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| Systematic Theology 2B |
| New College University of Edinburgh Spring and Summer Terms 2007 |
| Course Manager: Dr. John C. McDowell |
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| Tutorial Text: Colin E. Gunton, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Please Note: the tutorial text for the term is available for purchase from the Free Church of Scotland Bookshop on Mound Place - student discount is offered. |
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| Please Note1: the Augustine texts can also be found at www.ccel.org/fathers2 |
| Tutorial Groups |
| Week 3: Believing Through the Scriptures |
| These are links to some other reading materials that you may find useful in beginning your research on the topic of biblical inerrancy. |
| Scriptures Pt1 Class Handout |
| Scriptures Pt2 Class Handout |
| Week 4: Learning to Unspeak Our Idols |
| This paper may be helpful for this topic, but it may also be a difficult read - concentrate on the sections covering Steiner and MacKinnon. |
| Idols Class Handout |
| A Reminder: While attendance at lectures is not comulsory it is strongly urged - the exam will be based DIRECTLY on the classes. In all previous years of my involvement with this course those who did not attend regularly failed. |
| Week 5: Triune Knowing |
| Week 6: Triad and Monad in Patristic Thought Part 1 - Justin to Origen |
| Week 7: Triad and Monad in Patristic Thought Part 2 - Gregory of Nazianzus |
| Christology: An Introduction |
| Class Handout |
| Descent: The Way of the Son of God into the Far Country |
| Ascent: The Homecoming of the Son (Christology cont'd) |
| Christology's Impact on the Doctrine of God: Divine (Im)Passibility |
| Week 8: 'Maker of Heaven and Earth' - Providence as Creatio Continua |
| Week 9: 'Maker of Heaven and Earth' - Sin as Undoing of Creation |
| Week 9: 'Maker of Heaven and Earth' - Sin in Augustine |
| Week 10: 'For Our Sake...': Atonement 1 |
| Week 10a: Class Handout1 |
| Week 10: 'For Our Sake...': Atonement 2 |
| Week 10b: Class Handout2 |
| Other lectures of interest to the course material |
| You may also gain something about the connection between the non-'thingness' of God and the doctrine of creation from this recent paper. |
| Sin 9b: Class Handout |
| Please Note: In weeks 4, 5 & 10 class will be held in the Martin Hall |
| Please Note: In week 10 class will be held in the Martin Hall |