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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the dynamics of early Christian identity formation, including the development of discourses of orthodoxy and heresy, practices of interpreting Scripture, selected theological disputes, sex/gender, and categories of religious identity. The course will focus on reading the primary literature, with special attention to types later deemed heretical (including, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Truth, and The Secret Revelation of John).
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4.00 Credits
Who do people say that I am?" From transfiguration, passion and resurrection narratives of the New Testament, to early Christological conflicts, to medieval refractions of these and other Christological traditions, Christian thought has generated a vast body of work on Jesus the Christ. This course engages this body through close readings of primary texts n translation as well as secondary analytical sources, and invites students consider how they would construct and/or deconstruct Christologies in their own contexts.
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4.00 Credits
Attention and traditions, movements, and cultural practices, from the sixteenth-century Reformations and extending through the emergence of popular evangelicalism in the eighteenth and early nineteenth; particular topics to include literacy and cheap print, witch-hunting, and vision-centered religion.
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4.00 Credits
Early Christians wrote their ethical teaching not only in response to existing religious law or rite, but in competition with philosophical programs for soul-shaping. The religious traditions and the philosophic schools alike wanted to discipline bodily actions and passions, but even more to elicit certain roles or characters. This course reads some ancient philosophical examples of ethical persuasion before turning to Christian texts that want to surpass them in power to shape lives.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the life, thought, and actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. An ethical analysis of his primary concepts, ideas, and strategies based upon a reading and discussion of his writings and their sources.
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4.00 Credits
Whatever else it might be, European `modernity' is a transformation in Christian projects for ethics. Settled forms of ethical teaching change under the pressures of polemic, skepticism, and specialization or reduction. The course will trace some of the transformation and the reactions to it in a series of primary texts from Luther to Nietzsche.
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4.00 Credits
There is much talk about the Christian Right's focus on sex, but what about other strands within the evangelical tradition? In this course we read a wide range of primary sources from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries to chart a longer and more complicated trajectory of diverse evangelical views about sex, gender, and sexuality. Texts include tracts, sermons, diaries, conversion narratives, devotional periodicals, memoirs, ex-gay and ex-ex-gay testimonies, and visual images as well as popular texts on chastity, marriage and pornography.
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4.00 Credits
After surveying classical Christian texts on the Spirit, this course will engage contemporary works focusing on spirit as it appears in contemporary writing in and beyond Christianity, rethinking relationships between the human and the non-human world.
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4.00 Credits
The course will explore Christian approaches to God-talk that emphasize intellectual discourse as well as creative practice, engaging contemporary works to theorize relationships between language, world, divine, the mystical and political dimensions of religious language.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the history of apophatic or negative theology in the Christian tradition. Through a close reading of primary texts in translation, students will engage questions of divine transcendence, divine hiddenness, theological or liturgical secrecy, and the limits of language.
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