MA in Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology
- BIBL 550 - Hermeneutics
- BIBL 570 - Book Study
- PHIL 552 - Philosophy of Religion
- THEO 535 - Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
- THEO 553 - History of Doctrine II
- THEO 556 - German Pentecostalism
- THEO 573 - Pentecostal Theology
- THEO 575 - Contemporary Theology
- THEO 577 - Theology Seminar Wesley
- THEO 580 - Trinity
- THEO 581 - Political Theology
- THEO 594 - Luther Reception into Pentecostalism
- THEO 594 - Pastoral Theology in the 21st Century
- THEO 594 - Theology Seminar Luther
- THEO 598 - Thesis
- THEO 594 - Epistemology for Pentecostals
- THEO 594 - Pentecostal Theology of Missions
- BIBL 594 - Pauline Pneumatology
BIBL 550 - Hermeneutics
Teacher | Dr. S. Schumacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frequency | Every three years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Module format | Intensive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Applicability | This module is essential in the reading and understanding of the Bible and all academic texts. As such it is a required course for all students. |
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Course structure | See module and courses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 110 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Participation requirement | See access to the program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course will deal with the two main aspects of hermeneutics: How do we understand? and, how do we interpret texts? It will explore different epistemological as well as various hermeneutical approaches. Particular attention will be given to more recent hermeneutical approaches. The course wants to assist the student to develop his own hermeneutical approach to Evangelical/Pentecostal provenience. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Objectives |
A. General Learning Objectives
B. Specific Learning Objectives As a result of the activities and study in this course, students should be able to:
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Examination | See Evaluation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Literature |
Textbooks: Archer, Kenneth J. A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century. London: T&T Clark International, 2004. Cross, Terry. What Can Pentecostal Theology Offer Evangelical Theology. JPT 10.2 (2002), pp. 44-73.** Hempelmann, Heinzpeter. Wie wir denken können. Wuppertal, 2000, Ss. 103-112. Longenecker, Richard N. Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1975, pp. 6-35.** Maier, Gerhard. Biblical Hermeneutics. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 1994, pp. 333-373. _______. Biblische Hermeneutik. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1990, Ss. 295-331. Maltese, Giovanni. Geisterfahrer zwischen Transzendenz und Immanenz. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013.** Riesner, Rainer. Jesus als Lehrer. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1984, Ss. 102-352. Smith, James K. A., Thinking in Tongues. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.** Thiselton, Anthony C. New Horizons in Hermeneutics. Zondervan, 1997, pp. 142-178; 204-236. Yong, Amos. The Spirit of Creation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011).** **Required Readings
Aichele, Georg et al. The Postmodern Bible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. Archer, Melissa L. “I Was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day”: A Pentecostal Engagement with Worship in the Apocalypse. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2015.** Barthes, R. The Pleasure of the Text. Translated by Richard Miller. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1975. Borg, M. and N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. Harper San Francisco, 1999. Branson, M. L. and C. R. Padilla, eds. Conflict and Context: Hermeneutics in the Americas. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986. Bultmann, Rudolf. Jesus and the Word. Fontana Books, 1934. __________. New Testament & Mythology and Other Basic Writings. Translated and edited by Schubert M. Ogden. Fortress Press, 1984. Conzelmann, H. und A. Lindemann. Arbeitsbuch zum Neuen Testament, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1975. __________. Interpreting the New Testament. An Introduction to the Principles and Methods of N.T. Exegesis. Peabody, 1988. Croatto, J. S. Biblical Hermeneutics. Translated by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987. Crossan, J. D. In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1973. Crossan, J. D. et al. The Jesus Controversy: Perspectives in Conflict. Philadelphia, PA: Trinity International Press, 1999. Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. Davis, Ellen F. and Richard B. Hays, eds. The Art of Reading Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003. Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Translated by B. Johnson. The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Dieterich, Jörg, Hrsg. Streiflichter zur Wissenschaftstheorie. Friedensau, 1999. Eagleton, T. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. Bread Not Stone. Boston, NJ: Beacon Press, 1984. __________. The Power of Naming. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996. __________. Wisdom Ways. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001. Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984. Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988. __________. Language, Hermeneutic, and the Word of God: The Problem of Language in the New Testament and Contemporary Theology. New York: Harper & Row, 1966; reprint: Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979. Frei, H. W. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1974. Frestadius, Simo. Pentecostal Rationality: Epistemology and Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2020.** Froehlich, Karlfried. Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church. Translated and edited by K. Froehlich. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984. Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Philosophical Hermeneutics. Translated and edited by D.E. Linge. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. _________. Truth and Method. 2nd ed. Translated and revised by J. Weinsheimer and D.G. Marshall. New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1975. Gilligan, C. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. Green, Chris E. W. Toward a Pentecostal Theology of the Lord’s Supper: Foretasting the Kingdom. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012. Haacker, Klaus. Biblische Theologie als engagierte Exegese. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1993. Habermas, Jürgen. On the Pragmatics of Communication. Edited by Maeve Cooke. Massachusetts: MIT, 1998. Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History. Translated by R.S. Hartman. The Liberal Arts Press, 1953. Kaplan, D. M. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory. New York, NY: State University of NY Press, 2003. Hempelmann, Heinzpeter. Wie die wahre Welt zur Fabel wurde. Christliches Wahrheitszeugnis und postmoderner Wahrheitspluralismus. 4 Bände. Witten, 2008 (Band 4). __________. Wie wir denken können. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 2000. Kelly, S. Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship. Routledge, 2002. Kwok, Pui-Ian and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza eds. Women’s Sacred Scriptures. