Mobile Ed: CH152 Introducing Historical Theology II: Luther to the Twenty-First Century (6 hour course)

by Roger E. Olson; Logos Mobile Education

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2016

Overview

In this course, you’ll begin by studying the Catholic church and its theology on the cusp of the Protestant Reformation, setting the stage for the work of Luther, Calvin, and other Protestant Reformers. You’ll continue on to study the post-Reformation period and various Christian movements such as Pietism, Puritanism, and Methodism. A study of modernity, beginning with the Enlightenment and the scientific revolutions, introduces the advent of liberal theology and the response of conservative theologians to the challenges of modernity. The course ends with a study of the postmodernity—its meaning, and the variety of ways that Christian theologians have responded to postmodern thought.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Sixteenth-Century Reformation

• Roman Catholic Theology on the Eve of the Reformation
• Luther and the Beginnings of Protestant Theology
• The Doctrinal Views of Luther
• Zwingli, Calvin, and Reformed Theology
• Key Views of Reformed Theology
• The Radical Reformers
• The English Reformation and Anglican Theology
• Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent
• The Scottish Reformation and Puritanism

Unit 2: Aftermath of the Reformation

• Protestant Scholasticism and Confessionalism
• Arminius and the Remonstrant Controversy
• Puritan Theology and Jonathan Edwards
• Pietism
• Wesley and Methodism
• Deism and Natural Religion
• Beginnings of Baptist Theology

Unit 3: Theology in Relation to Modernity

• The Enlightenment: Science and Theology
• The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Theology
• Friedrich Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology
• Charles Hodge and Conservative Theology
• Roman Catholic Modernism
• Mediating Theology

Unit 4: Early Twentieth-Century Movements

• Fundamentalism
• The Social Gospel
• Karl Barth and Dialectical Theology
• Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism
• Existentialist Theology
• Process Theology
• Religionless Christianity and the Death of God Theology
• Theology of Hope

Unit 5: Late Twentieth-Century Movements

• New Approaches to Roman Catholicism
• Theologies of Liberation
• Evangelical Theologies
• Renaissance of the Doctrine of the Trinity

Unit 6: Postmodern Movements

• Development of Postmodernity
• Deconstructionism
• Postliberal Theology
• Stanley Hauerwas and Postmodernity
• The Global South

Conclusion

• Concluding the Course

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About Roger E. Olson

Roger E. Olson is the Foy Valentine Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Previously he served as professor of theology at Bethel University in Minnesota. He is the author of eighteen books including The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction (Intervarsity Press). Dr. Olson was born and raised in the Upper Midwest of the United States and considers himself a "Bapticostal." He grew up Pentecostal but became Baptist while attending North American Baptist Seminary. His PhD in Religious Studies is from Rice University (Houston, Texas) and he studied at the University of Munich with theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. He served as editor of Christian Scholar's Review in the 1990s and has served as consulting and contributing editor for Christianity Today. He is married and has two adult daughters and two beautiful grandchildren. He enjoys Southern gospel music, Victorian gothic mystery books, and traveling.