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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course will address issues such as whether natural beings and the natural world have rights or whether only humans have rights. Students will determine what is ethically appropriate for humans in their relationship with the environment as well as what environmental ethics must take account of to be consequential in the world today.
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3.00 Credits
Every 3 years. 3 semester hours. This course provides an introduction to a current problem in Biblical study and scholarship. Examples of topics are apocalyptic literature; narrative studies; Biblical hermeneutics, text, and history; and Biblical theology. Where PHR210 concentrates on the Biblical texts themselves, PHR310 introduces students to the way contemporary scholars study the Bible.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine a study of major philosophers, ideas, and movements in philosophy from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. This course is a continuation of PHR21 1 and will be similarly designed to promote a study of primary texts from Descartes, Hume, Kant, and others, as well as to present an overview of the period from secondary sources.
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3.00 Credits
Summer semester. 6 semester hours. Students must register for three credits each in two of the departmental areas in which this course is offered. Those areas are history, philosophy and religious thought, and sociology. Students are afforded the opportunity to participate in the archaeological excavations at Bethsaida in Israel for three weeks. They learn the techniques of excavating, recording, dating, and evaluating finds while exploring the history of the region through visits to other archaeological and Biblical sites and through daily lectures. Living accommodations are provided at an Israeli kibbutz where the students intermingle with kibbutzim, gain first-hand experience of kibbutz living, and interview people who have lived for many years in the kibbutz. Several days are spent in Jerusalem where the opportunity is provided to visit Christian sites. Students are taken to the University of Bethlehem to hear a lecture on the Arab situation and to interview Palestinian Arab students.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course provides a study of the writings and the life of a major religious thinker in the Western tradition. Examples might be Luther, Augustine, or C. S. Lewis. In each case, students will relate the thinker to the general history of Judaeo-Christian thought. This course may be taken more than once.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This course provides a study of the writings and, in some cases, the life of a major philosophical thinker in the Western tradition.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. Analysis of several classic and modern films to understand their implications for ethics, religious meaning, and the nature of humanity. We will study films like The Maltese Falcon, Paths of Glory, The Godfather, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Jesus of Montreal.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. How can a Christian make moral decisions? We will study the biblical basis for ethics, and several modern Christian ethicists to understand how they move from the beliefs of Christianity to recommendations for specific ethical action.
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3.00 Credits
Every three years. 3 semester hours. What does it mean to believe in God? When we talk about God, are we talking about anything more than ourselves and our ideals and aspirations? This course investigates classical and modern Christian answers to this basic question.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. A study of religious issues, conflict, and hopes in modern literature. The works read will vary from year to year but will include such authors as Melville, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike.
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