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998. Land, Steven Jack. Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2010.** Larkin, William J., Jr. Culture and Biblical Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1998. Lentricchia, Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. Martin, Lee Roy. The Unheard Voice of God: A Pentecostal Hearing of the Book of Judges. JPSUP 32. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2008. McConnell, Frank, ed. The Bible and The Narrative Tradition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986. McQueen, Larry R. Joel and the Spirit: The Cry of a Prophetic Hermeneutic. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2009. Moore, Rickie D. The Spirit of the Old Testament. JPTSup 35. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2011. Moore, S. D. Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1989. _________. Poststructuralism and the New Testament: Derrida and Foucault at the Foot of the Cross. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994. Moore-Jumonville, R. The Hermeneutics of Historical Distance: Mapping the Terrain of American Biblical Criticism, 1880-1914. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002. Mosala, I. J. Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology in South Africa. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989. Mouton, E. Reading a New Testament Document Ethically. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Palmer, R. E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969. Pelikan, J. Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. Pope-Levison, P. and J. R. Levison. Jesus in Global Contexts. Louisville, KY.: Westminster, John Knox Press, 1992. Potok, C. In the Beginning. Fawcett Crest, NY: Ballantine Books, 1975. Ricoeur, Paul. Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination. Translated by D. Pellauer. Edited by M. I. Wallace. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995. _________. Freud & Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. Translated by D. Savage. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1970. _________. From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II. Translated by K. Blamey and J.B. Thompson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991. _________. Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation. Edited and translated by John B. Thompson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 1981. _________. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Cristian University Press, 1976. _________. Oneself as Another. Translated by K. Blamey. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. _________. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. New York, NY: Penguin, 1978. Said, E. W. Culture and Imperialism. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1993. Schottroff, Luise, S. Schroer, and M. T. Wacker. Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women’s Perspective. Translated by M. Rumscheidt. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998. Schnabel, E. J. und Heinz-Werner Neudorfer. Das Studium des Neuen Testaments. 2 Bände. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1999. Stadelmann, Helge. Evangelikales Schriftverständnis: Die Bibel verstehen – der Bibel vertrauen. Muldenhammer Hammerbrücke: Jota Publications, 2005. Stuhlmacher, Peter. Jesus of Nazareth; Christ of Faith. Translated by S. Schatzmann. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993. _________. Vom Verstehen des Neuen Testaments. NTD 6. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. Sugirtharajah, Rasiah S. The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Encounters. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. _________. Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002. Thomas, John Christopher. The Apocalypse: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012. _________. The Spirit of the New Testament. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2005. Segovia, Fernando F. and Mary Ann Tolbert, eds. Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998. Thiselton, Anthony C. New Horizons in Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997. _________. Two Horizons. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980. Via, Dan Otto. The Parables: Their Literary and Existential Dimension. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967. Wariboko, Nimi. The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020.** Weaver, Walter P. The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1999. Wessels, Antonie. Images of Jesus: How Jesus Is Perceived and Portrayed in Non-European Cultures. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990. West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader. New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. _________. Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press, 1982. Wilder, Amos N. Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1971. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright. New York, NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1969. |
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BIBL 570 - Book Study
Teacher | TBA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Module format | Intensive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Applicability | This Module provides a basis for Pentecostal-Charismatic Pneumatology and will provide essential historical and theological information. |
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Course structure | See module and courses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 110 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course will focus on a careful exegetical analysis of the Greek or Hebrew text of the book under discussion. Matters of interpretation and elements of advanced grammar will be discussed. The specific book chosen for the seminar may vary from year to year. |
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Core Literature | Depending on the Book! This information will be published on Moodle! |
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PHIL 552 - Philosophy of Religion
Teacher | Dr. T. Miller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frequency | Every three years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Module format | Intensive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Applicability | This Module is essential to theological courses which engage in reasoning about God, his existence, and his sovereignty. The philosophical reflection on faith and reason, theodicy, and related topics will be of benefit in all other theological courses. |
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Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 110 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course undertakes a critical analysis and evaluation of reasoning about God. Topics covered include the concept of God, arguments for and against God’s existence, the relation between faith and reason, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, and other related topics. This course introduces a contemporary philosophical reflection on the concept of God, arguments for and against God’s existence, the problem of evil, the relation between faith and reason, and related topics in the philosophy of religion. Assigned readings and class discussions will focus on selected basic questions, such as: a) What is religion b) What is classical theism and is it coherent? c) What rational arguments or grounds are there for theism and for atheism/agnosticism? d) What is the nature of faith? Is it rational? Does it have to be? e) Could a perfectly good God permit evil or the sort of evil that occurs? f) If God exists, what difference might this make to human existence and to one’s own life? g) What are some of the major obstacles to religious faith in our postmodern world? |
