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AMS - ThS 106 Christology and Soteriology - January 2025

This course is offered to accepted students in the Advanced Ministry Studies program. And also serves as formal ongoing formation to any person serving in any ministry in the Church. E.g.: Pastors, Deacons, Master Catechists, Parish Catechetical Leaders, etc. Ongoing Formation fee $25.00
SKU: AMS-YEAR 1 01-18-2025
Vendor: AMS Phase I
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$50.00

Advanced Ministry Studies

 THEOLOGY YEAR

COURSE: Christology and Soteriology   

Course Description:

This is an introductory course to contemporary Catholic Christology. Examines Jesus Christ as a historical figure and object of faith and the Christian answer to the human situation. Participants will reflect on who Jesus was and what he taught by studying how he has been perceived by his followers, from very early times to the present. Participants will explore briefly the formative developments of Christology in the early centuries of the church, exploring how the Christological diversity of the New Testament is constrained towards the more metaphysical debates leading to Chalcedon. Students will briefly consider Scholastic and Protestant Christology. The course will give an overview of Sin and Salvation and a contemporary approach to Soteriology. 

Course Learning Objectives:          

  1. Participants will be able to respond to the question: Who is Jesus? A fundamental question for Christology.
  2. Participants will be able to articulate the New Testament Christologies
  3. Participants will articulate starting points for Christology
  4. Participants will gain a broad theological understanding of the development of Christological doctrine over the centuries. 
  5. Participants will demonstrate a basic knowledge of Patristic Christology and how reaction to different heretical movements led to the articulation of Christological doctrine. 
  6. Participants will articulate Sin and Salvation.
  7. Participants will gain an overall understanding of contemporary approach to Soteriology.  

 

Date: Saturday January 18, 2025  

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Breaks and Lunch time included)  

Format: Zoom Live Class  

Professor: Dr. Stuart Squires, Ph.D.

Dr. Stuart Squires earned his Ph.D. in historical and systematic theology with a focus on St. Augustine from the Catholic University of America in 2012.  His M.A. in theology is from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his B.A. in comparative religious studies is from DePaul University.  After graduating from DePaul, Dr. Squires joined the Peace Corps, and was sent to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for two years.  He has taught at DePaul University, Brescia University, and the University of St. Thomas.  He has been published in many academic journals, including Annales Theologici, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Augustinianum, The Heythrop Journal, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Augustiniana.  
Dr. Squires has published two books: The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls (2019) and You Will Be Changed Into Me: The Fruits of the Eucharist (2024).ced  Stuart Squires, Ph.D.

Notes: 

  • Please register as soon as possible as this course requires pre-reading material.
  • This class is eligible for ongoing formation. Those not registered in the Advanced Ministry Studies but would like to take the class as an ongoing formation please use discount code: AMS-ThS106 for a 50% discount. 
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