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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 Literature of the Hebrew Bible. Survey of the religious, literary, and political history of ancient Israel. Students may not receive credit for both this course and RS 260. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 Literature of the New Testament in its religious and historical context. Life and ministry of Jesus, origins of earliest Christianity, the role of Paul, and the development of the Church. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 A study of various forms of the Church from its Apostolic beginnings, through the institutionalization process and Vatican II reforms, up to the present development of Base Christian Communities.
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Three Credits Spring Semester Examination of the Catholic Church as it is understood in the historical, cultural, political, economic and religious context in various regions of the world. The course will utilize the documents of the five Special Synods of Bishops from Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Oceania Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Exhortations in reaction to the Synods' deliberations.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 A study of ancient world views, mystery religions, gnosticism, and the rise of Christianity.
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Three Credits Spring Semester An examination of the Catholic Church's relationship to society and its responses to a variety of social, political, and economic issues.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Students will read a substantial portion of the Old Testament in the process of becoming acquainted with current interpretive strategies. The course will also examine the art and literature of ancient Israel's neighbors in Canaan, Mesopotamia, and Egypt that provide a fuller context in which to understand the world of the Bible. In anticipation of the integrative seminar there may also be some exploration of New Testament texts. Students may not receive credit for both this course and RS 251.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 An exploration of the roles played by women in the development of early Christianity and examination of the factors that led to the decline of women's influence as a more institutionalized Christian religious system developed. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 An examination of a variety of religious ideas, institutions, and traditions in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Special emphasis is placed upon questions of religious pluralism, religion and cultural identity, and religion in public life.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 An examination of the development of liberation theology in the historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts of Latin America's struggle to move from colonialism to freedom. The course also explores feminist theology, ecological theology, and indigenous people's theology that are rooted in liberation theology.
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