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THEO 535 - Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Teacher | Dr. S. Schumacher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | The student will be assisted in establishing his/her own pneumatological outline of a biblical book and in constructing his/her own pneumatological approach, or pneumatology. In a final step, the student will bring the contours of such pneumatology in conversation with contemporary scholarship and ministry, engaging in a pneumatological discussion on the relevance of his/her pneumatology for the present and future. |
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Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 110 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course will deal with the doctrine of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology) and will first focus on the history of the treatment of the Spirit from 30 AD until today. A particular focus will then be given to the development of the doctrine of the Spirit among scholarship within the last 150 years before the class directs its attention to the emergence of Pentecostal pneumatology. Here, various past and contemporary pneumatological approaches among early Pentecostals and contemporary Pentecostal scholars will be highlighted and discussed. |
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Core Literature | Textbooks: Terry L. Cross, The People of God’s Presence: An Introduction to Ecclesiology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019). Steffen Schumacher, The Spirit of God in the Torah – A Pentecostal Exploration (PhD thesis; Cleveland, TN: CPT Cleveland, 2021). Reading List: Albertz, Rainer, and Claus Westermann, ‘xwr’, in Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann (eds.), THAT (2 vols.; München: Christian Kaiser Verlag, 1978–1979), vol. 2 (1979), pp. 726-53. Augustine, Daniela C., Pentecost, Hospitality, and Transfiguration: Toward a Spirit-inspired Vision of Social Transformation (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012). Blumhofer, Edith L., ‘Introduction’, in Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler and Grant A. Wacker (eds.), Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999), pp. ix-xiii. Briggs, Charles A., ‘The Use of Ruah in the Old Testament’, JBL 19.2 (1900), pp. 132-45. Cross, Terry L., The People of God’s Presence: An Introduction to Ecclesiology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019). _____, ‘Toward a Theology of the Word and the Spirit: A Review of J. Rodman Williams’s Renewal Theology’, JPT 3 (1993), pp. 113-35. Dabney, D. Lyle, Die Kenosis des Geistes: Kontinuität zwischen Schöpfung und Erlösung im Werk des Heiligen Geistes (NBST; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1997). Davies, Andrew, ‘Reading in the Spirit: Some Brief Observations on Pentecostal Interpretation and the Ethical Difficulties of the Old Testament’, JBV 30.3 (2009), p. 303-11. _____, ‘The Spirit of Freedom: Pentecostals, the Bible and Social Justice’, JEPTA 31.1 (2011), pp. 53-64. Dreytza, Manfred, Der Theologische Gebrauch von Ruah im Alten Testament: Eine Wort- und Satzsemantische Studie (Gießen: Brunnen Verlag, 2nd edn, 1992). Edwards, Denis, Breath of Life: A Theology of the Creator Spirit (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004). Ellington, Scott A., ‘The Sustainer of Life: The Role of the Spirit of God in Creation’, APS 12 (2009), pp. 9-24. Felix-Jager, Steven, ‘Inspiration and Discernment in Pentecostal Aesthetics’, JPT 23.1 (2014), pp. 85-104. Fettke, Steven M., ‘The Spirit of God Hovered over the Waters: Creation, the Local Church, and the Mentally and Physically Challenged, a Call to Spirit-Led Ministry’, JPT 17.2 (2008), pp. 170-82. Gause, R. Hollis, ‘Issues in Pentecostalism’, in Russell P. Spittler (ed.) Perspectives on the New Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1976), pp. 106-16. Goldingay, John, ‘Was the Holy Spirit Active in Old Testament Times? What Was New about the Christian Experience of God?’, ExAu 12 (1996), pp. 14-28. Gunkel, Hermann, Die Wirkungen des Heiligen Geistes nach der populären Anschauung der Apostolischen Zeit und der Lehre des Apostels Paulus: Eine Biblisch-Theologische Studie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888). Hehn, Johannes, ‘Zum Problem des Geistes im Alten Orient und im Alten Testament’, ZAW 43.1 (1925), pp. 210-25. Hildebrandt, Wilf, An Old Testament Theology of the Spirit of God (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995). Hubbard, Jr, Robert L., ‘The Spirit and Creation’, in David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner (eds.), Presence, Power and Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament (Nottingham, England: Apollos, 2011), pp. 71-91. Johns, Jackie David, The Pedagogy of the Holy Spirit according to Early Christian Tradition (Leipzig: Center for Pentecostal Ministries, 2012). Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti, ‘Towards a Theology and Ecclesiology of the Spirit: Marquette University’s 1998 Symposium, “An Advent of the Spirit: Orientations in Pneumatology’’’, JPT 14 (1999), pp. 65-80. Kim, Kirsteen, The Holy Spirit in the Word: A Global Conversation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2007). Levison, John R., Filled with the Spirit (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009). McMahan, Oliver, ‘Grief Observed: Surprised by the Suffering of the Spirit’, in Steven J. Land, Rick Dale Moore and John Christopher Thomas (eds.), Passover, Pentecost, and Parousia: Studies in Celebration of the Life and Ministry of R. Hollis Gause (JPTSup 35; Dorset, UK: Deo Publishing, 2010), pp. 296-314. McQueen, Larry R., Joel and the Spirit (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2009). Miskov, Jennifer A., ‘Coloring Outside the Lines: Pentecostal Parallels with Expressionism. The Work of the Spirit in Place, Time, and Secular Society?’, JPT 19.1 (2010), pp. 94-117. Mittelstadt, Martin William, The Spirit and Suffering in Luke–Acts: Implications for a Pentecostal Pneumatology (JPTSup 26; London: T & T Clark, 2004). Moltmann, Jürgen, The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1992). _____, The Source of Life: The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997). Moore, Rick Dale, The Spirit of the Old Testament (JPTSup 35; Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK: Deo Publishing, 2011). Moore, Rick Dale, and Brian Neil Peterson, Voice, Word, and Spirit: A Pentecostal Old Testament Survey (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2017). Müller-Fahrenholz, Geiko, God’s Spirit: Transforming a World in Crisis (New York/Geneva: Continuum/WCC Publications, 1995). Neve, Lloyd Rudolph, The Spirit of God in the Old Testament (CPTC; Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2011). Payne, J. Barton, ‘xwr’, in R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke (eds.), TWOT (Chicago: Moody Publisher, 1980), pp. 836-37. Pinnock, Clark H., ‘The Work of the Holy Spirit in Hermeneutics’, JPT 2 (1993), pp. 3-23. _____, Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1996). Rogers, Eugene F., After