6AAT3045: The Principles of Systematic Theology. Module Syllabus

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1 KING S COLLEGE LONDON DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES 6AAT3045: The Principles of Systematic Theology (Level 6-15 credits) : Semester 1 Thursday , K4.31 Module tutor: Oliver Davies, oliver.davies@kcl.ac.uk, VB3.14, (office hours: 4-5 Tuesday 1-2 Thursday) 1. Introduction Outline Module Syllabus Module aims Understanding the relation between the development of biblical hermeneutics and systematic theology Understanding the changing relationship of systematic theology with philosophy Understanding the different historical contexts which have shaped theology Grasping the chief characteristics of the classical theological tradition Learning outcomes Generic skills Ability to engage with primary sources imaginatively and analytically Ability to handle the relation between texts and concepts Ability to articulate one s own arguments in oral and written form Ability to research, plan and present essays to specified deadlines Module specific skills Gaining familiarity with the history of the classical theological tradition Understanding the interaction between theological and philosophical concepts Understanding the formative influence of biblical texts on theology Developing skills of contextualisation of conceptual structures Lectures, seminars and participation Apart from materials that will enable you to take notes, bring this module syllabus to every lecture. This is for a very practical reason. Since I may wish to refer to books/articles during a 1

2 lecture, it helps if you can consult the reading lists there and then. It is also important that you bring the texts that you have read actively and annotated to clarify their structure and to add your questions and observations. You will not wish to be the only member of the group who cannot follow a text that is being discussed because you don t have the text before you with your own annotations.] KEATS & Maughan Library Set readings can be found on KEATS. Please note this link the library s subject resources page for TRS: 2. Module plan & Readings Recommended introductions, source collections, and general works (please see the Quick Guide to Reference Styles in TRS: pdf]) Lectures Set readings can be found on KEATS. Week 1 24 th Sept.: Introduction and Orientation: Principles of Systematic Theology See KEATS for introductory text Week 2 1 st Oct.: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy Set texts: Augustine, On Nature and Grace (The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 78; trans J.A. Mourant and W.J. Collinge; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1992), chs. 1-13; 20-25; ( Additional primary sources (with helpful introductions): (Augustine) *Teske, Roland J. (1997). Answer to the Pelagians. WSA I/23. Ed. John E. Rotelle. New York: New City Press. Teske, Roland J. (1998). Answer to the Pelagians, II. WSA I/24. Ed. John E. Rotelle. New York: New City Press. Teske, Roland J. (1999). Answer to the Pelagians, III: Unfinished Work in Answer to Julian. WSA I/25. Ed. John E. Rotelle. New York: New City Press. (Pelagius) Pelagius s Commentary on St Paul s Epistle to the Romans (trans. Theodore de Bruyn; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp Further reading on Augustine (some of these have specific chapters on the Pelagian controversy): Nicholas Adams, Pelagianism: Can People be Saved by their own Efforts? in Ben Quash and Michael Ward (eds.), Heresies and How to Avoid Them (2007), pp Gerald Bonner, St Augustine of Hippo: Life and Controversies (London: SCM Press, 1963). P. Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1967). Brown, Peter (1972). Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine. London: Faber and Faber. Henry Chadwick, Augustine (Oxford, New York: OUP, 1986). Boniface Ramsey, Beginning to Read the Fathers (London: DLT, 1986). John M. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (Cambridge: CUP, 1996). John M. Rist, (1969). Augustine on Free Will and Predestination, Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 20,

