Winter 2019/Pasadena
ST838/538
Kärkkäinen
ST838/538: ECCLESIOLOGY: CURRENT TRENDS WORLDWIDE (6/4 Units: 393/180 hours). Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen.
DESCRIPTION: This doctoral seminar, open to a maximum of five advanced master’s level students, studies ecclesiastical traditions and developments at the international and ecumenical level as well as ecclesiologies of some leading contemporary theologians. Special topics include mission, unity, communion, Eucharist, charisms, and the ministry of the whole people of God.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Having successfully completed this seminar, students will have demonstrated their ability (1) to articulate key developments and topics in contemporary ecclesiology and reflect on the significance of the doctrine of the church to Christian faith and church life; (2) to analyze critically main contributions and challenges of the doctrine of the church in light of tradition and recent developments; (3) to display the ability to express their own understanding of the church and her mission; and (4) to engage in constructive theology in light of the main questions of the course.
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: 838: 2500 pp./529: 1590 pp.
“Essays and Documents on Ecclesiology,” ST838/538 Course Reader (Canvas course website)
Boff, L. Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church. Orbis, 1986. ISBN: 978-0883442142, Pub. Price $22.00 [122pp.]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller library
Buck, Jennifer M. Reframing the House: Constructive Feminist Global Ecclesiology for the Western Evangelical Church. Pickwick, 2016. ISBN: 978-1498278829, Pub Price $25.00. [178 pages]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller library, OR Russell, L. M. Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church. WJKP, 1993. ISBN: 978-0664250706, Pub. Price $30.00 [256pp.] Available as an e-Book from Fuller library.
Frost, M. & Hirsch, A. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church. Hendrickson, 2003. ISBN: 978-1565636590, Pub. Price $19.95 [256pp.] OR Guder, D., ed. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Eerdmans, 1998. ISBN: 978-0802843500, Pub. Price $29.00 [288 pp.].
Gibbs, E. & Bolger, R. Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Baker, 2005. ISBN: 978-0801027154, Pub. Price $28.00 [352pp.] OR Jones, Tony. The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement. JoPa Productions, 2011. ISBN: 978-0615524313, Pub. Price $19.97 [230 pp.].
Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Hope and Community. A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 5. Eerdmans, 2015. ISBN: 978-0802868572. Pub. Price $50.00. [592pp.].
Moltmann, J. The Church in the Power of the Spirit. Fortress, 1993. ISBN: 978-0800628215, Pub. Price $29.00 [430pp.]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller library
Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology. Vol. 3. Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN: 978-0802864567, Pub. Price $61.50 [section on the church, pp. 97-135, 237-434.].
Rausch, T. Towards a Truly Catholic Church: An Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium. Michael Glazier, 2005. ISBN: 978-0814651872, Pub. Price $24.95 [248pp.] OR Gaillardetz, R. Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent. Orbis Books,2008. ISBN: 978-1570757693. Pub. Price: $30.00 [312pp.]
The People of God: Essays on the Believers’ Church. Basden, P. & Dockery, S.D. eds. Wipf & Stock, 2009. ISBN: 978-1606088944, Pub. Price $40.00 [367pp.]. OR Callen, B.L. Radical Christianity: The Believers Church Tradition in Christianity’s History and Future. Evangel Publishing House, 1999. ISBN: 978-0916035631, Pub. Price $14.95 [221pp.].
Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: The Church and the Five Fold Gospel, ed. Chris Thomas. Emeth Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-9004316249. Pub.Price $49.00 OR Pentecostal Ecclesiology: A Reader, ed. Chris Green.Brill, 2016. ISBN: 978-1935931003. Pub. Price: $17.95. [310pp.] Available as an e-Book from Fuller library.
Zizioulas, J. Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1985. ISBN: 978-0881410297, Pub. Price $25.00 [269pp.].
FURTHER RESOURCES TO BE CONSULTED FOR CLASS PRESENTATIONS (library reserve-shelf):
A Reader in Ecclesiology, ed. Bryan P. Stone. Routledge. 2012. ISBN: 978-1409428565. Pub. Price: $36.95 [296pp.]
Fiorenza, E. S. Discipleship of Equals: Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation. Crossroad, 1993. ISBN: 978-0824512446, Pub. Price $29.95 [384pp.]
Haight, Roger. Christian Community in History: Comparative Ecclesiology, vol. 1. Continuum, 2005. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0826416308. Price $65.00 [464pp.].
Haight, Roger. Christian Community in History: Comparative Ecclesiology, vol. 2. Continuum, 2005. ISBN: 978-0826416308, Pub. Price $65.00 [528pp.].
Hauerwas, S. & Willimon, W.H. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. Abingdon, 1989. ISBN: 978-0687361595, Pub. Price $17.00 [175pp.].
Holze, H., ed. The Church as Communion. LWF, 1997. ISBN: 978-3906706450, *** OUT OF PRINT [428pp.].
Mannion, G. & Mudge, L.S., eds. The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church. Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0415567688, Pub. Price $50.00 [684pp.].
Meyer, H. That All May Be One: Perceptions and Models of Ecumenicity. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN: 978-0802843487, ***OUT OF PRINT [156 pp.].
The Church from Every Tribe and Tongue. Ecclesiology in the Majority World. Majority World Theology Series, vol. 5, ed. Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo. Langham Global Library, 2018. ISBN: 978-1783684489, Pub. Price $19.99 [198 pp.].
Volf, M. After Our Likeness. The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN: 978-0802844408, Pub. Price $32.00 [326pp.].
Watson, Natalie K. Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology. Wipf & Stock, 2008. 978-1606081600. Pub. Price: $23.00 [135pp.].
ASSIGNMENTS & ASSESSMENT:
PREREQUISITES: Master’s level students need written permission from the professor.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH4 requirement in the 120 MDiv program.
FINAL EXAMINATION: None.