VOLUME 1: SEBTS MDIV MIND MAP (WWW.BAPTISTETHICS.COM)

1. STUDY GUIDES & CHEAT SHEETS

1.1. BCO5500 SG Final

1.2. ETH6550 SG Midterm

1.3. EVA5100 SG Final

1.4. HIS5120 SG Final

1.5. OTS5120 SG Exam 1

1.6. OTS5120 SG Exam 2

1.7. HIS5120 SG Midterm

1.8. PHI5100 SG Exam 2

1.9. PHI5100 SG Exam 3

1.10. ETH5100 SG Final

1.11. ETH7620 SG

2. BOOKS

2.1. Jones, Robert D. Bad MemoriesL Getting Past Your Past

2.2. Lane, Timothy S & Paul David Tripp. How People Change

2.3. Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically (John MacArthur)

2.4. Sande, Ken. The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict

2.5. Tripp, Paul David. Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

2.6. Jones, Robert. Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem

2.7. Heimbach, Daniel. True Sexual Morality

2.8. Piper, John. This Momentary Marriage

2.9. Huges, Kent & Barbara. Disciplines of a Godly Family

2.10. Zimmerman, Carle. Family and Civilization

2.11. Stanton, Glen & Bill Maier. Marriage on Trial

2.12. Heimbach, Daniel. Why Not Same-Sex Marriage? (draft manuscript)

2.13. Reid, Alvin. Evangelism Handbook

2.14. Solc, Josef. Communicating on the Playing Field

2.15. Livermore, David. Cultural Intelligence

2.16. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity I

2.17. McKinion, S.A. Life and Practice in the Early Church

2.18. Archer, Gleason. A Survey of the Old Testament Introduction

2.19. Dempster, Stephen G. Dominion and Dynasty.

2.20. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity II: The Reformation to the Present

2.21. Collison, Patrick. The Reformation: A History.

2.22. Noll, Mark A. The Old Religion in the New World: A History of North American Christianity

2.23. Finn, Nathan A., ed. Readings in Church History: Reformation and Modern Era

2.24. Rachels, James. Problems from Philosophy

2.25. Meister, Chad. Introducting Philosophy of Religion

2.26. Copan, Paul & William Lane Craig. Contending with Christianity's Critics

2.27. Frame, John. The Doctrine of the Christian Life

2.28. Bridges, Jerry. The Gospel For Real Life

2.29. Leiderbach, Mark & Alvin Reid. The Convergent Church

2.30. Liederbach, Mark. Ethics as Worship: A Reading Packet with Class Notes

2.31. Rae, Scott. Moral Choices

2.32. Niebuhr, Richard H. Christ & Culture

2.33. Smith, Gary S. Church and Politics: Four Views

2.34. Kemeny, P. C. Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views

2.35. White, Deusing & Yarnell. First Freedom: The Baptist Perspective

2.36. Barth, Karl. Community, State and Church

2.37. Dallimore, Arnold. Spurgeon. A New Biography

2.37.1. PART 1: THE PREPARATION OF THE MAN (1834-1854)

2.37.1.1. 1. THE BOY AND THE BOOKS

2.37.1.1.1. "Even when parioshioners called to have thei pastor advise and pray with them in their problems he often kept the lad at his side, and when he gathered with a company of ministers to discuss theological questions the boy remained, listening intently and doing his best to understand. Charle's introduction to the consideration of theological questions thus begun very early." p 5

2.37.1.1.2. "The Bible was not only read, but it was also believed with unquestioning assurance of its inerrancy." p 6

2.37.1.1.3. "Charles was probably no more than three when he began pulling volumes out into the light anf looking at the illustrations." p 6

2.37.1.1.4. He would stare at the illustrations from Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress and Fox's Book of Martyrs. LEft an impression on him p 6

2.37.1.1.5. "We find him when only five or six, reading privately and also reading publicly during the time of family worship."

2.37.1.1.6. "Charles parens, John and Eliza Spurgeon, had now moved to Colchester, where John was employed as a clerk in a coal merchant's office." p 7

2.37.1.1.7. Three other children: a boy, James Archer Spurgeon, and two younger sisters, Eliza and Emily

2.37.1.1.8. Since the father was so busy, the task of raising the children fell upon their Godly mother.

2.37.1.1.9. By nine he was already reading higher theology, and grasping their pros and cons p 10

2.37.1.1.10. Prophesized by former missionary Richard Knill to be a great preacher.

2.37.1.1.11. When 10, attended Stockwell House School in Colchester for 4 years.

2.37.1.1.12. When 14, sent to St. Augustine's Agricultural College with his brother James. Already debating CoE clergymen.

2.37.1.1.13. His favorite readings were the Puritan theologians.

2.37.1.2. 2. THROUGH TERRIBLE CONVICTION TO GLORIOUS CONVERSION

2.37.1.2.1. When 15, summer of 1849, Charles entered new school in town of Newmarket.

2.37.1.2.2. "all manner of cursing God and man began to enter his mind. That was followed by severe temptations to deny the very existence of God, and those in turn led to an effort to tell himself he had become a Free Thinker and virtually an atheist. He even endeavored to doubt his own existence, but all such attempts were useless." p 17

2.37.1.2.3. His Conversion: Snowstorm, little Primitive Methodist church. Shoemaker gets up to read/preach. LOOK UNTO ME AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

2.37.1.2.4. "Spurgeon's conversion was the great turning point of his life. He was indeed a new creation. The long-experienced sense of terrible conviction was gone, and all was new before him." p 20

2.37.1.3. 3. JOYFUL FIRST EFFORTS IN SERVING THE LORD

2.37.1.3.1. Experienced after conversion a newness and power. Satan came and tempted him with doubt. However he came out victorious through Christ.

2.37.1.3.2. Family from a congregationalist background, but Charles disagreed on the issue of baptism. Come to believe that biblical baptism "was something very different--that it was being 'buried with Christ'--the immersion of one who had believed on Christ unto salvation." p 25

2.37.1.3.3. The discussion with the CoE minister prompted Charles' search of the Scriptures.

2.37.1.3.4. Charles wrote to Baptist minister Reverend W. W. Cantlow of Isleham to be baptized. The man agreed, and Charles walked 8 miles to do such.

2.37.1.3.5. We begin to see in his journals and letters a desire to preach.

2.37.1.4. 4. THE BOY PREACHER OF WATERBEACH

2.37.1.4.1. Summer of 1850, Spurgeon moved to Cambridge where he worked at a school in Colchester

2.37.1.4.2. First sermon, little cottage, at the age of 16. p 33

2.37.1.4.3. Became Pastor at the age of 17, October of 1851, Baptist church in the village of Waterbeach.

2.37.1.4.4. Goes about doing ministry. Grows the church greatly. Then father desires to send him to Stepney cCollege, Baptist ministerial training school

2.37.1.4.5. Felt an impression to not seek going to the college

2.37.1.4.6. "The Lord's hand behin the maid's mistake"

2.37.1.4.7. Meeting with the snarky minister led to a calling to a pastorate of the New Park Street Baptist Church in London.

2.37.2. PART 2: THE FIRST YEARS IN LONDON (1855-1864)

2.37.2.1. 5. A GREAT DOOR AND EFFECTUAL IS OPENED

2.37.2.1.1. Great success at the New Park Street Baptist Church. They end up caling him as pastor.

2.37.2.1.2. February 1854 Spurgeon became the Pastor of NPSBC

2.37.2.1.3. Emphasis on prayerp 48

2.37.2.1.4. Secret to his success: "My people pray for me."

2.37.2.2. 6. SPURGEON'S MARRIAGE --THIS ONE TRULY MADE IN HEAVEN

2.37.2.2.1. He had been in London two months when he first sent Susannah Thomson a gift. (Pilgrim's progress)

2.37.2.2.2. From the Gala they began to turn their friendship into something more. After a few more weeks he proposed.

2.37.2.3. 7. CONFLICT

2.37.2.4. 8. REVIVAL

2.37.3. PART 3: THE LONG PERIOD OF MATURE MINISTRY (1861-1886)

2.37.3.1. 9. THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE

2.37.3.2. 10. TRAINING YOUNG PREACHERS

2.37.3.3. 11. THE GROWTH OF SPURGEONIC ENTERPRISES

2.37.3.4. 12. ALMSHOUSES AND ORPHANAGE

2.37.3.5. 13. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

2.37.3.6. 14. MRS. SPURGEON AND HER WORK

2.37.3.7. 15. DAILY LIFE IN THE GREAT CHURCH

2.37.3.8. 16. TEN YEARS OF MIGHTY MINISTRY

2.37.3.9. 17. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

2.37.3.10. 18. SPURGEON AS AN AUTHOR

2.37.4. PART 4: THE FINAL YEARS (1887-1892)

2.37.4.1. 19. EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

2.37.4.2. 20. LAST LABORS

2.37.4.3. 21. "WITH CHRIST, WHICH IS FAR BETTER"

2.38. Wills, Gregory. Democratic Religion.

2.38.1. 1. DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSIVISM

2.38.1.1. A. Separation from the World

2.38.1.2. B. Baptist Exclusivism

2.38.1.3. C. The Conference Meeting

2.38.1.4. D. The Ritual Baptist Discipline

2.38.1.5. E. Trials of Church Members

2.38.2. 2. DEMOCRACIES PRIMITIVE AND PURE

2.38.2.1. A. Primitive Democracies

2.38.2.1.1. Jesus commanded the entire church to expel the sinner (Matt 18:17)

2.38.2.1.2. the church at Corinth expelled an immoral man by vote of the majority (2 Cor 2:6)

2.38.2.1.3. "They established pure democracies because 'the first converts were democrats, in regard to their ecclesiastical polity.'" p 29

2.38.2.1.4. Primitve Ecclesiology: "Our Lord has laid down a few plain rules of government, and established a tribunal in his Church, at which all offences are to be tried and decided; and from which there is no appeal. I believe it is adopted by all regular Baptists as the doctrine of Christ, that his Church is his kingdom on earth; that he sits in judgment there; and that when a Gospel Church is sitting, in Gospel order, for the transaction of disciplinary business, there is not a higher court on earth." Jesse Mercer pg 29

2.38.2.1.5. "The charter mandated for each church three essential functions. Its members had to assemble for the divinely sanctioned worship of God; they had to uphold orthodox teaching, "to keep the faith which was once delievered to the saints"; and they had to maintain the morl oversight of its membership, "to keep up a Godly discipline." pg 30-31

2.38.2.1.6. Offenses: General character and heinous nature (Mt 18:15-17, 1 Cor 5:1-5)

2.38.2.1.7. Censures: Admonition or rebuke, excommunication

2.38.2.1.8. "The great object of Baptist church discipline was holiness and the preservation of purity." 31

2.38.2.1.9. "Beginning in transgression and ending in revival, the Lancaster trial illustrates the spiritual power of discipline in Baptist piety." Pg 27

2.38.2.2. B. Purity, Unity, and Freedom

2.38.2.2.1. "The commitment to purity as the primary goal of discipline derived from the baptist vision of a church separate from the world.

