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Work through the central questions of Christian theology in a clear sequence. Each seminar helps you understand an argument, examine its sources, and form a judgment of your own. The scholarship is advanced; the path through it is guided.
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What distinguishes dogmatic judgment from history of religions, biblical studies, philosophy, or private conviction?
IPART 1 OF 4Sources & Judgment
How Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience become disciplined theological judgments rather than competing authorities.
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Sources & Judgment
How Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience become disciplined theological judgments rather than competing authorities.
What Makes Theology Theological?
What distinguishes dogmatic judgment from history of religions, biblical studies, philosophy, or private conviction?
Scripture, Canon & Figural Reading
How can historical and theological interpretation correct rather than cancel one another?
Tradition, Reason & Situated Knowledge
When is tradition a truthful reception, and when is it an instrument of exclusion?
IIPART 2 OF 4The Triune God
Divine naming, attributes, Trinity, creation, and providence across classical and modern disputes.
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The Triune God
Divine naming, attributes, Trinity, creation, and providence across classical and modern disputes.
Divine Names, Simplicity & Analogy
How can finite language refer truthfully to the incomprehensible God?
The One and the Three
How does Christian confession name real distinction without partition and unity without modal collapse?
Creation, Providence & Evil
What can creation ex nihilo mean in a world marked by evolutionary death, creaturely agency, and catastrophic suffering?
IIIPART 3 OF 4Christ & Salvation
The identity and work of Jesus Christ, sin, grace, participation, justification, and liberation.
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Christ & Salvation
The identity and work of Jesus Christ, sin, grace, participation, justification, and liberation.
Chalcedon and Christological Grammar
What work does the language of person and nature perform, and where does it remain underdetermined?
Cross, Resurrection & Atonement
How do the biblical metaphors of victory, sacrifice, reconciliation, representation, and liberation relate?
Grace, Freedom & Participation
Does grace perfect, liberate, replace, or recreate creaturely agency?
IVPART 4 OF 4Spirit, Church & Hope
The Spirit’s work, the church’s contested forms, sacramental life, mission, public witness, and last things.
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Spirit, Church & Hope
The Spirit’s work, the church’s contested forms, sacramental life, mission, public witness, and last things.
Spirit, Charism & the Church
How does the Spirit constitute and disrupt the church’s visible forms?
Sacrament, Mission & Public Witness
How can the church be a public sign of reconciliation without confusing its action with God’s reign?
Resurrection, Judgment & New Creation
How does Christian hope address death, judgment, historical trauma, and the renewal of creation?
“Not mastery of a system, but the formation of judgment: patient before texts, candid about difference, exact in argument, and responsible for what follows.”Begin with seminar 1.1