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THCT211 Jesus, God and Salvation

10 cp
Prerequisites THBS100 Introduction to the Bible and THCT100 What Christians Believe and THCT207 Church, Purposes and Practices
Teaching Organisation The unit involves 150 hours of focused learning, or the equivalent of 10 hours per week for 15 weeks. The total includes formally structured learning activities such as lectures, tutorials, online learning, video-conferencing, or supervision. The remaining hours typically involve reading, research, and the preparation of tasks for assessment.

Classical Christology has tended to obscure the significance of Jesus’ Jewish identity. Against that background, this unit aims to foster the students’ understanding of the generative function of the messianic interpretation of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection in Christian discourse about both God and salvation. The biblical foundation and historical developments of the interplay between Christology, the doctrine of God and soteriology will be critically and briefly explored before paying extended attention to the relationships between these doctrines in the modern era, especially in twentieth century Protestantism. In conversation with other contemporary Christologies and the contemporary renaissance of trinitarian theology, the possibility of a ‘messianic Christology’ will be developed as the basis of the generative function of Christology for distinctive Christian discourse about God and salvation in the contemporary pluralist era. It will also provide a foundation (and be a pre-requisite for) THCT207, Church: Purposes and Practices.

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