Introduction to Dogmatics - RETA4041

• Title: STPV2-Introduction to Dogmatics
• Guaranteed by: Department of Systematic Theology (27-SYST)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Petr Gallus, Ph.D.; Mgr. Ondřej Kolář, Th.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. Petr Gallus, Ph.D. (02.09.2022)

The lecture introduces into the terrain of Systematic Theology based on the utterances of the Creed. For the
beginners, it brings a first contact and explanation of basic fields, problems, terms, authors and concepts in
Systematic Theology and offers to enter into the critical systematic way of thinking and to confront one’s own
thinking with the plurality of theological conceptions within the frame of today’s society, science and culture.
Students learn to differentiate and analyze different levels of problems, they get acquianted with appropriate terms
and their meanings and realize the interconnection of theological statements from different fields of the discipline.
For the advanced students, the lecture with its structure and interactivity offers an appropriate recapitulation of
knowledges required for the exam.
Credits will be appointed based on regular active participation, evtl. based on some additional work (introduction,
presentation, paper on a particular topic).

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Eliška Vančová (29.05.2020)

BARTH, Karl: Dogmatics in Outline. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959.

KÜNG, Hans: Credo. The Apostle’s Creed explained for today, New York: Doubleday, 1993.

RATZINGER, Joseph: Introduction to Christianity, New York: Herder and Herder, 1970.

PANNENBERG, Wolfhart, The apostles' creed: in the light of today's questions. London: SCM, 1988. ISBN 0-334-00038-6.

MIGLIORE, Daniel L.: Faith seeking understanding, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

PÖHLMANN, Horst Georg: Abriss der Dogmatik, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2002(6).

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Petr Gallus, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)

5.10. I believe in God (PG)

12.10. the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth (OK)

19.10. and believe in Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord (PG)

26.10. who was conceived from the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary (OK)

2.11. who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried, descended into hell (PG)

9.11. rose again from the dead on the third day, ascended into heaven (PG)

16.11. and is seated on the right hand of God the Father almighty, who will come again to judge the living and the dead (OK)

23.11. I believe in the Holy Spirit (OK)

30.11. the holy catholic church (PG),

7.12. communion of saints (OK)

14.12. the forgiveness of sins (OK)

4.1. the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. (PG)

11.1. Closing colloquium (OK+PG)

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. Petr Gallus, Ph.D. (02.09.2022)

Credits will be appointed based on regular active participation, evtl. based on some additional work (introduction, presentation, paper on a particular topic).