3 E. Stump and N. Kretzman, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). TeSelle, Eugene, Augustine the Theologian (London: Burns and Oates, 1970). Denys Turner, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), chs. 3 and 4. M.F. Wiles, The Christian Fathers (New edn; London: Xpress Reprints, 1993). Week 3 8 th Oct.: Scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas and the Existence of God Set texts: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia. 2, 1-3; Ia. 3, (Ia. 2,1-3) (Ia. 3, 3-4) Further reading on Aquinas and metaphysics: Catholic University of America eds., New Catholic Encyclopedia, (New York: McGraw-Hill, ) Chenu, M. D. Towards Understanding St. Thomas (Chicago, 1964) Davies, Brian, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) Davies, Brian and Eleonore Stump, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas (Oxford: OUP, 2012), Metaphysics and God. Gilson, Etienne, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Sheed and Ward, 1955) Gilson, Étienne, The Christian philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (London: Gollancz, 1957) Healy, Nicholas M., Thomas Aquinas : theologian of the Christian life (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) Kerr, Fergus, After Aquinas: versions of Thomism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). Kretzmann, Norman and Eleonore Stump eds. Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Kretzmann, Norman, The metaphysics of theism: Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) McGinn, Bernard, Thomas Aquinas s Summa Theologiae: a Biography (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014). McInerny, Ralph, Aquinas and Analogy (Washington, DC: CU America Press, 1996) Nichols, Aidan, Discovering Aquinas : an introduction to his life, work and influence (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2003). Pasnau, Robert, Thomas Aquinas on human nature : a philosophical study of Summa theologiae 1a, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Rahner, Karl, The Importance of Thomas Aquinas in Faith in a Wintry Season (New York: Crossroad, 1990) Stump, Eleonore, Aquinas (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005). especially ch. 1. Turner, Denys, Thomas Aquinas: a Portrait (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014). Wippel, John F., The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: from Finite Being to Infinite Being (Washington DC.: Catholic University of America Press, 2000). Week 4 15 th Oct.: Luther, Calvin, and the Eucharistic Controversy Martin Luther, Concerning Christian Liberty (The Harvard Classics, Vol. 36; trans. R.S. Grignon; New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910), Parts 2 and 3. [ (Go to Parts 2 and 3)] Luther: Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians 1535, chapters 1-4 (ed. J. Pelikan, Luther s Works, vol. 26; Saint Louis: Concordia, 1963), Argument, pp. 4-12; and on 2:16, pp Paul Althaus, The Theology of Martin Luther (trans. R.C. Schultz; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970). Carl E. Braaten, Justification: The Article by which the Church Stands or Falls (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990), ch.2. Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation, (trans. J. Schaaf; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985). Ted M. Dorman, Justification as Healing: The Little-Known Luther, Quodlibet Journal 2.3, Gerhard O. Forde, Eleventh Locus: Christian Life in Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Christian Dogmatics, vol.2 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984). Thomas Kaufmann, Martin Luther (Muenchen: Beck, 2006). Bernhard Lohse, Martin Luther: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Edinburgh: Clark, 1987). 3

4 Tuomo Mannermaa, Justification and theosis in Lutheran-Orthodox perspective in Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, Union with Christ: The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), Alister E. McGrath, Luther s Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther s Theological Breakthrough (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985). Donald K. McKim, The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther (Cambridge: CUP, 2003). James A. Nestingen, Martin Luther: A Life (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2003). Calvin: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (trans. Henry Beveridge; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), Book III, chs [Can be found at: Karl Barth, The Theology of John Calvin (trans. G.W. Bromiley; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995). Paul Helm, John Calvin s Ideas (Oxford; OUP, 2006). D. K. McKim (ed), The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). Richard A. Muller, The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in The Foundation of a Theological Tradition (Oxford: OUP, 2000). Alan Sell, The Great Debate: Calvinism, Arminianism and Salvation (Worthing: Walter, 1982). R. Zachman, John Calvin as Pastor, Teacher and Theologian: The Shape of His Writings and Thought (Grand Rapids, 2006). Eucharistic Controversy: Barclay, Alexander, The Protestant Doctrine of the Lord s Supper: a Study in the Eucharistic Teaching of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin, Glasgow: Jackson, Wiley and Co, Davies, Oliver, Paul D. Janz and Clemens Sedmak, Transformation Theology. Church in the World, London: T&T Clark International, 2007, Davies, Oliver, Theology of Transformation. Faith, Freedom and the Christian Act, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Gerrish, Brian, Grace and Gratitude: the Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, The Reformation and the Rise of Modern Science, in idem, The Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage, Chicago: Chicago University Press, Grant, Edward, Planets, Stars and Orbs: the Medieval Cosmos, , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Science and Religion from 400 BC to AS From Aristotle to Copernicus, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Koyré, Alexander, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, Week 5 22 nd Oct.: Schleiermacher Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999), (see KEATS) Karl Barth,, The Theology of Schleiermacher: Lectures at Göttingen, Winter Semester of 1923/24 (Edinburgh: T. & T.Clark, 1982) BT75.S37 Z5 B28 Keith Clements, ed, Friedrich Schleiermacher: pioneer of modern theology (London: Collins, 1987) BX4827.S3 CLE James Duke, and Robert Streetman eds, Barth and Schleiermacher: beyond the impasse (Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1988) BX4827.B3 BAR B. A Gerrish., A Prince of the Church: Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984) BX4827.S3 G32 B. A Gerrish, Schleiermacher, The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Adrian Hastings ed, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp B. A Gerrish, B. A., Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst, The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 13, Mircea Eliade ed, (New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1987) pp BL31 En1 Thomas Albert Howard, Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). James C. Livingston, Modern Christian Thought: Volume I, The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997) BT27 LIV 4

