Winter 2015/Pasadena

ST502

Crisp

ST502: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 2: CHRISTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY (4 Units: 160 Hours). Oliver Crisp.


DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a theological understanding of Christian beliefs about Christ, salvation, and the Holy Spirit. Topics include biblical and historical developments of Christological and pneumatological traditions, election, atonement, salvation and forgiveness. A constructive theology will be articulated in dialogue with ecumenical and intercultural perspectives, and in light of the church’s mission and other religions.

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 topics for this course; (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; and (5) an appreciation of ecumenical and cultural diversity.

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three-and-a-half hour sessions for a total of 35 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 5 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 1,129 pp. required.

Selections from the following works:

Chung, S. W., ed. Christ the One and Only. Baker, 2005. ISBN: 978-0801028540, Pub. Price $28.00 [272 pp.].

Cone, J. H. A Black Theology of Liberation. 2nd ed. Orbis, 1986. ISBN: 978-0883446850, Pub. Price $22.00 [200 pp.].

Crisp, Oliver D. Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0521695350, Pub. Price $30.99 [184 pp.].

_____________ God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 978-0567033482, Pub. Price $34.95. [292 pp.].

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in International, Ecumenical, and Historical Perspective. Baker Academic, 2002. ISBN: 978-0801024481, Pub. Price $26.00 [208 pp.] OR Christology: A Global Introduction. Baker Academic, 2003. ISBN: 978-0801026218, Pub. Price $28.00 [304 pp.].

Migliore, Daniel. Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology. 2nd ed. Eerdmans, 2004. ISBN: 978-0802871855, Pub. Price $30.00 [163-247; 301-329, 112 pp. total].

RECOMMENDED READING:

*  indicates that the text is introductory to intermediate.

** indicates that the text is intermediate to advanced.

** Adams, Marilyn McCord. Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0521686006, Pub. Price $40.00 [344 pp.].

** St Anselm of Canterbury. The Major Works, trans. Thomas Williams. Hackett, 2004. ISBN: 978-0199540082, Pub. Price $14.95 [544 pp.].

**Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles Vol. 4: Salvation, trans. Charles J. O’Neill. ISBN: 978-0268016845, Pub. Price $16.95 [360 pp.].

** _________________. Summa Theologica in 5 Vols, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Provice. ISBN: 978-0870610639, Pub. Price $245.00. Also available online at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.html

* St. Augustine of Hippo. Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love. Gateway Editions, 1996. ISBN: 978-0895267030, Pub. Price $10.95 (various editions –see also The Ethereal Library on-line).

* Beilby, James and Eddy, Paul eds. The Nature of the Atonement, Four Views. IVP, 2006. ISBN: 978-0830825707, Pub. Price $20.00.

** Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Banner of Truth, 1988. ISBN: 978-0851510569, Pub. Price $34.00.

* Bloesch, D. Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord. InterVarsity Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0830827541, Pub. Price $20.00.

** Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, ed. John McNeill. Westminster Press, 1960 [1559]. ISBN: 978-0664220280, Pub. Price $80.00.

*Comblin, J. The Holy Spirit and Liberation. Wipf & Stock, 2004. ISBN: 978-1592445622, Pub. Price $26.00.

*Crisp, Oliver D. An American Augustinian: Sin and Salvation in the Dogmatic Theology of William G. T. Shedd. Wipf & Stock, 2007. ISBN: 978-1556356582, Pub. Price $24.00.

** _________. Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0521695350, Pub. Price $30.99.

** _________, ed. A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology. T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 978-0567031464, Pub. Price $44.95.

** _________. Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology. IVP Academic, 2011. ISBN: 978-0830839285, Pub. Price $22.00.

** _________. Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Ashgate, 2011. ISBN: 978-1409430049, Pub. Price $109.95.

** Edwards, Jonathan. The End of Creation. In The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 8: Ethical Writings. Ed. Paul Ramsey. Yale University Press, 1989. ISBN: 978-0300040203, Pub. Price $120.00.

** Flint, Thomas P. and Rea, Michael C. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199596539, Pub. Price $55.00.

*  Imbach, J. Three Faces of Jesus: How Jews, Christians and Muslims See Him. 2nd ed. Templegate, 1993. ISBN: 978-0872431942, Pub. Price $12.95.

*  Green, J. B., and M. D. Baker. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross. InterVarsity Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0830815715, Pub. Price $17.00.

**Heppe, Heinrich. Reformed Dogmatics. Wipf & Stock, 2008. ISBN: 978-1556357756, Pub. Price $59.00.

** Jenson, Robert W. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: The Triune God. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0195145984, Pub. Price $35.00.

** _________. Systematic Theology, Vol. 2: The Works of God. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 978-0195145991, Pub. Price $35.00.

** Kärkkäinen, V.-M. One with God: Salvation as Deification and Justification. Liturgical Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0814629710, Pub. Price $16.95.

*  Küster, Volker. The Many Faces of Jesus: An Intercultural Christology. Orbis, 2001. ISBN: 978-1570753541, Pub. Price $29.00.

*  Letham, Robert. The Work of Christ. InterVarsity Press, 1993. ISBN: 978-0830815326, Pub. Price $24.00.

*  McCormack, Bruce L., ed. Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges. Baker Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-0801031311, Pub. Price $28.00.

*  O’Collins, Gerald. Christology: A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Study of Jesus. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199557875, Pub. Price $35.00.

*Parsons, S. F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663809, Pub. Price $30.99.

** Plantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0195131932, Pub. Price $29.99.

*  Plantinga, Richard J., Thomas R. Thompson, Matthew D. Lundberg. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521690379, Pub. Price $32.99.

**Schmidt, Heinrich. The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Wipf & Stock, 2008. ISBN: 978-1606081037, Pub. Price $59.00.

** Tanner, Kathryn. Christ the Key. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0521732772, Pub. Price $29.99.

*  _________. Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology. Fortress, 2001. ISBN: 978-0800632939, Pub. Price $17.00.

*  Tiessen, T. L. Who Can Be Saved? Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions. InterVarsity Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0830827473, Pub. Price $28.00.

** Torrance, Thomas F. Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ. IVP Academic, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830828920, Pub. Price $40.00.

** _________. Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. IVP Academic, 2008. ISBN: 978-0830828913, Pub. Price $45.00.

** Turretin, Francis. Institutes of Elenctic Theology. 3 Vols. Presbyterian & Reformed, 1997. ISBN: 978-0875524566, Pub. Price $125.00.

** Webster, John, Tanner, Kathryn, and Torrance, Iain eds. The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology. Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0199245765, Pub. Price $55.00.

*  Yong, A. Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Baker, 2003. ISBN: 978-0801026126, Pub. Price $39.98.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

  1. 1,129 pages of required reading (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1] [73 hours].

  2. 15 pages of critical reflections on required reading (20%) [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2] [15 hours].

  3. A 10-page research paper (35%) [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2, 3, 4] [25 hours].

  4. FINAL 5-page project: “My theological statement” (15%) [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #3, 4, 5] [12 hours] [This assignment counts as a Directed Learning Activity (DLA)].

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 144 MDiv core requirement in Systematic Theology “B” (STB).

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.


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