2.38.2.3. C. Discipline and Revival

2.38.3. 3. DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITY

2.38.3.1. A. Accusation and Confession

2.38.3.2. B. Forgiving the Penitent

2.38.3.3. C. Excommunication

2.38.3.4. D. Restoration

2.38.3.5. E. Resistence

2.38.4. 4. DEMOCRACY, RACE, AND GENDER

2.38.4.1. A. Democratic Discipline

2.38.4.2. B. Women and Democratic Religion

2.38.4.3. C. Blacks and Democratic Religion

2.38.5. 5. AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES

2.38.5.1. A. African-American Baptists and Religious Authority

2.38.5.2. B. Social Equality and Baptist Segregation

2.38.5.3. C. Black Baptists and the Baptist Heritage

2.38.5.4. D. Democratic Authority and Voluntary Submission

2.38.6. 6. FREEDOM, AUTHORITY AND DOCTRINE

2.38.6.1. A. Popular Theology

2.38.6.2. B. Democratic Exclusiveness

2.38.6.3. C. Heresy

2.38.6.4. D. Defecting to Denominations

2.38.7. 7. ASSOCIATIONS, CREEDS, AND CALVINISM

2.38.7.1. A. Associational Authority and Church Autonomy

2.38.7.2. B. Calvinism and Authority

2.38.7.3. C. The Exclusivism of Orthodoxy

2.38.7.4. D. Freedom and Creeds

2.38.7.5. E. Opposition to Creeds

2.38.7.6. F. Creeds and Discipline

2.38.8. 8. DEMOCRATIC RELIGION TRANSFORMED

2.38.8.1. A. Jeremiads of Decline

2.38.8.2. B. Obstacles to Discipline

2.38.8.3. C. Dancing and Worldly Amusements

2.38.8.4. D. Urban Religion

2.38.8.5. E. Efficiency and Progress

2.38.8.6. F. The New Form of Democratic Religion

2.38.9. CONCLUSION

3. MEMORY VERSES

3.1. ETH7620

3.1.1. These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel’s singer of songs: The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.’” 2 Samuel 23:1-4/NIV

4. COLOR CODE

4.1. GREEN: Languages

4.2. PURPLE: Persons, Names, Places

4.3. RED: Dates, Books

4.4. BLUE: Scripture

4.5. BLACK: Notes

5. PAPER IDEAS

5.1. The Pulpit and the American Revolution

5.2. Calvin's Lower vs. Higher Magistrate Distinction and the American Revolution

5.3. The Ethics of Debt

5.4. Service Over Self

5.4.1. Reference to Barth's essays on Ethics and the State. The focus of top-down change. What about a Republic Democracy where the change occurs from a bottom up. Do we waste our time trying to apply witness from the bottom up when the reality of change occurs from bottom up?

5.4.2. Bottom-Up change.

5.4.3. Respond to this question: Why place the weight of focus on the government bringing about the change? The real change will be reflected in the government when it penetrates the people, at least in our system. Does government have an effect of the ethics and morality of the people? Sure, it can influence it such as legislation dictating incentives that define right/wrong behavior. It can have an influence. But essentially, the government, in a democratic system, ultimately is a reflection of the people.

5.4.4. Social Contract Theory, the State of Nature, and its relation with the "Wilderness" of the Bible. Numbers 24 The Kingdom of God Wilderness Jesus in Lk 4 goes to the Wilderness

5.5. The Ethics of Poverty, The American Church, and Capitalism

5.5.1. A paper analyzing the wasted opportunity of the American chuch to radically fill the social needs of society

5.5.2. The healthy alliance possible between Capitalism and Charity. How the creation of wealth can generate immense opportunity for aid.

5.5.3. There is a reason why America has such enormous wealth and is modeled after the capitalist system. Instead of robbing the system of its power and emulating it with other models, we should 'capitalize' on the economic power to install charitable improvement worldwide.

5.6. The Virtue of Suffering

5.7. Social Contract Theory, the State of Nature, and its relation with the "Wilderness" of the Bible.

5.7.1. Numbers 24

5.7.2. The Kingdom of God

5.7.3. Wilderness

5.7.4. Jesus in Lk 4 goes to the Wilderness

5.7.5. Life in the wildneress looks one way (looking out for yourself). This is drastically different from living in the land. As Christians we live differently because we live in the land.

5.8. The Social Contract in Comparison with Regenerative Church Member Covenants

5.9. John Locke, Religion, Law and Morality

5.10. The Local Church as Community: Jurisprudence, Legal Systems and Governance (Congregational Covenantal Constitutional Democratic Communities) in Local Autonomous Communities of Regenerated Born Again Members (churches). (Thought up on 2/22/11, while pondering Jurisprudence and my GGCF Church's conflict with order)

5.10.1. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

5.10.1.1. Discipline

5.10.1.2. Authority

5.10.1.3. Education

5.10.1.4. Care (Biblical Counseling,Physical Health, Spiritual Health)

5.10.1.5. Role of God

5.10.1.5.1. The true ruler, judge, etc. He not only rules justly but he cares about each individual. He loves them.

5.10.1.5.2. Think here of the political theoretical arguments for authoritarianism, monarchism, and the benefits, and then evaluate their faults. When we find their fault, evaluate how God makes up for these faults.

5.10.1.5.3. Note with God he is personal. He chooses to enter into personal realtionships with his Creator. He is the only one who can claim truely that individuals, the created beings, are in debt to the Creator for their creation. God can rightly say we are his, and has the fullness of authority to call this authority forward. However with this Ruler, this Creator, this King, this God, he can rightly be authoritarian for he knows us perfectly and loves us perfectly. He is involved with us all on a personal level, a point that any authoritarian or ruler or king cannot get to. No king can know each citizen perfectly, and this accounts for one of its weaknesses. However the King, the Creator, can actually do this. Thus the justice of his Rule.

5.10.1.6. Baptism as Citizenship? Analogy of becoming a state resident and a national citizen and entering the Church through Baptism?

5.10.2. THE LAW OF THE CHURCH

5.10.2.1. 1. Determining Infractions

5.10.2.2. 2. Enforcement of Laws

5.10.2.3. 3. Process of Making/Changing Laws

5.10.2.4. 4. Laws themselves

5.10.2.5. Determining of infractions, enforcement of the laws, process of making/changing laws., and the laws themselves.

5.10.2.6. Constitutionalism compared with Law and the Israelites. A nation under the law, not with a earthly king above the written law.

5.10.3. THE ECONOMY OF THE CHURCH

5.10.3.1. Charity

5.10.3.2. Communal Sharing

5.10.3.3. Example of the city where Paul preached to everyone and because of this the market for idolatry and idols disappeared. Imagine this in relation to pornography, etc.

5.10.4. THE ETHICS OF THE CHURCH

5.10.4.1. The relationship between Ethics, Law, Economy, and Government. Ethical people are needed in order for Government, Law, and Economy to function properly.

5.10.4.2. If the members of the church did what they were supposed to, there would be no socialism and communism.

5.10.4.3. How government of the flesh leads to chaos, relativism, etc.

5.10.4.4. Example of the city where Paul preached to everyone and because of this the market for idolatry and idols disappeared. Imagine this in relation to pornography, etc.

5.10.4.5. The Main way to change a government, to change its health, is to change its people with the Gospel. Here is the power of the Gospel. to change sinners to Saints. To change kingdoms of flesh to kingdoms of the spirit.

5.10.5. The Legal System in a Church

5.10.5.1. 1. Determining Infractions

5.10.5.2. 2. Enforcement of Laws

5.10.5.3. 3. Process of Making/Changing Laws

5.10.5.4. 4. Laws themselves

5.10.5.5. Determining of infractions, enforcement of the laws, process of making/changing laws., and the laws themselves.

5.10.6. The Governmental System in a Church

5.10.6.1. Regarding Business Meetings and Legislative/Parliamentary rule. Only can Regenerate members have the sufficiency to die to self.

5.10.7. The Authority in a Church

5.10.8. Discipline in a Church

5.10.9. Charity in a Church

5.10.10. Ethics in a Church

5.10.11. Education in a Church

5.10.12. Communal Nature of a Church

5.10.13. Health in a Church

5.10.13.1. Spiritual

5.10.13.2. Physical

5.10.13.3. Mental (Biblical Counseling)

5.10.14. Accountability in a Church

5.10.15. Discipleship in a Church

5.10.16. Church as Family

5.10.17. Social Contract in the Community?

5.10.18. What are the main components that make up a Community?

5.10.19. Augustine's Two Cities?

5.10.20. Analogy of a Healthy Society and a Healthy Church.

5.10.21. Evaluate all different types of political theories for governance. Point out their strengths and weaknesses, and how this Biblical Community of God balances the weaknesses.

5.10.21.1. Republic

5.10.21.2. Monarchism

5.10.21.3. Democracy

5.10.21.4. Authoritarian

5.10.21.5. Totalitarian

5.10.21.6. Communist

5.10.21.7. Socialist

5.10.21.8. Constitutional

5.10.21.9. How do each of these contain some element in Christianity that boasts of a strength and reconciles the weakness with tbeing of Believers.

5.10.21.9.1. Exp: Socialism and the element of a community caring for the weak of those. This is a problem socialism tries to solve. However, this was planned as a repsonsibility of the church.

5.11. Christian Jurisprudence and John Locke

5.12. The State of Nature and Regenerate Church Membership: Conflict in Baptist Churches and a Critique of Other Denominational Membership Models

5.12.1. Look at Social Contract Theorists and their definitions of the State of Nature. How does it relate to Regenerate Church Membership?

5.12.2. A Christian Social Contract Theorist perspective on the state of Nature versus a Non-Christian perspective on the State of Nature. John Locke vs. Hobbes.

