Schedule (update 4/20: added final assignment)
Date |
Subject/Assignment |
Readingrequired/recommended {presenter} |
| 1/8 |
The Course |
Syllabus Witham intro and ch 1 |
| 1/10 |
God and Modern Philosophy Presentation assignments |
Witham ch 2, Polkinghorne STI ch 1 Review readings for presentation assignments |
| 1/12 | God and Modern Anthropology Complete entrance examinations (hold on to these until the end of the course) |
Witham ch 3 {_________________} |
| 1/15 | Honor the other King | |
| 1/16 (N.B.!) | God and Human Psychology | Witham ch 4, Polkinghorne ch 3 {_________________} |
| 1/17 | God and Post-Newtonian Physics Add/drop deadline |
Witham ch 5, Polkinghorne ch 2 {_________________} |
| 1/19 | God and Sociology | Witham ch 6 {_________________} |
| 1/22 | God and Historical Criticism | Witham ch 7, Polkinghorne ch 6 {_________________} |
| 1/24 | God and Confession | Witham ch 8, Polkinghorne ch 4 {_________________} |
| 1/26 | Divine Action and Recent Science | Witham ch 9, Polkinghorne ch 5 {_________________} |
| 1/29 | Religious Pluralism | Witham ch 10, Polkinghorne ch 7 {_________________} |
| 1/31 | God and Science in America | Witham ch 11, Polkinghorne ch 8 {_________________} |
| 2/2 | Pneumatological Basics | McDonnell chs 1-3 {_________________} |
| 2/5 | Holy Spirit and Eschaton | McDonnell chs 4-6 {_________________} |
| 2/7 | The Spirit from Scripture to Tradition |
McDonnell chs 7-8, Work "Speaking" {_________________} |
| 2/9 | The Spirit's Mission
Exercise on science and Christian learning due (revision due 2/16) |
McDonnell chs 9-12 {_________________} |
| 2/12 | The Spirit's Personhood | McDonnell chs 13-16 {_________________} |
| 2/14 | The Spirit in Human Experience | McDonnell chs 17-18 {_________________} |
| 2/16 | Directions for Constructive Pneumatology | McDonnell chs 19-21 {_________________} |
| 2/19 | Honor the emperor | |
| 2/21 | Divine Action as a Problem | Polkinghorne SP intro and ch 1, Welker pp ix-xvii {_________________} |
| 2/23 | Embodied Agency | Polkinghorne ch 2, Welker pp 169-182 (Polkinghorne) {_________________} |
| 2/26 | Providence in Creation | Polkinghorne ch 3, Welker pp 71-86 (Dabney) {_________________} |
| 2/28 | Formative Christian Pneumatology | Welker pp 3-26 (Dunn), Work "New Relationship" {_________________} |
| 3/2 | Miracles | Polkinghorne ch 4, Work "Breathed" {_________________} |
| 3/5 | Order as Divine Action, Evil as Divine Inaction | Polkinghorne ch 5, Welker pp 183-204 (Yong) {_________________} |
| 3/7 | Prayer and Mediation | Polkinghorne ch 6, Welker pp 87-105 (Tanner) {_________________} |
| 3/9 | Pentecostal Identity
Exercise on the missions of the Son and Spirit due (revision due 3/23) |
Welker pp 147-165 (Poloma), Work "Gusty Winds" {_________________} |
| 3/12-16 | Take a break | |
| 3/19 | Pentecostal Distinctives | Welker pp 109ff (Macchia), 126ff (Wacker) {_________________} |
| 3/21 | God and Time / Other Religions | Polkinghorne ch 7, Welker pp 47-70 (Kärkkäinen) {_________________} |
| 3/22 | Deadline to withdraw | |
| 3/23 | Incarnation and Sacrament / Personhood and Power | Polkinghorne ch 8, Welker pp 27-46 (Oberdorfer) {_________________} |
| 3/26 | Hope and Guidance | Polkinghorne ch 9, Welker pp 205-220 (York and York) {_________________} |
| 3/28 | Interdisciplinary / Constructive Pneumatology | Welker pp 221-232 (Welker), Work "Presence" (pp 30-38 only) {_________________} |
| 3/30 | Reforming Theology | Shults ch 1 {_________________} |
| 4/2 | God's Infinity | Shults ch 2 {_________________} |
| 4/4 | God's Subjectivity Exercise on better Polkinghorne through pneumatology due (revision due 4/13) |
Shults ch 3 {_________________} |
| 4/6-9 | Celebrate the turn of the ages | |
| 4/11 | God's Future | Shults ch 4 {_________________} |
| 4/13 | Divine Infinity Revisited | Shults ch 5 {_________________} |
| 4/16 | Triune Personhood Revisited | Shults ch 6 {_________________} |
| 4/18 | Eschatology Revisited | Shults ch 7, Jenson 1:146-161 {_________________} |
| 4/20 | Omniscience Reformed | Shults ch 8 {_________________} |
| 4/23 | Omnipotence Reformed | Shults ch 9 {_________________} |
| 4/25 | Omnipresence Reformed | Shults ch 10 and epilogue {_________________} |
| 4/27 | Study | |
| 5/1, noon-2 p.m. | Final assignment due | |
