Running in 2013-14 at St John’s.
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Level
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2
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Credits
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20
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Aims
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• To enable students to acquire a knowledge of the origins and historical development of key Christian doctrines such as (a) Trinity, Christology and Atonement and (b) Creation, Fall, Eschatology and Theological Anthropology
• To carry out a critical appraisal of such doctrines in relation to their cultural and historical contexts
• To consider contemporary challenges to and reformulations of these doctrines
• To enable students to integrate their understanding of such doctrines with pastoral ministry
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Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the module, students will be able to:
• outline the origins and development of the doctrines in question
• comment critically on the doctrines and contemporary approaches to them
• relate the doctrines to wider theological, liturgical, ethical, pastoral and missiological contexts
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Content
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The aims and Learning Outcomes will be met by focusing on a selection of the following key themes & issues:
(a) Christology, Trinity and Atonement
• New Testament Christology and its background
• The development of Christology up to the Council of Chalcedon
• Later historical developments in Christology
• Contemporary Christologies, including Pannenberg, Schillebeeckx,
Liberation Christology and Feminist Christology
• Challenges to classic Christology: The Myth of God Incarnate and
forms of Feminist Theology
• Atonement in the New Testament and its background in early Judaism
• The development and adequacy of atonement theories
• The ideas of sacrifice, penal substitution, Christus Victor etc. in atonement theory
• The Suffering God (with particular reference to Patristic discussions, to Bonhoeffer and Moltmann)
• Origins and development of the doctrine of the Trinity
• The Holy Spirit in the Bible
• Trinity and creation (with particular reference to the Holy Spirit)
• Trinity and Suffering
• Contemporary trinitarian theologies
• Modern theologies of the Spirit (including Holiness and [Neo-] Pentecostal movements)
(b) Humanity and the World in Theological Perspective
• Creation and the Imago Dei
• Fall, Sin and Guilt
• Grace, Justification and Sanctification
• Human Personhood in Theological Perspective (history and contemporary discussions)
• Themes in Eschatology (Christian hope, heaven, hell, universal
salvation, doctrines of time, parousia, millenarianism etc.)
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Indicative bibliography
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Duffy, Stephen, The Dynamics of Grace: Perspectives in Theological Anthropology (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1993).
Dupuis, Jaques, Who Do You Say I Am? (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994).
Fiddes, Paul, Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2000).
Gunton, Colin, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2004).
Hunt, Anne, Trinity (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005).
McGrath, Alister, Christian Theology: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 4th edn., 2006).
McKnight, Scot, A Community Called Atonement (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007).
Migliore, Daniel, Faith seeking Understanding (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2nd edn., 2004).
Moltmann, Jürgen, Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology (London: SCM, 2000).
O’Collins, Gerald, Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Schwarz, Hans, Christology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998).
Wright, Tom, Surprised by Hope (London: SPCK, 2007).
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Teaching methods
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28 hours contact time: lectures, seminars, group work
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Formative assessment
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1500 written assignment
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Summative assessment
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1 x 2500 word assignment and a 30 minutes structured assessed conversation
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THMN2041 Death & Dying
Running in 2013-14 at St John’s and Lindisfarne.
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Level
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2
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Credits
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20
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Aims
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• To enable students to reflect on human experiences related to death and bereavement.
• To explore personal, pastoral and liturgical responses to those experiences.
• To equip students to begin the ministry of working with the bereaved and taking funerals.
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Learning Outcomes
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By the end of this module students will be able to:
• Reflect on their own attitudes to, and experience of loss, death and bereavement.
• Demonstrate an understanding of insights that human and theological disciplines bring to such experiences.
• Show an awareness of pastoral and liturgical responses to death and bereavement as they begin the ministry of working with the dying and bereaved.
• Exercise pastoral judgment and skill in helping individuals and communities respond to death and bereavement.
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Content
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• Individual, social and practical responses to death, loss and bereavement
• Relevant considerations from various human and theological disciplines
• Ethical, pastoral and liturgical responses to death and bereavement
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Indicative bibliography
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Ainsworth-Smith, I., & P.C. Speck, Letting Go: Caring for the Dying and Bereaved (London: SPCK, 1982).
Davies, Douglas J., The Theology of Death (London: T&T Clark, 2008).
-----, Death, Ritual and Belief (London: Cassell, 1997).
Holloway M., Negotiating Death in Contemporary Health and Social Care (Bristol: Policy Press 2007)
Jupp, P., (ed) Death our Future: Christian Theology and Funeral Practice (London 2008)
Kübler-Ross, Elizabeth, On Death and Dying (London: Tavistock, 1969).
Ratzinger, J., Eschatology (Washington: CUA, 1988)
Walter, Tony, Funerals and How to Improve Them (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990).
Ward, Barbara, Healing Grief: a guide to loss and recovery (London: Vermilion, 1993).
Worden, William, Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy (London/New York: Tavistock, 1983).
Whitaker, Agnes, All in the end is Harvest (London: DLT, 1984).
Wright, N. T., For All the Saints (London: SPCK, 2003).
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Teaching methods
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Lectures, seminars, use of media, visits to practitioners and discussions. 28 hours contact time.
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Formative assessment
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Formative assignment will be a recorded funeral talk/homily and feedback on this will include self-assessment, as well as peer and tutor feedback.
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Summative assessment
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4000 word written assignment
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