Mobile Ed: CH261 History of the Doctrine of the Trinity (10 hour course)
Overview
God’s trinitarian nature is eternal and unchanging, yet how Christians have understood and expressed the doctrine of the Trinity has been shaped over two thousand years of church history. Dr. Fred Sanders surveys the development of the theology of the triune God from the age of the apostolic fathers down to the modern era. He emphasizes that while the source and foundation of this doctrine is Scripture, understanding the perspectives of believers over time can be a resource for us as we reflect on God’s self-revelation. You will be shown in depth how the testimony of the church has affirmed God’s triunity over the millennia, and you will come to see more clearly your position in the long line of believers standing face to face with Scripture, learning there of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Method and Background
- Method
- Three Factors Driving Elaboration
- Times of the Trinity: Periodization
Unit 2: Pre-Nicene Period
- Introduction: Clarity
- Baptismal Formula
- Gloria Patri
- Apostolic Fathers
- Apologists
- Justin Martyr
- Apostles’ Creed
- Irenaeus
- Tertullian
- Origen
- Logos Doctrine
Unit 3: Nicene Trinitarianism
- Story of Nicaea
- Athanasius: Part 1
- Athanasius: Part 2
- Hilary of Poitiers
- Basil
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Nicene Creed
- Augustine: Part 1
- Augustine: Part 2
- Augustine: Part 3
- Athanasian Creed
Unit 4: Early Medieval Trinitarianism
- Dionysius
- Boethius
- The Creed of the Council of Toledo 11
- John of Damascus
- Photius and Filioque
- Peter Lombard
- Anselm
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Rupert of Deutz
- Gerhoch the Great
- Richard of Saint Victor
Unit 5: Later Medieval Trinitarianism
- Aquinas: Part 1
- Aquinas: Part 2
- Bonaventure
- Palamas
- Ruusbroec
- Mechthild of Magdeburg
Unit 6: Reformation-Era Trinitarianism
- Introduction
- Luther
- Calvin
- Anti-Trinitarians
- Cranmer
- Protestant Scholastics
Unit 7: Puritan Trinitarianism
- Owen
- Goodwin
- Flavel
- Lewis Bayly
Unit 8: Early Modern Trinitarianism
- Excursus: Petavius vs. Bull and the Development of Doctrine
- Hard Times: Newton, Locke, Milton
- Samuel Clarke
Unit 9: Modern Trinitarianism
- Urlsperger
- Schleiermacher
- Hegel
- de Regnon
- Bavinck
- Barth
- Rahner
- Moltmann
- Pannenberg
- LaCugna
- Revising the Revisionists
- Webster
Product Details
- Title: CH261 History of the Doctrine of the Trinity
- Instructor: Fred Sanders
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2018
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 10
Partially includedAbout the Instructor
Fred Sanders is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. He holds a BA in drawing and printmaking, an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary, and a PhD in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His research covers a wide range of the major Christian doctrines, but his consistent focus is on the doctrine of the Trinity. He is the author of The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, The Triune God, and several other books and articles.
Getting the most out of Mobile Ed
Logos Mobile Education is a highly effective cross-platform learning environment that integrates world class teaching with the powerful study tools and theological libraries available in Logos Bible Software. Every course provides links to additional resources and suggested readings that supplement the lecture material at the end of every transcript segment.
This course comes with an Activities resource that functions as a type of “workbook” for the course. This resource includes learning activities such as: places for you to respond to reflection questions, exercises that will challenge and show you how deepen your understanding of this course by using specific Logos tools and resources, tutorial videos on different features of Logos Bible Software, and links to relevant Logos guides and tools. A link to open the Activities resource is conveniently placed at the end of every segment.
Reviews
5 ratings
Debra W Bouey
1/31/2023
Daniel Caballero.
10/21/2022
Carl Malmquist
10/21/2022
Deepak Kumar Singh
10/31/2020
I am going through the course and loving it. Dr.Sanders takes readers along an enriching and exciting journey covering all the theology, traditions, controversies and mysteries of Trinity proposed, debated and affirmed throughout the Church history.
Tim Kuhn
4/1/2020
This was a really well done course. I am not a college graduate so there were parts that were well over my head, but the overall picture this painted was well worth the time. I will have to go back to the reading again, I went through this through the Mobile Ed Subscription and was running out of time. Fred Sanders obviously knows what he is teaching and he goes through the material in a way that gives a great historical picture of what the church has taught through the ages. I am very thankful that I was able to go through this.
