Winter 2016/Pasadena

HT502

Lopez

HT502: THE CHURCH’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHURCH, HUMANITY, AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IN ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT (4 Units: 160 hours). Eric Lopez

DESCRIPTION: HT502 is a survey largely of medieval and Reformation history and theology that focuses especially on the doctrines that received their crucial shape for Protestant Christians during this period. Among these are the doctrine of the church (including the authority and office of the ministry, sacraments, the place of councils, and the role of the laity), the doctrine of scripture (including the place of tradition), theological anthropology (including human nature as created and fallen, and original sin), and the doctrine of the Christian life (including the entire order of salvation—election, calling, faith, justification, sanctification, and final glory). Key figures to be studied include Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who complete HT502 will demonstrate: (1) a basic historical and theological knowledge of the doctrines of the church, humanity, and the Christian life as those and other selected doctrines emerged especially in the medieval and Reformation church and developed to this day, (2) a basic competence in interpreting this history and theology and an ability to evaluate these theological issues and their historical development; and (3) a critical and sympathetic appreciation for the breadth, unity, and diversity of the Christian church.

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 1225 pp. required reading

Marshall, Peter. The Reformation A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0199231317, Pub. Price $11.95. [146 pp. assigned].

MacHaffie, Barbara J. Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition. 2nd ed. Fortress Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0800638269, Pub. Price $44.00 [75 pp. assigned].

Nieuwenhove, Rik Van. An Introduction to Medieval Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0521722322, Pub. Price $29.99 [284 pp. assigned].

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 [198 pp. assigned].

We will also be spending time in primary sources relevant to our discussions. I’ve subdivided them below into fluid but helpful categories. The following readings may be found on the course site in Moodle as electronic documents or links:

Contemporary Theology:

Grenz, S.J. “How Do We Know What to Believe? Revelation and Authority” in Wm. Placher, ed. Essentials of Christian Theology (WJK), 20-33. [13 pp. assigned].

Kärkkäinen, V.-M.,“Ecclesiology,” in Mapping Modern Theology, eds. Kapic, Kelly and Bruce McCormack. Baker Academic, 2012. ISBN: 978-0801035357, Pub. Price $35.00 [31 pp. assigned].

Murphy, N. Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies? Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0521676762, 1-22. [22 pp. assigned].

Moltmann, Jürgen. “The Justification of Life” in The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Fortress, 2004, pp.123-143. [20 pp. assigned].

Moltmann, Jürgen. “The Sanctification of Life” in The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Fortress, 2004. 161-179. [18 pp. assigned].

Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology, vol. 3. Part III. § 3. Eerdmans, 1991, 336-357. ISBN: 978-0802837080 [21 pp. assigned].

Understanding Patristic Times (listed chronologically within each subsection):

1. On Human Nature & Christian Life:

Augustine, On the Spirit and the Letter §15 in Augustine: Later Works, Library of Christian Classics 8. Westminster John Knox Press, 1955, pp. 204-205. [1 pp.].

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book V, Songs III & IV in The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, translated by H.R. James (1897), pp. 241-250. [11 pp.].

Maximus, Excerpts from the Ascetic Life in St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on Charity, translated and annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, ACW 21.The Newman Press, 1955, pp. 103-117. [15 pp.].

Maximus, Excerpts from Four Centuries on Love in St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on Charity, translated and annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, ACW 21. The Newman Press, 1955, pp. 137-153. [16 pp.].

Pelagius, Letter to Demetrius in Theological Anthropology, edited by J. Patout Burns. Fortress Press, 1981, pp. 39-55. [16 pp.].

Second Council of Orange (529 CE), in The Christian Theological Reader, 4th ed., 359-360. [1 pp.].

2. Revelation & Authority:

Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names, chap. 1, in Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, translated by Colm Luibheid. Paulist Press, 1987, pp. 49-58. [9 pp.].

Pseudo-Dionysius, The Mystical Theology in entirety; found in Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, translated by Colm Luibheid. Paulist Press, 1987, pp. 133-141. [8 pp.].

3. Salvation:

Athanasius, On the Incarnation, §1-18 in St Athanasius: On the Incarnation, Popular Patristics 3. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1996, 25-47. [23 pp.].

4. Ecclesiology:

Augustine, On Baptism in The Christian Theological Reader, 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 412-413. [2 pp.].

Augustine, On Baptism in The Christian Theological Reader, 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 460. [1 pp.].

Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church in Ante-Nicene Fathers: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novation, The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 3255. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1886, 421-29. [8 pp.].

Maximus, Mystagogia in Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings, translated by George C. Berthold. Paulist Press, 1985, pp. 186-195. [9 pp.].

Maximus, Ad Thalassium, Quaestio 6: On The Grace of Holy Baptism in On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor, translated by Paul M. Blowers and Robert Louis Wilken, Popular Patristics Series 35. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005, pp. 103-105. [2 pp.].

