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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course offers a general introduction to the emergence of Christianity in the United States from the colonial period to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). It covers important themes, traditions, movements, and personalities in American church history, the broader American religious experience and diverse cultural perspectives (including those of Africans, African Americans, indigenous Americans, Latinos/Hispanics and Asians). This course also assesses the social significance and relationship of Christianity in North America to other faiths in various historical settings.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Surveys the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the present. Students are exposed to the historical witness of the power of Christianity in the transformation of various key individuals and cultures, and come to understand the Christian spiritual, historical, and theological underpinnings of western culture. Students are challenged toward a greater understanding of contemporary Christian faith through historical awareness.
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3 credit hours What is a Christian and how does one live out one's life as a Christian? For many Christians, the definition of a Christian seems self-explanatory, yet the way that Christians live and have lived out their understandings of Christianity varies tremendously across cultures and over history. In this course we will explore a range of interpretations of the Christian message and examine the implications of those interpretations for Christian practice. Among the Christian communities we investigate may be the following: 18th and 19th century utopian and communal groups, African-American churches, liberation theology and Pentecostalism in Latin America, North American Latino/a Christianity, GenX religious life, megachurches, contemporary evangelicalism, post-Vatican II Catholicism, and many more.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This contemporary issues course is intended to explore current themes and issues in Christian theology, including: inclusive theological language, gender and race emancipation as sources of theological construction, modern philosophy and science as substitutes for theology, as well as political and ideological critique of Christianity and Christian theology. Writers representing the following movements might be included: liberation theology, black theology, feminist theology, liberalism, fundamentalism, neo-orthodoxy, philosophical theology, among others.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This Christianity course seeks to introduce the student to the thematic and conceptual unity of the Christian Bible as a deliberately intended unity of distinct parts, Old Testament and New Testament. We will examine selected contexts from both testaments, seeking connecting and unifying themes, images, and concepts. We will seek to determine how the New Testament writers employed and developed the Jewish Scriptures for the purpose of explicating and promulgating the teaching of Jesus.
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3.00 Credits
Social Problems 3 credit hours What are our moral obligations? How do we know what is right? How should we respond to the pressing social issues of today? This introductory course is designed to respond to these and other similar questions by providing an understanding of the structures and dynamics of power in U.S. society. We will explore how these structures and dynamics of power give rise to and maintain racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other mechanisms of social stratification and manipulation. The course will introduce social and moral reflection by engaging in extended analyses of selected social problems as windows into how we understand moral responsibility. We will also work together to identify, respond to, and analyze particular issues of interest to the students.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in world community examines the religious traditions of humanity as a means of confronting the students with the diversity within the world. Ancient and indigenous religious traditions are studied, but emphasis is given to the major religions of the East and West, such as Islam and Buddhism, which have had the most effect on contemporary lives and cultures, illustrating the interdependence of all world communities. Historical developments, religious texts, and key personalities and movements are presented so that the students maydiscern, through comparison with their own background, an awareness of religious world community.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This religion elective features study of the historical phenomenon referred to as the Holocaust. We investigate the historical antecedents of the Holocaust within Christianity, Europe, and Germany and reflect systematically on the nature of Christianity and its relation to anti-Jewish sentiment and behavior, and consider the human being as a creature capable of these behaviors and a Deity who permits such behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in moral responsibility explores human sexuality from a Christian perspective and leads the students to a positive understanding of human sexuality and a recognition of the role of Christian values in daily issues of sexuality. Students are helped to understand the importance of individual moral choices and responsibilities regarding human sexuality in relation to society. Some of the topics addressed include: gender issues, marriage, divorce, homosexuality, sexual violence, AIDS, singleness and celibacy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Courses offered under this title reflect the research interests of, specialized expertise of and the opportunity for exploration of important issues by religion and philosophy faculty members. The prerequisite is junior or senior standing. They are intended for religion and philosophy or youth and family ministry majors. Other students may register with instructor permission. Courses developed to be offered as special topics may or may not be offered again.
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