the Spirit: A Constructive Pneumatology from Resources Outside the Modern West (RadTrad; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005). Schumacher, Steffen, The Spirit of God in the Torah – A Pentecostal Exploration (PhD thesis; Cleveland, TN: CPT Cleveland, 2021). Shults, F. LeRon, ‘Spirit and Spirituality: Philosophical Trends in Late Modern Pneumatology’, Pneuma 30.2 (2008), pp. 271-87. Spittler, Russell P., ‘The Pentecostal View’, in Donald L. Alexander (ed.) Christian Spirituality: Five Views of Sanctification (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1988) Synan, H. Vinson, Voices of Pentecost: Testimonies of Lives Touched by the Holy Spirit (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2003). Thomas, John Christopher, ‘Holy Spirit and Interpretation’, in Stanley E. Porter (ed.) DBCI (New York, NY: Routledge, 2007), pp. 165-66. _____, ‘“Where the Spirit Leads”: The Development of Pentecostal Hermeneutics’, JBV 30.3 (2009), pp. 289-302. Waddell, Robby C., The Spirit of the Book of Revelation (JPTSup 30; Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2006). Wallace, Mark I., Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation (New York, NY: Continuum, 1996). Welker, Michael, God the Spirit (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994). Westermann, Claus, ‘Geist im Alten Testament’, EvT 41.3 (1981), pp. 223-30. Wright, Christopher J.H., Knowing the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament (Oxford; Downers Grove, IL: Monarch Books; InterVarsity, 2006). Wyckoff, John W., Pneuma and Logos: The Role of the Spirit in Biblical Hermeneutics (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010). Yong, Amos, ‘Ruach, the Primordial Chaos, and the Breath of Life: Emergence Theory and the Creation Narratives in Pneumatological Perspective’, in Michael Welker (ed.) The Work of the Spirit: Pneumatology and Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. 183204. _____, ‘Disability and the Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecost and the Renewal of the Church’, JPT 19.1 (2010), pp. 76-93. _____, The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination (PM; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). |
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THEO 553 - History of Doctrine II
Teacher | Dr. C. Stephenson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Module format | Intensive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Applicability | This Module seeks to inform the students of the historical basis and development of the major doctrines and theological loci. This provides a solid basis for further theological study and practical theology. |
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Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 110 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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THEO 556 - German Pentecostalism
Teacher | Dr. C. Simpson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | This Module shows the unique development of Pentecostalism in Germany and how this changed through time. It is applicable to the Lutheran Reception, contemporary, and Pentecostal theology modules. |
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Content of the Module | This module is an in-depth study of the life and ministry of Jonathan Paul, Lutheran Pastor and early pioneer of the Pentecostal Movement in Germany. Much use will be made of primary sources to analyze the growth of the Pentecostal Movement in Germany in the early part of the twentieth century and later developments after World War II. |
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THEO 573 - Pentecostal Theology
Teacher | Dr. C. Simpson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course is intended to engage the graduate student in the recent development of theology among Pentecostals, focusing in particular on the areas of theological methodology, experience and epistemology, and various doctrinal loci as seen through a Pentecostal lens. |
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Core Literature | Reading List: Albrecht, Daniel E. 1999. Rites in the Spirit: A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality. Sheffield Academic Press Anderson, Allan H & Hollenweger, Walter J (eds.) 1999. Pentecostals After a Century: Global Perspectives on a Movement in Transition. Sheffield Academic Press Anderson, Allan 2000. Zion and Pentecost: The Spirituality and Experience of Pentecostal and Zionist/Apostolic Churches in South Africa. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press Anderson, Allan & Tang, Edmond (eds.) 2005. Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Asian Christianity. Oxford: Regnum & Baguio City, Philippines: APTS Press Burgess, SM & van der Maas, E (eds) 2003. New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Cox, Harvey 1996. Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. London: Cassell Dayton, Donald W 1987. Theological Roots of Pentecostalism. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press Dempster, MA, Klaus, BD & Petersen, D (eds) 1991. Called and Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective. Peabody: Hendrickson Dempster, MA, Klaus, BD & Petersen, D (eds) 1999. The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel. Oxford: Regnum Faupel, D William 1996. The Everlasting Gospel: The Significance of Eschatology in the Development of Pentecostal Thought. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Hilborn, David (ed.) 2001. ‘Toronto’ in Perspective: Papers on the New Charismatic Wave of the mid-1990s. Carlisle: Paternoster Hollenweger, Walter J 1972. The Pentecostals. London: SCM Hollenweger, Walter J 1997. Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide. Peabody: Hendrickson Jacobsen, Douglas 2003. Thinking in the Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Johns, Cheryl B 1993. Pentecostal Formation: a pedagogy among the oppressed. Sheffield Academic Press Land, Steven J 1993. Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Perriman, Andrew (ed) 2003. Faith Health and Prosperity: A Report on ‘Word of Faith’ and ‘Positive Confession’ Theologies by ACUTE. Carlisle: Paternoster Yong, Amos 2000. Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Yong, Amos 2005. The Spirit Poured Out On All Flesh: Pentecostalism And The Possibility Of Global Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic |
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THEO 575 - Contemporary Theology
Teacher | Dr. T. Cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | This Module seeks to place Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology in the general theological milieu in particular evangelical theology and to investigate the contribution of more recent scholarly academic work. It is essential for all theological modules. |
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Content of the Module | This course is intended to provide an overview of the significant people and trends of the theological landscape in the past two centuries. Such an overview will expose students to a variety of theological approaches throughout the world and will thereby more adequately equip students for an understanding of the current theological scene. |
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THEO 577 - Theology Seminar Wesley