5.13. Congregational Covenantal Constitutional Democratic Communities

5.14. Similarities Between a Healthy State and a Healthy Church

5.14.1. American Constitutionalism & Baptist Congregationalism

5.14.2. State's Constitution & Church's Covenant

5.14.3. 'We the People' & 'We the Saints'

5.14.4. Bottom up change

5.14.5. Separation of Churhc & State and True Ethic

5.14.6. The danger of Top Down leadership

5.14.7. Compare: (1) American Revolution, (2) Baptist Ecclesiology of Covenanting, (3) The Conservative Resurgence

5.14.8. Compare the debate over the Bible (inerrancy) with the debate over the Constitution

5.14.9. The State of Nature & Regenerate Church Membership

5.15. THE6120: THE CHRISTOLOGY OF CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE GOSPELS

5.15.1. I. INTRODUCTION

5.15.2. II. BODY

5.15.2.1. A. CHRISTOLOGY IN MARK - SON OF MAN

5.15.2.2. B. CHRISTOLOGY IN LUKE - SON OF GOD?

5.15.2.3. C. CHRISTOLOGY IN MATTHEW - DAVIDIC KING

5.15.2.4. D. CHRISTOLOGY IN JOHN - THE DIVINE WORD

5.15.3. III. SUMMARY

5.15.4. IV. CONCLUSION

5.16. ETH7630: The Divines and the American Revolutionary War

5.16.1. Baldwin, Alec. The New England Clergy and the American Revolution

5.16.2. Mullett, Charles. Fundamental Law and the American Revolution 1770-1776.

5.16.3. De Levie, Dagobert. "Patriotic Activity of Calvinistic and Lutheran Clergymen during the American Revolution," Lutheran Church Quarterly, VIII, 4 (November 1956)

5.17. Substitutionary Propitionary Atonement, The Diversity in the Triune God, Justice & Mercy in the Godhead and Society & the State

5.17.1. How does the Triune God's economy of salvation as found in propitiairy substitutionary atonement provide a representative example of justice and mercy as to be applied by the individual in society?

5.17.2. Untitled

6. QUESTIONS TO ASK

6.1. Difference between heresy and non-believer

6.2. Comments on Converge Baptist

6.3. In terms of the relationship with the state and the church in relationships to a Republic Democracy. "Second, it serves as “a source of renewal for the State and the power by with the State is preserved” When the People begin to become the source of moral authority. The Church = The People in the US. IDOLATRY OF MOB MAJORITY: (Ordered versus Autonomous) The abuse of Mob Majority. The idolatry that occurs from a bottom up position. The role that the church plays here. Is Barth's model focused on a Top-Down relation of government? What about a Bottom-Up, such as the united states? Renewal for the state? Focused on renewing the state closed to these top-down models? In a bottom up, should not the greatest emphasis be on the bottom up? The people render where NAZI GERMANY: Top - Bottom (false bottom up approach). In a system continuing from Bottom Up, what changes occur? What about value voting issues? The change that occurs the closer we get to a true democracy, whereas the Church, which is within the People, becomes the State...

6.4. The Bible is clearly not Jesus. However, it is divine revelation of God's will, and it reveals to us the person of Christ Jesus. It is God's very breath/word condensated in a form within a medium we can understand, human language. As Christ is the full revelation incarnate as God/Man, Scripture is interesting in that it is incarnational as the Word of God through the words of men. It is divine revelation, and the power of Scripture is that it allows us to know who this Jesus Christ that saves is. What he has done. This is the 'power of the Gospel to those who believe.' These are the 'Scriptures that made you wise unto salvation' (2 Tim). "Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself." (Lk 24:26-27) "30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe[b] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. " (Jn 20:30-31)

7. CHAPTER 1 — HERMENEUTICS

7.1. BTI5100

7.1.1. BTI5100: Hermeneutics

7.1.2. Notes

7.1.2.1. I. Meaning Found Only in the Text

7.1.2.1.1. A. Significance is what the meaning prompts of the text.

7.1.2.1.2. B. The text is the Prophets and the Apostles.

7.1.2.1.3. C. All the OT Writers were Prophets

7.1.2.1.4. D. The NT is the Apostles. Jesus Christ, the Son of God and his way of Life.

7.1.2.1.5. E. Habbakuk

7.1.2.1.6. F. Exodus

7.1.2.2. II. The Divine Author Inspired Human Authors and their Words

7.1.2.2.1. PS 1-2, The Son of God, the Blessed man.

7.1.2.3. III. The Bible is God's self-revelation, not simply a record of it.

7.1.2.3.1. Biography: What someone writes about someone else.

7.1.2.3.2. Autobiogrphy: What someone writes about themselves

7.1.2.3.3. Not a book about God that people have written about Him. It is a book about God written by what God has to sy of himself.

7.1.2.3.4. We are approaching the Bible as if we are the intended Audience. God is coming out from behind the curtain (condescention of God).

7.1.2.3.5. Biblical hermineutic recognizes that the meaning is in the text. Divinely inspired author has written what he has written with the intent in mind, being the self revelation of the Son of God.

7.1.2.3.6. Scripture is a purposeful creation of the divinely inspired author.

7.1.2.3.7. God speaks in and through the Bible.

7.1.2.3.8. Only voice of God that is trustworthy.

7.1.2.4. IV. Inspiration

7.1.2.4.1. A. We Call this "Plenary Verbal" Inspiration

7.1.2.4.2. B. Dynamic Inspiration

7.1.2.4.3. C. Mechanical Inspiration

7.1.2.4.4. D. Not Piercing the TExt

7.1.2.5. Nothing behind text we are interested in. Things that help us understand that text, but whats behind we're not interested in, in this sense: If you had a copy of a dvd of Jesus preaching, it would not be more valuable to you then the text of Scripture. God reveals himself in the text. You get the fullness of the Revelation of God by reading the Book. We don't want to get behind and pierce through the text as if it is only a WINDOW to the real world. The Bible is not a window. Sometimes we treat it that way. If we treat it as a window, in practice it becomes that way. The Bible is a mural on the wall. Not a looking glass you see through, but the mural you look at.

7.1.2.5.1. EXP: The Psalms. What was going on when David wrote Psalm 8.

7.1.2.6. What presuppositions are we going to bring to the text?

7.1.2.6.1. What we have confessed at Baptism: As a Christian.

7.1.2.6.2. Presuppositions does not determine meaning.

7.1.2.6.3. Grammar leads to meaning. The text itself does.

7.1.2.6.4. EXP: Presume that OT is about ancient Israel's relgion, when you pick it up and read it you will be looking simply for what the Old Testament Jews used to do. Then, if a Christian, you will ask what 'Principles' can we get out of this (we'll spiritualize the text instead of reading it with spiritual eyes).

7.1.2.6.5. P Does Not = M

7.1.2.6.6. G = M

7.1.2.6.7. How the author put the text together.

7.1.2.7. Solomon didn't build the temple. The son of David, the descendent who would build the temple is Jesus. That's why Jesus was saying that in three days he would build the temple. 2 Samuel is talking about a temple its the descendent, Jesus.

7.1.2.8. The presup we come with is the Gospel. We are Christians because the story of the Bible is that of the Gospel. We're Christians because that's the story of the Bible. Jesus and Paul read it that way. We don't come as skeptics to the Bible.

7.1.2.9. For the interperter, if the Bible is the revelation of God, and we're coming to hear the word of God, we read the Bible needing the illumination of the Spirit. For the significance of Scripture. This is not a spiritualist hermeneutic. Meaning is in the grammar. Need the Holy Spirit to work in your heart and see the significance, your response to it.

7.1.2.10. Three steps in interpretation (Life of...)

7.1.2.10.1. 1. Prayer

7.1.2.10.2. 2. Meditation

7.1.2.10.3. 3. Wrestling

7.1.2.10.4. These three take place in the community of faith. Dialouging with one another in this text. We want to work as wrestlers (interpreters of scripture) within the community. This is a spiritual text and we must approach it as spiritual beings of God. What it says it means, but the words on the page can be circled around to mean whatever they want to mean. Instead, we come together to read and listen to the words together.

7.1.2.10.5. We're coming as a man of prayer to listen/read the text. We're not sitting in judgment of the text but coming to listen to what the text has to say. We're not here to construct anything.

7.1.2.10.6. Hermeneutics is not what you do by yourself. You do it in community. Reading commentary is part of listening/engaging with the community.

7.1.2.11. 2 Sam

7.1.2.11.1. Consider Samuel in light of Judges (theme of Kingship, who is the king)

7.1.2.11.2. 1 Sam Trasition ch 7-8 israel emanding king.

7.1.2.11.3. Samuels sons not righteous judges.

7.1.2.11.4. 8 vv. 4-6

7.1.2.11.5. If we've been reading from Gen and looking for a seed and a son, we know Samuel's sons are deficient. Elders rejecting Samuel's sons. Neither promised son.

7.1.2.11.6. Gen 49:8-12, Judah your brothers shall praise you... Judah is a lion... scepter shall not depart from Judah... and to him will be the obedience of the people... ties his colt to the vine... blood of the grape..." This is all the blessing of Judah. Line of king coming from Judah. Connection of King and Son.

7.1.2.11.7. 1 Sam 8:5, People desire to imitate people (asking for a king)

7.1.2.11.8. Eclle 9:18

7.1.2.11.9. Discussion on God wanting to give a King of Peace, the people wanting to give a king of war.

7.1.2.11.10. What does this mean?

7.1.2.11.11. What does it signify?

7.1.2.12. V. Four Essential Guidelines for our Hermeneutic(Gramatical Theological Hermeneutic)

7.1.2.12.1. A. Canon of Scripture has one overriding scope: Son of God

7.1.2.12.2. B. World of the Bible is the Real World Where God is Free to Act Within His Creation and Interact With His Creation

7.1.2.12.3. C. The Bible's Intelligent Design Means That Meaning is Found in the Interconnectness and Innercohesian of the Bible

7.1.2.12.4. D. Proper Biblical Hermeneutics Is Always Clarified and Checked In Accordance With The Gospel

7.1.2.13. Exo 34, Joel 2, Jona 4h,2 Chro 30, Psalm 103, Nahum 1, Numbers 24

7.1.2.13.1. Identify the common textual connections. Why are they important?

7.1.2.13.2. David Porch, Albertville Alabama

7.1.2.13.3. Dereck Metkaf, Olathe Kansas

7.1.2.13.4. Daniel Drake, Burmingham Alabama

7.1.2.13.5. Shawn Robinson, Durham North Carolina

7.1.2.13.6. Exodus 34

7.1.2.13.7. Numbers 24

7.1.2.13.8. 2 Chron 30

7.1.2.13.9. Psalm 103

7.1.2.13.10. Joel 2

7.1.2.13.11. Nahum 1

7.1.2.13.12. As we observed, various common textual connections included a focus on the forgiveness of sins of the nations, the firstborn or lamb (ex 34:19-20), Garden language (Numb 24:6), kingly snf sonship language, passover connections, etc.

7.1.2.13.13. Father's disposition for the nations and a great need on the basis of the lostness of the people (paralleling God's just wrath with the slowness of his anger and great goodness of his love). There exists hints of this escatological forward-looking perspective which sets their eyes on the day to come, the "day of the Lord", the "trumpets." We have this passover language, this mentioning of the lamb, these references to a greater king, the lion of Judah, the one from the mountains who brings good news and will be cut off.

7.1.2.14. Matthew 4, Luke 4 (The Temptation)

7.1.2.14.1. Perspectivalism: What is true is based on that author (truth is based on author's perspective). Truth is based off one's perspective.

