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BTGE 3755: Theology 1

Textbooks

Required

Christian Theology: The Biblical Story and Our Faith by Christopher W. Morgan & Robert A. Peterson
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 230 M847C

Textbooks 1

Choose 1 of 3

Fruitful Theology: How the Life of the Mind Leads to the Life of the Soul by Ronni Kurtz
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 234.13 K96F
None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett
Call #: RESERVE-MAIN DESK 231.4 B274N

Textbooks 2

1 of 3

The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain
Call #: RESERVE-MAIN DESK 231.044 S971T

Extra Credit

Extra Credit

Extra Credit 1

Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works by St. Ansel (Brian Davies & G. R. Evans, eds.)
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 270.092 A621M

Extra Credit 2

On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by St. Gregory of Nazianzus (trans by Lionel R. Wickham)
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231 G822T

Major Paper

Theology Books for This Assignment (recom'd by Dr. Alligood)

Systematic Theology 1

Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, 4 vols. by Richard A. Muller
Call #: REFERENCE 230.42 M958G2
Reformed Dogmatics, 4 vols. by Herman Bavinck
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 230.42 B354G

Systematic Theology 2

Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
Call #: MAIN 189.4 T45S2

First Part (prima pars) - Q12. How God Is Known by Us (also at https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1012.htm)
Theoretical and Practical Theology: Prolegomena, vol. 1 by Petrus Van Mastrict
Call #: RESERVE-MAIN DESK 230.42 M423T

Recommended Books for These Topics:

Recommended Books on These Topics for This Assignment (recom'd by Dr. Alligood)

Divine Simplicity Eternal Generation Creation Ex Nihilo (from nothing)

Divine Immutability Eternal Modes of Subsistence Imago Dei (image of God)

Divine Impassibility Inseparable Operations Verbal Plenary Inspiration of Scripture

Divine Aseity Homoousios (same substance) Inerrancy of Scripture

Divine Incomprehensibility Total Depravity

Divine Simplicity

Divine Simplicity

All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism by James E. Dolezal
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231 D663A
Divine Simplicity: A Dogmatic Account by Steven J. Duby
Call #: eBook (unlimited # of users)

Divine Immutability

Divine Immutability

All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism by James E. Dolezal
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231 D663A
No Shadow of Turning: Divine Immutability and the Economy of Redemption by Ronni Kurtz
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.4 K96N
The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability by Michael J. Dodds
Call #: RESERVE 231.4 T454D

Divine Impassibility

Divine Impassibility

All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism by James E. Dolezal
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231 D663A
Divine Impassibility: Four Views of God's Emotions and Suffering by Robert J. Matz & A. Chadwick Thornhill, eds.
Call #: eBook (unlimited # of uers)
Does God Suffer? by Thomas Weinandy
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.8 W423D
God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion by Rob Lister
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.4 L773G
None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.4 B274N

Divine Aseity

Divine Aseity

God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism by William Lane Craig
Call #: eBook (unlimited # of users)
God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: God and the Works of God, vol.1 by John Webster
Call #: MAIN 230 W381G
None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.4 B274N

Divine Incomprehensibility

Divine Incomprehensibility

Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism by Mark Sheridan
Call #: OhioLINK - libraries in Ohio
None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.4 B274N
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
Call #: MAIN 189.4 T45S2

First Part (prima pars) - Q12. How God Is Known by Us (also at https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1012.htm)
Two Hundred Chapters on Theology and the Incarnate Economy of the Son of God by Maximus the Confessor
Call #: OhioLINK - libraries in Ohio
Light Unapproachable by Ronni Kurtz
Call #: MAIN 231.4 K96L

Eternal Generation

Eternal Generation

The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology by Kevin N. Giles
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.2 G472E
Retrieving Eternal Generation by Fred Sanders & Scott R. Swain, eds.
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.2 R438
Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit by Matthew Barrett
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.044 B274S
The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son by D. Glenn Butner
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 232.8 B987S

Eternal Modes of Subsistence

Eternal Modes of Subsistence

The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology by Kevin N. Giles
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.2 G472E
The Holy Spirit by Gregg Allison & Andreas J. Köstenberger
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.3 A438H
The Holy Spirit by Christopher R. J. Holmes
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.3 H749H
Retrieving Eternal Generation by Fred Sanders & Scott R. Swain, eds.
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.2 R438
Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit by Matthew Barrett
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.044 B274S
The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son by D. Glenn Butner
Call #: MAIN 232.8 B987S
The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain
Call #: RESERVE-MAIN DESK 231.044 S971T
Trinity Without Hierarchy: Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology by Michael Bird & Scott Harrower
Call #: MAIN 231.044 T836

Inseparable Operations

Inseparable Operations

Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit by Matthew Barrett
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.044 B274S
The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain
Call #: RESERVE-MAIN DESK 231.044 S971T

Homoousios (same substance)

Homoousios (same substance)

Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology by Lewis Ayres
Call #: MAIN 231.044 A985N (also eBook - unlimited # of users)
The Nicene Faith, 2 vols. by John Behr
Call #: MAIN 230.09 B421N
On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by Gregory of Nazianzus
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231 G822T
Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit by Matthew Barrett
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.044 B274S
The Trinity: An Introduction to Catholic Doctrine on the Triune God by Gilles Emery & Matthew Levering
Call #: MAIN 231.044 E53T

Creation Ex Nihilo

Creation Ex Nihilo (from nothing)

Creation Ex Nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges by Gary A. Anderson & Markus Bockmuehl, eds.
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK
Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration by Paul Copan & William Lane Craig
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.7652 C781C
The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach by Bruce Riley Ashford & Craig G. Bartholomew
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.765 A825D
In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis by Henri Blocher
Call #: RESERVE - SERVICE DESK 222.11 B651I
Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 As Tools of Cultural Critique by Christopher Watkin
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.765 W335T

Imago Dei

Imago Dei (image of God)

Created in God's Image by Anthony A. Hoekema
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 233 H693C
Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God by John F. Kilner
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 233.5 K48D
Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 As Tools of Cultural Critique by Christopher Watkin
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 231.765 W335T

Verbal Plenary Inspiration of Scripture

Verbal Plenary Inspiration of Scripture

Collected Writings on Scripture by D. A. Carson
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.601 C321C
The Doctrine of the Word of God by John M. Frame
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.13 F813D
The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures by D. A. Carson, ed.
Call #: RESERVE - SERVICE DESK 220.1 E56
The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible by Benjamin B. Warfield
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.12 W275
Light in a Dark Place: The Doctrine of Scripture by John S. Feinberg
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.1 F299L

Inerrancy of Scripture

Inerrancy of Scripture

The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures by D. A. Carson, ed.
Call #: RESERVE - SERVICE DESK 220.1 E56
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy by James R. A. Merrick, Stephen M. Garrett, R. Albert Mohler; Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Michael F. Bird, Peter E. Enns, John R. Franke, & Stanley N. Gundry
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.132 M698F
The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible by Benjamin B. Warfield
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.12 W275
Light in a Dark Place: The Doctrine of Scripture by John S. Feinberg
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 220.1 F299L
Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me by Kevin DeYoung
Call #: MAIN & RESERVE-MAIN DESK 220.1 D529T (also eBook - Unlimited # of Users)

Total Depravity

Total Depravity

Against God and Nature: The Doctrine of Sin by Thomas H. McCall
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 241.3 M122A
Fallen: A Theology of Sin by Christopher W. Morgan, ed.
Call #: RESERVE-SERVICE DESK 241.3 F194

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