- González, J. Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic
Perspective. Abingdon, 1990. ISBN: 978-0687230679. Pub.price: $20.00.
- Parratt, J. Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today.
Eerdmans, 1995. ISBN: 978-0802841131. Pub.price: $21.00.
- Parsons, S.F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663809. Pub.price: $30.99.
- Russell, L.M. Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the
Church. WJKP, 1993. ISBN: 978-0664250706. Pub.price: $29.95.
- Ward, P. Religion and Community. Oxford University Press, 2000.
376 pp. ISBN: 978-0198752592. Pub.price: $40.00.
RECOMMENDED READING (the syllabus lists many more on specific topics):
- Haight, Roger. Christian Community in History: Comparative
Ecclesiology. Vol. 2. Continuum, 2005. 528 pp. ISBN: 978-0826416308.
Pub.price: $65.00.
- The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology. Ed. Walls, J. Oxford University
Press, 2010. 704 pp. ISBN: 978-0199735884. Pub.price: $55.00.
- The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church. Ed. G. Mannion
& L.S. Mudge. Routledge, 2008. 684 pp. ISBN: 978-0415567688.
Pub.price: $50.00.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT: (1) 1,200 pages of required reading and 15 pages
of critical reflections (40%). (2) A 10-page research paper (40%). (3)
Final 5-page project: "My theological statement" (20%).
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
"C" (STC).
This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. (July 2011)