7.1.2.15. 12/3/2010

7.1.2.15.1. Construction

7.1.2.15.2. Literary Structures Discovered in the Texts

7.1.2.15.3. 1. Read the text, 2. Asked these questions of the text (including what is the literary techniques), along the way we've been gathering information. We have all this data now (inner cohesion, how it fits, etc), (3) Now we want to draw some initial conclusions about meaning and significance. At this point next is where you listen to other interpreters.

7.1.2.15.4. (1) Read, (2) Ask, (3) Draw Initial Conclusions

7.1.2.16. 12/9/2010

7.1.2.16.1. Why is Hermeneutics Important for Disciple-Making Leaders?

7.1.3. Readings

7.1.3.1. Klein, William W. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

7.1.3.1.1. PART I - THE TASK OF INTERPRETATION

7.1.3.1.2. PART II - THE INTERPRETER AND THE GOAL

7.1.3.1.3. PART III - UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE

7.1.3.1.4. PART IV. UNDERSTANDING BIBLE GENRES

7.1.3.1.5. PART V. THE FRUITS OF INTERPRETATION

7.1.4. Handouts

7.1.5. Study Guides

7.1.6. Email

7.1.6.1. Greetings Dr. McKinion, I'm currently a student of your Hermeneutics course. I have recently had some lively discussions with a very good Catholic friend of my (a current Law Student and former History Major). We have gone back and forth regarding the issue of the Canon, the nature of revelation (text-focus versus event focused), Inspiration of Scripture, and the list goes on. I was wondering if you were possible available in December to sit down with the two of us for possible a short lunch or some coffee. He will be visiting me and I would like him to meet a professor, and given his lines of questioning, he would probably enjoy asking some questions regarding the Canon and how one can consider themselves Protestant and still subscribe to the Rule of Faith. In his words, he cannot believe one can study the history of the early church and not become a Roman Catholic. Either way, I understand how busy you and all other professors are, and given it would be towards the end of December

8. CHAPTER 2 — CHRISTIAN ETHICS

8.1. ETH5100

8.1.1. ETH5100: Intro to Christian Ethics

8.1.2. Notes

8.1.3. Readings

8.1.3.1. Frame, John. The Doctrine of the Christian Life

8.1.3.2. Bridges, Jerry. The Gospel For Real Life

8.1.3.3. Leiderbach, Mark & Alvin Reid. The Convergent Church

8.1.3.4. Liederbach, Mark. Ethics as Worship: A Reading Packet with Class Notes

8.1.3.5. Rae, Scott. Moral Choices

8.1.4. Handouts

8.1.5. Study Guides

8.1.5.1. ETH5100 SG Final

8.2. ETH6550

8.2.1. ETH6550: Marriage and Family Foundations

8.2.2. Notes

8.2.2.1. I. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY UNDER FIRE

8.2.2.2. II. OLD TESTAMENT LESSONS ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

8.2.2.2.1. I. The First Family

8.2.2.2.2. II. The Founding Family

8.2.2.2.3. III. The Faithless Family

8.2.2.2.4. IV. The Faithful Family

8.2.2.2.5. V. The Featured Family

8.2.2.2.6. VI. The Fractured Family

8.2.2.3. III. NEW TESTAMENT LESSONS ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

8.2.2.3.1. I. Jesus' Teachings

8.2.2.3.2. II. Paul's Teachings

8.2.2.4. IV. MARRIAGE AS DIVINE COVENANT INSTITUTION

8.2.2.4.1. A. Key Bible Passage That Define Marriage as a Covenant

8.2.2.4.2. B. Definitions of Covenant

8.2.2.4.3. C. Two Kinds of Covenant Found in the Bible

8.2.2.4.4. D. Characteristics of Covenant Marriage in the Bible

8.2.2.4.5. E. Featured Elements of A Biblical Marriage Covenant

8.2.2.4.6. F. How the Marriage of Adam and Eve was a Covenant

8.2.2.4.7. G. Differences Between A Contract v. A Marriage Covenant

8.2.2.4.8. H. Implications For Christian Marriage

8.2.2.5. V. BIBLICAL TEACHING ON DIVORCE & REMARRIAGE

8.2.2.5.1. A. The Current Challenge

8.2.2.5.2. B. Confusion Over Biblical Teaching on Divorce & Remarriage

8.2.2.5.3. C. Different Evangelical Positions on Divorce & Remarriage

8.2.2.5.4. D. General Criticism of the Majority (Erasmian) Position

8.2.2.5.5. E. A Position That Solves All The Problems With the Majority (Erasmian) View

8.2.3. Readings

8.2.3.1. Heimbach, Daniel. True Sexual Morality

8.2.3.2. Piper, John. This Momentary Marriage

8.2.3.3. Huges, Kent & Barbara. Disciplines of a Godly Family

8.2.3.4. Zimmerman, Carle. Family and Civilization

8.2.3.5. Stanton, Glen & Bill Maier. Marriage on Trial

8.2.3.6. Heimbach, Daniel. Why Not Same-Sex Marriage? (draft manuscript)

8.2.4. Handouts

8.2.5. Study Guides

8.2.5.1. ETH6550 SG Final

8.3. ETH7620

8.3.1. ETH7620: Ethics and the State

8.3.2. Notes

8.3.2.1. I. VIEWS ON RELIGION AND POLITICS

8.3.2.1.1. I. Christ Against Culture

8.3.2.1.2. II. Christ of Culture

8.3.2.1.3. III. Christ Above Culture

8.3.2.1.4. IV. Christ And Culture in Paradox

8.3.2.1.5. V. Christ the Transformer of Culture

8.3.2.1.6. Graph

8.3.2.2. II. BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNMENT

8.3.2.2.1. I. Political Background of the New Testament

8.3.2.2.2. II. The Life and Teaching of Jesus in Relation to Civil Government

8.3.2.2.3. III. The Life and Teaching of Paul

8.3.2.3. III. MODELS OF CHURCH STATE INTERACTION

8.3.2.3.1. Introduction

8.3.2.3.2. 1. The nature of church-state interaction has been an issue throughout Church history 2. The spectrum has ranged from complete identification to radical separation 3. In American history, church-state interaction has gone from very near the “identification pole” (as in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) to very near the “radical separation pole” (as promoted by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Baptist Joint Committee) 4. The greatest tension and conflict usually arises when government is very near one extreme or the other (not when government is more or less in the middle) 5. The only exception to this is when God is actually governing society himself (as in the theocracy of Israel) and most of the population is actually faithful to his rule (as in the early generations of Israel) 6. But when a significant faction arises that does not accept or follow the same religious order, or a significant number of non-believers moves into the same region, then tremendous tensions arise for a government at either extreme 7. Church-state issues were hotly contested in colonial America when the colonial governments were very close to completely identifying church and state 8. Church-state issues were hardly mentioned at all from the beginning of the United States of America until the middle of the 20th century 9. But today church-state issues are again extremely volatile because American law and government is getting very close to radical separation of church and state

8.3.2.3.3. A. The Judges Model

8.3.2.3.4. A. The Davidic Model

8.3.2.3.5. B. The Constantinian Model

8.3.2.3.6. C. The Catholic Model

8.3.2.3.7. D. The Anabaptist Model

8.3.2.3.8. E. The Lutheran Model

8.3.2.3.9. F. The Reformed Model

8.3.2.3.10. G. The Triumphant Secularist Model

8.3.2.3.11. H. The American Model (SOS)

8.3.2.4. IV. THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES ON GOD & GOVERNMENT (Reformed Tradition)

8.3.2.4.1. A. The Bible is the final and authority for all areas of life, including politics and government

8.3.2.4.2. B. All morality (including morality in politics) comes from God, not from men

8.3.2.4.3. C. Human nature is fallen and we cannot perfect ourselves by any means

8.3.2.4.4. D. Salvation (reconciliation with God resulting in moral/spiritual transformation) cannot be achieved through politics

8.3.2.4.5. E. The moral purpose of human government is to uphold justice

8.3.2.4.6. F. Christians have both a moral/cultural mandate as well as a spiritual/evangelistic mandate to pursue in this world

8.3.2.4.7. G. All human government is under the moral rule of Jesus Christ

8.3.2.4.8. H. All human freedom on earth is under God and responsible to God

8.3.2.4.9. I. Society cannot (and never will) be perfected by human effort through politics

8.3.2.4.10. J. All Christians, not just a select few, are responsible to have a moral influence on politics

8.3.2.4.11. K. Politics and religion are inseparable, because religion and morality are inseparable

8.3.2.5. V. THE CRISES OF MORAL AUTHORITY IN AMERICA

8.3.2.5.1. Source: Os Guinness. The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith. New York: Free Press, 1993

8.3.2.5.2. A. What Is at Stake: Survival of the Public Square

8.3.2.5.3. B. Weakening Faiths: The Crisis of American National Identity

8.3.2.5.4. C. Warring Faiths: The Crisis of American Public Philosophy

8.3.2.6. VI. THEONOMY

8.3.2.6.1. Source: Gary Scott Smith, ed., God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1989)

8.3.2.6.2. Opening Comments:

8.3.2.6.3. I. Introduction

8.3.2.6.4. II. General Description

8.3.2.7. VII. NATIONAL CONFESSIONALISM

8.3.2.7.1. Source: Gary Scott Smith, ed., God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1989).

8.3.2.7.2. I. Introduction

8.3.2.7.3. II. General Description

8.3.2.8. VIII. CHRISTIAN AMERICA

8.3.2.8.1. Source: Gary Scott Smith, ed., God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1989).

8.3.2.8.2. I. Introduction

8.3.2.8.3. II. General Description

8.3.2.9. IX. PRINCIPLED PLURALISM

8.3.2.9.1. Source: Gary Scott Smith, ed., God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1989)

8.3.2.9.2. I. Introduction

8.3.2.9.3. II. General Description

8.3.2.10. X. FOUR VIEWS ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

8.3.2.10.1. John Courtney Murray, Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism, ed. by J. Leon Hooper (Westminster/John Knox Press: Louisville, Kentucky, 1993) Michael Novak, The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Free Press/Macmillan: New York, 1993) Daniel R. Heimbach, “Contrasting Views of Religious Liberty: Clarifying the Relationship Between Responsible Government and the Freedom of Religion,” Journal of Law and Religion, 11/2 (1994–95): 715–31

8.3.2.10.2. I. THE NEED FOR CLARIFICATION

8.3.2.10.3. II. CLARIFYING THE IDEA: Why Liberty? What Liberty? Whose Liberty?

8.3.2.10.4. III. FOUR CONCEPTS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (as concerns religious institutions and individuals)

8.3.2.10.5. IV. RELATING THE FOUR CONCEPTS TO HUMAN GOVERNMENT

8.3.2.10.6. V. CONCLUSIONS REGARDING MORAL GOVERNMENT & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

8.3.2.11. XI. CHURCH & STATE IN KARL BARTH

8.3.2.11.1. Sources

8.3.2.11.2. General Overview

8.3.2.11.3. I. Gospel and Law (Evangelium und Gesetz): written in 1935, was intended as a farewell address to Christians in Germany composed for presentation in a church with the Gestapo police monitoring every word

