TH101 Introducing Bible Doctrine I: Theology, Divine Revelation, and the Bible
TH102 Introducing Bible Doctrine II: The Triune God and His Heavenly Host
TH103 Introducing Bible Doctrine III: Humanity, Sin, and Salvation
TH104 Introducing Bible Doctrine IV: The Church and Last Things
TH112 Doctrine of Christ and the Church: A Reformed Perspective
TH113 Doctrine of Salvation and Eschatology: A Reformed Perspective
TH321 Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society
TH331 Perspectives on Creation: Five Views on Its Meaning and Significance
TH341 Perspectives on Eschatology: Five Views on the Millennium
TH351 Perspectives on Justification by Faith: Five Views on Its Meaning and Significance
TH361 Perspectives on the Trinity: Eternal Generation and Subordination in Tension
TH390 Contextual Theology: Examples from Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
In Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society, Dr. Richard S. Park seeks to demonstrate how theology makes a real difference in society and how the gospel transforms culture. Dr. Park explores the social implications of the doctrines of creation, fall, redemption, and glorification, as well as the influences that sociology, anthropology, and other sources of “secular wisdom” can have on Christian theology. He puts forth a framework for how Christians are to think biblically about culture and how they are to engage culture winsomely in their God-given, day-to-day callings.
Articulate three views of the relationship between the gospel and culture and provide a biblical case for the transformation view
Identify and apply the three I’s of Christian cultural analysis
Discuss the social implications of the doctrines of creation, fall, redemption, and glorification
Appreciate and apply key ideas in other academic disciplines (e.g., sociology, cultural analysis, philosophical anthropology) in the “doing of” Christian theology
Understand and help others understand the central role that calling plays in the Christian’s life and how all of life is worship
Explain what it means to live from the outside in and how doing so can transform one’s heart
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
What Is the Relationship between Gospel and Culture?
What Is the Biblical Warrant for the Transformation View?
Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis
Application of the Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis and the Transformation View
Worldviews Plus World-Setting
Application of Christian Cultural Analysis
Introduction: What Is Theology? What Is Society?
The Interconnection between Theology and Society
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Part One
Three Implications of These Global Conditions
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Part Two
Biblical Basis for the Interconnection between Theology and Society
Introducing the Doctrine of Creation
The Doctrine of Creation Commends a Self-Sacrificing Life as the Most Satisfying Life
Human Persons, Created in the Image of the Triune God, Are Inherently Communal Beings
The Body Matters: Sexuality Is Sacred
Matter Matters
Creation Care Counts
Introducing the Doctrine of the Fall
Three Important Effects of Humanity’s Fall
The Doctrine of Total Depravity
The Doctrine of the Transcendentals
The Sociological Notion of Reification
Reification and the Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis
The Wide Scope of the Christian Doctrine of Redemption
Biblical Basis for Society-Wide Redemption
Worship Is Everything and Everything Is Worship: Part One
Worship Is Everything and Everything Is Worship: Part Two
Redemption: Souls and Society; Culture and Nature
Critiquing a Crisis
How Individual Christians Can Discern Their God-Given “Callings”
Career, Calling, and Worship
Biblical Basis for Calling as Worship
Our GPS in the Kingdom: Gifts
Our GPS in the Kingdom: Passions
Our GPS in the Kingdom: Serving God’s Purposes
Transforming Culture as Well as Our Hearts
The Myth of a Rationalist Anthropology
Appreciating Our Embodied Reality
Living All of Life as Liturgy
Recovering Rest as Worship
Conclusion to the Course
Title: TH321 Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society
Instructor: Richard S. Park
Publisher: Lexham Press
Publication Date: 2017
Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
Courses: 1
Video Hours: 4
Dr. Richard S. Park is assistant professor of religion at Vanguard University, specializing in ethics and political theology. He obtained his DPhil in theology from the University of Oxford and completed two master’s degrees at Biola University, along with a bachelor’s at the University of California, Berkeley. He is founder and president of a nonprofit organization called Renaissance Forum that helps people discern and live out their God-guided callings. Dr. Park’s most recent publication is Constructing Civility: The Human Good in Christian and Islamic Political Theologies. He speaks at conferences and churches in the U.S. and abroad on topics such as calling, culture, civility, and character.