May 06 2008
Summer School Classes
With the semester nearing completion, I am beginning to prepare for my summer classes. I will be taking three classes and will finally be finished by July (just in time for a one year anniversary vacation with my wife). Two are here at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, and for the other I’ll be heading to New Haven, CT for a summer term course at Yale Divinity School. Here’s the lineup:
Kingdom of God
A study of the Kingdom of God beginning with the mediatorial idea, the establishment of the Kingdom at Sinai, its monarchial form, the Kingdom according to the prophets, its offer by Jesus to Israel, its rejection, postponement, and eschatological establishment.
This is my first class with Dr. McCune. He is legendary around here and this is supposed to be one of his best classes, so I’ve been greatly anticipating this course for some time.
The primary textbook is Greatness of the Kingdom by Alva McClain.
The World of Jonathan Edwards
This course will examine the life, thought, and legacies of Jonathan Edwards, one of the great theologians in the Christian tradition and one of the most significant figures in American religious history. The classroom portion of the course will feature lectures and discussions of common readings. Daily themes for lecture and discussion will include, among other things, Puritanism and the Post-Reformation Era, Jonathan Edwards the Theologian, Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, and Jonathan Edwards’s American and Global Legacies. There will be ample time for questions and dialogue on these issues. Common readings will include selections from printed collections of Edwards’s writings and secondary sources. Also, the course will be integrated with the use of materials located in The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online. Special features of the course will be a viewing of Edwards’s manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Library, and a daylong tour of sites in the Connecticut River Valley relating to Edwards and the Great Awakening.
This is the one at Yale. I’m especially excited about the professors here, because they are some of the foremost Edwards scholars in the world. Two are at Yale already and one is from Princeton. Yale University also has an entire Jonathan Edwards Center devoted to the study of his life and works. I also plan to use the material gleaned from this class as the basis for a paper I’m writing next semester on Jonathan Edwards and New England Theology.
The primary textbooks are A Jonathan Edwards Reader edited by Jonathan Smith, and The New England Theology: From Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park edited by Sweeney and Guelzo.
Reformation Theology
A critical examination of the basic doctrines of the key Reformers, creedal statements, and controversies.
I’ve heard that this is Dr. Priest’s forte, so I’m excited to hear him wax eloquent from 8-12 every day. I anticipate this being an excellent introduction for both my Church History (covering Reformation era) and Systematic Theology classes next semester.
The primary textbook is Theology of the Reformers by Timothy George.
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Congratulations on making it into the Edwards class at Yale. I very much wanted to apply for it myself, but it wasn’t possible this year.
Expect an e-mail from me asking for your notes.