From Placher Ch 1 -

1. Review Placher's limitations and warnings

2. Review the Basic Themes - have a sense of what each of these dichotomies is about:

Issue of humanity and divinity of Christ

Reason and Revelation

Works and Grace

Spirit and Structure

Church and State

From Placher Ch 2

monotheism

uniqueness of Israel

Yahweh

prophets

exile

Ezra

resurrection of the dead

Jewish sects

Zealots

Pharisees

shift to idea of God as universal God

emergence of "Judaism"

Jewish apocalypticism

"Messiah"

"Son of Man"

Jewish messianism

Hillel: "What is hateful to yourself do not do to your neighbor" (29).

 

From Placher Ch 3

Gentiles

Paul

Paul's conversion

Idea of the Second coming

Crisis of delay

Jewish Christians

Paul on sin and grace

Paul on women

Paul on the Law

Significance of Paul's own Jewish faith

Christology

mystery cults

savior cults

Logos

Christ as the second Adam

 

From Placher Ch 4

orthodoxy

heresy (relationship between these two)

canon

Gnosticism

dualism

Irenaeus

apostolic succession

Montanism

Eusebius

Marcion & Marcionism

Docetism

Gospel of Thomas (lecture)

canon

 From Placher Ch 5

Platonism

Stoicism

Apologists

Concern about divine anthropomorophism (describing God in human terms)

Justin Martyr

Clement

Origen

Origen's theory of hidden meanings in the biblical text

Tertullian's attitude toward philosophy