8.3.2.11.4. II. Church and State (Kirke und Stadt), originally Justification and Justice (Rechtfertigung und Rect), written in 1939, was written to further develop his earlier political theology but in a way that more openly expressed criticism of political oppression and theological compromise. WW2 was raging but Bart was out of Germany and teaching in Basel, Switzerland

8.3.2.11.5. III. The Christian Community and the Civil Community (Christengemeinde und Bürgerge- meinde, written in 1946 just after WW2 ended (September 2, 1945) and just as Barth began calling for German penitence and reconciliation with the rest of the world

8.3.2.12. XII. THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION: A CALL TO CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE

8.3.2.13. XIII. THE MOUNT VERNON STATEMENT

8.3.2.14. XIV. THE ERLC LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR 2010

8.3.2.15. XV. MILITARY CHAPLAINS IN THE CROSSFIRE

8.3.2.16. BARRET DUKE VISIT

8.3.2.16.1. Brochure.

8.3.2.16.2. ERLC staff of about 20. One of the largest representations in Congress.

8.3.2.16.3. [email protected]

8.3.2.17. Key Thought Process

8.3.2.17.1. Not Have Civil Power

8.3.2.17.2. Do Have Civil Power

8.3.2.17.3. Civil Rule by Christ's Power (in Christ's 'name)

8.3.2.17.4. SCRIPTURE

8.3.2.18. Final Exam

8.3.2.18.1. Memory portion (four verses 1 sam)

8.3.2.18.2. Objective multiple choice, t/f, fill in blank, 80

8.3.2.18.3. Short essays (identify & discuss)

8.3.2.18.4. Longer essay: Focused on issue of don't ask don't tell. Essay analyzing this issue.

8.3.2.19. MEMORY VERSE

8.3.2.19.1. These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel’s singer of songs: The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.’” 2 Samuel 23:1-4/NIV

8.3.3. Readings

8.3.3.1. Niebuhr, Richard H. Christ & Culture

8.3.3.1.1. 1. The Enduring Problem

8.3.3.1.2. 2. Christ Against Culture

8.3.3.1.3. 3. The Christ of Culture

8.3.3.1.4. 4. Christ Above Culture

8.3.3.1.5. 5. Christ and Culture in Paradox

8.3.3.1.6. 6. Christ the Transformer of Culture

8.3.3.1.7. 7. A "Concluding Unscientific Postscript"

8.3.3.2. Smith, Gary S. Church and Politics: Four Views

8.3.3.3. Kemeny, P. C. Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views

8.3.3.4. White, Deusing & Yarnell. First Freedom: The Baptist Perspective

8.3.3.5. Barth, Karl. Community, State and Church

8.3.4. Handouts

8.3.4.1. ETH7620 Syllabus

8.3.5. Study Guides

8.3.6. Professor Contact

8.3.6.1. Dr. Daniel R. Heimbach

8.3.6.2. [email protected]

8.3.6.3. 919-761-2160

8.3.6.4. 324 Patterson Hall

8.4. ETH7610

8.4.1. ETH7610: Religion, Law, and Morality

8.4.2. Notes

8.4.2.1. BIBLE VERSUS FROM GOD DECLARING WHAT IS MORAL AND A MATTER OF LAW

8.4.2.1.1. Ps 89:14-15. 'Righteousness [moral purity as measured by his moral law] and justice [moral duty or norm] are the foundation of your throne. Love and faithfulness go before you [matters of character which is the way he administers righteousness and justice] blessed are those who acclaim you and walk in the righteousness of your presence." God ruling everybody under his authority in a way that is MORAL BECAUSE THAT IS WHO HE IS.

8.4.2.1.2. 2 Sam 23:3. "He that rulleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God." Statement regarding people who will function in government. You do it in accordance to the True Religion.

8.4.2.2. L1. INTRODUCTION

8.4.2.2.1. Scripture Ps1:1-6

8.4.2.3. L2-4. LES MISERABLES

8.4.2.3.1. SCENE 1

8.4.2.3.2. SCENE 2: TOULON

8.4.2.3.3. SCENE 3: 1815

8.4.2.3.4. SCENE 4: MONTEIS SUR MONTEIS

8.4.2.3.5. SCENE 5: PARIS

8.4.2.3.6. SCENE 6: TRAIL

8.4.2.3.7. SCENE 7: JOHN ESCAPES

8.4.2.3.8. SCENE 8: THE IN OF THE THENARDIERS

8.4.2.3.9. SCENE 9: JOHN COMES TO PARIS

8.4.2.3.10. SCENE 10: TEN YEARS LATER

8.4.2.3.11. SCENE 11: AFTER THE ESCAPE

8.4.2.3.12. DISCUSSION

8.4.2.3.13. I. Religion-Law-Morality Involves a Network of Competing Relationships

8.4.2.3.14. II. Religion, Law and Morality Involves a Network of Competing Authorities

8.4.2.4. L5-10. RELIGION, LAW AND MORALITY IN THE BIBLE

8.4.2.4.1. I. Types of Law in the Bible

8.4.2.4.2. II. Uses (Functions) of Law in the Bible

8.4.2.4.3. III. God, Morality and Law in the Bible

8.4.2.4.4. IV. Justice and Mercy in Biblical Perspective

8.4.2.4.5. V. Justice and Worship as Revealed in Amos 5:7-24

8.4.2.4.6. VI. Accountability, Judgment and Punishment

8.4.2.5. L11. ROOTS OF THE WESTERN LEGAL TRADITION

8.4.2.5.1. Sources:

8.4.2.5.2. I. Early Developments in English and American Law

8.4.2.5.3. II. The Influence of Christianity on Western (Especially English & American) Law

8.4.2.6. L12-15?

8.4.2.7. L16. PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS OF LAW

8.4.2.7.1. I. Various Definitions of Law

8.4.2.7.2. II. Other Key Terms

8.4.2.8. L17-21. THEORIES OF NATURAL LAW

8.4.2.8.1. I. General Definition

8.4.2.8.2. II. Various Ideas Under the Umbrella of NATURAL LAW

8.4.2.8.3. III. Thomas Aquinas & His “Theological” Version of NATURAL LAW

8.4.2.8.4. IV. Jacques Ellul & His “Historical Stage” Version of NATURAL LAW Source: Jacques Ellul. The Theological Foundations of Law. New York: Doubleday, 1960

8.4.2.9. L22-26. THEORIES OF LEGAL POSITIVISM

8.4.2.9.1. I. General Definition

8.4.2.9.2. II. Various Ideas Under the Umbrella of LEGAL POSITIVISM

8.4.2.9.3. III. LEGAL POSITIVISM on the Relation of Morality and Law

8.4.2.9.4. IV. John L. Austin—The “Imperative” Theory of LEGAL POSITIVISM [Early 19 century th British legal theorist; lived 1790-1859]

8.4.2.9.5. V. Oliver Wendell Holmes—The “Predictive” Theory of LEGAL POSITIVISM. [Late 19th century U. S. Supreme Court Justice; lived 1809-1894]

8.4.2.9.6. VI. Hans Kelsen—The “Coercive” Theory of LEGAL POSITIVISM [An early 20 century German-American legal theorist. Born in 1881] th

8.4.2.9.7. VII. H. L. A. Hart—The “Integrative” Theory of LEGAL POSITIVISM [Middle 20 century British legal theorist. Born in 1907]th

8.4.2.10. L27-29. CAN NATURAL LAW AND LEGAL POSITIVISM BE RECONCILED?

8.4.2.10.1. INITIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

8.4.2.10.2. I. Concerns Proponents of NATURAL LAW and LEGAL POSITIVISM Usually Share

8.4.2.10.3. II. Principles of NATURAL LAW and LEGAL POSITIVISM That Are Definitely Contrary to One Another

8.4.2.10.4. III. The Principles of NATURAL LAW and LEGAL POSITIVISM as They Relate to Belief in God and the Idea of Divine Law

8.4.2.10.5. IV. Outline for a More Comprehensive Understanding of Morality and Law

8.4.2.11. L30-32. POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF KARL BARTH

8.4.2.11.1. Sources

8.4.2.11.2. General Overview:

8.4.2.11.3. I. Gospel and Law (Evangelium und Gesetz), written in 1935, was intended as a farewell address to Christians in Germany composed for presentation in a church with the Gestapo police monitoring every word

8.4.2.11.4. II. Church and State (Kirke und Stadt), originally Justification and Justice (Rechtfertigung und Rect), written in 1939, was written to further develop his earlier political theology but in a way that more openly expressed criticism of political oppression and theological compromise. WW2 was raging but Bart was out of Germany and teaching in Basel, Switzerland

8.4.2.11.5. III. The Christian Community and the Civil Community (Christengemeinde und Bürgerge- meinde, written in 1946 just after WW2 ended (September 2, 1945) and just as Bart began calling for German penitence and reconciliation with the rest of the world

