EFM: Education for Ministry, New Zealand
Lessons

Year 4: Church History & Theology -- Theological Choices

  1. Revolution in Philosophy
  2. Immanuel Kant
  3. Denominations in North America
  4. The Great Awakening
  5. A Century of Revolution
  6. A People with a Mission
  7. Empirical Theology: Friedrich Schleiermacher 
  8. Hegel–Absolute Idealism: Reason as Reality
  9. Kierkegaard: Existential Christian
  10. Believing and Belonging
  11. Biblical Authority in Crisis
  12. Theological Liberalism and Social Change
  13. The Revolution in Science
  14. Questions of Faith and Dogma
  15. The American Century, part 1
  16. The American Century, part 2
  17. The Theology of Karl Barth and Neo-orthodoxy
  18. Existentialism: Atheistic and Christian
  19. A New Social Gospel: Temple and the Niebuhrs
  20. Paul Tillich and the Quest for New Being
  21. The Ecumenical Movement
  22. Vatican II: An Aggiornamento 
  23. The Liturgical Movement
  24. God and Human Suffering
  25. The God Who Participates in Suffering
  26. Liberation Theology
  27. Feminist Theology
  28. World Religions
  29. Christian Groups and Denominations
  30. New Theologies
  31. Global Concerns/Local Actions
  32. Ministry
  33. The Way of Prayer
  34. Moving into the 21st Century

 

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Topics covered:

19th Century Anglicanism *American Church History *American Church History *The Emergence of Modern Religious Though t*The Rise of Science *Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, Whitehead *Tillich, Niebuhr, Moltmann, Cobb, Pittenger *Modernism *The Rise of Biblican Criticism *Ritschl, Barth, Bultmann *De-Mythologizing and Neo-Orthodoxy *The rise of Fundamentalism *The Liturgical movement *The crisis of suffering *The Theology of Liberation *Chistianity and religious pluralism

 

Because the EFM curriculum was designed with U.S. students in mind, much of the material in Year 4 emphasises the American religious experience and the history of religious movements in the United States. To supplement this, the EFM programme in New Zealand includes an additional book of readings: the book “Christianity in Aotearoa: A History of Church and Society in New Zealand,” written for EFM by Allan Davidson. This book is read in conjunction with the other Year 4 material.

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