TM214.5/ TM114.5 The Person and Work of Christ

TM*2*14.5 is level two for ordinands and other students with permission to study at level two while TM*1*14.5 is the Certificate level one version of this course. The primary differences are in the module descriptions and the assessment.

What is this Module all about?

The class is taught at a mixed University Level One and Two. It is recommended that students have done TM104 Introduction to the Christian Tradition or some similar introduction to Doctrine. The subject is studied in a broadly academic environment acknowledging the various methods of modern scholarship but with a view to understanding how this greater knowledge can affect our own Christian practice. Click here for:

• Full module description for TM214.5 The Person and Work of Christ
• Full module description for TM114.5 The Person and Work of Christ
• Sample class timetables
• Sample book lists
• Old sample level two assignment titles
• Old sample level one assignment titles

Books

• Boff, L., Jesus Christ, Liberator , London, SPCK, 1980
• Dunn, J.D.G. Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, London, SCM 1989
• Fiddes, P. Past Event and Present Salvation, London, DLT 1989.
• Gunton, C. The Actuality of Atonement, Edinburgh, T&T Clark 1988
• Macquarrie, J. Jesus Christ in Modern Thought, London, SCM 1990
• Moltmann J. The Crucified God London, SCM 1974
• O'Collins, G. Interpreting Jesus, London Geoffrey Chapman, 1983.
• Wainwright, G. For Our Salvation, London, SPCK, 1997.
• Wright, N.T. Jesus and the Victory of God, London, SPCK, 1996

TM214.5/TM114.5 The Person and Work of Christ Web Resources

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Christology and Incarnation

Gnostic Documents

The Gnostic Society library of original documents all online.

Gospel of Thomas

Full text of the Gospel of Thomas as well as links to other Gnostic and Apocryphal works.

A Christology Book List

A reading list from Spring Hill College and Fr. William Harmless, S.J.

A Wikipedia Brief Overview of Christology

A brief Overview from the online Encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology

A Concise History of Liberation Theology.

Feminist Theology

Feminist Theology Links

A good starting point for links from a Dutch University.

Feminist Christology and God language

From the site map here have a look around gender, feminist Christology and God language for relevant articles online

Womanist Figures of Jesus

A summary of Karen Trimble Alliaume's dissertation research and study entitled "The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus"

Salvation through Christ

Universal Salvation Net

A developing site intended to encourage and facilitate informed discussion between orthodox Christians on the contentious matter of universalism. The question at issue is this: will God one day reconcile all people to himself through Christ? It aims to make available scholarly material from orthodox Christian thinkers both against and in favour of universal salvation and to provide a forum for discussion. A very useful site particularly if it develops.

The Paul Page

Dedicated to the New Perpective on Paul ie the view that Judaism is not a religion of self-righteousness whereby humankind seeks to merit salvation before God. So that Paul's argument with the Judaizers was not about Christian grace versus Jewish legalism. His argument was rather about the status of Gentiles in the church. Paul's doctrine of justification, therefore, had far more to do with Jewish-Gentile issues than with questions of the individual's status before God.

Lutheran-Catholic Declaration on Justification

Burying the hatchet of the Reformation, this is a joint Roman Catholic and Lutheran statement on justification.

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Documents for this module online include:

• Class timetable and schedule
• Book list
• Current TM214.5 assignment titles (if not yet available you may see sample assignment titles.)
• Current TM114.5 assignment titles (if not yet available you may see sample assignment titles.)
• Any handouts submitted for circulation (many tutors are not yet happy to have their handouts online - but the number available is growing -so keep checking)

Documents for this module online include:

• Class timetable and schedule
• Book list
• Current TM214.5 assignment titles (if not yet available you will see sample assignment titles.)
• Current TM114.5 assignment titles (if not yet available you will see sample assignment titles.)
• Any handouts submitted for circulation (many tutors are not yet happy to have their handouts online - but the number available is growing -so keep checking)

Documents for this module online include:

• Class timetable and schedule
• Book list
• Current TM214.5 assignment titles (- if not available you will see samples.)
• Current TM114.5 assignment titles (- if not available you will see samples.)
• Any handouts submitted for circulation (many tutors are not yet happy to have their handouts online - but the number available is growing -so keep checking)

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Module Description for TM114.5

Code and title

Brief description

Level and Credits

Status

Type

Prerequisites

Recommended prior study*

Restrictions*

Content summary

• The Christologies of the New Testament.
• Christology and context in the early Church.
• The quest for the historical Jesus.
• Jesus in contemporary theology and world cultures.
• The language of salvation and atonement in the New Testament and the Christian tradition.
• Contemporary Christian theologies of salvation and forgiveness.

