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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of the history, formation, literary characteristics and theology of those chapters in the four gospels which deal with the arrest of Jesus, trial, crucifixion, burial, empty tomb and resurrection appearances.
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A survey of modern scholarship on the Gospels. Religious and political conditions of the Greco-Roman world of the first century of the Common Era. The formation of the Gospels, the quest for the historical Jesus movement. The distinctive approaches of the four evangelists, and the relationship of canonical to no-canonical gospels.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of the primitive church, its Christologies/theologies, lifestyles and leadership conflicts in the context of the political, religious and social currents of the Greco-Roman world of the first century of the Common Era.
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3.00 Credits
Female subordination/male dominance, images of God, power and leadership in institutional religion, differences in the ways African Americans and white Americans read the Bible. Women in Israelite societies, in early Judaism, in the Jesus movement, and in Gnosticism. Major American and European feminist/womanist literary criticism.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of one of the canonical or non-canonical Gospels (its sources, composition, distinctive christological and theological emphasis, historical community context, contemporary relevance), or of a specific topic in Gospel research (parables, roots of Christian anti-Semitism, search for the historical Jesus, etc.) Attention is given to gender issues. See specific course description for the semester in which this course is offered.
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3.00 Credits
Modern theories dealing with Christological problems. Readings from E. Schillebeeckx, Karl Rahner, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, Rosemary Redford Reuther, Rita Nakashima Brock and other recent theologians.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to recent developments in understanding the theological task through the study of classical and contemporary theologians and theological movements.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the experience of God as Father, Jesus and Spirit; New Testament formulations (as well as Jewish-scriptural background), Patristic development and Conciliar definitions. Medieval theological elaboration, contemporary reinterpretation and relevance.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the historic Catholic tradition from the patristic to the modern era, with special attention to the philosophical and theological foundations and implications of key beliefs, symbols, doctrines and rituals. Focus on the distinctiveness of Roman Catholicism.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the thought of some influential modern interpreters of the Christian message, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox.
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