Mobile Ed: TH275 Sacramental Theology (2 hour course)
Overview
Sacramental theology has to be understood in the context of ecclesiology, in the context of the doctrine of the church. That’s not always the way that sacramental theology has been understood. Many of the debates about the Lord’s Supper, for example, seem to be based on a forgetfulness that the Church is present at the Lord’s Supper. The debates have been about the mode of Jesus’ presence in the bread and the wine. All of those questions are important questions, but they all can be asked without even considering the fact that the Church has gathered at the Lord’s Table to do something. All of those questions assume that our only concern with the Lord’s Supper is the bread and the wine set out on the table. In order to understand sacraments properly, we have to put the sacraments within that ecclesial context, within that liturgical context. If we don’t, we are liable to ask bad questions and come up with bad answers. In laying out that primary point, in this course, we will look at first the question of, what are sacraments? Are sacraments signs, are they symbols, are they something else?
Course Outline
Unit 1: Introduction: What Are Sacraments?
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
- A Rite of the Christian Church
- Sacraments and Church
Unit 2: Sacraments and the Old Covenant
- Sacraments of the Law
- Rites of Worship, Purification, Access, and Atonement
- Signs and Rites Mark Out a People
Unit 3: Sacraments of the New Covenant
- Rites That Declare Old Testament Promises Are Fulfilled in Christ
- Baptism: 1 Corinthians and Galatians
- Baptism: Romans 6
- The Lord’s Supper
- Enacted Fulfillment of Promises
Unit 4: Conclusion to the Course
- How Many Sacraments?
- Reviewing the Basics
Product Details
- Title: TH275 Sacramental Theology
- Instructor: Peter J. Leithart
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 1.5
Partially includedAbout the Instructor
Peter J. Leithart received an AB in English and History from Hillsdale College in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1986 and 1987, respectively. In 1998 he received his PhD at the University of Cambridge in England. He has served as editor and writer for American Vision in Atlanta, Georgia (1987-1989), and as a pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church), Birmingham, Alabama from 1989-1995. From 1998-2013, he taught Theology and Literature at New Saint Andrews College and between 2003 and 2013 served as pastor of Trinity Reformed Church. He is currently President of the Theopolis Institute, a pastoral training institute in Birmingham, Alabama.
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