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This unit examines selected movements and themes in European Protestant theology in the period since the Enlightenment by seeing how major thinkers understood the decisive cultural and intellectual problems of their time and responded to these problems. Major features of the work of selected theologians are explored. The unit will be divided into roughly equal parts, dealing with nineteenth-century theologians and twentieth-century theologians.
Description
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge of major developments in European Protestant theology in the ‘modern’ period.
Critically discuss the new challenges posed for theology by the Enlightenment, particularly in Germany.
Demonstrate an understanding of the major theological movements in European Protestant theology in the twentieth century.
Critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of two of the major Protestant theological thinkers of this period
Prerequisites:
30 points of Foundational units in Theology and Church History
Teaching Methods:
3 hour seminar per week (partly student-led) for 12 weeks
Assessment:
1 x 6000 word essay (100%)
Mode of Teaching:
Semester
Bibliography:
Barth, K. The Theology of the Nineteenth Century . London: SCM, 1972.
Berkhof, H. Two Hundred Years of Theology: Report of a Personal Journey . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.
Frei, H. Types of Christian Theology . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Ford, D. F., ed. The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 . 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
Grenz, S. J. and R. E. Olson. 20th Century Theology . Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
Hopper, J. Understanding Modern Theology . 2 Vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
Livingston, J. C. Modern Christian Thought . New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Peerman, D. G. and M. E. Marty. A Handbook of Christian Theologians . Nashville: Abingdon, 1984.
Gerrish, B. A. Tradition and the Modern World . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Pauck, W. From Luther to Tillich . San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.
Reardon, B. M. G. Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Smart, N. et al. Nineteenth century Religious Thought in the West. 3 vols. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Welch, C. Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century . 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972, 1985.
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