Schedule (update 11/22: added remaining exercises)

Date	Subject/Assignment	Reading required/recommended	Presenter
8/30	The Course Doctrine of God: Introduction Complete entrance exams this week	Read syllabus, course, vision, tasks, reading Skim Rules of the Game and A Few (Strong) Suggestions on Essay Writing Know about Pointers for Presentations and Peer Review Guidelines (Peer Review FAQs are optional) Karkkainen intro, Downey intro	Telford Work
9/1	The Big Picture The God who gives	Downey chs 1-3	Telford Work
9/6	The gift of God Last day to add/drop 9/7	Downey chs 4-6
9/8	God in Early Christianity God's biblical story	Karkkainen chs 1-2, Wilken intro and ch 1
9/13	The God of worship	Group presentation: Gay Group presentation: Bauckham and Thompson Wilken ch 2
9/15	God's biblical world	Wilken chs 3-4
9/20	God reconceived	Wilken chs 5-6
9/22	God believed Memorize Nicene Creed by today	Wilken chs 7-8
9/27	God embodied	Wilken chs 9-10
9/29	God followed	Wilken chs 11-12
10/4	Patristic theology: summary Contemporary Orthodoxy Exercise on Wilken/Downey due (revisions due 10/13)	Karkkainen chs 3-4, Wilken epilogue Karkkainen ch 11
10/6	Excursus: God embracing	Volf selections
10/11	Four-Day
10/13	God in the Premodern West God synthesized and reformed	Karkkainen chs 5-6 Group presentation: Burrell
10/18	God imagined and affirmed	de Lubac chs 1-2
10/20	God proven and known	de Lubac chs 3-4
10/25	God unknown and sought	de Lubac chs 5-6
10/27	God hanging on Liberal Catholicism	de Lubac ch 7 and postscript Karkkainen chs 12-13
11/1	Protestant Orthodoxy God in Protestant Modernity God misattributed	Group presentation: Bavinck Karkkainen chs 7-8 Gunton preface and chs 1-2
11/3	Liberal Protestantism God negated Exercise on de Lubac due (revisions due 11/10) Last day to withdraw 11/5	Karkkainen chs 10, 16, 18 Gunton chs 3-4
11/8	Postliberalism God storied	Karkkainen chs 9, 15 Gunton chs 5-6
11/10	Historicism God described	Karkkainen chs 14, 19-21, 17 Gunton chs 7-8
11/15	God Worldwide God contextualized Spring 2005 registration begins	Karkkainen chs 22-25 Group presentation: Pinnock Group presentation: Boff
11/17		Karkkainen chs 26-29 and epilogue Group presentation: Jones Group presentation: Johnson
11/22	(catch-up day)
11/24	Thanksgiving
11/29	The Triune God: A Systematic Theology	Jenson chs 1-3
12/1	Exercise on contemporary doctrines of God due (revisions due 12/8)	Jenson chs 4-6
12/6		Jenson chs 7-9
12/8	Exercise on entrance exam due (revisions due at final exam)	Jenson chs 10-14
12/13, 3-5 p.m.	Peer-edited final exercise on a biblical text due

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