DI5355 Persons: Divine and Human

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

This module is restricted to students on the MLitt in Analytic and Exegetical Theology, except with permission of the module co- ordinator.

Planned timetable

2-5 Tuesday

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Prof A B Torrance

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Module Staff

Dr Andrew Torrance

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Module description

This module will consider the use of the concept of the 'person' as employed to describe first, the nature of God (the three 'persons' of the Trinity) and, second, the nature of human beings. To this end, it will seek to combine and integrate exegetical, metaphysical and theological analysis and critique.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS DI5350 AND PASS DI5351

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 hour seminar x 11 weeks

Scheduled learning hours

15

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

135

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Engage in close textual reading, historical and abstract reasoning, presentation, discussion, and research writing
  • Utilise skills in analytic engagement with central Christian beliefs and ideas
  • Understand key contemporary debates bearing on analytic-theological discussion of divine and human persons
  • Articulate how Christian theology has thought about what it means to be a human person; and, more specifically, to offer theological responses to questions about human uniqueness, human identity/selfhood, human constitution, and human purpose.