Introduction to Theology

Introduction to Theology: Lectures

Michael Patton

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Session 1 – Class Introduction

Introduction to Theology Program

Who Are You and Why Are You Here? 

Introduction to Theology

What is The Theology Program?

Key Terms in Theology

Session 2 – Defining Theology

What is theology?

Who is a theologian?

What is Tabloid Theology?

What is Folk Theology?

What are the other types of theology?

Session 3 – Categories of Theology

What are the different categories of theology?

What are the categories of Systematic Theology?

How do the categories of theology compare to each other?

What is the theological process? – Part 1

What is the theological process? – Part 2

Session 4 – Postmodern Epistemology

What is epistemology?

What are the epistemological key terms?

What is Postmodernism? – Part 1

What is Postmodernism? – Part 2

What is Postmodernism? – Part 3

Session 5 – Christian Epistemology

What questions do modernists ask?

What questions do postmoderns ask?

What is the difference between modernism and postmodernism?

What is the modern view of truth?

What is the postmodern view of truth?

What is the Christian view of truth?

Session 6 – Defining Essentials and Non-Essentials

What truths are relative and what truths are objective?

What truths are relative?

What truths are objective?

What truths are essential for orthodoxy?

How certain are you of your beliefs?

Session 7 – Traditions in Christian Theology

What is the essential difference between Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism?

What is the Protestant view of Church History?

What is the Roman Catholic view of Church History?

What is the Eastern Orthodox view of Church History?

Why are there so many Protestant denominations?

Session 8 – Sources of Theology

Where do we go for truth?

How do the various traditions view truth? – Part 1

How do the various traditions view truth? – Part 2

What are the benefits and deficiencies of each source? – Part 1

What are the benefits and deficiencies of each source? – Part 2

Session 9 – Does God Still Speak Today?

Does God still speak today?

What is the Continuationist view of prophecy?

What is the Hard Cessationist view of prophecy? – Part 1

What is the Hard Cessationist view of prophecy? – Part 2

What is the Soft Cessationist view of prophecy?

Session 10 – Unity and Diversity

Can we have unity and diversity? – Part 1

Can we have unity and diversity? – Part 2

How do we do theology in our emerging context?

How do Christian traditions have unity in diversity?