8.4.3. Readings

8.4.3.1. Harold Berman. The Interaction of Law and Religion (Abingdon, 1974)

8.4.3.2. Martin Golding. Philosophy of Law (Prentice-Hall, 1975)

8.4.3.2.1. INTRODUCTION: THE SCOPE OF LEGAL PHILOSOPHY

8.4.3.2.2. I. THE NATURE OF LAW: PROBLEMS

8.4.3.2.3. II. THE NATURE OF LAW: THEORIES

8.4.3.2.4. III. THE LIMITS OF LAW

8.4.3.3. David Lyons. Ethics and the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 1984)

8.4.3.3.1. INTRODUCTION

8.4.3.3.2. I. MORAL JUDGMENT AND THE LAW

8.4.3.3.3. II. LAW AS SOCIAL FACT

8.4.3.3.4. III. MORALITY IN LAW

8.4.3.4. Robert George. Making Men Moral (Clarendon, 1993)

8.4.3.5. Karl Barth. Community, State, and Church (Wipf & Stock, 2004)

8.4.3.6. Boxx & Quinlivan. Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and ... Liberalism (Eerdmans, 2000)

8.4.3.7. Jacques Ellul. The Theological Foundation of Law (professor will provide)

8.4.3.7.1. INTRODUCTION

8.4.3.7.2. PRELIMINARY CHAPTER: NATURAL LAW CONSIDERED AS FACT OF HISTORY

8.4.3.7.3. CHAPTER 1: THE DIVINE LAW

8.4.3.7.4. CHAPTER 2: NATURAL LAW AND DIVINE LAW

8.4.3.7.5. CHAPTER 3: DIVINE LAW AND HUMAN LAWS

8.4.3.7.6. CHAPTER 4: LAW, STATE, AND CHURCH

8.4.3.7.7. CONCLUSION

8.4.3.8. Daniel Heimbach. The Moral Accountability of Law (professor will provide)

8.4.4. Handouts

8.4.5. Study Guides

8.5. ETH7503

8.6. ETH7630

8.6.1. ETH7630: War & Peace

8.6.2. Notes

8.6.3. Readings

8.6.4. Handouts

8.6.5. Study Guides

9. CHAPTER 3 — BIBLICAL LANGUAGES

9.1. HEB5100

9.1.1. HEB5100: Biblical Hebrew I

9.1.2. Notes

9.1.3. Readings

9.1.3.1. Rose, Alan P. Introducing Biblical Hebrew

9.1.3.1.1. PART 1: SIGNS AND SOUNDS

9.1.3.1.2. PART 2: FORMS AND MEANINGS

9.1.3.1.3. PART 3: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

9.1.3.1.4. PART 4: STUDY AIDS

9.1.4. Handouts

9.1.5. Study Guides

9.2. GRK6500

9.2.1. GRK6500: Greek III

9.2.2. Notes

9.2.3. Readings

9.2.4. Handouts

9.2.5. Study Guides

10. CHAPTER 4 — CHURCH HISTORY & MISSIONS

10.1. HIS5110

10.1.1. HIS5110: Church History I - Early Church to Reformation

10.1.2. Notes

10.1.3. Readings

10.1.3.1. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity I

10.1.3.2. McKinion, S.A. Life and Practice in the Early Church

10.1.4. Handouts

10.1.5. Study Guides

10.1.5.1. HIS5120 SG Final

10.2. HIS5120

10.2.1. HIS5120: Church History II - Reformation to Modern

10.2.2. Notes

10.2.3. Readings

10.2.3.1. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity II: The Reformation to the Present

10.2.3.2. Collison, Patrick. The Reformation: A History.

10.2.3.3. Noll, Mark A. The Old Religion in the New World: A History of North American Christianity

10.2.3.4. Finn, Nathan A., ed. Readings in Church History: Reformation and Modern Era

10.2.4. Handouts

10.2.5. Study Guides

10.2.5.1. HIS5120 SG Midterm

10.3. HIS5300

10.3.1. HIS5300: Baptist History

10.3.2. Notes

10.3.3. Readings

10.3.3.1. Dallimore, Arnold. Spurgeon. A New Biography

10.3.3.1.1. PART 1: THE PREPARATION OF THE MAN (1834-1854)

10.3.3.1.2. PART 2: THE FIRST YEARS IN LONDON (1855-1864)

10.3.3.1.3. PART 3: THE LONG PERIOD OF MATURE MINISTRY (1861-1886)

10.3.3.1.4. PART 4: THE FINAL YEARS (1887-1892)

10.3.3.2. Wills, Gregory. Democratic Religion.

10.3.3.2.1. 1. DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSIVISM

10.3.3.2.2. 2. DEMOCRACIES PRIMITIVE AND PURE

10.3.3.2.3. 3. DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITY

10.3.3.2.4. 4. DEMOCRACY, RACE, AND GENDER

10.3.3.2.5. 5. AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES

10.3.3.2.6. 6. FREEDOM, AUTHORITY AND DOCTRINE

10.3.3.2.7. 7. ASSOCIATIONS, CREEDS, AND CALVINISM

10.3.3.2.8. 8. DEMOCRATIC RELIGION TRANSFORMED

10.3.3.2.9. CONCLUSION

10.3.3.3. Morgan, David. The New Crusades The New Holy Land

10.3.3.3.1. I. SBC ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT TO 1979: AN OVERVIEW

10.3.3.3.2. II. THE FIRST CRUSADE: A SCARCITY OF FUNDS AND FOLLOWERS, 1969-1979

10.3.3.3.3. III. THE SECOND CRUSADE: IN THE TRENCHES, 1979-1984

10.3.3.3.4. IV. THE SECOND CRUSADE: SHOWDOWN AT DALLAS AND THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR PEACE, 1985-1987

10.3.3.3.5. V. THE SECOND CRUSADE: THE MODERATES' LAST STAND, 1988-1990

10.3.3.3.6. VI. THE FUNDAMENTALIST PURGES

10.3.3.3.7. VII. THE IMPACT OF THE NEW CRUSADES ON SOUTHERN BAPTIST INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING

10.3.3.3.8. VIII. ISSUES OTHER THAN INERRANCY RAISED BY THE FUNDAMENTALIST CRUSADES

10.3.3.3.9. IX. AFTER NEW ORLEANS: THE CRUSADERS CONSOLIDATE THEIR POWER, 1990-1991

10.3.3.4. Stutton, Jerry. The Baptist Reformation: The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention

10.3.3.4.1. PART I. THE WAY THINGS WERE

10.3.3.4.2. PART II. THE WAY THE CONVENTION CHANGED

10.3.3.4.3. PART III. THE WAY CONVENTION INSTITUTIONS CHANGED

10.3.3.4.4. PART IV. WHY THINGS CHANGED: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

10.3.4. Handouts

10.3.5. Study Guides

10.3.6. Papers

10.3.6.1. Book Review: Dallimore's Spurgeon

10.3.6.1.1. REQUIREMENTS

10.3.6.1.2. OUTLINE

10.3.6.2. Book Review: Will's Democratic Religion

10.3.6.2.1. REQUIREMENTS

10.3.6.2.2. OUTLINE

10.3.6.3. Book Review: The Controversy

10.3.6.3.1. REQUIREMENTS

10.3.6.3.2. PAPER OUTLINE

10.3.6.3.3. BOOK OUTLINES

10.4. MIS5100

10.4.1. MIS5100: Introduction to Missions

10.4.2. Notes

10.4.2.1. Intro: The Harvest

10.4.2.1.1. Mt 9:35-10:5

10.4.2.1.2. 1 Cor 3:6

10.4.2.1.3. Mk 4:14-20

10.4.2.1.4. Mt 10:11

10.4.2.1.5. Mt 10:16

10.4.2.1.6. Mt 10:35-39

10.4.2.1.7. Lk 10:1

10.4.2.1.8. Jn 4:27-41

10.4.2.1.9. Two Encouragments:

10.4.2.2. Intro: Conversion

10.4.2.2.1. Conversion is the process of transformation which occurs as an individual turns to Christ in humble surrender, encountering Him by the power of God.