5 Jacqueline Marina, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) BX4827.S3 CAM Martin Redeker, Schleiermacher: Life and Thought, Translated by John Wallhausser (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973) Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999) Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, Richard Crouter ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) Friedrich Schleiermacher, Brief Outline of the Study of Theology (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1850) Friedrich Schleiermacher, Christmas Eve: A Dialogue on the Celebration of Christmas (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1890) Stephen Sykes, Friedrich Schleiermacher (Woking: Lutterworth Press, 1971) Claude Welch, Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century. Vol.1, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972) BX4811 W54 Robert R.Williams, Schleiermacher the Theologian: The Construction of the Doctrine of God (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978) READING WEEK WEEK 6 5 TH Nov.: Karl Barth Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II.2 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, ), 33.2, The Eternal Will of God in the Election of Jesus Christ, Barth, Karl, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T&T Clark) Balthasar, Hans Urs von, The Theology of Karl Barth (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992) William P. Anderson, Aspects of the Theology of Karl Barth (University Press of America, 1981) Nigel Biggar, The hastening that waits: Karl Barth's ethics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth (Eerdmans. 1979) John Colwell, Actuality and Provisionality: Eternity and Election in the Theology of Karl Barth (Wipf and Stock, 2011). Elizabeth Frykberg, Karl Barth's theological anthropology: an analogical critique regarding gender relations (Princeton,: Princeton Theological Seminary, 1993). BX4827.B3 FRY George Hunsinger, How to read Karl Barth : the shape of his theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) BT75.B26 Z5 HUS Eberhard Jüngel, Karl Barth, a theological legacy (Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1986) BX4827.B3 J95 Bruce L. McCormack, Karl Barth's critically realistic dialectical theology : Its genesis and development, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) BX4827.B3 MCO Stuart D. Mclean, Humanity in the thought of Karl Barth (T&T Clark 1981) Daniel Price, Karl Barth's anthropology in light of modern thought (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001) BT701.2 PRI Richard Roberts, A theology on its way: essays on Karl Barth (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991) BT75.B26 Z5 ROB S.W. Sykes, Karl Barth: Studies of His Theological Method (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979). John Webster, Barth's ethics of reconciliation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) BT75.B26 WEB John Webster, Barth's moral theology: human action in Barth's thought (Edinburgh : T.& T. Clark, 1998) BJ1201 WEB John Webster, Barth (New York: Continuum, 2000) BX4827.B3 WEB John Webster (ed) The Cambridge companion to Karl Barth (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000 BX4827.B3 CAM Week 7 12 th Nov.: Karl Rahner McCool, Gerald A., ed., A Rahner Reader, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1975, pp Patrick Burke, Reinterpreting Rahner: a critical study of his major themes (New York : Fordham University Press, 2002) BX4705.R287 BUR J. A. Di Noia. Karl Rahner in The Modern Theologians 2nd edition David Ford (ed) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp BT28 MOD 5

