Fall 2019/Pasadena

HT504

Kärkkäinen

HT504: MODERN THEOLOGY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (4 Units: 160 hours). Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen.

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DESCRIPTION: HT504 is a survey of systematic and philosophical theology that focuses especially on the articulation of Christian doctrine in the modern world. The course reflects the historic Christian church’s development of eschatology in its dialogue with its opponents and with its cultural context, including the current global diversity and plurality. It also considers recent constructive theologies, including theologies of liberation, public theology, and contextual theology. Related topics and themes to be addressed may include the development and articulation of the Christian doctrine of the four last things (death, judgment, heaven, and hell), the intermediate state, so-called “contextual” theologies, and the place of theology in contemporary public life; the relation of Christian theology to other religious traditions may also be included in this consideration.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who complete HT504 will demonstrate: (1) a basic critical theological knowledge of the conceptual and normative dimensions of Christian eschatology, and of recent constructive theologies (e.g. theologies of liberation, public theology, and contextual theology); (2) a basic competence in interpreting historic and contemporary perorations of these doctrines and an ability to evaluate these theological issues and their historical and contemporary development; and (3) a critical and sympathetic appreciation for the breadth, unity, and diversity of the Christian church.

RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES: HT504 introduces students to a basic historical knowledge of the church in its diverse global expressions of theology and practice, particularly as that diversity has been manifested over the course of the last three centuries, with an eye to developing skills in interpretation and critical appreciation; it thereby seeks to implement the SOT PLO, “Students will have demonstrated capacities for historically informed theological and ethical reflection.”

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: Selections from the following texts [1,100 pages].

1. ELECTRONIC COURSE READER (max. 300 pp., available at Canvas eReader):

a. Orientation to Systematic Theology

Plantinga, R., Thompson, T. and Lundberg, M. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010., Chap. 1 “What is Theology?” (pp. 3-26) and Chap. 2 “The Critical Context of Theology Today” (pp.27-40)

Kärkkäinen, V.-M. “Introduction,” in Christ and Reconciliation. A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 1. Eerdmans, 2013. ISBN: 978-0802868534, Pub. Price $40.00 [pp. 1-32].

b. Orientation to Modern and Contemporary Theology:

Plantinga, R., Thompson, T. and Lundberg, M. An Introduction to Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2010, Chap. 16 “Theology in Modernity” (pp. 507-42) and Chap. 20 "Theology in the Contemporary Period" (pp. 543-74).

c. Contemporary Texts on Theology and Eschatology (max. 200 pp. required and 50 pp. elective):

Kärkkäinen, V.M. “Theologies of Religions” in Global Dictionary of Theology, ed. W. Dyrness and V.-M. Kärkkäinen. InterVarsity Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0830824540, Pub. Price $55.00 [pp. 745-53 assigned].

Olson, R.E. “Karl Barth Drops a Bombshell on the Theologian’s Playground” in The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction. InterVarsity Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0830840212 , Pub. Price $ 40.00 [pp. 301-25 assigned].

_____. “Theologians Look to the Future with Hope” on J. Moltmann and W. Pannenberg in The Journey of Modern Theology. InterVarsity Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0830840212, Pub. Price $ 40.00 [pp. 421-501 assigned].

_____. “Evangelical Theology Comes of Age and Wrestles with Modernity” in The Journey of Modern Theology. InterVarsity Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0830840212, Pub. Price $ 40.00 [pp. 591-614 assigned].

Polkinghorne, J. The God of Hope and the End of the World. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 978-0300098556, Pub. Price $21.00 [chs. 1 and 2 assigned; ELECTIVE].

Schwarz, H. “The Quest for Liberation (Liberation Theologies)” and “Liberating the Other Half of Humanity (Feminist Theology)” in Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years. Eerdmans, 2005. ISBN: 978-0802829863, Pub. Price $42.00 [pp. 472-86 and 487-99 respectively, assigned].

_____. “Voices Out of Africa” and “Theology with an Asian Face” in Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years. Eerdmans, 2005. ISBN: 978-0802829863, Pub. Price $42.00 [pp. 500-09 and 510-16 respectively assigned].

2. Kärkkäinen, V.-M. Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World: A Global Introduction. Eerdmans, 2019. . ISBN: 978-0-8028-7465-8. Pub.Price: $60.00. [100 pp. assigned].

3. Kärkkäinen, V.M. Hope and Community: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 5. Eerdmans, 2017. ISBN: 978-0802868572. Pub Price $50.00 [200 selected pp. assigned].

4. SPECIAL FOCUS ON “CONTEXTUAL” AND INTERCULTURAL TEXT: Choose one, max. 250 pages)

Agonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Theology Brewed in an African Pot. Orbis, 2008. ISBN: 978-1570757952. Pub. Price $21.00 [162pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Coleman, Monica A. Making a Way out of No Way: A Womanist Theology. Fortress Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0800662936, Pub. Price $21.00. [224 pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Cone, J.H.A Black Theology of Liberation.2nd ed. Orbis, 1990. ISBN: 978-0883446850, Pub. Price $22.00 [200 pp.]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller Library.

De La Torre, Miguel and Edwin David Aponte. Introducing Latino/a Theologies. Orbis Books, 2001. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-1570754005. Pub. Price $22.00.

Evans, J. We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology, 2nd ed. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 978-0800698782, Pub. Price $29.00 [192 pp.]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller Library.

González, J. Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective. Abingdon, 1990. ISBN: 978-0687230679, Pub. Price $22.99 [184 pp.].

Gutiérrez, G. A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation, rev. ed. Orbis, 1998. ISBN: 978-0883445426. $26.00 [334 pp.]. Available as an e-Book from Fuller Library.

