ST 103 Reading Schedule

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Note: This is a work in progress. Supplemental readings will also be added.

Last Update: August 24, 2005

 

Lesson One: The Biblical Doctrine of Creation

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes 1.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, Chapter 1.
  2. Read John Calvin’s “Argument” from his commentary on Genesis: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom01.all.html#vi
  3. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:
    1. The Early Church on Creation: http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/creation.html
    2. NASA Astronomy Pictures: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html

 

Lesson Two: The Debate Over Human Origins

          Lecture Notes:    Part One: ST103 Lecture Notes 2 Part 1.pdf and Part Two: ST103 Lecture Notes 2 Part 2.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, Chapter 2.
  2. Read Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, chapter 15: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species-6th-edition/chapter-15.html
  3. Spend some time exploring Bruce Weber's "Liberal Studies 487: Senior Seminar on Evolution and Creation" page--it is the best and most comprehensive resource we have discovered on this topic so far! http://nsmserver2.fullerton.edu/departments/chemistry/evolution_creation/web/

  4. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

                a.    Report of the Creation Study Committee of the PCA http://www.origins.org/articles/00site_pcareport.html

                b.    "Design Yes, Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and Neocreationism"

                        by Massimo Pagliucci Skeptical Inquirer (September 2001) http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-09/design.html
                c.    "Life in the Big Tent: Traditional Creatonism and the Intelligent Design Community"

                        by Paul A. Nelson CRJ 24:4 (2002):21-25,41-4 http://www.equip.org/free/DL303.pdf
                d.    "Introduction to Evolutionary Biology, Version 2"

                        by Chris Colby http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html
                e.    "The Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution" by Mark Isaak http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html
                f.    "The Peppered Myth" by Jonathan Well Books & Culture (September/October 2002)

                       http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2002/005/9.11.html
                g.    "How the Monkey Got His Tail" by William A. Dembski Books & Culture (November/December 2002)

                       http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2002/006/24.42.html

                h.    The Early Church's Doctrine of Creation http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/creation.html

                i.     National Geographic Magazine, November 2004: "Was Darwin Wrong? No!" http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/index.html

                       Responses:

                                        Tom Woodward in Christianity Today http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/147/22.0.html

                                        The Discovery Institute http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2292&progr

                                        "Has Darwin Become Dogma?" http://www.tothesource.org/11_10_2004/11_10_2004.htm

 

                Current Coverage

                The Evolution Blog: Commentary on developments in the endless dispute between evolution and creationism http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/

 

                Creation Perspective

                Creation Evidence Museum (Creation Evidence Museum, Glen Rose, TX: "Dr." Carl Baugh's site (also Bible Codes! Ugh.) Sigh.)

                Creation "SuperLibrary.Com" from ChristianAnswers.Net

                Institute for Creation Research (The Morris family legacy)

                Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution (rebuttal of the Five Major Misconceptions article listed below)

                true.origin Internet Usenet Newsgroup Archive ("exposing the myth of evolution"—this site responds to talk.origins, listed below)

               

                Evolution Perspective

                Evolution vs. Creationism Home Page (the deck is rather stacked here)

                Introduction to Evolutionary Biology (a starting point: note the moth myth plays a prominent role here in the intro!)

                Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution (rebutted above!)

                FMMAE rebuttal rebuttal: A Critique of Wallace (Rebuttal of the above article's rebuttal above. Can you follow that?)

                Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism: 2002 Edition (more gopherballs to A-Rod!)

                Science and Creationism: A Perspective from the National Academy of Sciences

                talk.origins Internet Usenet Newsgroup Archive  ("to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to biological & physical origins")

           

                Intelligent Design (ID)

                Access Research Network (pro ID: "...dedicated to providing accessible information on science, technology and society.")

                The Discovery Institute: Center for Science and Culture (A lot of Behe's stuff is here)

                Evolution: Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine (anti ID)

                Intelligent Design Network ("To promote objective, evidence-based science education with regard to the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity")

                Phillip E. Johnson Page (his official page)

                William Dembski Web Site (his official Baylor site)

 

                Bibliography and Uncategorized Resources

                Access Research Network's Recommended Origins Reading List (by Mark D. Hartwig)

                Master Creation/Anti-Evolution Bibliography (quite dated by now (Oct 1998), but helpful in that it categories the views of the authors!)

                talk.origins Reading List (evolution-bent)

                true.origin Master Creation Bibliography (creation-bent)

                The Templeton Foundation: Science& Religion

 

Lesson Three: Created in the Image of God

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes 3.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, Chapter 3.
  2. Read Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica: "Nine Articles" http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/FP/FP093.html#FPQ93OUTP1
  3. Read John Calvin, Institutes, Book 1 Chapter 15 http://old.bible.org/docs/history/calvin/institut/ci100016.htm [Updated link as of Sept 14, 2004]
  4. Read Ian Hamilton, "Historical Survey of the Theology of Imago Dei" http://thebec.org.uk/SC2000/historical_survey_of_the_theolog.htm  (This link is dead and is no longer requried).

