Mobile Ed: TH321 Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society (4 hour course)

by Richard S. Park; Logos Mobile Education

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2018

Overview

In Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society, Dr. Richard S. Park seeks to demonstrate how theology makes a real difference in society and how the gospel transforms culture. Dr. Park explores the social implications of the doctrines of creation, fall, redemption, and glorification, as well as the influences that sociology, anthropology, and other sources of “secular wisdom” can have on Christian theology. He puts forth a framework for how Christians are to think biblically about culture and how they are to engage culture winsomely in their God-given, day-to-day callings.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Articulate three views of the relationship between the gospel and culture and provide a biblical case for the transformation view
• Identify and apply the three I’s of Christian cultural analysis
• Discuss the social implications of the doctrines of creation, fall, redemption, and glorification
• Appreciate and apply key ideas in other academic disciplines (e.g., sociology, cultural analysis, philosophical anthropology) in the “doing of” Christian theology
• Understand and help others understand the central role that calling plays in the Christian’s life and how all of life is worship
• Explain what it means to live from the outside in and how doing so can transform one’s heart

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Gospel and Culture: An Introduction

• What Is the Relationship between Gospel and Culture?
• What Is the Biblical Warrant for the Transformation View?
• Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis
• Application of the Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis and the Transformation View
• Worldviews Plus World-Setting
• Application of Christian Cultural Analysis

Unit 2: Christian Theology and Its Impact on Society

• Introduction: What Is Theology? What Is Society?
• The Interconnection between Theology and Society
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Part One
• Three Implications of These Global Conditions
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Part Two
• Biblical Basis for the Interconnection between Theology and Society

Unit 3: Several Social Implications of the Doctrine of Creation

• Introducing the Doctrine of Creation
• The Doctrine of Creation Commends a Self-Sacrificing Life as the Most Satisfying Life
• Human Persons, Created in the Image of the Triune God, Are Inherently Communal Beings
• The Body Matters: Sexuality Is Sacred
• Matter Matters
• Creation Care Counts

Unit 4: The Doctrine of the Fall and the Sociological Notion of Reification

• Introducing the Doctrine of the Fall
• Three Important Effects of Humanity’s Fall
• The Doctrine of Total Depravity
• The Doctrine of the Transcendentals
• The Sociological Notion of Reification
• Reification and the Three I’s of Christian Cultural Analysis

Unit 5: The Universe-Wide View of the Christian Doctrine of Redemption

• The Wide Scope of the Christian Doctrine of Redemption
• Biblical Basis for Society-Wide Redemption
• Worship Is Everything and Everything Is Worship: Part One
• Worship Is Everything and Everything Is Worship: Part Two
• Redemption: Souls and Society; Culture and Nature
• Critiquing a Crisis

Unit 6: Doing Our Part: Finding and Fulfilling Our Calling in the Kingdom

• How Individual Christians Can Discern Their God-Given “Callings”
• Career, Calling, and Worship
• Biblical Basis for Calling as Worship
• Our GPS in the Kingdom: Gifts
• Our GPS in the Kingdom: Passions
• Our GPS in the Kingdom: Serving God’s Purposes

Unit 7: Living from the Outside In

• Transforming Culture as Well as Our Hearts
• The Myth of a Rationalist Anthropology
• Appreciating Our Embodied Reality
• Living All of Life as Liturgy
• Recovering Rest as Worship

Conclusion

• Conclusion to the Course

Product Details

• Title: TH321 Cultural Implications of Theology: Influences of Christian Doctrine on Society
• Instructor: Richard S. Park
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 1
• Video Hours: 4

About Dr. Richard S. Park

Dr. Richard S. Park is assistant professor of religion at Vanguard University, specializing in ethics and political theology. He obtained his DPhil in theology from the University of Oxford and completed two master’s degrees at Biola University, along with a bachelor’s at the University of California, Berkeley. He is founder and president of a nonprofit organization called Renaissance Forum that helps people discern and live out their God-guided callings. Dr. Park’s most recent publication is Constructing Civility: The Human Good in Christian and Islamic Political Theologies. He speaks at conferences and churches in the U.S. and abroad on topics such as calling, culture, civility, and character.