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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the many answers to the question Jesus asks his disciples: "Who do you say that I am?" Christians call Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, the King, and the Savior of the World, among many other titles. Jesus is also a figure of enduring fascination in cultural history. To gain a fuller theological understanding of Jesus, students will study such topics as first-century Messianic expectations, New Testament depictions of Jesus, theological understandings of the Son of God, Jesus as both fully divine and fully human, soteriological explanations and arguments about how Jesus saves, and the quest for the historical Jesus. The course will also explore modern questions about Jesus, from liberation or feminist theological perspectives, to other religious perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
While some people explore faith primarily in terms of theological concepts, other people explore through spiritual experience and practice. Spiritual searchers and practitioners seek to experiencee relationship with God and with life itself in ways that can seem to transcend ordinary concepts and perceptions. Such religious ex-periencee is often central to the development of faith and moral commitment. Spiritual practice can yield powerful sensations, from ecstasy to fear, and it can also produce significant questions, from how to understand such experience, to how to teach, evaluate, criticize, or change it. Different versions of this course will take different approaches to spirituality, from considering historical forms like the "Mystical Tradition," or thematic topics like the "spirituality of the body," or "spiritual autobiographies." This course will typically consider some Important examples of Catholic spiritual quests and practices, and some different perspec-tives, such as those from different cultural contexts or different religious faiths.
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3.00 Credits
This course will take up a focused topic in systematic theology. A course could fo-cus on a particular theme in systematic theology, like grace or eschatology, or could focus on a particular type or period of theology, such as medieval mysticism or the ecumenical movement.
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3.00 Credits
Christian Ethics is the discipline of thinking critically about how best to embody the Christian way of life in particular places and times. This class investigates concepts such as narrative, practice, law, virtue, and liturgy and the ways they inform the Christian moral life. These notions will be applied to concrete moral questions of contemporary relevance.
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3.00 Credits
This class is an exploration of the Christian tradition on the issues of sexuality, gender, marriage, and the family.
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3.00 Credits
The course will present a general view of how the Christian tradition understands and approaches moral issues that relate to social and political life. Both theoretical and practical questions will be confronted. The course features an ecumenical approach to Christian social ethics, but will attend in particular to Catholic social teaching beginning with Rerum Novarum.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies how Christian theological perspectives can and should shape personal and social responses to "nature" and to problems arising from the human-nature interaction. Biblically based religious traditions will be compared with other religions in order to clarify the religious dimensions of our ecological dependencies. Current environmental problems and policy debates will be selectively treated to establish the relevance of Christian reflection on the environment.
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3.00 Credits
The call to service is a central Christian teaching. This course explores that call to service, both by studying it, and by enacting it. Students taking this course will be required to perform community service, according to class guidelines, as part of the requirements for this course. Studying the call to service will including exploring some of the theological sources and arguments for service, as well reflecting on issues and communities through service in the local community. Courses might explore the way service can help bridge differences between cultural and religious communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course will take up a focused topic in moral theology. A course could focus on a particular theme in moral theology, like war, forgiveness, or work, or a course could focus on a particular type or period of moral theology, such as virtue ethics. Past course titles have included War in Christian Tradition, and Theology of Work.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover important issues and theologians of the early and medieval church, up to about the year 1500. Students will become familiar with the development of the creeds and some of the central Christological and Trinitarian disputes, the early martyrs and the early monastic movement, and the division of the church into East and West. Major theologians like Athanasius, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena will receive careful attention. Students will be taught good practices of theological research as they work to complete a research paper.
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