03ST513/01 Jesus: God and Man

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1 03ST513/01 Jesus: God and Man Spring Term, 2018 I. Details A. Time: Thursdays, 1PM - 3PM B. Professor: Dr. Derek W.H. Thomas 1. dthomas@rts.edu 2. Do not have an office at the Charlotte Campus 3. TA: I wish II. III. IV. Purpose A. To gain familiarity with principle texts of Scripture relating to Person and Work of Christ B. To familiarize the main doctrinal/creedal positions (especially Chalcedon) C. To understand principal areas of conflict and disagreement (past and present) D. To grow in personal fellowship with Jesus by understanding who he is and what he has done (and will yet do) for us Course Requirements A. Faithful Class Attendance - Attendance is an issue of discipleship - Expect class participation when applicable - Feel free to ask questions ate any time B. Reading (see schedule elsewhere in this syllabus) - Complete reading for class preparation and examination C. Research Paper - Serious Paper approximately 15 pages in length (typed and 1.5 space, not double spaced) due on Paper Day (announced first day of class) - Standard SBL format, as outlined in The SBL Handbook of Stule, 2 nd ed. (SBP Press, 2014). The paper should have footnotes (not endnotes) and resemble articles found in standard journals; e.g., JBL, JTS, JETS, WTJ, etc. - Research paper must contain citations of at least two journal articles - Paper must have a proper formatted bibliography at the end. - Paper may cover any topic in the area of the Person and/or Work of Christ. Note: this is a course in Systematic Theology and not an exegesis paper or an attempt to write a commentary on a Christological text of the New Testament. D. Final Exam to be taken during RTS-C Final Exam period from May 17-22, 2018, Grading A. Reading (Honor system. You will be asked for an evaluation of how much you have read in the Final Exam.) 10%

2 B. Research Paper 50% C. Final Exam 40% Additional Note: RTS Charlotte wants to promote the writing of good research papers among the students and wants to encourage students when they write good papers. One paper from this class could be chosen as the best paper of the class. The professor will notify the student that his/her paper has been chosen. The student will then submit that paper to the dean preferably in the pdf format. The paper will then be posted on the RTS Charlotte website at Pen and Parchment: An Archive of the Best Student Papers at RTS Charlotte. V. Textbooks John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 2, sections 12-17, 64 pp. Donald MacLeod, The Person of Christ (IVP), 300 pp. Over, Sachs, Jeffrey, Pierced for our Transgressions (IVP), 336 pp. David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her (Crossway), selected pages ~200 pp. Thomas Weinandy, Essays in Christology (Sapientia), 419 pp. B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ (Benediction Classics), 584 pp.

3 VI Schedule and Required Reading Assignments Class 1 Feb 8 Calvin Class 2 Feb 15 MacLeod pp Class 3 Feb 22 MacLeod pp Class 4 Mar 1 MacLeod pp. 203-end Class 5 Mar 8* (no class) Class 6 Mar 15 Warfield Part 1 Class 7 Mar 22 Weinandy, 1 st Half Class 8 Apr 5 Jeffrey, Ovey and Sachs, Part 1 Class 9 Apr 12 Jeffrey, Ovey and Sachs, Part 2 Class 10 Apr 19 Gibson (x2) Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Class 11 Apr 26 Gibson (x2) Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 Class 12 May 3 Weinandy, 2 nd Half Class 13 May 10 Warfield Part 2

4 Extension Policy All assignments and exams are to be completed by the deadlines announced in this syllabus or in class. Extensions for assignments and exams due within the normal duration of the course must be approved beforehand by the Professor. Extensions of two weeks or less beyond the date of the last deadline for the course must be approved beforehand by the Professor. A grade penalty may be assessed. Extensions beyond the last deadline for the course may be granted in extenuating circumstances (i.e. illness, family emergency). For an extension the student must complete an Extension Request Form from the Registrar s Office. The request must be approved by the Professor and the Academic Dean. A grade penalty may be assessed. (RTS Catalog p. 57 and RTS Charlotte Student Handbook p. 8) Any incompletes not cleared six weeks after the last published due date for course work will be converted to a failing grade. Professors may have the failing grade changed to a passing grade by request. (RTS Catalog p. 55)