Teacher | Dr. G. Sommer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | There is a focus on the special German history of the Holiness Movement leading to Pentecostalism; in particular, their specific political and social parameters in this country. It is a necessary preparation for THEO 593 Jonathan Paul and the German Pentecostal Movement. |
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Content of the Module | This course offers a survey of the history and contents of the Holiness movement from John Wesley and the Methodist Church; Holiness preachers in Britain and the USA; the Keswick Higher Life Movement; the Welsh Revival as precursors to the Pentecostal movement. |
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Core Literature | Textbooks: • Dieter, Easterday Melvin, The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century Metuchen 1980. • Synan, Vinson, The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition. Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century, Grand Rapids/ Cambridge2 1997. • Voigt, Karl Heinz, Freikirchen in Deutschland (19. und 20. Jahrhundert) (KGE III/6), Leipzig 2004. Reading List: • Geldbach, Erich, Freikirchen – Erbe, Gestalt und Wirkung (BenshH 70), 2. völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Göttingen 2005. • Heimbucher, Kurt: Dem Auftrag verpflichtet – Die Gnadauer Gemeinschaftsbewegung, Gießen, 1988 • Holthaus, Stephan: Heil - Heilung - Heiigung, Gießen, 2005 • Raedel, Christoph, Methodistische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert. Der deutschsprachige Zweig der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche, Göttingen 2004. • Smith, Timothy L., Called Unto Holiness. Volume One. The Story of the Nazarenes—The Formative Years, Kansas City 1962. • Sommer, Gottfried: Die “Belowianer” In Hinterpommern – Ihr Weg vom enthusiastischen Aufbruch zur Bildung einer Freikirche, Heverlee (Leuven), 2010 • Vetter, Ekkehart: Jahrhundertbilanz – erweckungsfasziniert und durststreckenerprobt, Bremen 2009. • Voß, Klaus Peter: Ökumene und freikirchliches Profil. Beiträge zum zwischenkirchlichen Gespräch (FBTh 14), Berlin 2008. • Zimmerling, Peter, Die Charismatische Bewegung, Göttingen 2009. |
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THEO 580 - Trinity
Teacher | Dr. T. Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | This Module seeks to enable the student to grasp one of the more difficult theological topics. It is related to courses in Pentecostal and contemporary theology and the history of doctrine. |
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Content of the Module | This course offers a study of the doctrine of the Trinity. It examines the fundamental, Scriptural data for the doctrine, tracks the formulation and articulation of the doctrine in the history of the Church, and attends to appropriations of the doctrine in contemporary theology. It will also offer the student an understanding of the indispensability of the doctrine of the Trinity with regard to Christian notions of salvation and community. |
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Core Literature | Reading List: Augustine. De Trinitate. NPNF 1/3. Badcock, Gary D. “The Anointing of Christ and the filioque Doctrine.” Irish Theological Quarterly 60/4 (1994) 241-58. Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics I/1. Trans. by Geoffrey Bromiley. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1975 ed. Boff, Leonardo. Trinity and Society. Trans. by Paul Burns. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988. Coffey, David M. Deus Trinitas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Davis, Stephen, Daniel Kendall, and Gerald O’Collins, eds. The Trinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fortman, Edmund J. The Triune God: A Historical Study of the Doctrine of the Trinity. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1982. LaCugna, Catherine Mowry. God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life. San Francisco, CA: HarperSan Francisco, 1991. Hill, William. The Three-Personed God: The Trinity as a Mystery of Salvation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1982. Hunt, Anne. The Trinity and the Paschal Mystery—A Development in Recent Catholic Theology. Collegeville, MI: Liturgical Press, 1997. Johnson, Elizabeth. She Who Is—The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. New York: Crossroads, 1994. Jüngel, Eberhard. The Doctrine of the Trinity—God’s Being is in Becoming. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1976. Marshall, Bruce D. Trinity and Truth. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2000. McDonnell, Kilian. The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003. Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MI: Fortress, 1993. _____________. The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God. Minneapolis, MI: Fortress, 1993. Rahner, Karl. The Trinity. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998. Smail, Thomas A. The Forgotten Father. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980. Vanhoozer, Kevin J, ed. The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological Essays on Culture and Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997. Volf, Miroslav. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. Vondey, Wolfgang. Heribert Mühlen: His Theology and Praxis: A New Profile of the Church. New York: University Press of America, 2004. Zizioulas, John. Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Press, 1985. |
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THEO 581 - Political Theology
Teacher | Dr. L. Stephenson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | The purpose of this course is to establish the two predominant views that are currently maintained with respect to the task of political theology and then to observe the way in which these two tasks shape contemporary political theologies. |
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Content of the Module | This course intends an analysis and criticism of political arrangements from the perspective of differing interpretations of God’s ways with the world. This course will also explore the role of the church as a polis, which practices theological politics. Major themes and thinkers will include the following: liberation theology, feminist theology, black theology, Radical Orthodoxy, Jürgen Moltmann, Walter Brueggemann, William Cavanaugh, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, and Amos Yong. |
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Core Literature | Textbooks: Boff, Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. Introducing Liberation Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1987. Brueggemann, Walter. The Prophetic Imagination, 2nd Edition. Fortress Press, 2001. Cone, James. God of the Oppressed. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1997. Smith, Jamie K.A. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. Yoder, John Howard. Body Politics. Herald Press, 2001. Reading List: Ashley, James Matthew. Interruptions: Mysticism, Politics, and Theology in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. Balakrishnan, Gopal. The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt. London and New York: Verso, 2000. Barr, James. The Scope and Authority of the Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1980. Bartholomew, Craig et al., ed. A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically A Dialogue with Oliver O’Donovan. University of Gloucestershire: The British and ForeignBible Society, 2002. Bell, Daniel M., Jr. Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering. New York: Routledge, 2001. Berman, Joshua A. How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Boff, Leonardo. Trinity and Society. