Dr. Lane Tipton provides an introduction to the fascinating and vast topic of the doctrine of man from a Reformed position. This course introduces several theological methods, striking a balance between biblical and doctrinal considerations. Using a close reading of Genesis 1 and 2, Dr. Tipton explains what it means to be an image bearer in our everyday life and work—created in God’s likeness and oriented toward God’s glory. He also describes sin’s impact on our image-bearing work, which leads to discussions of Christology (the doctrine of Christ’s two natures) and soteriology (the doctrine of salvation).
After taking this course, you will not only possess an introductory understanding of the doctrine of man, but you will also have a broad understanding of the doctrines of sin, Christ, salvation, and eschatology, giving you tools in both biblical and systematic theology.
Introduction
Introduction
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
4m
Methods of Systematic Theology
Introduction to Basic Issues
7m
Biblical and Exegetical Theology
8m
Finding Resurrection Texts and Shared Themes
4m
Distinguishing Systematic Theology
8m
The Discipline and Method of Systematic Theology
9m
The Tension between History and Dogma
8m
Complementary Features of Biblical and Systematic Theology
8m
What Is Man before and after the Fall?
7m
The Fourfold Estate of Man
6m
A Cross-Sectional Plot Analysis
8m
The Days of Creation
The Context of the Creation of Man
8m
Preliminary Observations
7m
Guiding Presuppositions
7m
The Authority of Scripture versus the Authority of Science
8m
Views of Creation
8m
Common Orthodox Doctrines
8m
The Literal Twenty-Four-Hour Day View
7m
Creating a Collection and Using It to Compare Views about Creation
5m
In-Depth Arguments for a Twenty-Four-Hour Creation Day
8m
Arguments for the Day-Age View of Creation
8m
The Sabbath Argument
4m
The Day Seven Argument
9m
Finding and Comparing Creation Psalms with the Psalms Explorer
5m
The Framework View
8m
Framework Responses to the Other Views of the Creation Days
9m
The Literary Structure of the Days
8m
Other Literary Elements
7m
Genesis 2:5–7: No Vegetation or Cultivation
7m
Rain Cloud or Mist?
8m
The Two-Register Cosmology
8m
Supporting Evidence for the Two-Register Cosmology
6m
The Creation of Man
The Divine Council
7m
Studying God’s Speech in Genesis 1:26 Using Bible Search
6m
An Alternative Interpretation of the Divine Council
5m
Created in the Image of God
4m
Adam’s Preeminence in Genesis 2:7
9m
Man’s Unique Position as Image-Bearer
4m
Revelation, Covenant History, and Myth
A Covenant-Historical Understanding of Genesis 1–2
5m
God’s Covenant Acts in History
4m
Story and History
6m
The Historical Character of Revelation
4m
Myth as a Lack of Rationality
6m
Reading Ancient Near Eastern Myths Using Factbook
5m
Myth as an Aspect of Creative Imagination
5m
Myth as the Product and Embodiment of Social Ideals
4m
Myth as a Symbol of Divine Action in History
6m
Analysis and Clarification
5m
Bultman’s Program of Demythologization
7m
Bultmann’s Theology and Heidegger’s Existentialism
8m
Liberal and Feminist Myth Theories
6m
A Survey of Myth in the New Testament
5m
Locating and Understanding Mythos in Philo
5m
Paul’s Exhortation in 2 Timothy 4:1–4
5m
The Historical Adam: 1 Corinthians 15
The States of Humanity
5m
Summarizing Propositions
7m
Distinguishing Between Bodies
4m
Innocency and Glory
8m
The If/Then Argument
4m
The Natural Then the Spiritual
4m
Modes of Existence
6m
Bodily Resurrection
6m
We Cannot Deny the Historical Adam
5m
The Historical Adam: Romans 5
Adam the Sinner
5m
Adam and Original Sin
6m
The Contrast between Adam’s Sin and Christ’s Obedience
5m
Justification by Faith
6m
Peter Enns and Rudolf Bultmann
7m
A Summary of Peter Enns’ Teaching
8m
A Christotelic Hermeneutic
5m
An Adoptionist Model of Inspiration
5m
Using Collections to Compare Theologies of 2 Timothy 3:16
5m
Kinds of Synthesis
4m
Enns’ Misplaced Faith in Science
4m
Enns’ Misunderstanding of Divine Authorship
4m
Enns’ Deficient Notion of Sin
5m
A Critique of Christotelic Hermeneutics
7m
The Denial of Inerrancy
4m
Enns and the Resurrection
5m
The Covenantal Kingdom
The Covenant of Works
3m
The Westminster Confession on the Covenant of Works