Understanding Medieval Times:

1. On Human Nature & Christian Life:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, Sermons 1, 2, 74 in Bernard of Claivaux: Selected Works, translated by G. R. Evans. Paulist Press, 1987, pp. 209-220, 224-226, 252-258. [19 pp.].

Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God, Prologue and chaps. 1, 2, 7, translated by Philotheus Boehner, edited by Stephen F. Brown (Hackett, 1993), pp. 5-10, 11-17, 37-39, (notes) 46-52, 53-58, 69-73. Be sure to utilize the endnotes to help bring clarity. [13 pp.].

Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, chaps. 61-65, 73-78, 167, translated by Suzanne Noffke. Paulist Press, 1980, pp. 116-122, 135-147, 363-366. [21 pp.].

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons 48, 52, 53, 83 in Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense translated by Edmund College and Bernard McGinn. Paulist Press, 1981, pp. 197-208. [11 pp.].

2. Revelation & Authority:

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Part I, Question 12 ‘How God is Known by his Creatures’, articles 1, 2, 4, 5; and Question 13 ‘Theological Language’, articles 1, 2, 3, 6 in St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, vol. 3 ‘Knowing and Naming God’ (1a. 12-13), translated Herbert McCabe. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 3-21, 47-59, 67-71. [34 pp.].

3. Salvation:

Anselm, Why God Became Human, Commendation, Preface, Book I, chaps. 1-15 and Book II, chaps. 6-7 in Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, edited by Brian Davies and G. R. Evans. Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 260-289, 300-315. [44 pp.].

Gabriel Biel, ‘The Circumcision of the Lord’, in H. Oberman, Forerunners of the Reformation. James Clarke & Co., 2002, pp. 165-174. [9 pp.].

Peter Abelard, Commentary on the Epistle of Romans, Book II in Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans translated by Steven R. Cartwright, The Fathers of the Church 12. Catholic University of America Press, 2011, pp. 160-168 [8 pp.].

4. Ecclesiology:

Jan Hus, De ecclesia (On Faith) in De Ecclesia: The Church, translated by David S. Schaff. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915, pp. 70-72. [2 pp.].

John Wycliffe, The Pastoral Office in Advocates of Reform from Wyclif to Erasmus, edited by Matthew Spinka. The Westminster Press, 1953, 47-51.[4 pp.].

William of Ockham, Question 4 of the Ordinatio, d.2, q. 4, in Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals, translated and edited by Paul Vincent Spade. Hackett Publishing Company, 1994, pp. 114-132. [18 pp.].

Understanding Reformation Times:

1. On Human Nature & Christian Life:

Council of Trent, Decrees and Canons on Penance in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 417-419. [2 pp.].

Desiderius Erasmus, Paraclesis (1516) in Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Selected Writings of Erasmus, 3rd. ed., edited by John C. Olin. Fordham University Press, 1987, pp. 97-108. [11 pp.].

2. Revelation & Authority:

Calvin, Excerpt from Institutes of Christian Religion, Ch. 7 Scripture Must Be Confirmed by the Witness of the Spirit . . . in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 273-280. [7 pp.].

John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 4 Ch. 20 On Civil Government in Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority, edited and translated by Harro Höpfl. Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 47-50. [3 pp.].

Martin Luther, Preface to the New Testament in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, 113-117. [4 pp.].

Martin Luther, Preface to the Old Testament in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, 117-118. [1 pp.].

Martin Luther, Theses of the Heidelberg Disputation (1518) at http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php. [10 pp.].

Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 98-105. [13 pp.].

Martin Luther, Sermon on the Mount, in From Irenaeus to Grotus: A Source Book of Christian Political Thought, 100-1625, edited by Oliver O’Donavan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999, pp. 597-601. [4 pp.].

Peter Riedeman, Account of Our Religion (Concerning Governmental Authority) in Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources. Herald Press, 1981, pp. 258-262. [4 pp.].

Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes, in The Radical Reformation, edited and translated by Michael G. Baylor. Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 11 [footnote explain context of sermon], 28-32. [5 pp.].

Zwingli, Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God (1522) in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, 188-189. [1 pp.].

Zwingli, Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter VI: The Church, in Ulrich Zwingli, On Providence and other essays, edited William John Hinke. The Labyrinth Press, 1983, 260-263. [3 pp.].

3. Salvation:

Council of Trent, Decrees and Canons on Justification in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 405-415. [10 pp.].

Martin Luther, A Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, commentary on Gal. 2.16-21 at https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1535Luther-galat.asp#Project Gutenberg Small Print [approx. 11 pp.].

4. Ecclesiology:

Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (On Transubstantiation), in The Christian Theological Reader, 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 469-470. [1 pp.].

John Calvin, Ecclesiastical Ordinances of Geneva (1541) in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 256-260. [4 pp.].

Peasants’ Twelve Articles (1520) in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 168-170. [2 pp.].

Schleitheim Confession (1527) in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, ed. Denis R. Janz. Fortress Press, 2008, pp. 208-212. [4 pp.].

Zwingli, A Clear Instruction Concerning the Supper of Christ, in The Christian Theological Reader, 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 476-478. [2 pp.].