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3.00 Credits
Evangelical traditions from the reformation to their present manifestations in twentieth-century America. Debates concerning the authority of the scripture, the person of Jesus Christ, evangelism, and soul-winning mission, revivalism and social reform, church-state relations, the relationship between science and religion, Biblical vs. "New" morality, and other areas of cultural cleavage.
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Comparative interpretations of Biblical texts by Christians in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania-with those by Orthodox Christians in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and by Catholics and Protestants in Western Europe and North America. The role of culture in each type of biblical interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
The Synoptic Gospels through history and culture. Focus on either Matthew, Mark, or Luke; a survey of the interpretations of the Gospel from its original historical context, through the history of the church, and more recently in Catholic and Protestant churches after the Holocaust, in African American churches, and in feminist circles.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Pauline Christianity and its place in the early church, using the letters of Paul, the deutero-Pauline letters, and the portrait of Paul in Acts. Alternate prerequisite: 109 or 209.
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3.00 Credits
Major ethical teachings as presented in New Testament documents, letters, and as interpreted through history and cultures.
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3.00 Credits
, and the Social Roles of Religion. King as religious leader and agent of social change. His views of the social roles of religion seen against the background of late nineteenth-century dissenting traditions and the early twentieth-century social gospel movement in America. Critical evaluations in terms of classical Christian views (e.g., Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley).
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3.00 Credits
How Jewish thinkers at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries addressed the question of individual and collective identity. Cultural, political, and religious definitions of modern Jewish identity, the role and the reinvention of national myths; the "Jewry of muscles," the "New Hebrews," the Zionist myth narratives in Zionism.
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3.00 Credits
Relationships among humans, nature, and the sacred. Focus on understandings of our "dominion" over nonhuman nature. The role of religion in shaping attitudes and behaviors regarding the environment. Topics include eco-centered ethics, "creation care," reliance on fossil fuels, and alternative sustainable scenarios.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the logic and basic values that, in the Jewish tradition, guide thinking about moral problems. Examination of family and social ethical issues found in Talmud and other Jewish classical texts. Basic religious views of modern Jewish thinkers and their relation to contemporary Jewish life. Offered alternately with 112.
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3.00 Credits
Implications of gender theory for understanding the Judeo-Christian moral traditions. Topics include: the nature of the moral subject, the social construction of gender, patriarchal consciousness, the abuse of women, black feminism, motherhood, and feminist ecology.
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