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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Involves readings of selected books of the Bible in the context of their religious, literary, and historical setting, utilizing the tools of modern biblical scholarship, with an eye to ascertaining their meaning for people of today.
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3.00 Credits
A study and discussion of select themes as they appear in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. Themes for consideration are revelation, religious history, creation, covenant, Passover, love, and sin.
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of the Gospels, stressing their similarities and differences; authorship, structure and major concerns; and the portrait of the Jewish Jesus of Palestine revealed therein.
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3.00 Credits
A reading and discussion course dealing with fundamental issues of human existence, including the reality of God, faith, suffering, compassion, death, abortion, capital punishment, poverty, aging, sanctity, love, prayer, sin, racism, war, conscience, the will of God, heaven and hell.
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3.00 Credits
An historical-critical study of Jesus' parables, their setting in his ministry and in the theologies of the synoptic writers, with reference to their relevance for believers today.
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3.00 Credits
A many faceted look at Jesus the Christ under the light of contemporary biblical and theological scholarship. Issues examined include, among others, his divinity, human consciousness, connection with the Essenes, death and resurrection, redemptive work, and place within the Trinity.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the meaning of Church—its biblical beginnings, its new self-understanding in terms of Vatican II, its post-conciliar development. Major issues which both help and hinder community life will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Intended to established the foundations for moral decision-making within a Christian context and emphasize such core concepts as the Commandments, ethical imperative, conscience, law, ethics of Jesus, and social justice.
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3.00 Credits
Involves a critical look at current social conditions in the U.S.A. and their justice implications. Issues such as poverty, the penal system, immigration, homelessness, and urban/rural problems will be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
An historical investigation into the major beliefs of humankind. The course explores the beginnings of Indian religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, the Biblical sources of monotheism, Judaism, Islam, Jesus and Christian origins, Catholicism, Protestantism, and the modern criticism of religion.
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