Biblical Theology & Culture

The Course Description

A seminar designed to equip a student to construct a doctrine from the biblical text and then to apply that doctrine in an appropriate manner in the current culture. The seminar will focus on both the methodology of doctrinal construction and the practice of doctrinal application.

This seminar was led by Dr. John Mark Yeats and Dr. Jeff Dodge.

The Course Objectives

  1. The student will clearly articulate a doctrinal position with cultural application.
  2. The student will understand the historical framework of cultural engagement.
  3. The student will be able to frame the relationship between concepts of cultural engagementand the other doctrines of the Christian faith.
  4. The student will be able to articulate clearly the connection between doctrinal positions andpractice, so that the student can connect Biblical thought with external and missiological- focused cultural engagement.

Research Paper for Biblical Theology & Culture

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The Course Required Readings

Augustine, City of God. Abridged Study Edition Translated by William Babcock, (Hyde Park: New City Press), 620 pages. ISBN 978-1565486607.

James Davison Hunter, To Change the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. ISBN 978-0199730803.

Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2014), 198 pages. ISBN: 978-1426781902.

Paul Hiebert, Transforming Worldviews (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2008) 376 pages. ISBN: 978-0801027055.

James Davison Hunter, To Change the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. ISBN 978-0199730803.

Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, (Hendrickson Christian Classics, 2009), 160 pages. ISBN 978- 1449570149.

H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture. (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), 320 pages. ISBN: 978- 0061300035.

Craig Ott, The Church on Mission: A Biblical Vision for Transformation among All People, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2019), 131 pages. ISBN:978-1540960887.

James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, (Baker Academic, 2009). 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0801035777.

Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1964), 136 pages. ISBN: 978-0800619534.

Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020). 432 pages. ISBN: 978-1433556333

Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. (Nashville:Abingdon Press, 2014), 198 pages. ISBN: 978-1426781902, $19.99.Paul Hiebert, Transforming Worldviews (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2008) 376 pages. ISBN: 978-0801027055.

James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, (Baker Academic, 2009). 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0801035777Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1964), 136 pages. ISBN: 978-0800619534.