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 of a course like this is so that I can cover a large number of topics in some sort of logical sequence. Thus, if someone wants to better understand what I’m saying, they can go back to the beginning and follow the presentations in order. 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 moving to 200-level classes, etc., and questions that might arise during the first run-through will likely be addressed more thoroughly in the higher-level courses.
As a final note, since I occasionally recommend books on this blog and am not charging for enrollment in my classes, I signed up for the Amazon Affiliate Program to help cover the cost of running the site. If you are planning to buy the books anyway, it would help if you used my link.
With that said, hope you enjoy.
