OT-1070 (on-campus) or OT-8107 (online)
Rev. Jon Berquist, Ph.D.

本课程提供对旧约/希伯来圣经的重要介绍. 学生将学习旧约/HB的古代近东背景和古代以色列的历史. This semester, we will investigate the processes from original, oral transmission of prose and poetry to the formation of canonical books. 我们也将在文本中询问不同的传统(神学)流.

HS-1080 (on-campus) or HS-8010 (online)
Christopher Ocker, Ph.D.

本课程介绍了从第二世纪到十七世纪的基督教历史和历史神学. 我们将向你介绍基督教经历和信仰在全球不同时间和地点的连续性和多样性，以及基督教社会的复杂性, cultural, and political entanglements in these contexts. You will be exposed to the politics, ideas, and actions that gave rise to Protestantism, and the intimate relationship of Protestant and Catholic reforms. 本课程将鼓励你将在过去的研究中发展起来的关键技能和才能应用到宗教生活的情境中, leadership, and service today.

ST-1084 (on-campus) or ST-8108 (online)
Rev. Gregory Love, Ph.D.

The first semester of a two-semester introduction to Christian theology. Beginning with the meaning of religious faith, 我们进入神圣启示与圣经权威之间关系的方法问题, human reason and experience. From there, we investigate the meaning of God using ancient and contemporary Trinitarian theology; Reformed theologian John Calvin, feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson, and Latin American theologian Gustavo Gutierrez. 最后，我们对创造和上帝与人类苦难的关系有不同的理解. Three exams (with option of substituting papers for exams). [Auditors with faculty permission] 

HS-1081 (on-campus) or HS-8181 (online)
Christopher Ocker, Ph.D.

这门课程介绍了从16世纪到现在的基督教历史. During this time, Christianity became the largest religion in the world. Along the way, it was transformed again and again as it adapted to vastly different, changing cultural, social, and political environments. 主题将包括基督教会在欧洲殖民主义中的作用, 不断扩大的全球文化网络对宗教知识的影响, cultural hybridization; Christianity and the rise of nation-states; the conflict of religion and science; the role of Christianity in slavery and in anti-slavery, suffrage, fascist, and labor movements; the rise and fall of American denominations; and the competition of orthodox and pluralistic theologies. Lectures, readings in primary sources, discussions. Midterm and final examinations (term papers may be substituted).

NT-1001 (on-campus) or NT-8105 (online)
Rev. Eugene Park, Ph.D.

This course is an introduction to the life, work, 和保罗的神学，这些都反映在他在新约里的七封无可争议的书信中，以及在新约内外的其他相关文献中. 本课程将讨论保罗的生活/工作，并按时间顺序调查他的信件. 我们将特别注意每封信的特定历史环境和神学问题. The primary mode of inquiry in this course is historical-critical, 但释经学的问题，也将提出有关应用保罗的神学，以当前的神学问题.

ST-1084 (on-campus) or ST-8108 (online)
Rev. Dr. Greg Love

This course is one of two introductory courses to Christian theology. 其目的是帮助学生获得普世教会神学的基本知识, 尤其是在改革宗传统中，在与女权主义和其他当代神学的对话中，这些主题被理解. Beginning with the doctrine of humanity, 它把原本的良善和我们堕落到罪的相关形式看作骄傲, despair and denial. 然后，它从不同的角度来看耶稣基督的位格和工作. 它也深刻地审视了我们“唯独因信蒙恩得救”的意义," and the roles of divine and human Spirit in bringing about healing. The course concludes with the nature of the Christian spiritual life, including sanctification and vocation, the church and its mission in the world and sacraments.

NT-1014 (on-campus) or NT-8114 (online)
Rev. Eugene Park, Ph.D.

本课程主要介绍早期基督教文学中的正典和伪经福音书和使徒行传. 首先介绍当前福音学术的主要方法论问题. Then, 福音书和使徒行传的每一段经文都会根据其文学特征来解释, historical background and theological ideas. 在整个课程中，圣经的批判性解释的解释学含义将被提出和讨论.