Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

Update - 2/25/08 This class has been canceled

For those of you interested in an introduction to the basics of Reformed theology, Trinity’s Todd DeLong will be leading a class on the Essential Truths of the Christian Faith. Below Todd gives details about the course.

Purpose: The purpose of the course is to provide a forum for those who have had very little, if any, education and instruction, both formal and informal, in Reformed theology. Any instruction provided during the course will be akin to the Socratic method, where participants will be engaged with questions related to the various topics of Reformed theology, and will be encouraged to develop answers to the questions based on Scripture. As such, the hope is that a majority of each meeting time will be devoted to the discussion of the questions and answers so that participants will be able to wrestle with these issues.

Resources: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith by R.C. Sproul. Please note that while the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) will be used as supporting and supplemental material, this class will not focus on the WCF (like the Theological Foundations class that officer candidates are required to take). That is, this course is intended to be an introduction to Reformed theology in its most basic (i.e. essential) form, and will not necessarily delve into topics to the depth of the WCF (or, for that matter, cover all the topics covered by the WCF).

Course Outline: The book contains ten major subject headings, and as such the outline of the book will be used as the basis for the outline of the course, more or less. I add this caveat because I would like for the course outline to contain a certain “flexibility”, depending on the subject and the engagement of the participants. For instance, I do not
anticipate being able to cover a major topic such as Salvation in one meeting session. If more than one meeting session is required to sufficiently address the comments, questions, or concerns of the participants, then another topic (e.g. End Times) may not be covered. But, the presentation and discussion of the topics will follow the order of the book.

Course Length: The length of the course will be comparable to an academic semester, meeting for 13-weeks. The course begins February 4th and concludes April 28th.

Meeting Time: The class will meet Mondays from 7 PM to 8:30 PM.

Location: Trinity - Teaching Fellowship Room “C”.

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