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and Understanding
   • Be able to describe the variety of Christologies in the New Testament.
   • Have begun to understand the Christological formulae of the early Church within their cultural contexts.
   • Be able to describe the variety of metaphors employed in Christian theologies of atonement.
   • Have an understanding of some key ways in which the work of Christ is considered in contemporary theology.
   • Be able to give an account of the significance of Jesus Christ for contemporary humanity.
2. Skills
   • Show appropriate skills in handling different biblical texts and the language used in them.
   • Have begun to undertake theological reflection in which there is an interaction between contemporary culture and Christian theology.
   • Be able to formulate and justify their own opinions and communicate them in appropriate ways clearly and cogently with appropriate evidence and support material.
   • Engage with empathy and integrity with convictions with which they do not agree and reproduce them accurately.
   • Show critical self-awareness about their own beliefs, commitments, and prejudices in interpretation

Teaching and learning

Assessment

Indicative resources

• Boff, L., Jesus Christ, Liberator, London, SPCK, 1980.
• Dunn, J.D.G. Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, London, SCM 1989.
• Fiddes, P. Past Event and Present Salvation, London, DLT 1989.
• Gunton, C. The Actuality of Atonement, Edinburgh, T&T Clark 1988.
• Macquarrie, J. Jesus Christ in Modern Thought, London, SCM 1990.
• Moltmann J The Crucified God, London, SCM, 1974.
• O'Collins, G. Interpreting Jesus, London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1983.
• Wainwright, G. For Our Salvation, London, SPCK, 1997.
• Wright, N.T. Jesus and the Victory of God, London, SPCK, 1996.

Module Description for TM214.5

Code and title

Brief description

Level and Credits

Status

Type

Prerequisites

Recommended prior study*

Restrictions*

Content summary

• The Christologies of the New Testament.
• Christology and context in the early Church
• The quest for the historical Jesus.
• Jesus in contemporary theology and world cultures.
• The language of salvation and atonement in the New Testament and the Christian tradition.
• Contemporary Christian theologies of salvation and forgiveness.

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and Understanding
   • Be able to describe the variety of Christologies in the New Testament.
   • Be able to set the Christological formulae of the early Church within their cultural contexts.
   • Be able to describe and evaluate the metaphors employed in Christian theologies of atonement.
   • Have an understanding of and an ability to evaluate some key ways in which the work of Christ is considered in contemporary theology.
   • Be able to give an account of the significance of Jesus Christ for contemporary humanity and show awareness of alternative accounts.
2. Skills
   • Show appropriate skills in handling different biblical texts and the language used in them.
   • Be able to undertake theological reflection in which there is an interaction between contemporary culture and Christian theology.
   • Be able to formulate and justify their own opinions and communicate them in appropriate ways clearly and cogently with appropriate evidence and support material.
   • engage with empathy and integrity with convictions with which they do not agree and reproduce them accurately, whilst providing a critique
   • Show critical self-awareness about their own beliefs, commitments, and prejudices in interpretation

Teaching and learning

Assessment

Indicative resources

• Boff, L., Jesus Christ, Liberator , London, SPCK, 1980
• Dunn, J.D.G. Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, London, SCM 1989
• Fiddes, P. Past Event and Present Salvation, London, DLT 1989.
• Gunton, C. The Actuality of Atonement, Edinburgh, T&T Clark 1988
• Macquarrie, J. Jesus Christ in Modern Thought, London, SCM 1990
• Moltmann J The Crucified God London, SCM 1974
• O'Collins, G. Interpreting Jesus, London Geoffrey Chapman, 1983.
• Wainwright, G. For Our Salvation, London, SPCK, 1997.
• Wright, N.T. Jesus and the Victory of God, London, SPCK, 1996

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