UMS : Unit: CT3797B

Content

This unit examines the contemporary resurgence of interest in the doctrine of the Trinity through exposure to representative theologians in the field of Trinitarian theology, both classical and contemporary.

Unit code: CT3797B

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3

Unit discipline: Systematic Theology

Delivery Mode: Online

Proposing College: Catherine Booth College

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Learning outcomes

1.	Identify and describe the importance of the key biblical passages that give rise to Trinitarian reflection.
2.	Analyse some of the critical issues in contemporary and classical discourse on the Trinity.
3.	Articulate the practical implications of the doctrine of the Trinity for the church’s life and witness including communicating the Trinity for faith in proclamation.
4.	Demonstrate the value of the doctrine of the Trinity as constitutive of Christian identity and action in the world and in personal spirituality.
5.	Discuss the place of the Christological debates of the fourth and fifth centuries in establishing Trinitarian orthodoxy
6.	Exhibit critical awareness of the place of the Christological debates of the fourth and fifth centuries in establishing Trinitarian orthodoxy.

Unit sequence

45 points in CT

Pedagogy

Lectures, tutorials, online videos, online meetings, class discussions, discussion boards

Indicative Bibliography

Bracken, Joseph A. Society and Spirit: A Trinitarian Cosmology. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1991.
Edgar, Brian. The Message of the Trinity: Life in God. Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
Fiddes, Paul. Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2000.
Giles, Kevin. The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender Debate. Downers Grove: IVP, 2002.
Gunton, Colin E. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991.
Holmes, Stephen R.* The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity*. Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2012. (recommended for purchase)
Jenson, Robert W. Systematic Theology (Vol. 1): The Triune God. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Kelly, John N.D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1980.
LaCugna, Catherine Mowry. God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1991.
Letham, Robert. The Holy Trinity in Scripture, History, Theology and Worship. Phillipsburg: Puritan & Reformed, 2004.
O’Collins, Gerald. The Tripersonal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999. (recommended for purchase)
Peters, Ted. God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1993.
Thompson, John. Modern Trinitarian Perspectives. New York\Oxford: OUP, 1994.
Torrance, Thomas F. The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being Three Persons. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Oral Presentation	Online Presentation 1,000 words	0	20.0
Homily/Sermon	Sermon manuscript / outline 1,000 words	0	20.0

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 1 Nov, 2017

Unit record last updated: 2020-10-12 16:10:42 +1100