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1988. Cavanaugh, William T. Being Consumed. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Cavanaugh, William T. Theopolitical Imagination. New York: T & T Clark LTD, 2002. Cavanaugh, William T. Torture and Eucharist. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1998. Cavanaugh, William T. and Peter Scott, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Chopp, Rebecca. The Praxis of Suffering: An Interpretation of Liberation and Political Theologies. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986. Cone, James H. Black Theology & Black Power. New York: The Seabury Press, 1969. Cone, James H. God of the Oppressed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997. Cone, James H. Liberation: A Black Theology of Liberation. New York: J.B. Lippincott Comanpy, 1970. De Vries, Hent and Laurence E Sullivan, ed. Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Ellis, Marc H. and Otto Maduro, eds. The Future of Liberation Theology: Essasy in Honor of Gustavo Gutierrez. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1989. Fiorenza, E.S. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. London: SCM, 1983. Freire, P. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 Gutierrez, Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation. Translated and edited by Sister Caridad Inda and John Eagleson. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1973. Hauerwas, Stanley. A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confonting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2000. Hauerwas, Stanley. After Christendom? How the Church is to Behave if Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation are Bad Ideas. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991. Hauerwas, Stanley. The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Hemming, Laurence Paul, ed. Radical Orthodoxy? – A Catholic Enquiry. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing LTD, 2000. Hennelly, Alfred T., S.J. Liberation Theologies: The Global Pursuit of Justice. Mystic: Twenty-Third Publications, 1997. Horsley, Richard A., ed. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1997. Jones, William R. Is God a White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology. Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. Kirwan, Michael. Political Theology: An Introduction. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009. McFague, Sallie. The Body of God: An Ecological Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. Metz, Johann Baptist. A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity. Translated by J. Matthew Ashley. New York: Paulist Press, 1998. Metz, Johann-Baptist, Jürgen Moltmann and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza. Faith and the Future: Essays on Theology, Solidarity, and Modernity. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1995. Milbank, John, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward, eds. Radical Orthodoxy. New York: Routledge, 1999. Milbank, John. Theology & Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. 2nd edition. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. Moltmann, Jürgen. Theology of Hope. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. Moltmann, Jürgen. The Trinity and the Kingdom. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1981. O’Donovan, Oliver and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, eds. From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. O’Donovan, Oliver. The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Petrella, Ivan. The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing LTD, 2004. Rahner, Hugo, S.J. Church and State in Early Christianity. Translated by Leo Donald Davis, S.J. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1961. Rasmusson, Arne. The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. Rowland, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Ruether, Rosemary R. Sexism and God-talk. London: SCM, 1983. Schwab, George. The Challenge of the Exception: An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Carl Schmitt from 1921 to 1936. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989. Smith, James K. Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004. Sobrino, John. The True Church and the Poor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1984. Soelle, Dorothee. Suffering. Translated by Everett R. Kalin. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975. Sölle, Dorothee. Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology. Translated by John Bowden. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990. Sölle, Dorothee. The Window of Vulnerability: A Political Spirituality. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990. Tanner, K. The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. Vanhoozer, Kevin J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Volf, Miroslav. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996. Wannenwetsch, Bernd. Political Worship: Ethics For Christian Citizens. Translated by Margaret Kohl. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ward, Graham, ed. The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. Ward, Graham, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Ward, Graham. Cities of God. New York: Routledge, 2000. Yoder, John Howard. Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community before the Watching World. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1992. Yoder, John Howard. The Christian Witness to the State. Scottdale: Herald Press, 1964. Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1972. Yoder, John Howard. The Royal Priesthood: Essays, Ecclesiological and Ecumenical. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994. |
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THEO 594 - Luther Reception into Pentecostalism
Teacher | Dr. D. Courey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | The Module seeks to make the Pentecostal scholar aware of Luther‘s contribution to Pentecostal theology. It provides a fresh approach, it is useful for an understanding of German Pentecostalism, Pentecostal, and contemporary theology. |
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Content of the Module | The course seeks to examine the roots and development of triumphalism within the Pentecostal churches. Martin Luther and his theology will be studied in detail to assess if triumphalism had its roots at the beginning of the Reformation. His Theology of the cross will inform a redefinition of Pentecostal theology and challenge the whole aspect of triumphalism. |
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THEO 594 - Pastoral Theology in the 21st Century
