Christian Doctrine - RET40507 (Seminar)

• Title: Christian Doctrine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Systematic Theology (27-SYST)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2016 to 2016
• Semester: winter
• Points: 6
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C(+Ex) [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Reading a contemporary and ecumenically accommodating interpretation of the Christian doctrine from the reformed point of view by the late American theologian Shirley C. Guthrie, as well as some other recent studies in reformed theology.

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Getting acquainted with the reformed theological tradition and particularly with the work of an internationally respected interpreter of Christian theology by reading and discussing his exposition of the Christian doctrine.

Literature

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Shirley C. Guthrie, Christian Doctrine, Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 1994. ISBN 0-664-25368-7

Teaching methods

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Critical reading, assessing and debating the content of the assigned passages of the main work by the whole class. The text will be made available to all.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Active participation in the discussion and in the concluding colloquium. In addition each student will be expected to submit one at least 2,500-word seminar paper in the form of a review-essay based on a lesser text dealing with a matter related to the debated issues.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

3/10 Opening session: Who is who and what are we going to do?

10/10 Introductory lecture: Theology of the reformed tradition in a nutshell

14/10 How can we find God and how does God find us?

The doctrines of revelation and of special revelation

24/10 Who is God and what is God like?

The doctrines of the Trinity and of the attributes of God

31/10 What does God want with us?

The doctrine of predestination

7/11 What are we doing here?

The doctrine of creation

14/11 Why doesn’t God do something about it?

The doctrine of providence and the problem of evil

21/11 Who are we and why don’t you just be yourself?

The doctrine of human beings and the doctrine of sin

28/11 Where is God? Is God against us? Who’s in charge here?

The doctrines of incarnation, of the atonement and of the resurrection

5/12 What’s new and are you a Christian?

The doctrines of the Holy Spirit and of justification and sanctification

12/12 Living or dead? What is going to happen to us?

The doctrines of the church and of the Christian hope for the future

9/1 Seminar papers and the final colloquium

Entry requirements

Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (29.09.2016)

Active English