6 William V. Dych, Karl Rahner (London: G. Chapman, 1992) Geffrey B. Kelly (ed). Karl Rahner: Theologian of the graced search for meaning (Edinburgh: T & T Clark 1993) BT75.R12 Z5 KEL Karen Kilby, Rahner : theology and philosophy (London: Routledge, 2004) BX4705.R287 KIL Declan Marmion, Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Gerald McCool, ed., A Rahner Reader, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, Leo J. O Donovan (ed), A World of grace : an introduction to the themes and foundations of Karl Rahner s theology (New York: Crossroad, 1981) BT75.R12 Od5 Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian faith: an introduction to the idea of Christianity (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1978) BT75.2 R12,R121 Karl Rahner, Nature and grace and other essays (London: Sheed & Ward, 1963) BX RAH Karl Rahner, Theological investigations, Vols 1-23, (London: Darton, Longman & Todd) BT75.R12 R. R. Reno, The ordinary transformed : Karl Rahner and the Christian vision of transcendence (Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans, 1995) BT124.5 REN Thomas Sheehan, Rahner s Transcendental Project, in Declan Marmion, ed., Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, Cambridge: CUP, 2005, George Vass, A theologian in search of a philosophy (London: Sheed & Ward, 1985) BT75.R12 Z5 V44 George Vass, The mystery of man and the foundations of a theological system (London: Sheed & Ward, 1985) BT75.R12 Z5 V44 Herbert Vorgrimler, Understanding Karl Rahner: an introduction to his life and thought (London: SCM, 1986) BX4705.R287 VOR Week 8 19 th Nov.: Hans Urs von Balthasar von Balthasar, Hans Urs, The Glory of the Lord, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1982, Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Introduction, pp Bychkov, Oleg B. and James Fodor, Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar, Aldershot: Ashgate, Davies, Oliver, The Theological Aesthetics, in Moss, David and Edmund Oakes, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp Moss, David and Edmund Oakes, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, O Donnell, John, Hans Urs von Balthasar, London: Geoffrey Chapman, Schindler, D. C., Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Nature of Truth, New York: Fordham University Press, von Balthasar, Hans Urs, The Glory of the Lord. Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, Week 9 26 th Nov.: Session 9: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christology (London: Collins, 1966) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005) BJ1251 B64 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (New York: MacMillan, 1979) John W. De Gruchy (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) BX4827.B57 CAM Andre Dumas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian of Reality (London: SCM, 1971) Clifford Green, Bonhoeffer: The Sociality of Christ and Humanity (Missoula: Scholars Press American Academy of Religion, 1972) John Godsey, The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (London: SCM, 1960) Paul D. Janz, God the Mind s Desire: Reference Reason and Christian Thinking (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). chapter 8 Charles Marsh, Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of his Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp

7 Charles Marsh, Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Modern Theologians 2nd edition David Ford (ed) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997) Andreas Pangritz, Karl Barth in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer : a clarification whose time has come (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) Larry Rasmussen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: His Significance for North Americans, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990) Jon Walker, Costly Grace: A Contemporary View of Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship (Leafwood Publishers, 2010). Week 10 3 rd Dec.: Where are We Today? See KEATS Revision Class: [Date, time, room] [please check the TRS timetables during Induction Week to see when the revision class has been scheduled, and enter the details here. (They are visible now, but have been scheduled for two hours rather than one, so need to be updated accordingly.) For modules with Period I exams, you will find the revision class in Timetabling Week 15 (7-13 Dec 2015); for modules with Period II exams, please see Timetabling Week 36 (2-6 May 2016).] 3. Assessment / How will my work be assessed? (If you are a Study Abroad student at King s in Semester 1 only, please also see Section 4 below.) Formative essay (up to 5,000 words, to be completed by 18 th January 2016.) on an essay question listed at the end of this syllabus. Tutorials will be held in the final week. Final essay (5,000 words, contributing 100% to your module mark). Due: Monday 18 th January, BEFORE 4pm, on KEATS Feedback will be available on KEATS no later than 8 th February Feedback tutorials will offer further guidance on improving your work. Scope of assessment What is a good essay/exam answer? Good essays will demonstrate a nuanced grasp of any topic, an awareness of its various contexts and a capacity to develop a well-reasoned argument that is convincingly supported by reference to suitable evidence and is presented in a structured manner using clear English. For more details please see the link to marking criteria below ( Essential Information ). Best approaches to essay writing will be discussed as part of the teaching programme in the module. Students should seek advice if they are unsure of anything.] Essential information: How do I submit my essay? 7

