Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (11.02.2019)
Joint reading and discussing of M. Suchocki's treatment of essential Christian doctrines from the point of view of Whiteheadian "Process Thought". The book serves as a practical guide to "Process Theology".
Aim of the course
Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (14.02.2019)
The purpose of the course is to get students acquainted with the method and objectives of "process theology". The course will begin on March 7, 2019. The minimum enrolment is two active participants.
Literature
Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (12.02.2019)
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, God, Christ, Church, Crossroad, New York, rev. edition 1989. The text will be made available to all participants.
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933) is United Methodist professor emerita of theology at Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California, USA. She is also co-director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont. Suchocki is considered as one of the leaders in the field of process theology. She earned her BA in Philosophy from Pomona College in 1970, and both MA and PhD in religion from Claremont Graduate School in 1974. She taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 1990 she was professor of systematic theology and dean of Wesley Theological Seminary. In 1990 Suchocki returned to Claremont School of Theology, where she held the endowed Ingraham chair in theology and joint appointment at the Claremont Graduate School until her retirement in 2002. She was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in 1996 and 1999, and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany in 1992.
Besides God Christ Church she published The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context (1988), The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology (1995), In God's Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer (1996), The Whispered Word: A Theology of Preaching (1999), Divinity and Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism (2003). She also coedited (with Joseph A. Bracken) Trinity in Process: A Relational Theology of God (1996).
Teaching methods
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Critical reading, assessing and debating the content of the text(s) assigned for the scheduled sessions. The texts will be made available to each participant. Each seminar will begin with student presentations consisting of an introduction of the topic(s) of the read text(s) and suggesting its/their main ideas and problems for discussion in the class.
Requirements to the exam
Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (11.02.2019)
Presupposed is active participation in the discussion of each session as well as taking turns in presenting a short account of the assigned reading as a basis for the discussion. In addition students might be expected to submit one 2,000-word seminar essay dealing with the subject.
Syllabus
Last update: doc. Dr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (11.02.2019)
Preliminary syllabus of RET40508 God, Christ, Church
Date
Topic
1
7. 3.
Introduction to Process Thought
2
14. 3.
A Relational Theology and the Process Model
3
21. 3.
Sin in a Relational World and the Relational God
4
28. 3.
God Revealed and God as Presence
5
4. 4.
God as Wisdom and God as Power
6
11. 4.
Jesus
7
2. 5.
Crucified and Risen
8
9. 5.
Identity Through Faith and One Holy, Apostolic Faith
