Content

Students will be introduced to key concepts and figures in the study of systematic theology through an analysis of the plurality of theological sources and methods. Four practice-led seminar sessions will be staggered across the course, in which the students will be led through a process of reflective artistic practice. This will provoke ongoing reflection throughout the course on the integrated nature of theological knowledge.

Unit code: CT1200T

Unit status: Approved (New unit)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 1

Unit discipline: Systematic Theology

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

Proposing College: Trinity College Theological School

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Learning outcomes

1.

Define and use the vocabulary and methods of the discipline of systematic theology

2.

Identify sources for Christian theology

3.

Engage in practice-led theological reflection

4.

Describe the relationship between practice and theological reflection

Unit sequence

This unit will serve as a general introduction to theolog, and prerequisite to further study in systematic theology.

Pedagogy

Practice-led reflection, lectures and discussions

Indicative Bibliography

  • Coakley, Sarah. God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans., Allen Mandelbaum (London: Everyman’s Library, 1995).
  • Dosotevsky, Fyodo , The Brothers Karamazov, trans., Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear (New York: Vintage, 2002).
  • Jennings, Willie James, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
  • Jenson, Robert, A Theology in Outline: Can these Bones Live? (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
  • Martin, Dale B., Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty First Century (new Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
  • Melville, Herman, Moby Dick (New York: Vintage, 2007).
  • Morse, Christopher. Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Disbelief, 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
  • Of Gods and Men , directed by Xavier Bauvois (2010, Mars Distribution).
  • Watson, Natalie K., Feminist Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Essay

Reflective Essay (1000 words)

0 30.0
Essay

Major Essay (1500 words)

0 40.0
Seminar or Tutorial

Workshop development of a creative piece in four practice-led seminars (equivalent to 1000 words)

0 30.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 30 Oct, 2018

Unit record last updated: 2019-04-03 08:21:15 +1100