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Approaches to Defending the Faith
Apologetics is often viewed as a matter of mere arguments. This course, whilst surveying the major schools of apologetics, will reframe apologetic encounters as occurring between whole persons, with many persuasive tools coalescing to persuade one’s interlocutor. Students will learn how to cultivate tools and habits of soul in order to be more effective Christian…
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The Washing of Water by The Word: A Theology Of Baptism
Baptism is a rite of Christian initiation, of faith, and of unity, yet has been the cause of much controversy regarding its meaning, efficacy, mode, and proper subjects. Consideration of Baptism also propels us into a diverse selection of biblical, theological, historical, practical, liturgical, and even philosophical lines of enquiry. This course will be an…
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Richard Baxter’s Theology
This course will read through the whole of Richard Baxter’s End of Doctrinal Controveries–one of his final works–as a synopsis of Baxter’s mature theology. Although the work does not cover every theological doctrine, it does cover the most controversial aspects of Baxter’s theology. Topics to be discussed will include the relationship between faith and reason,…
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De Potentia Dei: An Aquinas Seminar
This course offers a comprehensive survey of the doctrine of divine power, centered on a close reading of Thomas Aquinas’s Disputed Questions on the Power of God (De Potentia Dei). Students will examine how Thomas understands “power” in divine causality and operations, ad intra and ad extra. In addition to exploring Thomas’ synthesis of early…
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George MacDonald’s Phantastes and the Baptism of Lewis’s Imagination
C.S. Lewis famously wrote that reading George MacDonald’s Phantastes “baptized” his imagination. In this course, students will read a sampling of MacDonald’s theology, literary philosophy, and fairy tales, in particular Phantastes, and conclude with Lewis’s The Great Divorce, where Lewis gives MacDonald a parallel function in his allegorical dream vision to that of Virgil in…
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Moral Theology for Counseling
Scripture, with its rich and complex narratives, unveils the deep interweaving of wickedness and woundedness, illuminating the pathologies and challenges that shape human life and character. Sin permeates every facet of existence. In this course, we will examine Herman Bavinck’s Ethics and Foundations of Psychology, alongside other contemporary works, to explore how a theology of…