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Dominican Institute

Ibadan

Fr. Anthony A. Akinwale, O.P.

DI/TH 341 Soteriology and Grace

2nd Semester 2011/12

Fridays 0815h-1055h

  1. Course Description

The Christian Gospel proclaims the death of Christ as the decisive intervention of God for the salvation of the world. This course is a continuation of DI/TH 340. It is an attempt to explain how his suffering and death can be said to have brought salvation. Grace and justification will be explained as implications of the death of Christ understood as a salvific event.

II.Course Requirements

  1. Readings, class participation and presentation

A good grasp of the contents of this course requires participation of students in discussing the assigned texts. Such discussions provide opportunities to clarify issues addressed in the texts. Note that to stress the importance of class participation is to stress the importance of reading the assigned texts.

Each student will be required to read the text(s) assigned for each meeting day of the class.

  1. Weekly summaries

Each student will be required to write a four-point summary of each of the texts assigned for the week. Four of the weekly summaries written by each student will be chosen at random to determine 30% of the student’s final grade.

  1. Final examination

The final examination will account for 70% of the final grade.

  1. Bibliography

Peter Abailard, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans inA Scholastic Miscellany:Anselm to Ockham, ed. Eugene Fairweather (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956)

Anselm, Cur Deus homo in St. Anselm: Basic Writings, trans. S. N. Deane (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1962)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, I-II, qq. 109-114; III, qq. 22, 26, 46, 46-49

Athanasius, On the Incarnation in Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, Vol. 4, eds. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994)

Augustine, On Nature and Grace in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 5, ed. Philip Schaff (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994)

______, On the Grace of Christ in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 5, ed. Philip Schaff (Peabody, MA:: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994)

Leonardo Boff, Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1978)

Marie-Emile Boismard, Moses or Jesus: An Essay in Johannine Christology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993)

Gregory A. Boyd, Cynic Sage of Son of God: Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age ofRevisionist Replies (Wheaton, I11: BridgePoint, 1995)

Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (New York: Doubleday, 1993)

______, An Introduction to New Christology (New York/Mahwah: Paulist, 1994)

Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus Christ and Mythology (New York: Charles Scribner, 1958)

Scott Cowdell, Is Jesus Unique: A study of Recent Christology (Mahwah: Paulist, 1996)

John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: the Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992)

Council of Trent, Decree on Justification

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology (New York: Contiuum, 1995)

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, “Critical Social Theory and Christology; toward an Understanding of Atonement and Redemption as Emancipatory Solidarity” in CTSA Proceedings 30 (1975) 63-110

Reginald H. Fuller, Christ and Christianity: Studies in the Formation of Christology (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994)

Reginald Fuller and Pheme Perkins, Who is This Christ?Gospel Christology and Contemporary Faith (Philadephia: Fortress, 1983)

S. Mark Heim, Salvations, Truth and Difference in Religion (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995)

Martin Hengel, The Cross of the Son of God (London: SCM, 1991)

John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralistic Age (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1993)

Larry W. Hurtado, One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient JewishMonotheism (Fortress, Philadelphia: 1988)

Irenaeus, Against Heresies in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994)

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Real Jesus: the Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996)

Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

Walter Kasper, Jesus the Christ (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1976)

Dermot A. Lane, The Reality of Jesus: An Essay in Christology (New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1975

Bernard Lonergan, Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. ThomasAquinas (New York: Heder, 1971)

______, Method in Theology (New York: Herder, 1972)

______, The Way to Nicea: The Dialectical Development of TrinitarianTheology (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1982)

______, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Vol. 6. Philosophical and Theological Paper 1958-1964, ch. 1 “The Redemption”

Chris U. Manus, Christ, the African King: New Testament Christology (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993)

Brian O. McDermott, Word Become Flesh: Dimensions of Christology. New Theology Studies 9 (Collegeville, MN Liturgical Press, 1993)

Alister E. McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Richard Norris, ed., The Christological Controversy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980)

Charles Nyamiti, “African Christologies” Faces of Jesus in Africa ed. Robert Schreiter, (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1991) 3 – 23

Jean-Herve Nicholas, “Le Christ est mort pour nos péchés selon les Ecritures” in RevueThomiste 96 (1996) 209-234.

Gerald O’Collins, Interpreting Jesus (London: A Biblical, Historical, and SystematicStudy of Jesus (Oxford, 1995)

Pelagius, Letter to Demetriain J. P. Burns, Theological Anthropology, Sources of Early Christian Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981)

Karl Rahner, “Concerning the Relationship Between Nature and Grace” in Theological Investigations, v. I (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1961)

Gerard Remy, “Du Logos intermédiare au Christ Médiateur chez les pères grecs” RevueThomiste 44 3 (1996) 397 - 452

Edward Schillbeeckx, Jesus; An Experiment in Christology (New York: Seabury, 1979)

______, Christ: The Experiment of Jesus (New York: Seabury, 1980)

Rudolf Schnackenburg, Jesus in the Gospels: A Biblical Christology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1995)

J. Michael Stebbins, The Divine Initiative: Grace, World-Order and Human Freedom inthe Early Writings of Bernard Lonergan (Toronto Press, 1995)

William M. Thompson, Christology and Spirituality (New York: Crossroad, 1991)

Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, v. II (Chicago University Press, 1957)

Thomas G. Weinandy, In the Likeness of Sinful Flesh: An Essay on the Humanity of Christ (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993)

Vernon White, Atonement and Incarnation: An Essay in Universalism and Particularity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

Michael Winter, The Atonement (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press/Michael Glazier, 1995)

  1. Schedule of readings

March 2Anselm, Cur Deus homo; Peter Abailard, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans

March 9Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol., III, qq. 22, 26

March 16Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol., III, qq. 22, 26 and 46-49

March 23Martin Hengel, Crucifixion

March 30Martin Hengel, Atonement

EASTER BREAK

April 13Bernard Lonergan, “The Redemption” in Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, vol. 6, ch. 1

April 20Pelagius, Letter to Demetria;

Augustine, On Nature and Grace

______, On the Grace of Christ

April 27Thomas, Summa theol., I-II, q. 109

May 4Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol. I-II, qq. 110-111

May 11Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol. I-II, qq. 112-113

May 18Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol. I-II, q. 114

May 25Karl Rahner, “Concerning the Relationship Between Nature and Grace” in Theological Investigations, vol. 1

June 1Council of Trent, Decree on Justification,

June 8Joint Declaration on Justification