This course in Modern Christian Theology seeks to fulfill the following objectives:
1. To study the structures of religious authority as they evolved during the modern era.
2. To study the historical, social and theological contexts from which the modern understanding of Christian faith emerged.
3. To study the major theological movements and traditions of the modern Christian era from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, their statements of beliefs, and their understanding of Christian life.
4. To study particularly the doctrines of salvation, the church and revelation, as they pertain to some theological movements and traditions.
5. To relate modern Christian theology to Seventh-day Adventism and its pastoral ministry.