  5. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

                Artificial Intelligence

                A discussion of image of God in relation to artificial intelligence

 

                Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Pop Culture

                Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Post War Western Thought

                Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Reformation Europe

 

                      Nice series of papers on image from BRITISH EVANGELICAL COUNCIL

                      "THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN: THEOLOGICAL STUDY CONFERENCE"

                                                            20-22 MARCH 2000

                                      High Leigh Conference Centre,  England

 

                                Historical Survey of The Theology of Imago Dei Duplicated from above (but here for completeness)

                                Twentieth Century Developments in the Discussion of the Imago Dei

                                Imago Dei and the Fall

                                Imago Dei in Redemption

                                Imago Dei in Ethics and Missions

                                Summary and Challenge of the Issues

 

Lesson Four: The Material Aspect of Human Nature

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes Biblical Theology of the Body.pdf

          Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes on Bioethical Issues.pdf

  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 4.
  2. Read Augustine, The City of God 14.2-6: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.all.html#iv.XIV.2
  3. Read Pyne, Arguments Against Human Cloning: http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Arguments Against Human Cloning.pdf
  4. Read Paul Swope, "Abortion: A Failure to Communicate":  http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9804/articles/swope.html
  5. Go to the Christian Medical and Dental Association’s website and read at least two articles on topics of personal interest: http://www.cmdahome.org/?BISKIT=1449159038&CONTEXT=cat&cat=317
  6. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

    1. The Designer Baby Myth http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,970318,00.html

    2. Bioethics: An Introduction (National Center for Bioethics) http://bioethics.net/bioethics_intro.php?task=view&articleID=92

    3. Report on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on Human Cloning: Chapter Three "Religious Perspectives"          http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nbac/pubs/cloning1/chapter3.pdf

    4. Report on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on Human Cloning: Executive Summary http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nbac/pubs/cloning1/executive.htm

    5. "The Brave New World of Cloning: A Christian Worldview Perspective" by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/10/cloning2.htm

    6. Stem Cells: A Primer, National Institutes of Health, Updated September 2002 http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/primer.htm

    7. Bush to Allow Limited Stem Cell Funding http://www.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/08/10/stem.cell.politics/index.html

    8. CT Editorial, September 3, 2001: "Two Cheers" http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/32.42.html

    9. "Science the the Story that We Need" by Neil Postman (First Things, January 1997) http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9701/articles/postman.html

    10. "A Confrontation with Technicism as the Spiritual Climate of the West" by Egbert Schuurman WTJ 58:1 (1996):63-84 http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/schuurman.pdf

    11. "Philosophical and Ethical Problems of Technicism and Genetic Engineering" by Egbert Schuurman Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology 3:1 (Fall 97) http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v3n1/schuurman.html

    12. "The Ethics of Technology: Technological Worldview, Pictures, Motives, Values, and Norms" by Egbert Schuurman http://www.nd.edu/~ecoltheo/text_schuurman.htm

    13. The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity: http://www.cbhd.org/

    14. PBS Nova: "18 Ways to Make a Baby" (show to rebroadcast June 10, 2003): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/baby/

    15. Bob's PowerPoint Presentation on Athletic Bodies (This is a 12 megabyte file!): http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Athletic Bodies.ppt

 

Lesson Five: The Immaterial Aspect of Humanity

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes Immaterial Part 1.pdf and ST103 Lecture Notes Immaterial Part 2.pdf

  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 5.

  2. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:    

            a.    Catholic Encyclopedia on "Soul": http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm

            b.    Tertullian on the Soul http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-22.htm

            c.    "Trichotomy: A Beachhead for Gnostic Influences":       

                    http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1413290,00.html

            d.    "Man as Spirit Soul and Body; Trichotomy in Exchanged Life Counseling" by John Woodward

                    http://www.gracenotebook.com/pastoral_counseling1.htm

 

Lesson Six: Human Nature and Human Behavior

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes Toward A Vocabulary of Self.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 6.
  2. Read Powers and Pyne, "Toward a Vocabulary of the Self" Toward A Vocabulary of Self.pdf
  3. Read any two of the following reviews of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate
    1. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/slate_reviews_file/washingtonpost_mcginn.htm
    2. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/slate_reviews_file/economist.htm
    3. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/slate_reviews_file/ny_times_sunday_magazine_qa.htm
    4. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/slate_reviews_file/upi_sailer.htm
    5. http://reason.com/0210/fe.rb.biology.shtml
  4. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

