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3.00 Credits
Examines key issues relating to Biblical literature including historical uniqueness, reliability, historical Jesus, interpretation, and authority of the Bible.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary seminar which examines myths, symbols, and ritual in Kenya as intersections of popular culture, spiritual life, political history, and sacred spaces. The course culminates in travel to Kenya, including field experience, original research, and reflective writing. Cross listed with LAS 33000 and ENG 33000.
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3.00 Credits
Liberation theology was born in the 1960s when Latin American theologians determined that the Gospel needed reexamination in light of Jesus' concern for and solidarity with the poor and marginalized. Drawing on similar concerns, feminist, womanist, black, third world, and ecotheologies have contributed much
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3.00 Credits
Enables participants to increase their knowledge of Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism. Develop awareness of own ultimate concerns. Analyze and identify way religion relates to modern societal issues. Provides biblical and historical investigation of origins and common roots of faiths, as well as distinct differences among them.
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3.00 Credits
Studies different ways human beings, throughout time and around the globe, have expressed what they regard as basic problems and meanings of existence and how to deal with them. Provides tools to use in unlocking experiences central to several "primitive", Oriental and Hebraic religious traditions.Lecture, slides, music, sacred texts, scholarly literature, and class discussion assists in relating personal experiences to themes of world's religions. Prerequisites: REL 10223 Introduction to the Gospels and REL 11023 Christian Thought I, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines Gospel literature as it relates to Jesus. Considers various historical approaches to the life and ministry of Jesus. Explores the significance of Jesus.
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3.00 Credits
Through videos, classroom discussions, lectures, demonstrations, projects, text readings, and visits to spiritual centers, explore questions such as: What is a spiritual quest? What does "holy"mean? How do individuals and groups encounter the holy? How does one use religious language, stories and scripture? What is the purpose of rites and how do they work? What problems arise with various ideas about God, good and evil, sex, healing, and human destiny? What is the future of religion?
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3.00 Credits
Course explores the process of spiritual transformation and how its processes and elements are reflected in film.
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3.00 Credits
Examine basic assumptions and beliefs of pluralism and Christianity. Investigate how worldviews interact, challenge, and confront one another. Study church history, modernity, post modernity, and Christianity and its liberal, evangelical and conservative components.
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3.00 Credits
Introduce the formulation of theology from the perspective of women's experience. Feminist and womanist theology'scontributions to the doctrine of God, atonement theories, scriptural interpretation, and spirituality are explored. Insights offered by women theologians from around the world and across religious traditions. Emphasizes equality, ecology, justice, and reading "lives as texts."
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