Schedule [added final exercise]
Date |
Subject/Assignment |
Readingrequired/recommended {presenter} |
| 8/27 | The Course |
Syllabus Buckley and Yeago ch 1 |
| 8/29 | Faith and Alternatives Presentation assignments |
Newbigin ch 1 Review readings for presentation assignments |
| 8/31 | Early and Late Modernity Complete entrance examinations (hold on to these until the end of the course) |
Newbigin chs 2-3 {_________________} |
| 9/3 | Knowing by Living | Newbigin chs 4-5 {_________________} |
| 9/4 | Add/drop deadline | |
| 9/5 | Christian Epistemological Fashions |
Newbigin chs 6-7 {_________________} |
| 9/7 | Jesus Christ: The Creator Word | Athanasius ss 1-7 and 8-16 |
| 9/10 | The Savior Word |
Athanasius ss 17-26 and 27-32 {_________________} |
| 9/12 | Life: Knowing through Worship | Buckley and Yeago ch 4 {_________________} |
| 9/14 | Knowing in Community | Buckley and Yeago ch 2 |
| 9/17 | Working on Oneself | Kallenberg preface, intro, ch 1 {_________________} |
| 9/19 | Ethics as Aesthetics
Exercise on Newbigin due (hand in by 9/26) |
Kallenberg ch 2 {_________________} |
| 9/21 | Contemplation |
Buckley and Yeago ch 5 |
| 9/24 | This Complicated Form of Life |
Kallenberg ch 3 {_________________} |
| 9/26 | Ethics as Politics | Kallenberg ch 4 {_________________} |
| 9/28 | Interpretation | Buckley and Yeago ch 7 |
| 10/1 | Back to the Rough Ground | Kallenberg ch 5 {_________________} |
| 10/3 | Ethics as Grammar |
Kallenberg ch 6 {_________________} |
| 10/5 | Baptism | Buckley and Yeago ch 6 |
| 10/8 | Celebrate colonialism or postcolonialism, depending on your perspective | |
| 10/10 | Evangelism: Introduction | Abraham chs 1-2 {_________________} |
| 10/12 | Proclamation and Church Growth |
Abraham chs 3-4 |
| 10/15 | Initiation
Exercise on Athanasius due (hand in by 10/24) |
Abraham ch 5 {_________________} |
| 10/17 | Conversion | Abraham chs 6-7 {_________________} |
| 10/19 | Evangelicalism | Work "Are We Using the Same Bible?" (chart) |
| 10/22 | Liturgical and Cultural Contexts | Abraham chs 8-9 {_________________} |
| 10/24 | Division |
Abraham ch 10, Buckley and Yeago ch 8 {_________________} |
| 10/26 | Prophecy: Past and Present |
Deere chs 1-5 |
| 10/29 | Means of Revelation | Deere chs 6-8 {_________________} |
| 10/31 | Nature and Supernature | Deere chs 9-11 {_________________} |
| 11/2 | Prophetic Practices Deadline to withdraw |
Deere chs 12-15 |
| 11/5 | Obstacles |
Deere chs 16-19 {_________________} |
| 11/7 | Discernment |
Deere chs 20-22 {_________________} |
| 11/9 | Scripture: Use and Abuse | Buckley and Yeago ch 3, Work "Teaching the Bible as Holy Scripture" |
| 11/12 | Early Church | Holcomb intro and chs 1-3 {_________________} |
| 11/14 | Middle Ages and Reformation |
Holcomb chs 4-5 {_________________} |
| 11/16 | Reformers |
Holcomb chs 6-8 {_________________} |
| 11/19 | Nineteenth Century | Holcomb chs 9-10 {_________________} |
| 11/21-23 | Give thanks | |
| 11/26 | Twentieth Century Exercise on coming to faith due (revision due 11/30) |
Holcomb chs 11-13 {_________________} |
| 11/28 | Christians and Jews |
Buckley and Yeago ch 9, Athanasius ss 33-40 {_________________} |
| 11/30 | Christians and Others |
Buckley and Yeago ch 10, Athanasius ss 41-54 |
| 12/3 | Academic Politics | Holcomb chs 14-15 {_________________} |
| 12/5 | Cultural Politics | Holcomb chs 16-17, Athanasius ss 56-57 {_________________} |
| 12/7 | Hermeneutical Constants Honors reports? |
Work "The Confession of Christ as Hermeneutical Norm" (chart) |
| 12/12, 10 a.m. | Final exercise on scripture due at the RS office (get it date-stamped as you turn it in) | |