Kim, S., ed. Christian Theology in Asia. CPU, 2008. ISBN: 978-0521681834. Pub. Price: $41.99. [312 pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Kwok, P. Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. Westminster John Knox, 2005. ISBN: 978-0664228835, Pub. Price $30.00 [256pp.].

Lee, Sang Hyun. From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology. Fortress, 2010. ISBN: 978-0800696689, Pub. Price $29.00 [200 pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

McDermott, Gerald R., ed.The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199335992, Pub. Price $53.00. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Phan, P. Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making. Orbis, 2003. ISBN: 978-1570754661, Pub. Price $34.00 [256pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Parratt, J. Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today. Eerdmans, 1995. ISBN: 978-0802841131, Pub. Price $22.50 [228 pp.].

Parratt, J., ed. An Introduction to Third World Theologies, ed. John Parratt. CUP. 2004. ISBN: 978-0521797399. $36.99 [198pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Parsons, S.F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0521663809, Pub. Price $36.99 [188 pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

Tamez, E., ed. Through Her Eyes: Women’s Theology from Latin America. Wipf & Stock, 2006. ISBN: 978-1597524995. Pub. Price $23.00 [176 pp.].

RECOMMENDED READING:

Focus on INTERRELIGIOUS OR SCIENCE-RELIGION THEMES

Barnes, M. Theology and the Dialogue of Religions, Cambridge, 2002. 292 pp. ISBN: 9780521009089. Pub. Price $62.99.

Barr, W. Constructive Christian Theology in the Worldwide Church. Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN: 978-0802841438, Pub. Price $39.00 [553 pp. assigned]. ***OUT OF PRINT.***

Clooney, F.X. Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN: 978-1405179744, Pub.Price $39.95 [200 pp.].

D’Costa, Gavin. Christianity and World Religions: Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 978-1405176736, Pub. Price $41.95 [248 pp.].

Dyrness, William A., Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Juan F. Martinez, Simon Chan. Global Dictionary of Theology. IVP, 2008. ISBN: 978-0830824540, Pub Price: $55.00.

Knitter, Paul F., H. Coward. Life After Death in World Religions. OrbisBooks, 2005. ISBN: 978-1570751196, Pub. Price $18.00 [131 pp.].

Polkinghorne, J. & Welker, M, ed. The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology. Trinity Press International, 2000. ISBN: 978-1563383120, Pub. Price $57.95 [320 pp.].

Quinn, Philipp and Kevin Meeker, eds.The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 978-0195121551, Pub. Price $54.95 [256 pp.].

Russell, R.J. Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science. Fortress, 2008. ISBN: 978-0800662738, Pub. Price $34.00 [352 pp.].

Schreiter, R. J. Constructing Local Theologies. Orbis, 1985. ISBN: 978-0883441084, Pub. Price $26.00 [192pp.].

Vanhoozer, Kevin J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 978-0521793957, Pub. Price $36.99 [312 pp.].

Yong, A.Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions.Reprint. Wipf & Stock, 2014. ISBN: 978-1498204651, Pub. Price $25.00 [208pp.].

Focus on ESCHATOLOGY

Bauckham, R. & Hart, T. Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN: 978-0802843913, Pub. Price $21.50 [247pp.].

Bloesch, D. The Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory. IVP Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-0830827572, Pub. Price $32.00 [336pp.].

Clouse, R.G., ed. The Meaning of Millennium: Four Views. InterVarsity Press, 1977. ISBN: 978-0877847946, Pub. Price $22.00 [224pp.].

Fudge, E.W. & Peterson, R.A. Two Views of Hell. InterVarsity Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0830822553, Pub. Price $26.00 [228 pp.].

Grenz, S.J. The Millennial Maze. InterVarsity Press, 1994. ISBN: 978-0830817573, Pub. Price $28.00 [239 pp.].

Moltmann, J. The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology. Augsburg Books, 2004. ISBN: 978-0800636661, Pub. Price $29.00 [selections, 412 pp.]

Pannenberg, W. Systematic Theology. Vol. 3. Eerdmans, 2009. ISBN: 978-0802864567, Pub. Price $61.50 [eschatology]. [729 pp.].

Parry, Robin, and Chris Partridge, eds.Universal Salvation: The Current Debate.Eerdmans, 2004. ISBN: 978-0802827647, Pub. Price $31.50 [319 pp.].

Walls, Jerry, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0199735884, Pub. Price $61.00 [455 pp.] (available online through FTS’s library).

Walls, Jerry.Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy.Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0195340723, Pub. Price $32.95 [272 pp.].

_________.Hell: The Logic of Damnation.University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. ISBN: 978-0268010966, Pub. Price $25.00 [182 pp.].

_________.Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation.Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0199732296, Pub. Price $42.95 [232 pp.].

Wilkinson, D. Christian Eschatology and the Physical Universe. Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2010. ISBN: 978-0567045461, Pub. Price: $43.95 [256 pp.]. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. 1,100 pages of required reading [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, 3] [79 hours].
2. 10 IDL hours for extra preparation for the historical part of Modern Theology [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, 3] [10 hours].
3. Two quizzes (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, 2]. [15 hours].
4. Three 1,000-word critical response essays (30%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2]. [24 hours]
5. A research essay on an assigned topic [2,500-3,000 words] (40%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2, 3]. [32 hours].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH3 or TH4 requirement in the 120 MDiv Program and the 80 MAT Program (Fall 2015). Option to meet the TH3 requirement in the MATM Program (Fall 2015). Meets STC in the 144 MDiv Program.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.