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3.00 Credits
Consideration of faith as both a personal and communal event and focuses on faith communities as carriers of spiritual wisdom and practices that can enrich life as well as inspire and sustain commitment to justice and peace. A central focus of the course is the story of Jesus as the story that firms, shapes and challenges Christian communities in their many and diverse expressions. Special attention is given to ministry as an aspect of every Christian life. In dialogue with the testimonies of contemporary Christians and the writings of theologians on faith and ministry, students will reflect on their own uniqueinner call to service and faithfulness in community. Service learning is a required component of this course. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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Exploration of the New Testament as a living document that has shaped Christian life in the past and continues to do so today. The course will consider the historical development and contexts of the texts and their major themes. Students will practice interpreting Christian scripture in meaning ways for today according to methods used by the Catholic and non-fundamentalist Protestant traditions. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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Students reflect on and celebrate human life as a sacramental experience. Encouraging student awareness of and reflection on their own and others' life experience as the place of God's presence, the course focuses on sacraments as ways of becoming aware, celebrating, and living in fidelity to the sacredness of the whole of life. Identifying communion as the core experience of human life, the course explores the key events of human communion as the central experiences of Jesus' life, thereby connecting students' own storieswith the Jesus story. Within this context each of the traditional sacraments of the church is explored as revelatory and celebratory of the whole of human life lived sacramentally as symbol of God. Readings include selections from contemporary literature and writings of theologians on sacrament and symbol. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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The Hebrew Scriptures have influenced almost every aspect of Western culture. They have shaped profoundly its religion, history, philosophy, politics, literature, art and values. In this course students will read selected texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and study them in their historical contexts. Special attention will be given to the historical development of the bible, the cultural influences that shaped it, the central themes and the various types of literary forms the authors employed. Students will also consider why and in what ways these texts are regarded as revelatory by both Jews and Christians. This course is designated as a humanities general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of a contemporary spirituality of Christian marriage. Contemporary issues related to daily living and marital spirituality will be raised for study. Students have an opportunity to consider how history, scripture, ritual and symbol uncover vital resources for Christian married life. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Through reflection on contemporary experience and understandings of what it means to be human, this course seeks to uncover the truth of human experience as permeated with the presence of God. The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the central themes of the Christian tradition in a way which enables them to explore the meaningfulness and significance of these insights for their own lives and for our times. Readings include current spiritual and theological writings on Catholic Christian faith, as well as selected texts from scripture. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the relationship between Christian faith and ethics. In our personal, professional and social spheres of life, we face a continual stream of moral questions and problems that make Christian living complex. By exploring a Christian spirituality we discover that our moral choices and actions not only shape us but also affect a wide range of other persons within embedded social relationships. Students are invited to recognize that ethics for Christian living involve becoming a certain kind of person consonant with becoming a disciple of Christ. In the first part of the course, a structural framework for Christian ethics is examined. The remainder of the course is spent examining issues of Christian living in the 21st century. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Assists students in understanding faith as a meaning-making process across the lifespan and particularly how religion deeply influences spiritual development of persons across the lifespan. Whether one considers one's own faith development or that of others, educating the whole person means attending to the spiritual life in both personal and social dimensions. Special attention is given to the roles of family, faith community, and school. This course may be particularly valuable to students preparing for helping professions- e.g., education, health service and social work. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to understandings of Jesus emerging from non-Western cultures and from groups on the margins of society. Asians, Africans, Latin Americans, African-Americans and women around the world are appropriating Christian faith from their own situations and creating, for the first time, a genuine global Christianity. Students will practice seeing the world from the eyes of others in order to appreciate others' perspectives and to enrich their own insights into Jesus and the gospel message. Readings include narratives and the writings of both Christian and non-Christian theologians. Prerequisite: RELS 100. This course is designated as a foundational religious studies general education course. This is an approved diversity studies course.
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3.00 Credits
Study of a topic of current interest in the area of scripture, theology or spirituality. Prerequisite: RELS 100.
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