8 The Faculty of Arts & Humanities cover-sheet needs to be the first page of the submitted essays; please follow this link: The candidate number (e.g. W01234) on the cover-sheet needs to be accurate and of the present academic year. Your work cannot be attributed to you on the College systems, if this information is incomplete or wrong. The word limit includes all footnotes/endnotes, but excludes the bibliography, which you should provide. There is a 5% tolerance: no penalty will be incurred for essays that are up to 5% over the word limit. Beyond that tolerance band, two marks will be deducted for every 5% of excess words until 50% is reached. After 50%, three marks will normally be deducted for each further 5% of excess words. The MHRA reference style has been adopted for this module. Please find the Quick Guide to Reference Styles in TRS in the TRS Handbook online. The presentation of your work, including the insertion of page numbers, quality of referencing and bibliographical information and the standard of English, has a strong bearing on the mark given for it. Submission BEFORE 4pm: Your work must be submitted via the assessment submission section of the KEATS area for the module, by the published deadline, i.e. before 4pm on the relevant day. Work with a TurnitIn time stamp of 4.00pm counts as a late submission (see next point). Late submissions will be treated as follows: Unless an extension has been granted by the Chair of the UG Programme Board of Examiners on the basis of a Mitigating Circumstances Form (MCF), supplied with supporting evidence, or comes to be granted retrospectively: - Work submitted within 24 hours after the original deadline will be marked, but the mark for this element will be capped at the pass mark of 40%. - Work submitted more than 24 hours after the original deadline will not be marked, and the submission will receive a mark of zero. Mitigating Circumstances Forms: MCFs can be downloaded from the Policy Zone of the College website. Extensions retrospectively: An extension may be granted retrospectively, providing the MCF with supporting documentation is submitted no later than 7 days after the missed assessment and supporting documentation has been received no later than 21 days after the missed assessment. Please note that extensions are granted by the TRS Assessment Board Chair and NOT by individual module tutors. Plagiarism: Please make sure that you understand the College rules on plagiarism. Information is available at: and you should also have been enrolled on a KEATS plagiarism module. Oral presentations and plagiarism: The College s rules on plagiarism apply to oral presentations, handouts and Powerpoint presentations just as they do to written work submitted for assessment. You must acknowledge any and all sources used in presentations and accompanying material, and must present all material in your own words except for explicitly acknowledged quotations from others. Collusion also counts as misconduct. Think twice before circulating your work to other students. Marking: Your essays for this module will be assessed according to Model 3: 8

9 Essays: First and second markers will apply the Faculty s Undergraduate Marking Criteria: Classroom presentation and participation are assessed in line with these Marking Criteria: 4. Study Abroad Students: Semester 1 only If you are studying at King s in Semester 1 only, then you must submit a final essay in lieu of the summer examination as follows: [Please eliminate as appropriate:] [Levels 4 and 5:] Final essay in lieu of exam (3000/4000 words in place of a 2/3 hour exam, contributing 60%/100% to the module mark). Please choose a second essay question from the list given at the end of this syllabus. Due: Monday 7 December 2015 BEFORE 4pm in hardcopy to the TRS Office. [Level 6:] Final essay in lieu of exam (3500 words in place of a 2 hour exam, contributing 60% to the module mark). Please choose a second essay question from the list given at the end of this syllabus. Due: Monday 7 December 2015 BEFORE 4pm in hardcopy to the TRS Office. 5. Essay Questions Please choose ONE question: 1. Write an analysis of the Pelagian controversy. Was Augustine or Pelagius right from a theological perspective? (see bibliography for week two) 2. Either: Outline the Christian metaphysics developed by Thomas Aquinas. What are its theological strengths and weaknesses? Or: Compare and contrast Thomas Aquinas metaphysics with any one modern theologian or thinker. (see bibliography for week three) 3. Either: Discuss the influence of new science on the Eucharistic controversy. Or: Analyse Luther's account of freedom in faith. Can this rightly be called dialectical? (see bibliography for week four) 4. Either: In what ways does Schleiermacher show the influence of Kant? Or: Schleiermacher wrote the 'Christmas Eve' dialogue before writing 'The Christian Faith'. Consider the similarities and differences between these two texts. (see bibliography for week five) 5. The modern account of faith that we find in Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar or Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is an attempt to address the problem posed by Kant concerning the contrast 9

10 between scientific knowledge and knowledge of God. Discuss with respect to any one of these theologians. 6. Compare and contrast the Christology of either Barth or Bonhoeffer as a Protestant theologian, with the theology of either Rahner or von Balthasar as a Catholic theologian? Which is more effective in our modern world, in your judgment? 10