10.4.2.2.2. I. Preparation

10.4.2.2.3. II. Proclamation

10.4.2.2.4. III. Response

10.4.2.2.5. IV. Surrender

10.4.2.2.6. V. Transformation

10.4.2.2.7. VI. Congregational Incorporation

10.4.2.3. I. Missiology, Missions in the OT

10.4.2.4. II. Missions in the NT

10.4.2.5. III. Missions Theology and History

10.4.2.6. IV. Missions and the Missionary Call

10.4.2.7. V. Missionary Preparation

10.4.2.8. VI. Challenges for Missionaries

10.4.2.9. VII. Cross Cultural Issues

10.4.2.10. VIII. Partnerships and Spiritual Warfare

10.4.2.11. IX. World Religions

10.4.3. Readings

10.4.4. Handouts

10.4.5. Study Guides

11. CHAPTER 5 — BIBLICAL STUDIES

11.1. OTS5110

11.1.1. OTS5110: Old Testament I

11.1.2. Notes

11.1.3. Readings

11.1.3.1. Archer, Gleason. A Survey of the Old Testament Introduction

11.1.3.2. Dempster, Stephen G. Dominion and Dynasty.

11.1.4. Handouts

11.1.5. Study Guides

11.2. OTS5120

11.2.1. OTS5120: Old Testament II

11.2.2. Notes

11.2.3. Readings

11.2.3.1. Archer, Gleason. A Survey of the Old Testament Introduction

11.2.3.2. Dempster, Stephen G. Dominion and Dynasty.

11.2.4. Handouts

11.2.5. Study Guides

11.2.5.1. OTS5120 SG Exam 1

11.2.5.2. OTS5120 SG Exam 2

11.3. NTS5110

11.3.1. NTS5110: Jesus and the Gospels

11.3.2. Notes

11.3.2.1. I. MARK

11.3.2.1.1. Outline

11.3.2.2. I. NEW TESTAMENT CANON

11.3.2.2.1. A. Definition of "Canon"

11.3.2.2.2. B. The early church possessed a “canon” from very early in its history.

11.3.2.2.3. C. The writing of the NT

11.3.2.2.4. D. The order of the NT: It is not based upon chronological considerations.

11.3.2.2.5. E. The establishment of the NT canon

11.3.2.2.6. F. Chapter and Verse Divisions

11.3.2.3. II. INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD (400 BC - 4 BC)

11.3.2.3.1. A. Introduction

11.3.2.3.2. B. History

11.3.2.3.3. C. Religion

11.3.2.4. III. THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM

11.3.2.4.1. A. Background

11.3.2.4.2. B. Possible Solutions to the Synoptic Problem

11.3.2.4.3. C. Arguments in favor of the Two Document Hypothesis (Priority of Mark)

11.3.2.4.4. D. Appears to be a Written Source.

11.3.2.5. IV. THE HISTORY OF MODERN CRITICISM

11.3.2.5.1. A. Textual Criticism

11.3.2.5.2. B. Quests for the Historical Jesus

11.3.2.5.3. C. Source Criticism: The Synoptic Problem

11.3.2.5.4. D. Form Criticism

11.3.2.5.5. E. Redaction Criticism

11.3.2.6. V. THE FOUR GOSPELS

11.3.2.6.1. A. The Gospel of MARK

11.3.2.6.2. B. The Gospel of MATTHEW

11.3.2.6.3. C. The Gospel of LUKE

11.3.2.6.4. D. The Gospel of John

11.3.2.7. VI. THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JESUS

11.3.2.7.1. A. Non-Christian Sources for the Life of Jesus

11.3.2.7.2. B. Christian Sources for the Life of Jesus

11.3.2.7.3. C. Chronology of Jesus' Life

11.3.2.8. VII. THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS

11.3.2.8.1. A. The Method of Jesus’ Teaching

11.3.2.8.2. B. The Message of Jesus’ Teaching

11.3.3. Readings

11.3.3.1. Kostenberger, Andreas. The Cradle, The Cross, and the Crown

11.3.3.1.1. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

11.3.3.1.2. PART TWO: JESUS AND THE GOSPELS

11.3.3.1.3. PART THREE: THE EARLY CHURCH AND PAUL

11.3.3.1.4. PART FOUR: THE GENERAL EPISTLES AND REVELATION

11.3.3.1.5. PART FIVE: CONCLUSION

11.3.3.2. Longenecker, Bruce. The Lost Letters of Pergamum

11.3.3.2.1. I. ANCIENT CUSTOMS

11.3.3.2.2. II. IMPORTANT PEOPLE

11.3.3.2.3. III. IMPORTANT GROUPS

11.3.3.2.4. IV. BIBLICAL CONCEPTS

11.3.4. Handouts

11.3.5. Study Guides

11.4. NTS5120

11.4.1. NTS5120: New Testament II

11.4.2. Notes

11.4.2.1. ACTS

11.4.2.1.1. I. Introduction

11.4.2.1.2. II. Author:  The author of Acts is the same as the author of the Gospel of Luke

11.4.2.1.3. III. Audience (Luke 1:1-4)c

11.4.2.1.4. IV. Date

11.4.2.1.5. V. Structure

11.4.2.1.6. VI. Purposes

11.4.2.1.7. VII. The Historical Accuracy of Acts

11.4.2.1.8. VIII. Interpreting Acts

11.4.2.1.9. IX. Key Events

11.4.2.2. THE APOSTLE PAUL

11.4.2.2.1. I. Before He Became a Christian

11.4.2.2.2. II. How Did Paul Become a Christian?

11.4.2.2.3. III. After He Became a Christian

11.4.2.3. EPISTOLARY LITERATURE

11.4.2.3.1. I. INTRODUCTION

11.4.2.3.2. II. FORM OF LETTERS

11.4.2.3.3. III. GROUPS OF LETTER

11.4.2.3.4. IV. INTERPRETING LETTERS

11.4.2.4. ROMANS

11.4.2.4.1. I. IS ROMANS REALLY THE GREATEST LETTER EVER WRITTEN?

11.4.2.4.2. II. AUTHORSHIP (1:1; 16:22)

11.4.2.4.3. III. OCCASION & DATE

11.4.2.4.4. IV. RECIPIENTS

11.4.2.4.5. V. PURPOSE

11.4.2.4.6. VI. THEME

11.4.2.4.7. VII. OUTLINE

11.4.2.5. THE CORINTHIAN CORRESPONDENCE

11.4.2.5.1. I. The City of Corinth

11.4.2.5.2. II. The Church of Corinth

11.4.2.5.3. III. Paul’s Letters to Corinth 

11.4.2.6. 1 CORINTHIANS

11.4.2.6.1. I. OCCASION AND PURPOSE

11.4.2.6.2. II. THEME

11.4.2.6.3. III. OUTLINE

11.4.2.6.4. IV. PROBLEMS WITH 11:8-9

11.4.2.7. 2 CORINTHIANS

11.4.2.7.1. I. OCCASION

11.4.2.7.2. II. PURPOSE

11.4.2.7.3. III. FALSE TEACHERS IN CORINTH

11.4.2.8. GALATIANS

11.4.2.8.1. I. AUTHOR (1:1, 5:2)

11.4.2.8.2. II. RECIPIENTS

11.4.2.8.3. III. DATE

11.4.2.8.4. IV. OCCASION & PURPOSE

11.4.2.8.5. V. THEME

11.4.2.8.6. VI. OUTLINE

11.4.3. Readings

11.4.3.1. Kostenberger, Andreas. The Cradle, The Cross, and the Crown

11.4.3.1.1. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

11.4.3.1.2. PART TWO: JESUS AND THE GOSPELS

11.4.3.1.3. PART THREE: THE EARLY CHURCH AND PAUL

11.4.3.1.4. PART FOUR: THE GENERAL EPISTLES AND REVELATION

11.4.3.1.5. PART FIVE: CONCLUSION

11.4.3.2. Merkle, Benjamin. Why Elders?

11.4.3.2.1. SELECTING AN ELDER

11.4.3.2.2. ELDERS AND STAFF

11.4.3.2.3. Some staff members should be elders

11.4.3.2.4. Responsibilities of the Church pg. 39

11.4.4. Handouts

11.4.5. Study Guides

12. CHAPTER 6 — CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

12.1. PHI5100

12.1.1. PHI5100: Intro to Christian Philosophy

12.1.2. Notes

12.1.3. Readings

12.1.3.1. Rachels, James. Problems from Philosophy

12.1.3.2. Meister, Chad. Introducting Philosophy of Religion

12.1.3.3. Copan, Paul & William Lane Craig. Contending with Christianity's Critics

12.1.4. Handouts

12.1.5. Study Guides

12.1.5.1. PHI5100 SG Exam 2

12.1.5.2. PHI5100 SG Exam 3

12.2. PHI7550

12.2.1. PHI7550: Critical Thinking and Argumentation

12.2.2. Notes

12.2.2.1. I. SOCRATIC LOGIC

12.2.2.1.1. Chapter 2 Sections 1 & 2

12.2.2.2. II. FALLACIES OF LANGUAGE

12.2.2.2.1. FallacyFiles.com

12.2.2.2.2. Equivocation

12.2.2.2.3. Amphiboly

12.2.2.2.4. Accent:

12.2.2.2.5. Slanting

12.2.2.3. III. FALLACIES OF DIVERSION

12.2.2.3.1. Ad Verecundium

12.2.2.3.2. Ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)

12.2.2.3.3. Appeal to Pity

12.2.2.3.4. Appeal to Shame

12.2.2.3.5. Appeal to Popularity

12.2.2.3.6. Appeal to Ignorance

12.2.2.4. IV. FALLACIES OF OVERSIMPLIFICATION

12.2.2.4.1. Composition

12.2.2.4.2. Division

12.2.2.4.3. Quoting out of Context

12.2.2.4.4. Stereoptying

12.2.2.5. V. FALLACIES OF ARGUMENTATION

12.2.2.5.1. Non Sequitur

12.2.2.5.2. Begging the Question

12.2.2.5.3. Refuting an Argument refutes its conclusion

12.2.2.5.4. Substituting Explanations for Proofs

12.2.2.5.5. Shifting the Burden of Proof

12.2.2.5.6. Answering Another Argument than the one Given

12.2.2.6. VI. RELATIVISM

12.2.2.6.1. 1. A proposition is true "for a person" -- It is not simply a true proposition.

12.2.2.6.2. 2. There is a sense in which we can "make" a proposition true, or make our own reality

12.2.2.6.3. 3. Stronger Relativist claim

12.2.2.6.4. 4. Must distinguish what it is for a proposition to be true and what it means to determine that a belief is true (justification)

12.2.2.6.5. 5. Other concerns:

12.2.2.7. VII. CORRESPONDENCE

12.2.2.7.1. 1. In order for a proposition to be true, there must be a correspondence (or mapping) of the features of the world and the propositions representing the world.

12.2.2.7.2. 2. Truth arises from features contained within the world, and can be such without there being any human minds to discover it.

12.2.2.7.3. 3. A statement may be "approximately true -- the relation between our mental representations os the world and the world itself may be "more or less accurate."

12.2.2.7.4. 4. Difficulties:

12.2.2.8. COHERENCE

12.2.2.8.1. 1.

12.2.2.8.2. 2. Coherence can be a logical relations or by a list of formal inferences, but is normally typified by systematic interconnectedness of statements

12.2.2.8.3. 3. Coherence seems more a matter of justification than it does truth.

12.2.2.9. PRAGMATISM

12.2.2.9.1. 1. A statement is true if ti is useful in some way, where useful means cognitive usefulness for unifying our experiences of the world.

12.2.2.9.2. 2. It is a relativist theory of truth b/c relevant kinds of usefulness vary from one person culture to the next.

12.2.2.9.3. 3. It is possible for a belief to be useful and still false (consider the false belief that the government is going to arrest anyone with outstanding debt...)

12.2.2.9.4. 4. Perhaps make a category confusion: something is not true b/c it is useful, it is useful b/c it is true.

12.2.2.10. THE TRADITIONAL SQUARE OF OPPOSITION

12.2.2.11. TESTING TRUTH: SLYLLOGISM, STANDARD FORM

12.2.2.11.1. Minor Term: Subject

12.2.2.11.2. Major Term: Predicate

12.2.2.11.3. Middle Term: Distributed between subject and predicate

12.2.2.11.4. A. Look for Quantifiers (All, No, Some. Either Universal or Particular)

12.2.2.11.5. B. Copulas (Are, Are not, Is

12.2.2.11.6. C. AEIO determine mood of argument

12.2.2.12. TESTING FORM

12.2.2.12.1. Ven Diagram (1, 234, 567)

12.2.2.12.2. 1. All C are U

12.2.2.12.3. 2. Some U are I

12.2.2.12.4. 3. Some I are C

12.2.2.12.5. Middle term: U. Place it at the top of the ven diagram (1)

12.2.2.12.6. Take 3., subject and pradicate terms I and C, and place them at (5) and (7)

12.2.2.12.7. Always diagram universally propositions first. 1. has a universal.

12.2.2.12.8. Represent Particulars with an X.

12.2.2.12.9. INVALID INFERENCE

12.2.2.13. INTRODUCTION TO INDUCTION

12.2.2.13.1. A. Deduction and Induction

12.2.2.13.2. B. Induction

12.2.2.13.3. C. Nature of Probable Conclusions

12.2.2.13.4. D. Statistical Probability

12.2.2.13.5. E. Empirical Probability

12.2.2.13.6. F. Kinds of Probability

12.2.2.14. CAUSES

12.2.2.14.1. Confusing Different Types of Causes

12.2.2.15. ENTHYMEMES

12.2.2.15.1. A. A Syllogism with one of its three propositions implied but not stated.

12.2.2.15.2. B. The informal method of reasoning typical of rhetorical discourse. The enthymeme is sometimes defined as a "truncated syllogism" since either the major or minor premise found in that more formal method of reasoning is left implied. The enthymeme typically occurs as a conclusion coupled with a reason. When several enthymemes are linked together, this becomes sorites.

