PC151 Theology of Everyday Life
Overview
In Theology of Everyday Life (PC151), Dan Doriani shows how theology can inform social and personal life. From eating and playing, to friendship and weddings, this course looks at the importance of developing a deeper sense of the relevance of Scripture and Christian ethics to physical and relational life. Reflecting deeply on what the Bible has to say about various everyday topics, Doriani points students toward rich ethical guidance and provides tools to help people find insight from Scripture for all of life.
Top Highlights
“Communist culture can give us some insights into our own. He said, ‘What we have to do in Communist lands,’—he said this in the ‘80s, before the collapse of the Communist regime—‘What we have to do is stop living the lie, or living in the lie,’ as he said it, ‘And start living the truth or living in the truth.’” (source)
“God didn’t intend one person to supply all of our social needs.” (source)
“It’s dangerous to think that life is good if we meet all of our cravings. I’m happy if I have no unmet desires. That’s a false ideology. Fasting says, ‘I don’t live for my appetites. I live for God and for His blessing.’” (source)
“Agapē, then, is divine and unmerited love. God loves the unlovely, but philia goes toward those who are beautiful—not necessarily physical beauty in mind here—but those who are beautiful in character or in their tastes or in their abilities. It’s a very human feeling or emotion.” (source)
“The Greek view says that we should use our leisure—which is not the same as play—our leisure time for self-improvement, for study, and for discussion.” (source)
- Title: PC151 Theology of Everyday Life
- Author: Daniel M. Doriani
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Education › Theology, practical; Theology, practical
- Resource ID: LLS:PC151DORIANI
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:02:12Z
Dr. Dan Doriani, vice president of strategic academic projects and professor of theology at Covenant Seminary, has extensive teaching and pastoral experience.
He served as assistant professor of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for five years, as solo pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in Cumberland, Maryland for five years, as well as a variety of associate pastor, interim pastor, and stated supply roles. He has been involved in several planning and study committees at the presbytery level in both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). He was also chair of the PCA’s Theological Examining Committee from 1999 to 2000.
He has authored several books, including Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible(P&R, 1996), Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application (P&R, 2001), The Life of a God-Made Man (Crossway, 2001), and commentaries on Matthew and 1 Peter in P&R Publishing’s Reformed Expository Commentaries series.
Dr. Doriani and his wife, Debbie, live in Chesterfield, Missouri, and have three grown daughters.