Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Formulate a doctrine of man based on an understanding of God’s work in creation

• Defend the necessity of a historical Adam

• Identify the fourfold estate of man

• Describe the covenant of works

• Articulate the doctrine of imputation

• Evaluate the theological concept of free will

Course Outline

Unit 1: Methods of Theology: Systematic, Biblical, and Exegetical

• Introduction to Basic Issues

• Biblical and Exegetical Theology

• Finding Resurrection Texts and Shared Themes

• Distinguishing Systematic Theology

• The Discipline and Method of Systematic Theology

• The Tension between History and Dogma

• Complementary Features of Biblical and Systematic Theology

• What Is Man before and after the Fall?

• The Fourfold Estate of Man

• A Cross-Sectional Plot Analysis

Unit 2: Doctrine of Creation

• The Context of the Creation of Man

• Preliminary Observations

• Guiding Presuppositions

• The Authority of Scripture versus the Authority of Science

• Views of Creation

• Common Orthodox Doctrines

• The Literal Twenty-Four-Hour Day View

• Creating a Collection and Using It to Compare Views about Creation

• In-Depth Arguments for a Twenty-Four-Hour Creation Day

• Arguments for the Day-Age View of Creation

• The Sabbath Argument

• The Day Seven Argument

• Finding and Comparing Creation Psalms with the Psalms Explorer

• The Framework View

• Framework Responses to the Other Views of the Creation Days

• The Literary Structure of the Days

• Other Literary Elements

• Genesis 2:5–7: No Vegetation or Cultivation

• Rain Cloud or Mist?

• The Two-Register Cosmology

• Supporting Evidence for the Two-Register Cosmology

Unit 3: Biblical Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)

• The Divine Council

• Studying God’s Speech in Genesis 1:26 Using Bible Search

• An Alternative Interpretation of the Divine Council

• Created in the Image of God

• Adam’s Preeminence in Genesis 2:7

• Man’s Unique Position as Image-Bearer

Unit 4: Imago Dei

• A Covenant-Historical Understanding of Genesis 1–2

• God’s Covenant Acts in History

• Story and History

• The Historical Character of Revelation

• Myth as a Lack of Rationality

• Reading Ancient Near Eastern Myths Using Factbook

• Myth as an Aspect of Creative Imagination

• Myth as the Product and Embodiment of Social Ideals

• Myth as a Symbol of Divine Action in History

• Analysis and Clarification

• Bultmann’s Program of Demythologization

• Bultmann’s Theology and Heidegger’s Existentialism

• Liberal and Feminist Myth Theories

• A Survey of Myth in the New Testament

• Locating and Understanding Mythos in Philo

• Paul’s Exhortation in 2 Timothy 4:1–4

Unit 5: Covenantal Theology

• The States of Humanity

• Summarizing Propositions

• Distinguishing Between Bodies

• Innocency and Glory

• The If/Then Argument

• The Natural Then the Spiritual

• Modes of Existence

• Bodily Resurrection

• We Cannot Deny the Historical Adam

Unit 6: Revelation History

• Adam the Sinner

• Adam and Original Sin

• The Contrast between Adam’s Sin and Christ’s Obedience

• Justification by Faith

• Peter Enns and Rudolf Bultmann

• A Summary of Peter Enns’ Teaching

• A Christotelic Hermeneutic

• An Adoptionist Model of Inspiration

• Using Collections to Compare Theologies of 2 Timothy 3:16

• Kinds of Synthesis

• Enns’ Misplaced Faith in Science

• Enns’ Misunderstanding of Divine Authorship

• Enns’ Deficient Notion of Sin

• A Critique of Christotelic Hermeneutics

• The Denial of Inerrancy

• Enns and the Resurrection

Unit 7: Doctrine of Sin

• The Covenant of Works

• The Westminster Confession on the Covenant of Works

• Finding God’s Covenantal Acts with Clause Search

• The Covenant of Life

• Consulting Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms

• The Eschatology of the Covenant of Life

• The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

• The Tree of Life

• Researching the Tree of Life with Logos

• Turretin and Vos on the Tree of Life

• The Tree of Life in Revelation 2:7

• The Tree of Life in Revelation 22:1–3

Unit 8: Christ

• The Imputation of Adam’s Sin

• The Pelagian View Defined

• The Pelagian View Rebutted

• Immediate and Mediate Imputation Defined

• Immediate and Mediate Imputation Contrasted

• Biological Union

• Realistic Union Defined

• Realistic Union Critiqued

• Covenantal or Federal Union

• The Implications of Imputation for the Gospel

Unit 9: Salvation

• Libertarian Free Will

• Defining Libertarian Free Agency

• Examining Libertarian Freedom

• A Biblical Argument Against Libertarian Freedom

• The Role of the Heart in the Will of Man

• A Reformed Understanding of Sin

• The Fourfold Estate

• Central Features of the Doctrine of Man

Details

• Title: TH221 Doctrine of Man

• Instructor: Lane G. Tipton

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 11