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Applicability | In Europe and North America a different set of challenges are facing pastors and denominations. In many lands, church attendance is declining and Sunday has become a day for leisure activities. This course seeks to explore various responses to these challenges e.g. new forms of church, postmodern ethics and morality and biblical illiteracy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course will consider the specific challenges facing the Church in the 21st Century, particularly in Western Europe and the USA. In particular the serious decline in attendance and membership of many denominations. The cultural and sociological changes which may have produced this and how the churches have been responding, sometimes in some unusual ways e.g. the emerging churches or ‘Fresh Expressions’. Further challenges have arisen in the areas of ethics and morality, biblical illiteracy and departures from orthodox beliefs. In each case pastors are on the front line and are having to respond to new situations without the necessary support of an appropriate pastoral theology. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Core Literature | Reading List: Anglican- Methodist Working Party. Fresh Expression in the Mission of the Church, London, UK: Church House Publishing, 2012. Bowen, John. What is a fresh expression of Church? A Beginner’s Guide to a Movement that is Changing the Church. Toronto, CN: Wycliffe College, 2015. Church of England Working Party, Mission Shaped Church – Church planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context,. London, UK: Church House Publishing, 2004. Cross, Terry. A People for God’s Presence – An Introduction to Ecclesiology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019. Francis, L.J., J. Clymo and M. Robbins. ‘Fresh Expressions: Reaching Those Psychological types Conventional Forms of Church Find it Hard to Reach’. Practical Theology. Vol.7, No. 4,.pp. 252-267, 2014. Anderson, Ray S. An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2006. Bell, Rob. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005. Bell, Rob, and Don Golden. Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. Gibbs, Eddie and Ryan K. Bolger. Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005. Jones, Tony. The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. ———. The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005. ———. The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community. Brewster, MA: Paraclete, 2009. Keel, Tim. Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007. Kimball, Dan. The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003. ———. Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004. ———. They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007. McLaren, Brian. Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007. ———. Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008. ———. A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004. ———. The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. ———. More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002. ———. A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. ———. A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith. New York: HarperOne, 2010. ———. The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006. ———. The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. Gibbs, Eddie. ChurchMorph: How Megatrends are Reshaping Christian Communities. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009. Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2006. Guder, Darrell, ed. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. Minatrea, Milfred. Shaped By God’s Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. McNeal, Reggie. Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009. Roxburgh, Alan and M. Scott Boren. Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2009. Stetzer, Ed. Planting Missional Churches. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006. Van Gelder, Craig. The Ministry of the Missional Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007. Van Gelder, Craig, ed. The Missional Church and Denominations: Helping Congregations Develop a Missional Identity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.
NEW MONASTICISM Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006. Claiborne, Shane and Chris Haw. Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. Stock, Jon, Tim Otto, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2006. Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan. Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: From ‘After Virtue’ to a New Monasticism. 2nd ed. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010.
CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS Belcher, Jim. Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2009. Carson, D.A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005. Colson, Charles W. and Anne Morse. “Emerging Confusion: Jesus is the Truth Whether We Experience Him or Not.” Christianity Today 50 (June 1, 2006): 72. Craigen, Trevor P. “Emergent Soteriology: The Dark Side.” Master’s Seminary Journal 17, no. 2 (2006): 177–90. DeYoung, Kevin and Ted Kluck. Why We’re not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be. Chicago: Moody, 2008. Dorn, Christopher. “The Emergent Church and Worship.” Reformed Review (Online) 61, no. 3 (September 1, 2008). Driscoll, Mark. “A Pastoral Perspective on the Emergent Church.” Criswell Theological Review 3 (March 1, 2006): 87–93. Freswick, Casey. Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith; a Christian Critique of Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis and the Emergent Church Movement. Grandville, MI: Reformed Fellowship, 2006. Henard, William D. and Adam W. Greenway, eds. Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2009. Johnson, Gary and Ronald Gleason, eds. Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007. Keuss, Jeffrey F. “The Emergent Church and Neo-Correlational Theology after Tillich, Schleiermacher and Browning.” Scottish Journal of Theology 61 (January 1, 2008): 450–61. Mayhue, Richard L. “The Emerging Church: Generous Orthodoxy or General Obfuscation?” Master’s Seminary Journal 17 (September 1, 2006): 191–205. McLaughlin, Brian. “The Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement.” Reformed Review (Online) 61, no. 3 (September 1, 2008). Miles, Todd L. “A Kingdom Without a King? Evaluating the Kingdom Ethic(s) of the Emerging Church.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 12 (March 1, 2008): 88–103. Mills, David M. “Mountain or Molehill? The Question of Truth and the Emerging Church.” Criswell Theological Review 3 (March 1, 2006): 51–66. Penner, Myron B., ed. Christianity and the Postmodern Turn: Six Views. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2005. Smith, James K. A. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006. Smith, R. Scott. Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2005. Webber, Robert, ed. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007. Wittmer, Michael Eugene. “Don’t Stop Believing: A Theological Critique of the Emergent Church.” Reformed Review (Online) 61, no. 3 (September 1, 2008). ONLINE http://www.brianmclaren.net — Brian McLaren’s website. http://www.emergentvillage.com — “Emergent Village is a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” http://www.emergingchurch.info — “A constantly evolving collection of recommended stories and reflections.” http://www.theooze.com — “A website dedicated to the emerging Church culture.” http://www.thesimpleway.org — Website for a new monastic community founded by Shane Claiborne and Brooke Sexton.
https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2019-09/restoring-missional-vision-theological-education?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7qP9BRCLARIsABDaZzgASjaXeezbGNMW81SeVJm_A9Qr9rxThBDTIiiQJS0VAtvZHXohQ1UaApx6EALw_wcB - Ashish Chrispal ‘Restoring Missional Vision in Theological Education’
https://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/what-are-the-church-attendance-statistics-telling-us/ - Blog by Ian Paul, Adjunct Prof at Fuller Theological Seminary, Assoc Minister at St.Nic’s Nottingham.
