Today I want to lay out a graduate Biblical Theology course that I will be doing onsite in the Spring for the School of Theology and Ministry. It will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:15 in Noggle. That's basically a fourteen week course with a finals week.
Textbooks: Brueggemann's, Old Testament Theology
Marshall's, New Testament Theology
I do want to write a biblical theology. Nothing out there really satisfies my longing. Most go biblical author by author, and the ones that don't are high Calvinist. Any publisher want to offer me a contract?
Week 1: What is Biblical Theology?
- including the history of biblical theology as a concept and movement
- interaction with Klink and Lockett
- biblical attributes of God in the OT
- biblical attributes of God in the NT
- creation stories of Genesis
- restoration in the NT
- theology of angels, demons, Satan
- theology of the Fall
- sin in the OT
- sin in the NT
- atonement in the OT
- atonement in the NT
- God's covenant with Israel
- parting of the ways?
- the values of Jesus' ministry
- the Lordship of Christ
- The pre-existent Christ
- The Trinity
- predestination and election
- conditions of salvation
- Spirit in the OT
- Spirit in the NT
- images of the Church in the NT
- baptism and communion
- love God with all your heart
- love your neighbor as yourself
- revelation in history
- moments of revelation
2 comments:
Looks exciting Ken! Most of us professors think "This is the masters degree we WISH we could have had" and "I want to take this course!"
Ken, you could imagine...I like the approach book-by-book, just the way my mind thinks, but this class will be a delight for those preparing for ministry. It's a blend of "systematics meets ministry effectiveness."
This will be a brilliant offering to illuminate the life of the mind and the real life needs of ministry. Well done.
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