Courses

This in-person lecture and discussion-based course will explore essential topics and conversations in Christian theology spanning the loci of theological method and revelation, the doctrine of God, Christology, soteriology, theological anthropology, pneumatology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.

Knowing

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of essential figures, themes, concepts, ongoing debates and discussions, and practical life and ministry implications regarding theological method and revelation, the doctrine of God, Christology, soteriology, theological anthropology, pneumatology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.

Being

• Cultivate further awareness of the limits of one’s own theological positions, so as to be self-aware of the continual need for humility and a pastoral dialogical posture with regard to theological engagement, even while having the courage to maintain theological convictions.
• Appropriate such developing convictions about the “essentials of theology” to one’s self so as to “be transformed by the renewing your mind” (cf. Romans 12:2).

Doing

• Use their own words to explain relevant concepts and their significance concerning essential topics and conversations of theology.
• Engage critically and constructively with the essential discussions and themes which have to do with the aforementioned theological loci.