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3.00 Credits
This course is about the importance of compassion in health care. Reading sacred texts from the East and West, as well as a diverse set of illness narratives, students will learn about the religious roots of compassion, then apply this knowledge to the practice of caregiving. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
This class introduces students to the study of contemporary global Catholicism in all its diversity and explores the many dimensions of Catholic theology and experience. Special attention will be given to the impact the Second Vatican Council, and its meaning and message for the faithful today. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
The birth and development of the Christian Church during the first two centuries; the relationship between Christianity and Judaism; the New Testament as a source document for ecclesiology; the developing self-understanding of the Christian church through the centuries; implications for present-day ecclesiology. As needed. 194/Saint Francis University
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3.00 Credits
New Testament teachings of interest either because of their frequent rejection in a "scientific age" or because of their value in determining the emphasis and priorities in Jesus' own teaching; miracles, the developing views about the role and person of Jesus, the Resurrection, and the parables; the value and limitations of different modern critical approaches to New Testament study. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the major living religious traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic; leading problems of religious thought and alternative approaches to the ultimate questions. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Aspects of the inter-relationships between religious faith and psychological well-being: religious experience, particularly in its psychological dimensions; negative and positive responses to religion by psychological thinkers; such problems as inherited or social identity faith, chaos or crisis in the transition from inherited to personal religioufaith; faith and its implications for human existence; religious faith and its role in the development of the self; personality and static religious institutions; the personality and evolutionary or prophetic forms of religion. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the ethical implications of contemporary economic, political, social, and environmental policies. The human impact of public policies is evaluated in light of Catholic Social Teaching and modern theories of justice. Issues to be examined include: social justice, economic justice, public policies, racial justice, poverty, the workplace, war & peace, violence & nonviolence, foreign policy, justice in the Third World, and personal & social responsibility. Counts toward Ethics minor. Prerequisite: Philosophy 205. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a chronological and thematic survey of religion in America, which gives special attention West-Central Pennsylvania. We will investigate the ways in which religious language, allusions, and ideas have influenced major moments in America's past, and continue shaping the nation's future. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
Through lectures and outside readings, an attempt to illuminate the harmony within life, love, and human sexuality, particularly as this is expressed in theological and scriptural teachings, e.g., Genesis 1:27: God created man in his image- male andfemale he created them; a positive approach to sexuality and its integral relationship to human life, whether celibate or married. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes contemporary ethical issues by using (1) the wisdom of the world's great religious stories (East and West); and (2) ethical insights in the present era that have drawn from these stories. Students will examine the role that religious experiences, narratives, and communities have played in promoting the ethical transformation of consciousness and behavior. As needed.
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