- Course code: TEOL2790
- Credits: 10
- Semester: Autumn
- Language: English
Study program affiliation:
Constructive Theology TEOL2790
This course focuses on reconstructing selected core topics in doctrine and addressing contemporary issues through critical engagement with Christian textual and practical traditions. Students will consider the methods, sources, and manifestations in various communities of faith. Students will encounter the selected doctrinal symbols of the Christian tradition in ancient, historical, and contemporary terms, incorporating the voices of a variety of communities, contexts, and concerns. They will learn to work theologically using the resources of a variety of traditions and disciplines, and to translate doctrinal symbols into the various languages of their own personal and communal ecclesial contexts and concerns, as persons-in-community. The goal of this course is to help students practice the concepts and language needed to serve as theological leaders in a variety of communities and ministries. Particular foci of the class are theological hermeneutics, theological anthropology, comparative and interreligious theologies as well as theological responses to climate change.
Prerequisites: TEOL1415
About the study
Study requirements
In order to receive a final assessment, the student must:
- Attend 60% of the lectures
- Submit and have approved at least 10 Reading Responses submitted in advance of the class session via Canvas. See syllabus for further details.
- Submit and have approved a mid-term paper of 1500-2000 words by the given deadline. The paper will receive feedback.
- Participate in the in-depth evaluation of the course if such evaluation is stipulated in the relevant term.
When course requirements are not fulfilled, this will count as one examination attempt, unless the student withdraws before the set deadline (1.November).
Final assessment/Exam
The final grade for this course is given on the basis of a three-day home exam (2500-3500 words). In order to receive a final assessment, the student must fulfill the course requirements within the fixed deadline. The course and final exam will be graded A-F.
Exam dates
- Hand-out date:
- 19. November 2024
- Time for hand-out:
- 09:00
- Final deadline to withdraw from examination:
- 1. November 2024
- Submission date:
- 22. November 2024
- Submission deadline:
- 12:00
- Duration:
- 3 days
- Release date for results:
- 12. December 2024
Home exam - Ordinary exam
- Hand-out date:
- 21. January 2025
- Time for hand-out:
- 09:00
- Final deadline to withdraw from examination:
- 5. January 2025
- Submission date:
- 24. January 2025
- Submission deadline:
- 12:00
- Duration:
- 3 days
- Release date for results:
- 3. February 2025
Home exam - New/deferred exam N.B. Own rules for access
Learning outcome
KNOWLEDGE
The student:
- Has good knowledge of key theological terms, topics, structures, patterns and historical developments of the treated theological topics
- Has good knowledge of theological hermeneutics and political theologies and how context affects theological doctrine
- Has good knowledge of the doctrine of theological anthropology and the various challenges brought to it from biosciences and disability studies
- Has good knowledge of the challenge of comparative and interreligious theologies and their contribution to pluralistic societies
- Has good knowledge of the doctrines of creation and redemption especially as it concerns challenges brought to it by climate change
SKILLS
The student:
- Is able to recognize, describe and employ theological terms, patterns, and typologies in critical ways.
- Has an increased ability to think critically and constructively about historic and contemporary theological reasoning.
- Can coherently distinguish, recount, and critically engage a variety of theological approaches to a subject and be able to state their own position clearly and coherently, so it can be engaged by a wider public.
- Will be able to articulate positions that address issues within their own denominational tradition and use resources that are from their context or relevant to it.
Reading list
Here you can find the reading list for this course.
Part of the literature will be available digitally, while other parts might only be available in paper format. Some of the literature will be available as compendiums, which you can find via the course room in Canvas.
You will automatically get access to literature that is available digitally when you are sitting at MF, otherwise you can get access by using Oria or by using "External access" in the library's list of databases.
Note that it will take some time before link to the reading list is updated. Please make sure that you are looking at the correct semester's reading list.
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