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3.00 Credits
A theological/biblical analysis of the problems involved in moving from biblical revelation and theological concepts to concrete public policy proposals. This is a required course for the M.T.S. concentration in Christian Faith and Public Policy and is a prerequisite for other courses in that concentration.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide theological and ethical reflection on political thought and action. Representative doctrines for the Christian faith will be discussed with their implications for responding to government and politics. Participants will explore classical and contemporary formulations of the relationship between the church and the socio-political order. Biblical, historical and philosophical resources will be examined and interrogated. In addition, students will be asked to question two divergent yet related schools of thought: political theology and public theology. Our chief objective will be to consider sound theological-ethical options for Christians as they participate in the political order. This is a required course for the M.T.S. concentration in Christian Faith and Public Policy.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the role of Christian ethicists, pastors and the local congregations in a changing global context. It will focus on the connection between religion and society, the global transformations and local appropriations and between the church and popular culture. Students will be required to integrate their native and local experiences into broader cultural and civilizational developments. Students interested in public policy formation are welcome. This is a required course for the M.T.S. concentration in Christian Faith and Public Policy.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically engages leading theoretical discussions about the intersection of religion, race, and ethnicity and how they relate to the social construction of race in particular contexts. The interdisciplinary theoretical orientation of this seminar draws from history, cultural studies, sociology, Latino studies, and Latina/o, Africana/Black, Mujerista, and Womanist theologies. We will critically examine religion's role in the development, maintenance, and transformation of racial and ethnic identity, and the creation of and struggles against racism and racial injustice in specific contexts.
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3.00 Credits
The "Arab Spring" of 2011 reminded the world both of the power of nonviolence to bring about social change and of the significant costs involved. In this course we will explore the theological and biblical resources in Christianity that support as well as interrogate nonviolent praxis and aggressive nonviolent direct action. We will discuss the spirituality of nonviolence, alternatives to both passivity and violence, justifications of violence and revolution, coercion, responsibility vs. faithfulness, and the pragmatic realities of refusing to kill people in order to improve one's socio-political-economic situation or in order to protect life. Readings will include Dorothy Samuel, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, Gene Sharp, Sami Awad, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Students will read texts of people arguing that biblical faith leads to pacifism and others arguing for Just War. Each student will write a paper: "Does the Bible prompt me to endorse pacifism or Just War?"
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3.00 Credits
This course explores three central issues in Christian theology and life: Jesus' resurrection; the Gospel of the kingdom; and the nature and mission of the church. Theological foundations, current problems, and practical applications are explored.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to ethical discourse, this class will survey the field of theological ethics so that Christians may engage the ethical issues of the common life, shape the institutions of society, and aid persons in forming faithful and objective moral judgments about public matters. Special attention will be given to the relationship between Christian faith and economics, politics and law. A sub-theme will be ecclesiology, a critical examination of the mission and purpose of the Church.
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3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to explore ethical and philosophical dimensions of projects of social and political transformation. The category of "vision" will be developed and deployed metaphorically; used as a trope to describe how moral actors receive, review and relate messages to their constituencies. Attention will be paid to how specific moral actors were "educated" by these messages, how specific moments and stages in their lives were formative for their emotional, intellectual and "spiritual" maturation and how this maturation impacted broader social dramas. An attempt will be made to probe the critical interplay between the individual moral subject and the social dramas and currents that shaped their eras. Selected historical personages will be viewed as religiousis homoiousios, as prismatic figures embodying certain constitutive features of their time, people or civilization.
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3.00 Credits
This class will identify, explore and interrogate strategies by which local faith communities enact moral and aesthetic resources to create cultures of compassion and technologies of concern. The class rests upon the assumption that compassion is a central feature of our discipleship and an inexpungeable dimension of Christian ethics. In a world in which many of our differences are settled in a theatre of violence - military, legal, economic, political, religious or domestic - how does the church serve as a healing agent, as community of reconciliation? What does a compassionate church look like? What does a compassionate disciple look like?
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