Syllabus
3/10 Opening session: Who is who and what are we going to do? 10/10 Introductory lecture: Theology of the reformed tradition in a nutshell 14/10 How can we find God and how does God find us?
The doctrines of revelation and of special revelation 24/10 Who is God and what is God like?
The doctrines of the Trinity and of the attributes of God 31/10 What does God want with us?
The doctrine of predestination 7/11 What are we doing here?
The doctrine of creation 14/11 Why doesn’t God do something about it?
The doctrine of providence and the problem of evil 21/11 Who are we and why don’t you just be yourself?
The doctrine of human beings and the doctrine of sin 28/11 Where is God? Is God against us? Who’s in charge here?
The doctrines of incarnation, of the atonement and of the resurrection 5/12 What’s new and are you a Christian?
The doctrines of the Holy Spirit and of justification and sanctification 12/12 Living or dead? What is going to happen to us?
The doctrines of the church and of the Christian hope for the future 9/1 Seminar papers and the final colloquium
Annotation
Reading a contemporary and ecumenically accommodating interpretation of the Christian doctrine from the reformed point of view by the late American theologian Shirley C. Guthrie, as well as some other recent studies in reformed theology.