https://faithsurvey.co.uk/uk-christianity.html Useful comparison of church growth and decline.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4275107/ When people shed religious identity in Ireland and Austria: Evidence from Censuses. |
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THEO 594 - Theology Seminar Luther
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Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | For Theology students in Germany, an understanding of Luther‘s Theology is essential. The application of this knowledge to present and future ministry opportunities is invaluable and informs the module on German Pentecostalism and the Lutheran Reception into Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology. |
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Content of the Module | This course will focus on the writings of Martin Luther, placing his thought within the broader historical and cultural context of late medieval Catholicism and the Renaissance. Luther’s early theological writings and the Reformation that they helped to spawn will be examined along with his later theological writings. Given the importance of Luther’s legacy on Protestantism, it is important for graduate students to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the various aspects of his thought. |
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THEO 598 - Thesis
Teacher | Dr. D. Augustine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Spring | Duration | 36 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 20 ECTS | Workload | 600 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Contact time | 40 Hours | Self-Study | 560 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Participation requirement | In consultation with the Director of the program, the student must select a primary reader for the thesis from the faculty of the program BEFORE s/he enrolls in the thesis writing course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course is designed for students to conclude their graduate program in theological studies by writing a thesis that provides evidence of the ability to do independent research and compile it in the form required by the faculty of graduate studies in Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology. |
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THEO 594 - Epistemology for Pentecostals
Teacher | Dr. G. Sommer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicability | A strong grasp of epistemology is a useful foundation for many in-demand skills, including critical thinking, creativity, reflection on professional practice, problem-solving and discerning strengths and weaknesses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | Can we know God? If so, how? We can believe in God, but is such belief justified? How to apply the principles of epistemology to knowledge of God and belief in God? What would make belief in God justified true belief? Discover the theory of knowledge and the nature of the mind’s connection to the world. One of the oldest sub-disciplines of the western philosophical tradition, epistemology asks the big, basic questions: what is it to know reality? What is truth or fact? How is meaning generated? We will also question if there is a “Pentecostal proprium” for theological epistemology which could enrich at least Protestantism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PART I PROLEGOMENA OF THEOLOGY
PART II EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS WITHIN THEOLOGY
PART III GENERAL EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS RELATED TO THEOLOGY
PART IV SAMPLINGS FROM THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
PART V THE PENTECOSTAL PROPRIUM
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Textbooks: Frame, John M. The doctrine of the knowledge of God, A theology of lordship (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1987), 8–9. Kennard, Douglas W., Epistemology and logic in the new testament: early jewish context and biblical theology mechanisms that fit within some contemporary ways of knowing (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2016). Moreland, J. P. and Craig, William Lane: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, 2nd Edition. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017), 61. Roach, William C., Hermeneutics as epistemology: a critical assessment of carl f. h. henry’s epistemological approach to hermeneutics (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015)Selby, Rosalind M. Comical Doctrine: An Epistemology of New Testament Hermeneutics (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006) Shin, Yoon und Simmons, JoAnne: Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and reformed epistemology: james k. a. smith and the contours of a postmodern christian epistemology (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022). Smith, James K. A. Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy, ed. James K. A. Smith und Amos Yong, Pentecostal Manifestos (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010), iii. Van Til, Cornelius A Survey of Christian Epistemology (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company: Phillipsburg, NJ, 1969), |
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THEO 594 - Pentecostal Theology of Missions
Teacher | Dr. B. Waltrip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Fall | Duration | 8 Weeks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credits | 5 ECTS | Workload | 150 Hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course will consider a theology of missions from a Pentecostal/Charismatic perspective. The course will specifically explore the missional understanding of the Trinitarian God and His Church. The role of the Holy Spirit in mission is a major feature of Pentecostal theology of mission. Therefore, the course will specifically address such topics as the role glossolalia/xenolalia, signs and wonders (power evangelism), spiritual gifts, and prophetic evangelism. Because Early Pentecostals had an eschatological urgency, the course will seek to develop a contemporary theology on the topic. Since mission happens in context, a theological understanding of culture from a Pentecostal perspective will also be explored. Finally, the course will consider a Pentecostal theology of missions and revival, which has missiological and eschatological implications. |
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BIBL 594 - Pauline Pneumatology
Teacher | Dr. W. Simmons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content of the Module | This course seeks to examine Paul’s understanding of the Holy Spirit from an exegetical, theological and historical perspective. The intention of the course is to highlight the unique aspects of Paul’s pneumatology. Methodologically, the course will strive to integrate theory (theology) with praxis (discipleship). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Textbooks: Danker, Frederick William (rev. and ed.). A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature. 3rd edition. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Dunn, James D. G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998. Fatehi, Mehrdad. The Spirit’s Relation to the Risen Lord in Paul: An Examination of Its Christological Implications. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2000. Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1996. Gaffin Jr., Richard B. “‘Life-Giving Spirit’: Probing the Center of Paul’s Pneumatology.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 41, no. 4 (Dec 1998): 573–589. Grimm, Carl Ludwig Wilbald. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, being Grimm’s Wilke’s Clavis Novi Testamenti. Translated by Joseph Henry Thayer. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1963. Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar. 3rd edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009 Pereyra, Roberto. “The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul.” Davar Logos 13, no. 2 (Sep 2014): 5–24. Rabens, Volker. The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life. 2nd edition. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. Wedderburn, Alexander J. M. “Pauline Pneumatology and Pauline Theology.” In The Holy Spirit and Christian Origins: Essays in Honor of James D. G. Dunn. Edited by Stephen C. Barton, Bruce W. Longenecker, and Graham N. Stanton. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. |
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