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UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

COURSE OUTLINE 2020-2021

FURTHER STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY (DRS 215)

LECTURER: REVD.DR. M . MUJINGA

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a study of leading Western theologians and some selected Africa
theologins and how they responded to the challenges of their times and how these
responses shaped modern theology.

2. COURSE OBJECTIVES
 To analyze and critique Western some selected Africa theology and in particular,
the contributions of major contemporary theologians.
 To deepen the theological understanding of students on adressing theological
issues of theiri time.
 Show them how modern theologians used concepts, wrote theology and applied it
to their daily situations.
 Help students to reflect on theological works and critique them in line with their
culture and experiences.
 To evaluate the imprint of Western Theology on African Theology.

3. COURSE EXPECTATIONS
i. Students will write four assignments, two on each semester. These assignments
will be set as course work and they constitute 25% of the total mark.
ii. There will be an examination at the end of the academic year which constitutes
75% of the total mark.
iii. Students will be asked to present assigned topics in class.
iv. All references should be done according to American Psychological Association
(APA)
v. Plagiarism or any other form of academic impropriety will not be tolerated.

4. COURSE CONTENT

4.1 ENLIGTENMENT
4.1.1 Definition of Enligtenment
4.1.2 The State of religion during the Enlightenment period
4.1.3 The impact of Enligtenmentt to Religion

4.2 ERNEST, FRIEDRICH DANIEL SCHLEIERMACHER


4.2.1 His background

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4.2.2 Influencing factors
4.2.3 On Religion: Speeches addressed to its Cultured Despisers (1799)
4.2.4 The Christian Faith
4.2.5 His major contributions
4.2.6 Analysis

4.3 KARL BARTH


4.3.1 His background
4.3.2 Influencing factors
4.3.3 His theological method
4.3.4 Conflict with National Socialism and the German Christians (Barmen Declaration)
4.3.5 Analysis

4.4 JURGEN MOLTMANN

4.4.1 His background


4.4.2 Influencing factors
4.4.3 His theological method
4.4.4 Theology of Hope
4.4.5 The Suffering God
4.4.6 Theology of the cross
4.4.7 Analysis

4.5 GORDON KAUFMANN


4.5.1 His life background
4.5.2 The Proper business of theology
4.5.3 Analysis

4.6 DIETRICH BONHOEFFER


4.6.1 Life background , His Youth, Academic Career
4.6.2 Bonhoeffer’s Struggle against the Nazi Regime:
4.6.3 His theological method
4.6.4 Analysis

4.7 RUDOLF KARL BULTMANN


4.7.1 His background
4.7.2 His theological method
4.7.3 Faith and the historical Jesus
4.7.4 Existentialism
4.7.5 Demythologization
4.7.6 Analysis

4.8 PAUL TILLICH

4.8.1 His background


4.8.2 His theological method- Correlational method

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4.8.3 Analysis

4.9 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - AN ADVOCATE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE


4.9.1 His biography
4.9.2 Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
4.9.3 I have a Dream
4.9.4 I see the Promised Land
4.9.5 Martin Luther King Jr vs Malcom X
4.9.6 Analysis

4.10 CANAAN BANANA


4.10.1 His background
4.10.2 His factors
4.10.3 His theological methods
4.10.3.1 Re-writing of the Bible
4.10.3.2 Theology of the Promise
4.10.3.3 The Gospel according to the Ghetto
4.10.4 Analysis

4.11 MERCY AMBA ODUYOYE


4.11.1 Her Early Background, Education and Teaching
4.11.2 He role in Ecumenical life
4.11.3 Theological method
4.11.4 Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians

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