            a.     Byron Borger's devastating review of John Eldredge's Wild at Heart       

                    http://www.ccojubilee.org/minexfolder/minex2002/june2002/Borger_June02.html

            b.     "Critical Review of the Book, Wild at Heart, by John Eldredge" by Daryl Wingerd http://www.ccwonline.org/wild.html or http://www.ccwonline.org/wild.pdf (.pdf format)

            c.     Review of Wild at Heart by David Rea and Carlton Wynne http://www.pcpcthisweek.com/2003_Issues/stories/WildatHeartCritique.asp

            d.    "Is God Wild at Heart? A Review of John Eldredge's Wild at Heart" by Randy Stinson http://www.cbmw.org/resources/reviews/eldredge_wah_review.php

            e.    "God in Man’s Image: A critique of John Eldredge’s Wild At Heart" by Rut Etheridge III http://www.churchofthegoodshepherd.info/WAHcritique.htm

            f.     "Creation of New Neurons Critical to Antidepressant Action in Mice" NIH News http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug2003/nimh-07.htm

            g.     "Gene More Than Doubles Risk of Depression Following Life Stresses" NIH News http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2003/nimh-17.htm

 

Lesson Seven: Sin in the Garden (and in our backyards)

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes Sin in the Garden.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 7.

  2. Milton Paradise Lost Chapter 8: http://www.literature.org/authors/milton-john/paradise-lost/chapter-08.html

  3. Read Augustine, Confessions, Book 2, chapters 1-10: http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/saints/augcon2.htm

 

Lesson Eight: The Effect of Sin on Human Nature

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Lecture Notes Effect of Sin on Humanity.pdf

          Lecture Notes: ST103 Free Will Class Handout.pdf

  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 8.
  2. Read Calvin’s Institutes, Book 2, Chapter 2: http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/institutes/bookii/bookii04.htm

 

Lesson Nine: Evil and the Essence of Sin

  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 9.
  2. Read "Ask about Islam: Sin" http://www.islamonline.net/askaboutislam/display.asp?hquestionID=3820
  3. Read Aquinas on the cause of evil: http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/FP/FP049.html#FPQ49OUTP1

  4. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

    a. What Can We Say About Evil in Light of America's Tragedy? by Dr. Robert Pyne (Adobe PDF format)

    b. R. C. Sproul, “Augustine and Pelagius,” Leadership U. Online www.leaderu.com/theology/augpelagius.html

    c. Abridgement of Luther’s “On the Bondage of the Will” at Reformed Reader http://www.reformedreader.org/bow.htm

    d. A Review of Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation http://www.prca.org/prtj/nov95b.html

    e. W. Tullian Tchividjian, “Reflections on Jonathan Edwards’ View of Free Will,” ThirdMill Magazine Online www.thirdmill.org/files/english/html/th/TH.h.Tchividjian.Edwards%20and%20Free%20Will.html

    f. Good contrast of Libertarianism (and its connection to Open Theism) and Compatibilism http://www.carm.org/open/free_will.htm

     

Lesson Ten: Life in an Immoral Society

          Lecture Notes: ST103 PPT Notes for Life in an Immoral Society.pdf
  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 10.

  2. Read Pyne, “The New Man and Immoral Society” BibSac 154:615 (Jul 97):259-274 http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Pyne New Man.pdf

  3. Read Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111mlk.html

 

Lesson Eleven: Hope for Humanity

  1. Read Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 11.

 

Lesson Twelve: The Existence and Activity of Angels

  1. Read Aquinas, "Treatise on the Angels," questions 50-64 (only the “I answer that” portions required) http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/FP/FP050.html#FPQ50OUTP1
  2. Read Calvin, Institutes, book 1, chapter 14: http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/institutes/booki/booki21.htm
  3. Read Pyne, "The Existence and Activity of Angels":  http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/The Existence and Activity of Angels.pdf
  4. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

           a. Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Angels: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

           b. Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology entry on Angels: http://www.biblestudytools.net/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi?number=T32

 

Lesson Thirteen: Demonology and Spiritual Warfare

  1. Read Pyne, "Demonology and Spiritual Warfare": http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Demonology and Spiritual Warfare.pdf
  2. Read Moore and Pyne, "Neil Anderson's Approach to the Spiritual Life" BibSac 153:609 (Jan 96):75-86 http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Pyne Anderson.pdf
  3. Additional Sources for supplemental reading:

    1. "In Need of Deliverance" by Agnieszka Tennant Christianity Today (3 September 2001):46-48  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/1.46.html

    2. "Exorcism Therapy" Interview with Michael W. Cuneo, author of American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty CT (3 September 2001):49 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/2.49.html

    3. "Alter Possession" CT (3 September 2001):51 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/3.51.html

    4. "Pandora's Box of SRA" CT (3 September 2001):54 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/4.54.html

    5. "Exorcism 101" CT (3 September 2001):58 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/011/5.58.html

     

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