NT050-912 - New Testament Christology
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2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
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12Credit Points
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0.125 EFT
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9AQF level
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Category advanced unitC
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new testamentUnit Discipline
Prerequisites
48cps Level 8; 12cps from units in OT or NT with a unit code of OT004 or higher code or NT004 or higher code, or study deemed equivalent by the ACT Registrar to appropriately prepare students for undertaking the unit.Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students willA. Know and understand
1. Demonstrate Specialized knowledge and understanding of, and research principles and methods used in, investigating the Christologies in select New Testament writings for current Christian living and thought.
B. Be able to
1. Evaluate Specialized methods and issues in the investigation of the issue of interpreting the Christologies in select New Testament writings for contemporary Christian living and thought.
2. Integrate diverse scholarship and ministry experience in investigating the problem of interpreting the Christologies in select New Testament writings for contemporary Christian living and thought.
3. Present independent perspectives which interact with current writing and research on the problem of interpreting the Christologies of select New Testament writings for Christian living and thought.
C. Be in a position to
1. Applying research-based perspectives and skills from ‘New Testament Christology’ for ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective praticioner.
Content
Section A: Graeco-Roman and Second Temple Jewish Concepts of Divinity (25%)
1. Common religious beliefs and ritual practices relating to divine beings in the Graeco-Roman world and philosophical discourses on the nature of divinity.
2. Second Temple Jewish conceptions of “monotheism” and intermediary agents (e.g., divine hypostases; principal angels; messianic figures including rulers, priests, or prophets).
Section B: Christologies in the New Testament (75%)
1. The Historical Jesus and Christology
2. Pre-Pauline Christology (e.g., creeds, hymns, worship or ritual practices, the sermons attributed to leaders of the Jerusalem Church in the book of Acts).
3. Pauline Christology
4. Synoptic Christology
5. Johannine Christology
6. Systematic theological reflection on the diverse Christologies in the New Testament
Set Readings
This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.
1. Barker, Margaret. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God. London: SPCK, 1992.
2. Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.
3. Bird, Michael F. Jesus the Eternal Son: Answering Adoptionist Christologies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
4. Bousset, Wilhelm. Kyrios Christos: A History of the Belief in Christ from the Beginnings of Christianity to Irenaeus. Translated by John E. Steely. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013.
5. Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2004.
6. Capes, David B. Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul’s Christology. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992.
7. Casey, Maurice. The Solution to the Son of Man Problem. LNTS 343; London: T&T Clark, 2007.
8. Chester, Andrew. Messiah and Exaltation: Jewish Messianic and Visionary Traditions and New Testament Christology. WUNT 1.207. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
9. Collins, Adela and Collins, John. King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature. Grand Rapids: Erdmans, 2008.
10. Dunn, James. Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation. Second Edition. London: SCM, 1989.
11. Fee, Gordon D. Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2007.
12. Fletcher-Louis, Crispin. Jewish Monotheism Volume 1, Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2015.
13. Gieschen, Charles A. Angelomorphic Christology: Antecedents and Early Evidence. AGJU 42. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
14. Hannah, Darrell. Michael and Christ: Michael Traditions and Angel Christology in Early Christianity. WUNT 2.109. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999.
15. Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
16. Kinlaw, Pamela E. Christ is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology. Atlanta: SBL, 2005.
17. Kirk, J. R. Daniel. A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.
18. Litwa, M. David. IESUS DEUS: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
19. Lee, Aquila H. I. From Messiah to Preexistent Son: Jesus’ Self Consciousness and Early Christian Exegesis of Messianic Psalms. WUNT II.192. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005.
20. Longenecker, Richard N. Editor. Contours of Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.
21. Newman, Carey C., James R. Davila, and Gladys S. Lewis. Editors. The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
22. Peppard, Michael. The Son of God in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
23. Stuckenbruck, Loren T. and North, Wendy E. S. Editors. Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism. JSNTSupp 263. London: T&T Clark, 2004.
24. Tilling, Chris. Paul’s Divine Christology. WUNT 323. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.
25. Waddell, James. The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios. Bloomsbury: T&T Clark, 2013.