This course will examine in detail the doctrine of salvation (soteriology), the church (ecclesiology), the basic elements of pastoral theology (internal and external call to the ministry, ordination, ministry of the word and sacraments, church discipline and pastoral spiritual formation) and the four last things (death, judgment, heaven and hell). This course continues our metanarrative theology by examining the Christian story of creation, fall, redemption and consummation, with special attentionĪdded: given to the nature and task of humanity, the distortion of the world through sin and the redemptive work and person of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. we are committed to a total approach to missionary training: academic, experiential and practical. The biblical narratives and propositions are heard in the context of the story that begins with creation, is centered in Jesus’ first coming and reaches its culmination in the new heavens and earth. This course introduces and practices a metanarrative for doing theology. Special attention is given to the corporate dimensions of spirituality and spiritual formation.

This course prepares students for the rigors of graduate scholarship by honing the skills of graduate research, reading and writing.Īn investigation into the meaning of biblical Christianity and its relationship to faith and practice within contemporary cultural contexts. Hooke, “The Corner Stone of Scripture,” in The Siege Perilous (1956), 235-249.An introduction to the process of determining the original meaning and contemporary significance of biblical texts. La Bas, “Was the Cornerstone of Scripture a Pyramidion?” PEQ 78 (1946), 103-115 S. On the contrary, the lack of faith guarantees that the unbeliever will be separated from God forever.īibliography J. Christ is the foundation of the faith of the believer, through which He becomes man’s Deliverer. Pinnâh is treated by both Jews and Christians as Messianic. זָוִיֹּ֑ת ( Ps 144:12) entreats Jahweh for daughters like cornerstones, i.e., providing virtue to God’s people as faithful members among the people of God. Another metaphorical use appears in Zechariah’s prophecy of the ultimate triumph of Israel over its enemies ( Zech 10:4).Ģ. For Israel the “stone” was a causing of stumbling, for which reason they were set aside by God ( Rom 9:33). The shape of the stone need not be a pyramidion rather its position is meant. Christ in His character as redeemer and judge fits both metaphors of the foundation stone and the cap stone. Paul presented Christ as the cap stone ( akrogoniaios) which completes and unifies the wall ( Eph 2:20, 21), without which it would be weak and ineffectual, and who makes both parts of the wall one, both Jew and Gentile ( v. Isa 28:16), which is the basis of the Church of the living God.

6 indicates that spiritual safety lies in founding faith on this corner stone (cf. Over this One the unthinking person will stumble to perish forever, but v. Peter indicated that unbelievers will be judged by this One, though unthinking masons considered it ill-suited to the kingdom of God (Zion, Isa 28:16) and cast it aside. The synoptics place the quotation after the parable of the husbandman, by so doing indicating that he will not succeed in his usurpations, but will be judged by the rejected stone.

As a proverb it becomes most appropriate of Christ (cf. The Psalm describes the preference of the speaker contrary to his detractors. Pinnâh ( Ps 118:22) is the more important word because of its numerous quotations in the NT where it is specifically applied to Christ by Himself. Those who trust in God’s program of world history will not, therefore, be confused by contemporary events so as to rush into earthly alliances for refuge. Isaiah 28:16 uses the figure of the foundation stone to connote the unshakable foundation which God is to those who trust in Messiah. פִּנָּה, H7157, foundation stone, what cannot be moved, as in Job 38:4, 6 the word is used to signify the absolute power of God. Only in the era of Solomon and Ahab were shaped or “cut” stones used, after which there was a reversion to rubble stones, until the return from the exile under the Persians when cut stone work began to appear. reveal that these walls were laid of rough, unshaped boulders whose joints were filled in with smaller stones. The type of masonry wall construction indicated is the framing of the corner with courses of long stones, framing the whole as in log-built walls to tie the walls together at the corner. γωνία, G1224 ἀκρογωνιαῖος, G214, chief cornerstone, is built on gōnía and concerns a detail in the construction of a wall.

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