1. ET533: Christian Discipleship in a Secular Society (Summer 2006)
Dr. Erin Dufault-Hunter

I am considering PhD work in Christian theology and ethics and this class did not disappoint. This course taught by Professor Erin Dufault-Hunter included some of the most provocative and thought provoking reading of my whole time at Fuller. This is not a class for the faint of heart. Great dialog. Challenging question asking. Subversive answers.

2. MT527: Lesslie Newbigin: Theologian of Mission and Ministry (Spring 2005)
Dr. Wilbur Shenk and Dr. Veli-Matti Karkkainen

Leaving Fuller, I can now say that my favorite theologian and Christian writer is the late Bishop Lesslie Newbigin. Dr. Shenk presented and discussed his missiology as they were personal friends and Dr. Karkkainen communicated Newbigin's epistemological paradigm shift based on the thinking of Michael Polanyi, and in light of the pluralistic and secularized society we now have in the West. It's a shame this course is rarely offered. I was moved to tears in a few of the classes.

3. NT 1: Gospels (Winter 2006)
Dr. Marianne Meye-Thompson

Excellent reading, thorough, engaging and insightful. Some of the thoughts I left with..."Salvation has according to the Gospels has nothing to do with us escaping this place, it has everything to do with God's Kingdom breaking into this place!" Thompson's assertion is "just re-read the Lord's prayer". She also assigned two excellent readings not on this ECD link. Gehard Lohfink's Jesus and Community and Oskar Skarsaune's In The Shadow of the Temple.

4. ST 2: Christology & Soteriology (Winter 2005)
Dr. Veli-Matti Karkkainen

This class was a time of going deeper in reflection on the meaning of Christ, atonement, the meaning of Jesus from "above" and "below" and the nature of salvation (soteriology) and the function of the Spirit (pneumatology). Very excellent reading and very global in perspective.

5. CH3: American Church History (Fall 2006)
Dr. Nate Feldmeth

An essential course for understanding how and why the church in America has arrived where it is today. Dr. Feldmeth is incisive and engaging in his narrative approach to the telling of how the church unfolds in the United States and Canada.

Honorable Mentions: Donald Hagner (Exegetical Method and Practice), John Thompson (Patristic Theology), John Goldingay (Pentateuch)