Required Reading

Read Pyne, "The Church in God's Program" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/The Church in God's Program.pdf

Look at this chart from Modern Reformation. http://www.modernreformation.org/mr99/janfeb/mr9901chart.html  Do you find yourself cleanly in one category or the other? Are other options available? [This link is offline at the moment]

Lecture Notes: st105 lecture Notes 1.pdf

Clarence Larkin’s charts: http://members.citynet.net/morton/charts.htm

A critique of Dispensationalism with kind of fun graphics: http://www.geocities.com/pvrosman/Dispensationalism_Pseudo_Christian_Cult_Contents.html

The Church in the World

Required Reading

Read Clowney, 155-97

Read Pyne, "The Church in the World" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/The Church in the World.pdf

Read “What Distinguishes the Center for Public Justice?” http://www.cpjustice.org/stories/storyReader$38

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

Read the Barmen Declaration: http://medg.lcs.mit.edu/doyle/personal/enters/hermann/declaration.html

Lecture Notes: st105 lecture Notes The Church in Society.pdf

PowerPoint Presentation: ST105 Church in the World Handout.ppt (366 kb)

Catholicity and Denominationalism

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "Catholicity and Denominationalism" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Catholicity and Denominationalism.pdf

Read Cyprian, “The Unity of the Catholic Church” http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-111.htm#P6832_2190664

Read John Calvin on the Holy Catholic Church (The link is to the Institutes. You need to read only Book IV, Chapters 1 and 2): http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/institutes/cache/institutes.html3

Lecture Notes for Houston Campus: ST105 Lecture Notes on Catholicity and Denominationalism.pdf

Michael Kinnamon, "Can These Bones Lives," The Christian Century, Sept 6, 2003 on the Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_18_120/ai_107760358

"Who Speaks for the Church? A Response" by Ron Henzel and Don Veinot

http://www.christianity.com/CC/article/0,,PTID307086|CHID592620|CIID1520864,00.html [This link is offline at the moment]

"Who Speaks for the Church?" by Eric Landry       

http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086%7CCHID592620%7CCIID1521028,00.html [This link is offline at the moment]

An issue of Modern Reformation devoted to the topic of denominationalism and the unity of the church:

http://www.christianity.com/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID592620,00.html [This link is offline at the moment]

Marks of the True Church: Church and Parachurch

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "The Marks of the True Church" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/The Marks of the True Church.pdf

Read Pyne, "The Church and the Parachurch" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/The Church and the Parachurch.pdf

Read quickly through William Carey’s Enquiry. This is the full text, but I simply want you to find his major point and primary supporting arguments. http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/enquiry/anenquiry.pdf

Read Martin Murphy, "Return to Your Roots" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/murphy.pdf

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Models of Church Government

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "Models of Church Government" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Models of Church Government.pdf

Calvin’s Institutes, Book IV, chapter 3 (here again is the link to the full text of the Institutes--you must locate the proper section by manually): http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/institutes/cache/institutes.html3

Read Paul V. Harrison, "Pastoral Turnover and the Call to Preach," JETS 44:1 (March 2001):87-105 http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/turnover.pdf

Supplemental

Resources

Lecture Notes: st105 lecture Notes on Church Government.pdf

Church Offices and Ordination

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "Church Offices and Ordination" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Church Offices and Ordination.pdf 

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The Ministry of Women in the Church

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "Gender and the Deacon Office: A Biblical and Historical Analysis"

http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Gender and Deacon Office.pdf

Read “Men, Women, and Biblical Equality” at the Christians for Biblical Equality website: http://www.cbeinternational.org [This article is apparently offline now--but the site is still up. As an alternate, please spend at least 30 minutes browsing and reading information on the site.]

Read the Danvers Statement from the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. It is Appendix Two in this book: http://www.cbmw.org/rbmw/rbmw.pdf

Supplemental Resources

None currently listed.

The Ordinances

(or Sacraments)

of the Church

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "The Ordinances (or Sacraments?) of the Church" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/sacraments.pdf

Read Calvin’s Institutes, Book IV, chapters 15-18 (here again is the link to the full text of the Institutes): http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/institutes/cache/institutes.html3

How Do We Receive Christ? God's Sacraments or Ours? (An Entire Issue of Modern Reformation, Mar 97, devoted to this topic! Whohoo!)

http://www.modernreformation.org/mr97/mr9703toc.html [This link is offline at the moment]

Re-thinking The Lord's Supper by Michael S. Horton http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1415856,00.html [This link is offline at the moment]

Worship

in the Church

Required Reading

Read Pyne, "Worship" http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/worship.pdf

Read the highlights from Marva Dawn http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Dawn highlights.pdf

Read the “Open Letter to Church Worship Songwriters” http://www.emergentvillage.com/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=419

Lecture Notes: st105 lecture Notes on Worship.pdf

A Discerning Spirit: Making Good Choices in an Age of Liturgical Change http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2003/005/3.22.html

This issue of Modern Reformation was devoted to the topic of worship: http://www.christianity.com/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID593334,00.html [This link is offline at the moment.]