5 Bibliography (2010) Aulen, Gustav. Christus Victor. Translated by A.G. Hebert. New York: Macmillan, Bauckham, Richard. God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Baillie, D. M. God was in Christ: An Essay on Incarnation and Atonement. London: Farber and Farber, Beasley Murray, G. R. Jesus and the Kingdom of God. Exeter: Paternoster Press, Berkouwer, G. C. The Person of Christ. Translated by John Vriend. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, The Work of Christ. Translated by Cornelius Lambregste. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Bloesch, Donald. Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord in Christian Foundations. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Borg, Marcus J. Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith. Reprint; San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, Boslooper, Thomas D. The Virgin Birth. Philadelphia: Westminster, Brown, Harold O. J. Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Brown, Raymond E. The Birth of the Messiah. London: Geoffrey Chapman, Jesus, God and Man. New York: Macmillan, The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. New York: Paulist, Bruce, F. F. Jesus Lord and Savior. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Bultmann, Rudolf. Jesus Christ and Mythology. New York: Scribners, Campbell, John M. The Nature of the Atonement. Reprint; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Carey, George. God Incarnate: Meeting the Contemporary Challenges to a Classic Christian Doctrine. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Casey, Maurice. From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God: The Origins and Development of New

6 Testament Christology. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., Clark, Gordon. The Atonement. Jefferson, MD: Trinity Foundation, The Incarnation. Jefferson, MD: Trinity Foundation, Cobb, John. Christ in a Pluralistic Age. Philadelphia: Westminster, Cullmann, Oscar. The Christology of the New Testament. Translated by Shirley Guthrie and Hans Hall. Philadelphia: Westminster, Dunn, J. D. G. Christology in the Making: An Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Edersheim, Alfred. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. New edition. Peabody: Hendrickson, Ehrman, Bart. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Erickson, Millard. The Word Became Flesh. Grand Rapids: Baker, Evans, Craig A. Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Fairbairn, A. M. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, Fairbairn, Donald. Grace and Christology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Life in the Trinity. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Fee, Gordon. Pauline Christology: An Exegetical Theological Study. Peabody: Hendrickson, Finlan, Stephen. Problems with Atonement. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, Forsyth, P. T.. The Person and Place of Jesus Christ. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, Fuller, Reginald. The Foundations of New Testament Christology. London: Lutterworth, Gibson, David and Jonathan Gibson (eds). From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological and Pastoral Perspective. Crossway, Giles, Kevin. The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology Downers Grive, IL. IVP, Gore, Charles. Belief in Christ. New York: Scribners, Green, Joel and M. Baker. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.

7 Gromacki, Robert. The Virgin Birth. Grand Rapids: Baker, Gunton, Colin. The Actuality of Atonement. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, Yesterday and Today: A Study of Continuities in Christology. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, Hahn, Ferdinand. The Titles of Jesus in Christology: Their History in Early Christianity. Translated by H. Knight and G. Ogg. London: Lutterworth, Hardy, Edward R., ed. Christology of the Later Fathers in Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox, Heim, S. Mark. Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Henry, Carl F. H. The Identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Nashville: Broadman, Hick, John. The Myth of God Incarnate. Philadelphia: Westminster, Hodgson, Leonard. The Doctrine of the Atonement. London: Nisbet, Hurtado, Larry W. How On Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism. Minneapolis: Fortress, Johnson, Elizabeth A. Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology. New York: Herder and Herder, Johnson, Luke Timothy. Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, Kaiser, Walter. The Messiah in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Karkkainen, V. Christology: A Global Introduction. Grand Rapids: Baker, Kraus, C. Norman. Jesus Christ our Lord. Scottdale, PA: Herald, Lapide, Pinchas. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective. Minneapolis: Augsburg, Lawton, J. S. Conflict in Christology: A Study of British and American Christology from New York: Macmillan, Letham, Robert. The Work of Christ, in Contours of Christian Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1993.

8 Liddon, H. P. The Divinity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Ft. Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, Machen, J. Gresham. The Virgin Birth of Christ. Grand Rapids: Baker, Macleod, Donald. The Person of Christ, in Contours of Christian Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Manson, T.W. The Teaching of Jesus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Martin, Ralph P. and Brian J. Dodd, eds. Where Christology Began: Essays on Philippians 2. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, McCready, Douglas. He Came Down from Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ and the Christian Faith. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, McDonald, H. D. The Atonement of the Death of Christ. Grand Rapids: Baker, McDowell, Josh. More Than A Carpenter. Wheaton: Tyndale, A. T. B. McGowan The Person and Work of Christ: Understanding Jesus Christian Doctrines in Historical Perspective, General Editor: Alan P. F. Sell Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2012 McGrath. Alister. The Making of Modern German Christology. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, The Mystery of the Cross. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Understanding Jesus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, McLaren, Brian D. The Secret Message of Jesus. Nashville; Thomas Nelson, Mackintosh, H. R. The Doctrine of the Person of Christ. Reprint; New York: Charles Scribner s, Marshall, I. Howard. The Origins of New Testament Christology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Moltmann, Jurgen. The Crucified God. London: SCM Press, Morris, Leon. The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, The Cross in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, The Cross of Jesus. Exeter: Paternoster Press, Jesus is the Christ: Essays in the Theology of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.

