What to expect:
Faith and Culture introduces you to historical Christian doctrines as a framework within which to evaluate the working academic and social assumptions of contemporary culture. In addition to investigating several models for Christian engagement with culture, the course encourages the positive formation of a biblically informed worldview as a foundation for creative interaction with contemporary thought and cultures. By the end of the course, you will:
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Come to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the crucial significance of certain central doctrines of the Christian faith for life and thought.
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Develop a method for moving from Christian theology to cultural engagement.
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Gain a sense of the cultural milieu of society as related to secularization, postmodernism and religious pluralism and of how Christian theology helps to engage the milieu.
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Come to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the historical development of doctrine in the early years of the church and its significance in contemporary culture.
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Develop the intellectual habits and practical virtues corresponding to our Christian faith.
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Welcome to this Ephesiology Master Class
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How to use the course player
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Introduction to Faith and Culture
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Course Description and Objectives
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Before we begin...
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Check out our MA degree
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Our Boundaries
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Doing Theology in Community
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Excursus - Why Words are Important
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Worldview: Understanding a Concept
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Is there a biblical worldview?
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Depolarizing?
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Discussion
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Toward a Biblically Informed Worldview
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The Changing American Worldview
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Excursus - Views of Five World Religions
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The Apostles Creed
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What Unites Us
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Our Theological Goal
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Fragmentation of Western Society
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The Reliability of the Sources
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Excursus on Atonement Theories
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Christological Heresies
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Jesus and the Holy Spirit
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The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts
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Human Responsibility
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Theological Anthropology
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Essential Nature of Humanity
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Perspectives on the Creation of Humanity
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Critical Reflections on the North American Church
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Discussion
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The Marks of the New Testament Church
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The Purpose of the Church
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Historical Approaches to Cultural Engagement
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Christ and Culture
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Being Christian in the Age of Pluralism
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Christian Responsibility
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Developing a New Testament Framework for Cultural Engagement
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Josh Packard and the Spirituality of Generation Z
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Understanding Critical Social Theories
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Critical Theory and Critical Legal Studies
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Critical Race Theory
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Issues with Critical Social Theories
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Racism
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The Same Sex Controversy
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Final Reflections
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Class Survey
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Before you go...
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Want to go further? Here's what's next.
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Social Injustice, Volume I
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Meet Dr. Michael Cooper
Michael has helped pastors, missionaries, teachers, parents, as well as bio-ethicists, medical doctors, nurses, and business people wrestle through Christian engagement of significant cultural issues in medicine, education, business, and society.

Professor of Missiological Theology
Michael T. Cooper