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 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 cultural and contextual matters that shape our understanding of theological issues; (5) an appreciation of ecumenical diversity.

COURSE FORMAT: Meets twice weekly for two-hour sessions for lecture and discussion.

REQUIRED READING:

Migliore, Daniel. Faith Seeking Understanding, An Introduction to Christian Theology. 2nd ed. Eerdmans, 2004, chs. 1-7. ISBN: 080282787X. Retail price: $28.00.

Morris, Thomas V. Our Idea of God. University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. ISBN: 0-268-01504-X. Retail price: $24.95.

Phan, Peter C. ed. The Cambridge Companion to The Trinity. Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0521877398. Retail price: $32.99.

Webster, John. Holy Scripture, A Dogmatic Sketch. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 978-0521538466. Retail price: $26.99.

Wiley, Tatha. Original Sin: Origins, Developments, Contemporary Meanings. Paulist Press, 2002. ISBN: 08091041280. Retail price: $21.95.

**Anderson, James. Paradox in Christian Theology. Paternoster/Wipf & Stock, 2007. ISBN: 978-1842274620. Retail price: $32.09.

**Anselm of Canterbury, St. The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and Gillian Evans. Oxford University Press, 1998. 544 pp. ISBN: 9780199540082. Retail price: $14.95.

*  Augustine of Hippo, St. Enchiridion on Faith. Hope and Love (various editions - see also The Ethereal Library online).

**Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles. Vol. 4: Salvation. Trans. Charles J. O'Neill. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-268-01683-6. Retail price: $16.95.

**__________. Summa Theologica in 5 Vols. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. 3020 pp. ISBN: 0870610635. Retail price: $245.00. (Also at Ethereal Library online.)

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

**Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics. Vols. 1-3. Baker Academic, 2002.

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

**Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Banner of Truth, 1988 [1939].

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

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

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

*  Crisp, Oliver D., ed. A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 9780567031464. Retail price: $44.95.

**Crisp, Oliver D., and Michael C. Rea. Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199600427. Retail price: $45.00.

**Davis, Stephen T., Daniel Kendall, and Gerald O'Collins, eds. The Trinity. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 978-0199246120. Retail price: $45.00.

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

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

**Flint, Thomas P. Divine Providence: The Molinist Account. Cornell University Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-0801473364. Retail price $27.95.

**Flint, Thomas P., and Michael C. Rea, eds. The Oxford Handbook to Philosophical Theology. Oxford University Press, 2009. 624 pp. ISBN: 9780199596539. Retail price: $55.00.

*  Ganssle, Gregory, ed. God and Time: Four Views. IVP Academic, 2001. ISBN: 0-8308-1551-1. Retail price: $20.00.

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

**Grenz, S. J. Theology for the Community of God. Eerdmans, 2000, pp. 1-242. ISBN: 978-0802847553. Pub.price $40.00.

*  Green, Joel. B., ed. In Search of the Soul: Perspectives on the Mind-Body Problem. 2nd ed. Wipf & Stock, 2010. ISBN: 978-1608994731. Retail price: $23.00.

*  Gunton, Colin E. Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes. Eerdmans, 2002. ISBN: 0-8028-2658-X. Retail price: $29.00.

**__________. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology. T&T Clark, 2003. ISBN: 978-0567081001. Retail price: $49.95.

**Helm, Paul. Faith and Understanding. Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN: 978-0802844514. Retail price: $26.00.

**Heppe, Heinrich, ed. Reformed Dogmatics. Wipf & Stock, 2008 [1940]. 721 pp. ISBN: 1556357753. Retail price: $59.00.

*  Hoekema, Anthony A. Created in God's Image. Eerdmans, 1986. ISBN: 0802808506. Retail price: $24.00.

*  Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195168914. Retail price: $15.95.

**Jenson, Matt. Bound to Sin. T&T Clark, 2006. ISBN: 978-0567031389. Retail price: $49.99.

**Jenson, Robert W. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: The Triune God. Oxford University Press, 1997. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780195145984. Retail price: $35.00.

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

*  __________. The Trinity. Global Perspectives. Westminster John Knox, 2007 (relevant sections). ISBN: 9780664228903. Pub.price $39.95.

*  __________. 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.

**Lindbeck, George. The Nature of Doctrine. SPCK, 1984. ISBN: 978-0664233358. Retail price: $30.00.

**McCall, Thomas H. Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Eerdmans, 2010. ISBN: 978-0802862709. Retail price: $30.00.

**McCall, Thomas H., and Michael C. Rea. Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199216215. Retail price: $140.00.

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

*  __________, ed. Oxford Handbook to Evangelical Theology. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0195369441. Retail price: $150.00.

**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.

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

**McFarland, Ian. In Adam's Fall. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN: 978-1405183659. Retail price: $119.95.

**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 University Press, 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.

*  Placher, William C., ed. Essentials of Christian Theology. Westminster John Knox, 2003. ISBN: 0-664-22395-8. Retail price: $40.00, chs. 1-4.

*  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.

*  Parsons, Susan F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780521663274. Pub.price $85.00.

*  Placher, W. C., ed. Essentials of Christian Theology. Westminster John Knox, 2003, pp. 1-181, 297-328. ISBN: 978-0664223953. Pub.price $39.95.

**Plantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford University Press, 2000. 528 pp. ISBN: 9780195131932. Retail price: $29.99.

*  Plantinga, Richard J., Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 634 pp. ISBN: 978-052169039. Retail price: $29.99.

**Rea, Michael C., ed. Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology. Vol. 1: Trinity, Incarnation, Atonement. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-019923746. Retail price: $41.94, pp.1-151.

**Richard or St Victor. On The Trinity. Cascade Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1610970129. Retail price: $20.00.

**Schmid, Heinrich. The Doctrinal Theology of The Evangelical Lutheran Church. Wipf & Stock, 2008. 692 pp. ISBN: 9781606081037. Retail price: $59.00.

*  Schwarz, H. Creation. Eerdmans, 2002. 216 pp. 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.

**Swinburne, Richard. Faith and Reason. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0199283931. Retail price: $45.00.

**__________. Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0199212473. Retail price: $45.98.

**Turretin, Francis. Institutes of Elenctic Theology. 3 Vols. Presbyterian and Reformed, 1997. 2311 pp. ISBN: 9780875524566. Retail price: $125.00.

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

**Vanhoozer, Kevin J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521793955. Retail price: $29.99.

*  Ward, Timothy. Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God. IVP Academic, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830827442. Retail price: $22.00.

**Wierenga, Edwards. The Nature of God: An Inquiry into the Divine Attributes. Cornell University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0801488508. Retail price: $24.95.

**Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Divine Discourse. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN:

**Zizioulas, John. Being as Communion. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997. ISBN: 0881410292. Retail price: $24.00.

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