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10 Spong, John. Jesus for the Non Religious. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, Resurrection: Myth or Reality. Reprint; San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, St. Athanasius. On the Incarnation. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir s Press, Stott, John. The Authentic Jesus: The Certainty of Christ in a Skeptical World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, The Cross of Christ. Leicester: InterVarsity Press, Strimple, Robert. Modern Search for the Real Jesus. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, n.d. Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ: A Journalist s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Torrance, T. F. The Mediation of Christ. Exeter: Paternoster Press, Trelstad, Marit., ed. Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today. Minneapolis: Fortress, Walvoord, John. Jesus Christ our Lord. Chicago: Moody Press, Warfield, Benjamin B. Christology and Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, Person and Work of Christ. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, n.d. Weaver, J. Denny. The NonViolent Atonement. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Webster, Douglas D. A Passion for Christ: An Evangelical Christology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Wells, David F. The Person of Christ. Westchester, IL: Crossway, Weinandy, Thomas G. Jesus the Christ. Our Sunday Vistor Publishing Division , Jesus: Essays in Christology. Sapientia, Wilkins, Michael J. Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Wilson, Jonathan R. God So Loved the World: A Christology for Disciples. Grand Rapids: Baker, Witherington, Ben. The Jesus Quest. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, Wright, N. T. Jesus and The Victory of God. Minneapolis: Augsburg/Fortress, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1999.

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12 Course Objectives Related to MDiv Student Learning Outcomes With Mini Justification Campus: Charlotte Date: Spring 2018 Course: ST513 Jesus: God and Man Professor: Derek W. H. Thomas Articulation (oral & written) Scripture Reformed Theology Sanctification Desire for Worldview Winsomely Reformed/ Evangelistic Preach Worship Shepherd MDiv Student Learning Outcomes Church/World Broadly understands and articulates knowledge, both oral and written, of essential biblical, theological, historical, and cultural/global information, including details, concepts, and frameworks. Significant knowledge of the original meaning of Scripture. Also, the concepts for and skill to research further into the original meaning of Scripture and to apply Scripture to a variety of modern circumstances. (Includes appropriate use of original languages and hermeneutics; and integrates theological, historical, and cultural/global perspectives.) Significant knowledge of Reformed theology and practice, with emphasis on the Westminster Standards. Demonstrates a love for the Triune God that aids the student s sanctification. Burning desire to conform all of life to the Word of God. Embraces a winsomely Reformed ethos. (Includes an appropriate ecumenical spirit with other Christians, especially Evangelicals; a concern to present the Gospel in a God honoring manner to non Christians; and a truth in love attitude in disagreements.) Ability to preach and teach the meaning of Scripture to both heart and mind with clarity and enthusiasm. Knowledgeable of historic and modern Christianworship forms; and ability to construct and skill to lead a worship service. Ability to shepherd the local congregation: aiding in spiritual maturity; promoting use of gifts and callings; and encouraging a concern for non Christians, both in America and worldwide. Ability to interact within a denominational context, within the broader worldwide church, and with significant public issues. Rubric Strong Moderate Minimal None MODERATE MODERATE MODERATE Mini Justification Student must grasp contents of Westminster Standards, know how they are based on biblical and theological material In depth analysis of Christological texts, particularly in the New Testament Knowledge of integration with other Reformed Theological symbols and confessions is essential Reformed Theology and its Relationship to Sanctification is stressed throughout. How Reformed Theology provides a shaping contour for the whole of life is stressed Students are taught how Reformed symbols are to be handled in debate with those who disagree with various aspects. Emphasis is given on how to preach orthodox Christology Chapters 1, 20, 21 of WCF relate directly to Worship Counseling and the Reformed Confessions will be a feature of the course. Relationship of Reformed Confessions to other ecumenical documents

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