12.2.2.15.3. C. EXAMPLE

12.2.2.15.4. D. EXAMPLE 2

12.2.3. Readings

12.2.3.1. Kreeft, Peter. Socratic Logic

12.2.3.1.1. INTRODUCTION

12.2.3.1.2. I. THE FIRST ACT OF THE MIND: UNDERSTANDING

12.2.3.1.3. II. TERMS

12.2.3.1.4. III. MATERIAL FALLACIES

12.2.3.1.5. IV. DEFINITION

12.2.3.1.6. V. THE SECOND ACT OF THE MIND: JUDGMENT

12.2.3.1.7. VI. CHANGING PROPOSITIONS

12.2.3.1.8. VII. CONTRADICTION

12.2.3.1.9. VIII. THE THIRD ACT OF THE MIND: REASONING

12.2.3.1.10. IX. DIFFERENT KINDS OF ARGUMENTS

12.2.3.1.11. X. SYLLOBISMS

12.2.3.1.12. XI. CHECKING SYLLOBISMS FOR VALIDITY

12.2.3.1.13. XII. MORE DIFFICULT SYLLOGISMS

12.2.3.1.14. XIII. COMPOUNDS SYLLOGISMS

12.2.3.1.15. XIV. INDUCTION

12.2.3.1.16. XV. SOME PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOGIC

12.2.3.1.17. XVI. SOME PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOGIC

12.2.3.1.18. APPENDIX: PROBLEMS WITH MATHEMATICAL LOGIC

12.2.4. Handouts

12.2.5. Study Guides

13. CHAPTER 7 — CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

13.1. PRS6100

13.1.1. PRS6100: Bible Exposition

13.1.2. Notes

13.1.3. Readings

13.1.3.1. Doriani, Daniel. Putting the Truth to Work

13.1.3.1.1. I. THE NATURE OF APPLICATION

13.1.3.1.2. II. GOD-CENTERED APPLICATION

13.1.3.1.3. III. THE INTERPRETER

13.1.3.1.4. IV. THE SEVEN BIBLICAL SOURCES FOR APPLICATION

13.1.3.1.5. V. THE FOUR ASPECTS OF APPLICATION

13.1.3.1.6. VI. USING THE FOUR QUESTIONS

13.1.3.1.7. VII. A PLAN FOR APPLYING NARRATIVE

13.1.3.1.8. VIII. ISSUES IN APPLYING NARRATIVE TEXTS

13.1.3.1.9. IX. A PLAN FOR THE APPLICATION OF DOCTRINE

13.1.3.1.10. X. A PLAN FOR THE APPLICATION OF ETHICAL TEXTS

13.1.3.1.11. XI. ISSUES IN APPLICATION OF ETHICAL TEXTS

13.1.3.1.12. XII. CHRIST-CENTERED APPLICATION

13.1.3.1.13. XIII. SELECTING A TEXT

13.1.4. Handouts

13.1.5. Study Guides

13.2. IND5000

13.2.1. IND5000: Cooperative Program

13.2.2. Readings

13.2.2.1. Ware, One Sacred Effort; The Cooperative Program of Southern Baptists

13.2.2.1.1. CHAPTER 4: CHURCHES ON MISSION: FOLLOWING AND FUNDING THE GREAT COMMISSION

13.2.2.1.2. CHAPTER 5: THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: STEWARDS OF A LARGER WORK

13.2.2.1.3. CHAPTER 6: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS: THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ANNUAL MEETING

13.3. EVA5100

13.3.1. EVA5100: Evangelism

13.3.2. Notes

13.3.3. Readings

13.3.3.1. Reid, Alvin. Evangelism Handbook

13.3.3.2. Solc, Josef. Communicating on the Playing Field

13.3.3.3. Livermore, David. Cultural Intelligence

13.3.4. Handouts

13.3.5. Study Guides

13.3.5.1. EVA5100 SG Final

13.4. BCO5500

13.4.1. BCO5500: Biblical Counseling

13.4.2. Notes

13.4.2.1. Unit I. Biblical Foundations for Christ-centered Change

13.4.2.1.1. A. Overview of a Model for Godly Change

13.4.2.1.2. B. A Biblical View of Yourself and People

13.4.2.1.3. C. A Biblical View of Your Situation

13.4.2.1.4. D. A Biblical View of Your Savior and His Provisions

13.4.2.1.5. E. The Process of Godly Change

13.4.2.2. Unit II. A Theology of Biblical Counseling (Personal Ministry)

13.4.2.2.1. A. What Is Biblical Counseling?

13.4.2.2.2. B. Who Should Counsel?

13.4.2.2.3. C. Why Should We Counsel (and not just evangelize, teach, and preach)?

13.4.2.2.4. D. Why Should We Counsel Biblically?

13.4.2.2.5. E. Why Should We Counsel Biblically Within the Church?

13.4.2.2.6. F. How Should We Assess Other Approaches to Counseling?

13.4.2.3. Unit III. Biblical Methods of Counseling (Personal Ministry)

13.4.2.3.1. A. Overview of Biblical Ministry Methods

13.4.2.3.2. B. Ministry Step 1: Enter Their World

13.4.2.3.3. C. Ministry Step 2: Understand Their Need

13.4.2.3.4. D. Ministry Step 3: Bring Them Christ and His Answers

13.4.2.3.5. E. Applying These Methods in Daily Life Ministry

13.4.2.3.6. F. Growing in Your Wisdom and Skill in Personal Ministry

13.4.2.4. Unit IV. Brief Overviews of Common Problems

13.4.2.4.1. A. Addictions and Enslaving Sins

13.4.2.4.2. B. Anger

13.4.2.4.3. C. Depression

13.4.2.4.4. D. Worry, Anxiety, Fear, Panic

13.4.2.4.5. E. Eating Disorders

13.4.2.4.6. F. Sexual Sin

13.4.2.4.7. G. Suicide

13.4.3. Readings

13.4.3.1. Jones, Robert D. Bad MemoriesL Getting Past Your Past

13.4.3.2. Lane, Timothy S & Paul David Tripp. How People Change

13.4.3.3. Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically (John MacArthur)

13.4.3.4. Sande, Ken. The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict

13.4.3.5. Tripp, Paul David. Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

13.4.3.6. Jones, Robert. Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem

13.4.4. Handouts

13.4.4.1. BCO5500 Syllabus

13.4.5. Study Guides

13.4.5.1. BCO5500 SG Final

13.5. PMN6590

13.5.1. PMN6590: Field Ministry

13.5.2. Notes

13.5.3. Readings

13.5.4. Handouts

13.5.5. Study Guides

14. CHAPTER 8 — THEOLOGY

14.1. THE6110

14.1.1. Theology I

14.1.2. Notes

14.1.2.1. "Systematic theology is that discipline that seeks to give a systematic, coherent exposition of the Christian faith, based principally on the Scriptures, addressing the concerns and questions of contemporary culture, and leading to personal application in Christian life and ministry. "\

14.1.2.2. I. WHAT IS THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.2.1. A. The nature of theology.

14.1.2.2.2. B. The divisions of theology.

14.1.2.2.3. C. The possibility of theology.

14.1.2.2.4. D. The necessity of theology.

14.1.2.2.5. E. The nature of doctrine.

14.1.2.3. II. WHAT IS SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.3.1. A. It is an academic discipline.

14.1.2.3.2. B. It seeks to give a systematic, coherent exposition.

14.1.2.3.3. C. Of the Christian faith.

14.1.2.3.4. D. Based principally on the Scriptures.

14.1.2.3.5. E. Addressing the concerns and questions of contemporary culture.

14.1.2.3.6. F. Leading to practical application.

14.1.2.4. III. HOW DO WE DO THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.4.1. A. Begin with Scripture.

14.1.2.5. UNIT 1: PROLEGOMENA

14.1.2.5.1. INTRODUCTION

14.1.2.5.2. I. WHAT IS THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.5.3. II. WHAT IS SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.5.4. III. HOW DO WE DO THEOLOGY?

14.1.2.6. UNIT 2: THE DOCTRINE OF REVELATION

14.1.2.6.1. PART A. UNIVERSAL REVELATION

14.1.2.6.2. PART B. SPECIAL REVELATION

14.1.2.7. UNIT 3: THE DOCTRINE OF GOD

14.1.2.7.1. PART A. THE NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

14.1.2.7.2. PART B. THE WORKS OF GOD

14.1.3. Readings

14.1.3.1. Akin, Daniel. A Theology For the Church

14.1.3.1.1. SECTION 1: THE DOCTRINE OF REVELATION

14.1.3.1.2. SECTION 2: THE DOCTRINE OF GOD

14.1.3.1.3. SECTION 3: THE DOCTRINE OF HUMANITY

14.1.3.1.4. SECTION 4: THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST

14.1.3.1.5. SECTION 5: THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

14.1.3.1.6. SECTION 6: THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION

14.1.3.1.7. SECTION 7: THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH

14.1.3.1.8. SECTION 8: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS

14.1.3.1.9. CONCLUSION

14.1.4. Handouts

14.1.5. Study Guides

14.1.6. Debate

14.1.6.1. Email from Hammett

14.1.6.1.1. This is to confirm our discussion of the extra-credit debate assignment. Each participant is to do at least 100 pages of outside research and give me a written statement of what they did in preparation (i.e. books read, web sited consulted, statements prepared). That written assignment is due the day of the debate, March 24. Each team is to prepare an opening statement (10-12 minutes); a rebuttal of the opposing position (5-7 minutes); and a closing summary statement (2-3 minutes). Team A (Leonard Goenaga and Carly Lundi) will support the young earth position; i.e., that the earth’s age is numbered in tens of thousands of years, not millions and millions. Team B (Micah Brake and Robert High) will defend the old earth position; i.e., that the earth is millions and millions (even 2-3 billion) years old. I want to have a look at an outline of your opening statement by March 21 at the latest; the debate will be in class March 24. Let me know if you have any questions.

14.1.6.2. I. RESEARCH

14.1.6.2.1. Notes

14.1.6.2.2. Wiki Articles

14.1.6.2.3. Booklets

14.1.6.2.4. Books

14.1.6.2.5. Websites

14.1.6.3. II. OLD EARTH ARGUMENT

14.1.6.4. III. YOUNG EARTH ARGUMENT

14.2. THE6120

14.2.1. THE6120: Theology II

14.2.2. Notes

14.2.3. Readings

14.2.4. Handouts

14.2.5. Study Guides

14.3. THE6130

14.3.1. THE6130: Theology III

14.3.2. Notes

14.3.3. Readings

14.3.4. Handouts

14.3.5. Study Guides

14.4. THE7621

14.4.1. THE7621: Theology of the Trinity

14.4.2. Notes

14.4.2.1. I. INTRODUCTION

14.4.2.1.1. A. BIBLIOGRAPHY SUGGESTIONS

14.4.2.1.2. B.

14.4.2.2. II. LETHAM INTRODUCTION.

14.4.2.3. III. APOSTLES CREED

14.4.2.3.1. U9

14.4.2.3.2. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

14.4.2.3.3. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

14.4.2.3.4. EPHESIANS 1:3-14

14.4.3. Readings

14.4.3.1. Letham, Robert. The Holy Trinity; In Scripture, History, Theology and Worship

14.4.3.1.1. PART I: BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS

14.4.3.1.2. PART II: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

14.4.3.1.3. PART III: MODERN DISCUSSION

14.4.3.1.4. PART IV: CRITICAL ISSUES

14.4.3.2. Sanders, Fred. The Deep Things of God; How the Trinity Changes Everything

14.4.3.2.1. INTRODUCTION: EVANGELICALS, THE GOSPEL, AND THE TRINITY

14.4.3.2.2. I. COMPASSED ABOUT BY FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT

14.4.3.3. Ware, Bruce A. Father Son & Holy Spirit; Relationships, Roles, and Relevance

14.4.4. Handouts

14.4.5. Study Guides

14.4.6. Papers

14.4.6.1. Top 20

14.4.6.1.1. Letham Pg. 34.