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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Methods and perspectives for reading and understanding the New Testament; concepts of church, ministry, mission; current issues such as fundamentalism, feminism, war, and peace. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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The use of literary technique in the Synoptic Gospels. The importance for theological emphasis of structure, identification, gapping, and reader response. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and religious backgrounds and the careers and teachings of the magisterial and radical reformers, both on the continent and in England. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
A study of ongoing reform in the Church from the healing of the Western Schism to the organized Roman response to the Protestant Reformation. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the history and practices of the Catholic Church in Africa, with a particular focus on East Africa, the spiritual epicenter of Catholicism on that continent. The course will examine both the gifts and the challenges of African Catholicism. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Christian Beginnings focuses on the first centuries during which Christianity takes its shape as an organized religion. It is a survey of the social and cultural history, and the life and organization of the early Church. It focuses on the beginnings of Christianity in various parts of the world. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the life of the Catholic Church from the perspective of the Papacy. The course will make a critical use of the TV series Saints and Sinners, and of the book written in conjunction by Eamon Duffy (Yale University Press, 1997).
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the varieties of religious devotion that enabled women to achieve sanctity in the church, with particular attention to the practice of asceticism and mysticism among outstanding women of Ancient and Medieval times. Students will study writings by and about Christian women. Prerequisite: Any TRS or HSTR 200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary approach to thematic issues in the American Catholic experience. Topics include Catholic ethnicity, devotional piety, assimilation, interest group conflict, and social movements, along with other social, cultural, and historical dynamics that have shaped Catholic identity in the United States. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
With an emphasis upon religious thought, devotionalism, spirituality, ethnicity and public Catholicism, this course focuses on the formation of identities. Woven into the themes of this course are the various meanings of what constitutes being American and Catholic from the preimmigrant Church to the post-Vatican II era. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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