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Course Number, Title, and Credits
TH 672 Christology 3
Academic Level of Course
Lower Division Undergraduate (100 -299)
Upper Division Undergraduate (300 – 499)
Graduate Division Master’s (500 – 599)
Graduate Division Doctorate (600 – 699)
Expected Time Required To Complete Course
3 months MINIMUM
Description of Course
A study of the Biblical background to the understanding of Christology with further study in the historical and theological development of Christology. An emphasis is placed on the debates and developments of Christology in the first 6 centuries AD and the importance of the councils in determining the subsequent course of Christological belief.
Course Learning Outcomes (Objectives, Goals of Course)
To understand the scriptural sources of New Testament Christology;
To understand the heresies and alternative theories arising in the first centuries of Christianity;
To understand the reasons, functions, and outcomes of selected great councils as to the heresies with which they dealt and the doctrinal outcomes they affirmed;
To understand the historical development of Christological thought from the beginning until the present.
Course Textbooks
Christology (Paperback) by Hans Schwarz
The
Christological Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought) (Paperback)
by Richard A. Norris,
Jr. (Editor), William G. Rusch
Origin of Christology by C.F.D. Moule
Lord Jesus
Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Paperback)
by Larry W. Hurtado
Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation (Paperback) by James D. G. Dunn
REQUIREMENTS
Student will read all assigned textbooks and submit a book review following the book review outline provided by the TUA;
Student will write a paper of not less than 10 pages demonstrating his/her comprehension of a student selected/professor approved topic relating to a specific aspect of Christology.
Student will complete all additional assignments that the professor determines is necessary to provide a thorough, in-depth study and learning experience.
Student will complete all examinations.
Internet Requirement
The student will research the internet for the following councils with the intent of defining the particular doctrines of Christ with which each council dealt and the outcomes of each council regarding the particular doctrines of Christ under debate in the council. The student will summarize his/her findings by the name and in the order of the councils listed below.
First Council of Nicaea, (325)
First Council of Constantinople, (381)
Second Council of Constantinople, (553)
Third Council of Constantinople, (680–681)
Student will research the internet for information helpful to his/her understanding of Christology in the following 20 specific historical sects, doctrines, and theologies. The student will summarize his/her findings of each of the following in the order in which the sects, doctrines, and theologies are below.
Adoptionists
Apollonarianism
Arianism
Docetist
Ebionites
Eutychianism
Homoousios
Hypostasis
Marcion
Modalists (Sabellianism)
Monarchism
Monophysite
Monothelites
Nestorianism
Ousia
Photinians
Priscillianists
Semi-Ariansim
Socinianism
Theodotians
The student will record the web sites that he/she determines to be useful to his/her study;
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