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May 03, 2024
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TPHL 640 - Election, Salvation, and “the Other”3 credits
What does it mean to affirm a God who decides and chooses? Can this be compatible with a universal vision of God’s transformative dance with the cosmos? To answer these questions, we will of course look at the traditional content of the doctrine of election, the logic behind its development, and its location within the whole “doctrinal web”. But our central interest will be the less explicit, “subterranean” life of the doctrine, especially in our time, wherein it pervades and shapes other key doctrines and doctrine as a whole in unexpected yet decisive ways (for example, in liberation theology). The main doctrines we will watch for the consequences of either affirming or rejecting the notion of an electing God are Revelation, the doctrine of God, Christology, Soteriology, and Ecclesiology. Can The primary ethical issues that will be central to our discussions are supersessionism (Jewish-Christian relations), pluralism and exclusionary “sectarianism”, and imperialism (both interpretive and material).
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