| CODE | SHG2250 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Seminar: Biblical Anthropology | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will help students to classify Christian anthropology to the study of humankind and human history from a biblical point of view. It distinguishes: - Social anthropology, that is, the organisation of society; the nature of family networks, human relationships, political and social systems and the structure of societies; - Cultural anthropology, namely, customs, such as religion, belief systems, social values, that make people unique; - Symbolic anthropology, that is, the study of meaning using the interpretation of symbols in the context of social life; Study-Unit Aims: It presents the revelation of the truth of the relationship between God and man in the light of the biblical witness to its history as a whole. The study-unit will confine its enquiry to the human creatureliness presupposed in this relationship and made known by it, i.e., by its revelation and biblical attestation. It asks what kind of a being it is which stands in this relationship with God. Its attention is wholly concentrated on the relationship. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe the deep value of the human person (in the image and likeness of God); - recognize its profoundly ethical aim of supplying an anthropological view. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify an account of the structure of the human being from a theological-philosophical viewpoint; - explain different moral issues emerging from viewpoints that diverge widely from our given nature, both physical and spiritual. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Anderson, R. S., On Being Human: Essays in Theological Anthropology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982). - Childs, B. S., Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001). - Fretheim, T. E., God and the World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation (Nashville: Abingdon, 2005). - Green, J., Body, Soul, and Human Life, The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008). - Grenz, S., The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). - Habgood, J., Being a Person: Where Faith and Science Meet (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998). - Kilner, J. F., Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015). Supplementary Readings: - Lakey, M., Image and Glory of God (London: Continuum, 2010). - McFarland, I. A., The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2005). - Smail, T., Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in our Humanity (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Seminar and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Martin F. Micallef |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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