Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• List a sequence of special presences of God as presented through the biblical story

• Explain the purpose of the temple from God’s perspective

• Draw correlations between God’s pre-creation omnipresence and Jesus’s, using John 1 and Col 1

• Defend the idea that the tabernacle is a better metaphor than the temple for God’s presence through Jesus

• Define what is meant when God is spoken of as being far or near

• Explain the phrase “God is everywhere and nowhere”

• Identify three false theologies that derive from misconceptions of God’s omnipresence and specify the misconceptions

• Explain how a Spirit-indwelt believer brings the special presence of God to a time and place even though the general presence of God is already there

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and Course

Unit 1: Scriptural Foundation: God Is Omnipresent from Pre-Creation to Pentecost and Beyond

• Creation

• Garden

• Tabernacle

• Temple

• Jesus Christ

• Christians Indwelt by the Holy Spirit

Unit 2: Theological Formulation: God Is Everywhere and Nowhere

• Overview and Transition to Theological Formulation of Omnipresence

• Key Theological Voices: Augustine

• Key Theological Voices: Anselm

• Key Theological Voices: Martin Luther

• Key Theological Voices: Herman Bavinck

• Key Theological Voices: Karl Barth

• Theological Summary: Doctrine of Omnipresence

Unit 3: Ministerial Applications: Our Limits and Our Union with Christ

• Application: Humans Are Not Omnipresent

• Application: Omnipresence and Union with Christ

Conclusion

• Conclusion to the Course

Product Details

• Title: Doctrine of Divine Omnipresence

• Instructor: Sean McGever

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2021

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 2.5