Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Discuss the value of studying doctrine

• Explain the Wesleyan Quadrilateral and how it aids the study of theology

• Summarize the orthodox positions of the major doctrines

• Describe heresies associated with the essential doctrines

• Identify the major creeds of the Christian church, and discuss their contribution to orthodoxy

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to Theology

• Why Study Doctrine?

• What Is Doctrine?

• Orthodoxy and Heresy

• The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Introduction

• The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Scripture and Tradition

• The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Reason

• The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Experience

Unit 2: Revelation

• General and Special Revelation

• Searching for Modes of Revelation Using a Basic Search and Clippings

• Relationship between General and Special Revelation

• Inspiration and Illumination

• Heresies Regarding Revelation

• Inerrancy and Infallibility

Unit 3: The Trinity

• The Doctrine of the Trinity

• Trinitarian Heresies: Adoptionism

• Trinitarian Heresies: Modalism

• Trinitarian Heresies: Arianism

• Trinitarian Orthodoxy: The Nicene Creed

• Trinitarian Orthodoxy: Affirmations of the Nicene Creed

• Trinitarian Orthodoxy: Scripture and Trinitarian Language

• Trinitarian Orthodoxy: Life as Relationship

• Trinitarian Orthodoxy: The Trinity and Worship

Unit 4: Creation and Providence

• The Genesis Narrative

• Using the Faithlife Study Bible to Explore Creation Accounts

• The Creator/Creature Distinction

• Creation Out of Nothing

• Created Goodness and Gnosticism

• Providence

• Creation and Providence: Summary

Unit 5: Humanity

• Which Human Nature?

• Middle Creatures and Opposing Heresies

• Created in the Image of God

• The Image of God (Gen 1:26–27): Collections and Custom Guides

• The Fall and Related Heresies

• Original Sin and Related Heresies

• True Humanity in Christ

Unit 6: Christ

• Who Is Jesus?

• Christological Controversies

• Christological Heresies: Apollinarianism

• Christological Heresies: Monophysitism

• Christological Heresies: Nestorianism

• Orthodox Christology

• The Hypostatic Union

• Heretical and Orthodox Christology

• Studying the Christological Controversies Using the Ancient Literature Section

Unit 7: Salvation

• Introduction to the Doctrine of Salvation

• Beginnings: The Way of Salvation

• Justification and Related Heresies

• Sanctification and Related Heresies

• Final Redemption

• Grace and Human Freedom: Arminianism

• Grace and Human Freedom: Calvinism

• Models of Atonement: Deification

• Models of Atonement: Christus Victor

• Models of Atonement: Cross-Centered Models

• Models of Atonement: Moral Exemplar

Unit 8: Spirit

• Introduction to Pneumatology

• The Spirit and Prayer

• The Procession of the Spirit

• Gendered Language

• Discovering How John Personalizes the Spirit in John 16:13

• The Spirit and Vague Spirituality

• Sanctifying Grace

• Searching Holiness Terms in the Pauline Epistles

• Charismatic Gifts

• The Age of Pentecost

Unit 9: Church

• Introduction to Ecclesiology

• Body and Bride

• Marks of the Church

• The Donatist Controversy

• Unity in Brokenness

• The Church and Sacrament

• The Church's Understanding of Sacraments

Unit 10: Last Things

• Introduction to Eschatology

• Eschatological Tension

• Not Yet

• Waiting in Eager Expectation

• Studying Eschatology with Tilde and Milestone Searches (Matt 24:36)

• The Resurrection of the Body

• The “Already” of Resurrection

• The “Not Yet” of Resurrection

• Using Louw-Nida to Understand Sōma in 1 Corinthians

• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: TH200 Christian Thought: Orthodoxy and Heresy

• Instructor: Beth Felker Jones

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 8