Theological Foundations for Spirituality and Their Implications:

Human Nature and Incarnation

Required Reading

Read Frederica Mathewes-Green, "Gagging on Shiny Happy People": http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8ta/8ta092.html [This link is currently offline.]

Read Andy Crouch, "Wrinkles in Time," http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/008/26.56.html

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

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

"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

Review of Wild at Heart by David Rea and Carlton Wynne from the Alliance from Confessing Evangelicals http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID581342|CIID1661384,00.html

Another review of Wild at Heart http://blogspy.com/contend/bookWild.html

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo http://www.ccel.org/ccel/anselm/basic_works.all.html#viii

For those needing some additional background on the immaterial aspect of humanity (and the associated concepts):

            a.     Pyne, Humanity and Sin, chapter 5, "The Immaterial Aspect of Human Nature": Chapter Five.pdf

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

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

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

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

                   http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1413290,00.html [This link is currently offline.]

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

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

Theological Foundations for Spirituality and Their Implications: The Redemptive Process, the Work of the Spirit, and Community

Required Reading

REMINDER: THE IDEAL/REAL PROJECT IS NOW DUE DECEMBER 1

Read McGrath, 82-109

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

Read Flannery O’Connor “Revelation.”  This will be provided as a link here or by hard copy in class. Disclaimer: “This prize-winning story by Flannery O’Connor was first published in 1964. You may find some of the protagonist’s language, particularly her frequent use of “the n-word,” offensive. That is part of O’Connor’s point as she focuses on the broader problem of self-righteousness. Compare her story to Luke 18:9-14.”

Begin reading Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices. It is a small book, but it needs to be read over time. You should be done with it by the end of the semester.

"The Catholic Sophocles: Violence and Vision in Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation'" by Richard A. Rosengarten

http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/112003/commentary.shtml

Richard Hooker, “Learned Discourse on Justification”  http://www.ccel.org/h/hooker/just/discourse_justification.txt

Martin Luther, “A Sermon on Christian Righteousness”  http://www.markers.com/ink/mlrighteousness.htm

John Owen, The Nature of Justification by Faith  http://www.ccel.org/o/owen/just/justification.txt

Arthur W. Pink, The Doctrine of Justification  http://www.ccel.org/p/pink/awpjstf/htm/TOC.htm

Read John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection: http://gbgm-umc.org/UMhistory/Wesley/perfect.html

Implications with Regard to Sanctification Models

The Heart's Affections,

Delight

Required Reading

REMINDER: THE IDEAL/REAL PROJECT IS NOW DUE DECEMBER 1

Jonathan Edwards, The End for Which God Created the World. On this site in three parts:

http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/2D/The%20End%20Preface.htm

http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/2D/The%20End%20chpt%201.htm

http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/2D/The%20End%20chpt%202.htm

Jonathan Edwards, A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/2D/True%20Virtue.htm

Jonathan Edwards,  A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections

http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/RA/RAOutline.htm

"A God-Entranced Vision of All-Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards Three Hundred Years Later" by John Piper

The Jonathan Edwards Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 10-12, 2003

http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/edwards/edwards_300.html

Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bernard/loving_god.html

The Heart's Affections: Holiness, Love as Grace, and Sacrifice

Required Reading

Supplemental

Resources

Class Handout on Corporate Prayers: http://www.mattblackmon.com/pyne/Grace BP extra handout.pdf

The Heart's Affections: Love as Forgiveness, Hope

Required Reading

Read Volf, Miroslav. “A Vision of Embrace: Theological Perspectives on Cultural Identity and Conflict.” Ecumenical Review 47, no.2 (April 95): 195-205. A Vision of Embrace.pdf

Read Norval, Aletta J. “Memory, Identity and the (Im)possibility of Reconciliation: The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.” Constellations 5, no. 2 (1998): 250-265.Memory Identity.pdf

Read Montiel, Cristina Jayme, “Sociopolitical Forgiveness.” Peace Review 14, no.3 (September 2002): 271-277.   Sociopolitical Forgiveness.pdf

One more required reading article is forthcoming.

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Spiritual Disciplines

Required Reading

Take about 30 minutes to look over the Rule of St. Benedict http://www.ccel.org/b/benedict/rule2/rule.html

Read Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions: http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/Personal/resolut.htm

John Owen, On Mortification, chapters 1-6: http://www.ccel.org/o/owen/sin_mort/home.html

Read the Catholic Encyclopedia article on Benedictine Rule: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02436a.htm

Consider these discussion questions on Benedictine Rule: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/rule_of_st_benedict.asp

Course Summary:

Life in the Church

No required reading.