Foothills United Methodist Church
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Growing in grace.... Serving with love.
 

Adult Education - Sunday Morning Bible Study

Lesson Plan for August 2011- January 2013
 
Join us at 9 AM on Sunday mornings in Room 8.
 
“The History of Christian Thought” every other week with Bible verse study in the alternate Sundays. 79 week study.
 
Some 2,000 years ago, a man walked the earth who had a greater impact than any other person in history. Lowly born, he rose to prominence as he spread his vision of the redemption of the world. He attracted the attention of faithful disciples and suspicious local authorities. Eventually, he was tried, convicted, and executed.
 
Today, his story is known the world over. And yet, more than two millennia later, great thinkers and everyday people still struggle to answer a single question: Who is Jesus?
  • Was he a wise sage who culled powerful teachings from centuries of Jewish tradition to create a new world vision of peace and love?
  • Or was he indeed God himself, the embodiment of divinity on earth, sent to bring salvation and redemption from sin?
  • Did his promise of salvation apply to all humankind or was it limited to only a few followers? And how could one participate in that promise?
Now, in The History of Christian Theology, you have an opportunity to explore these profound questions and the many responses believers, scholars, and theologians have developed over more than 2,000 years. Through this 36-lecture course, award-winning Professor Phillip Cary of Eastern University reveals the enduring power of the Christian tradition—as both an intellectual discipline and a spiritual path.
 
Through this course, you will gain thought-provoking insights into a set of teachings that changed the world and discover how, by learning about the diverse beliefs and practices within the wider Christian community, you can enrich your own experience of this great faith.
 
More Than 2,000 Years of Christian Thought
  
August 14, 2011
#1 What Is Theology?
August 21
Acts 10:1-33
August 28
#2. Early Christian Proclamation
September 4
Acts 10:34-48
September 11
#3. Pauline Eschatology
September 18
Acts 11:1-18
September 25
#4. The Synoptic Gospels
October 2
Acts 11:19-30
October 9
#5 The Gospel of John
October 16
Acts 13:1-12
October 23
#6 Varieties of Early Christianity
October 30
Acts 13:13-52
November 6
#7 The Emergence of Christian Doctrine
November 13 
Acts 14:1-28 (Change the clocks on Saturday)
November 20
#8 Christian Reading
November 27
Gospel Acts of the Apostels.1 From Ron’s files.
December 4
#9 The Uses of Philosophy
December 11
Acts15:1-21
December 18
#10 The Doctrine of the Trinity
December 25
Christmas day. No Sunday School. Celebrate His birth.
January 1, 2012
New Year. No Sunday School. Pray for the New Year.
January 8
Acts 15: 22-41
January 15
#11 The Doctrine of the Incarnation
January 22 
Acts 16:1-15 also Acts of Paul and Thecla from Ron’s files
January 29
#12 The Doctrine of Grace
February 5
Acts 16:16-40 also Discussion on Paul and Thecla
February 12
#13 The Incomprehensible and the Supernatural
February 19
Acts 17:1-15
February 26
#14 Eastern Orthodox Theology
March 4
Acts 17:16-33
March 11
#15 Atonement and the Procession of the Spirit
March 18
Acts18: 1-28
March 25
#16 Scholastic Theology
April 1
Palm Sunday. Acts 19:1-20
April 8
Easter Sunday. No Sunday School. Celebrate Easter and all it means
April 17
#17 The Sacraments
April 22
#18 Souls after Death (Orthodox Easter Sunday)
April 29
Acts 19:21-41
May 6
#19 Luther and Protestant Theology
May 13
Acts 20: 1-16
May 20
#20 Calvin and Reformed Theology
May 27
Acts 20:16-38
June 3
#21 Protestants on Predestination
June 10
Acts 21:1-26
June 17
#22 Protestant Disagreements
June 24
Acts 21:27-40
July 1
#23 Anabaptists and the Radical Reformation
July 8
Acts 22:1-21
July 15
#24 Anglicans and Puritans
July 22
Acts 22:22-29
July 29 
#25 Baptists and Quakers
August  5
Acts 22:30 & 23:1-22
August 12
#26 Pietists and the Turn to Experience
August 19
Acts: 23: 23-35
August 26 
#27 From Puritans to Revivalists
September 2
Acts. 24:1-27
September 9
#28 Perfection, Holiness, and Pentecostalism
September 16
Acts 25:1-27
September 23
#29 Deism and Liberal Protestantism
September 30
Acts 26:1-11
October 7
#30 Neo-Orthodoxy—From Kierkegaard to Barth
October 14
Acts 26:12-32
October 21
#31 Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism
October 28
Acts 27:1-44
November 4
#32 Protestantism after Modernity
November 11
Acts 28:1-22
November 18
#33 Catholic Theologies of Grace
November 25
Acts 28:23-31
December 2
#34 Catholic Mystical Theology
December 9
Romans, Letter to, from Ron’s files
December16 
#35From Vatican I to Vatican II
December 23
Christmas day. No Sunday School. Celebrate His birth.
December 30
New Year. No Sunday School. Pray for the New Year.
January 6, 2013
Vatican II and Ecumenical Prospects
 
For more information, contact Ron Sachs, 530.620.5602.