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Christianity in Film uses video/film as a stimulus to student discussion about and research into fundamental Western Christian values and theological hypotheses. Depiction in film of dilemmas, crises, insights occasioned by characters' Christian convictions and by community history provide visual imagery and give a sense of "lived experience" of the issues investigated-issues which recapitulate and expand on the core concepts encountered in TH 1000 and TH 3000. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THI
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An examination of the major theological emphases of Catholics and Protestants. Attention is given to the origins of the Protestant Reformation and the development of the various Protestant traditions arising from it. Areas of agreement and disagreement, both then and now, are examined with focus on examples of contemporary Catholic-Protestant dialogue. Students are introduced to literature, guest lecturers, and worship experiences from both Catholic and Protestant traditions. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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This course surveys the history of religious life in America. It is designed to give students an introduction to a variety of themes, issues, events, and religious perspectives which have shaped the consciousness of the American people. This course introduces students to topics including Native American religious traditions, Puritanism, the "Great Awakenings," Mormonism, Protestant/ Catholic relations, Judaism, charismatic and holiness traditions, women in religion, slave religion, Christian fundamentalism, and the Nation of Islam. It also deals with themes such as the separation of Church and State, the role of revivalism in the construction of religious identity, pluralism, and questions relating to competing narratives of "The American Religious Tradition.Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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The course will explore religious life in Latin American and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. Special attention will be given to the interaction between Christianity and the indigenous religious systems of the native people and the African diaspora. Topics may include the role of missionaries, religious syncretism, liberation theologies, church-state relations, religious role in the formation of ethnic and gender identity and the contemporary rise of evangelical and charismatic Christianities. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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This course explores new religious movements with a focus on their origins, their theological tenets, and their impact on modern culture. Movements examined include those more established movements such as the Mormons and Christian Scientists as well as more recent religious groups such as the Unification Church, WICCA, the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, Scientology, and the New Age Movement. Students are asked to consider questions such as: What issues are at stake in categorizing these movements How are these movements perceived and discussed in the media and popular culture What makes these movements appealing to some individuals What factors allow some movements to be sustained while rendering other movements fleeting Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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This course critically explores the contemporary meaning of Christian marriage as covenant, symbol, and sacrament. As part of this exploration the development of marital theology from the past to the present is examined by investigating how marriage was theologically understood in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, as well as by probing the theology of Christian marriage which emerged during the Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation eras. Theological/moral issues (past and present) significantly connected with Christian marriage such as divorce, remarriage, artificial contraception, artificial insemination, marriage without children, etc. are also studied. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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A study of issues, movements, and theologians who have impacted contemporary theology. The writings of significant Catholic and Protestant theologians are examined in the context of movements such as classical liberalism, neo-orthodoxy, existentialism, fundamentalist-modernist controversies, process theology, liberation theology, feminism, and post-modernism. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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Complex constructions of "racial" and "ethnic" identity have often played a profound role in developing the religious worldviews of institutions and individuals. This course surveys examples of this interaction throughout history and seeks to give students a better understanding of the ways in which theological expression both shapes and has been shaped by race and ethnicity. The course examines how the interaction between religion and ethnicities/races has produced both ideological bridges and barriers between individuals and groups. The course focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on the U.S. American scene, and may explore the topic in relation to American Catholicism, the Euro-Christian encounter with Native Americans, Mormonism, African-American Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Judaism, and religions on the White-supremacist wing of the "Radical Right," among other subjePrerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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A study of selected theological disputes of recent decades, with special emphasis on those confronting American Christianity. Special attention is given to those debates which concern fundamental Christian beliefs. Students are encouraged to research disputes of special interest to them. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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A study of the nature, history, and role of apocalyptic and millennial movements in America. Millennial movements, drawing from the last book of the Bible, interpret history through the grid of an expected thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. This course introduces students to the roots of apocalypticism in Jewish and early Christian thought, the triumph of history over apocalypticism in the Church of the Middle Ages (with significant exceptions such as Joachim of Fiore), and examples of apocalypticism in America from the Millerites of the 19th century to the Branch Davidians of today. Special attention is given to understanding the social and psychological functions performed by millennial movements and apocalyptic speech, the hermeneutics used to interpret the Bible in these movements, and the central ideas in their endtime prophecies. Prerequisite: TH 1000. (THII)
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