RT1331 H20 Kristus, människan och frälsningen

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RT1331 Christ, Humanity, and Salvation 

Course information HT20

Dr Martin Westerholm

Welcome to our course on Christ, Humanity, and Salvation!  It is great to have you with us to study over the course of the Fall term for 2020.  Because of the ongoing public health crisis, this course will take place entirely online.  There will be no meetings on campus — I am sorry not to have the chance to meet you all in person!

I am from Canada, and am a native English speaker.  My lectures will be in English *but you are welcome to communicate with me and to do your course work in Swedish*.  I’ll say a little bit more about myself in the first lecture for the course.

The course is divided into nine working weeks, with a video lecture, assigned readings, and a discussion assignment for each week.  The schedule and assignments for each week are as follows:  

Week 1 (begins 31 August) -- Introduction

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 6 September

  1. Watch Lecture 1 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Introduce yourself to your classmates in the course Discussion Forum.  Click on ’Diskussioner’ on the main course Canvas page and post an introduction in the forum labelled ’Introductions’ — a self-introduction of about 200 words would be great!  You can, e.g., explain your interest in the course, your background with studying theology or ethics, etc.
  3. Begin preparing for Week 2 — it’s time to start reading!               

 

Week 2 (begins 7 September) – Patristic Theology and Human Mortality

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 13 September

  1. Watch Lecture 2 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

Athanasius, On the Incarnation (required course text that is listed in the course literature list)

 

Week 3 (begins 14 September) – Medieval Theology and Human Honour

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 20 September

  1. Watch Lecture 3 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo  — available online at: https://www.saintsbooks.net/books/St.%20Anselm%20of%20Canterbury%20-%20Cur%20Deus%20Homo.pdf

 

Week 4 (begins 21 September) – Medieval Theology and Human Mysticism

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 27 September

  1. Watch Lecture 4 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum for your group
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

(1) Catherine of Sienna, The Dialogue, pp. 64-160.

(2) Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, pp. 1-38.

These are both required texts that are listed in the course literature list.

 

Week 5 (begins 28 September) – Catholic Theology and Human Morality

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 4 October

  1. Watch Lecture 5 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum for your group
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

(1) i. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Prima Secundae, Questions 63, 109, 112-114, available here:

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2063.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2109.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2112.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2113.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2114.htm

ii. Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundae, Questions 4 and 6, available here:

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3004.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3006.htm

iii. Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Tertia Pars, Question 7, available here:

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4007.htm

(2) Council of Trent, Sixth Session, ’Decree on Justification’, ’On Justification’, available here:

http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1545-1545,_Concilium_Tridentinum,_Canons_And_Decrees,_EN.pdf

(3) Joseph P. Wawrykow, ’Grace and Justification’, in Lewis Ayres and Medi Ann Volpe, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018), available electronically through university library.

 

Week 6 (begins 5 October) – Protestant Theology and Human Religiosity

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 11 October

  1. Watch Lecture 6 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum for your group
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

Luther, Selections From His Writings, pp. 86-165 (required course text that is listed in the course literature list)

 

Week 7 (begins 12 October) – Modern Theology and Human Sociality

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 18 October

  1. Watch Lecture 7 that is posted in course ’Media Gallery’
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum for your group
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

(1) Rauschenbusch, Theology for the Social Gospel, chapters 1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14 -- text available at: https://archive.org/details/theologyforsoc00raus/page/n15/mode/2up

 

(3) Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, chapters 1, 9, 11, 13 (required course text that is listed in the course literature list)

 

Week 8 (begins 19 October) – Critical Theology and Human Gender

STUDENT TASKS — to be completed by midnight on Sunday 25 October

  1. No lecture this week!
  2. Complete the assigned reading that is listed below
  3. Answer the questions that are contained in the discussion forum for your group
  4. Engage your classmates in discussion — at least three comments or responses to others are required!

ASSIGNED READINGS

  1. Rosemary Radford Ruether, ’Can a Male Saviour Save Women?’ — available online at http://www.womenpriests.org/theology/ruether1.asp
  2. Thatcher, Redeeming Gender, Introduction, chapters 5-8.

 

Week 9 (begins 26 October) – Final essays

Students are to write final essays that are due by midnight on Sunday 1 November.  Further information regarding these essays follows below. 

 

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSESSMENT INFORMATION

Students receive grades for two elements of their course work:

(1) Participation in weekly text discussions  

For each week of the course, students are required to complete an assigned reading, answer questions regarding the texts, and discuss different answers with their classmates.  Students who do not complete these tasks each week will not pass the course.  Those who do will receive a ’G’ for their discussion participation.  

Students who are unable to complete the discussion assignment for a particular week should contact the course instructor.

(2) Final essay.  

Choose one question below and answer it in approximately 1500 words.  Essays are to be submitted through the 'Uppgifter' link on the course Canvas page by midnight on Sunday 1 November.

(1) Compare and evaluate two different theological accounts of what it is to be human and how these accounts shape different understandings of salvation.

(2) Explain and evaluate Athanasius’ argument regarding Christ’s humanity and divinity.

(3) Compare and evaluate Anselm’s and Rauschenbusch’s understandings of the atonement.

(4) Catherine of Sienna speaks of Christ as a ’bridge’.  Compare this understanding of Christ’s role to one other account that we encountered in the course.

(5) Compare and evaluate Aquinas’ and Luther’s accounts of grace, faith, and love.

(6) Gutiérrez writes: ’We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious.’  Evaluate this claim in relation to one other author whom we studied.  

(7) Compare and contrast the arguments from the perspective of the marginalised that are offered by Gutiérrez and Rosemary Radford Ruether.  

(8) Explain and evaluate Thatcher’s argument regarding the redemption of gender.  You might consider, e.g., whether it is sufficient to respond to Ruether’s concerns. 

(9) Choose two figures whom we studied and compare and evaluate their understandings of EITHER Christ OR salvation.

Final essays may receive a grade of ’U’, ’G’, or ’VG’.  Students who receive a ’VG’ on their final essay and a ’G’ for their week-to-week discussion participation will receive a ’VG’ for the course as a whole.

 

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