The history of christian theology /
Phillip Cary.
- Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2008.
- 3 v. ; 21 cm.
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Course no. 6450. "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
v. 1. What is theology? -- Early Christian proclamation -- Pauline eschatology -- The synoptic gospels -- The Gospel of John -- Varieties of early Christianity -- The emergence of Christian doctrine -- Christian reading -- The uses of philosophy -- The doctrine of the Trinity -- The doctrine of the incarnation -- The doctrine of grace. v. 2. The incomprehensible and the supernatural -- Eastern Orthodox theology -- Atonement and the procession of the spirit -- Scholastic theology -- The sacraments -- Souls after death -- Luther and Protestant theology -- Calvin and Reformed theology -- Protestants on predestination -- Protestant disagreements -- Anabaptists and the Radical Reformation -- Anglicans and Puritans. v. 3. Baptists and Quakers -- Pietists and the turn to experience -- From Puritans to Revivalists -- Perfection, holiness, and Pentecostalism -- Deism and liberal protestantism -- Neo-Orthodoxy: from Kierkegaard to Barth -- Evangelicalism and fundamentalism -- Protestantism after modernity -- Catholic theologies of grace -- Catholic mystical theology -- From Vatican I to Vatican II -- Vatican II and ecumenical prospects.
The course will trace the history of Christian theology and the different denominations of the Christian community. Beginning with the foundations of belief in the New Testament and the church fathers, the course will cover the developments in medieval theology and the Reformation, up to the challenges of modernity and teh beginnings of ecunemical dialogue.