Hello,
I’m Dr. Mike Manea and I am a religion professor teaching world religions, Christian theology and Adventist theology. While my in-person classes are relatively basic, I am starting this online course as a series that will begin at a basic level and become progressively more advanced over time. It will cover theology, philosophy, science, history and many other related topics with an aim to articulate the Adventist perspective as a complete worldview amidst other common worldviews. My conviction is that the Adventist perspective has been mostly misunderstood and that it is an important contribution to Christian theology and beyond.
The purpose for a course like this is so that I can cover a large number of topics in some sort of logical sequence. Then, if later anyone wants to better understand what I’m saying, they can go back to the beginning and follow the classes in sequence. Over time, I expect this series to develop into a systematic theology of sorts. Because of the immense amount of subject matter to be covered, however, the best format that I can think of is something resembling a spiral: I will first introduce topics at a more general level, aiming to provide a broad overview, and then will circle back and go into the same topics in much more detail. The approach will be similar to students taking 100-level classes in their first year of college and then 200-level classes in year two, etc., and questions that might arise during the first run-through will likely be addressed more thoroughly in the higher-level courses.
Although starting this series with blog posts such as this, I might eventually compile several posts into video lectures and make them available on educational platforms such as Udemy as well. Readers are encouraged to ‘enroll’ in my class in order keep up with the latest content.
With that said, hope you enjoy.