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3.00 Credits
This course studies the writings of the New Testament with special focus on the Four Gospels, The Acts of the Apostles, and the Pauline Letters. The course also covers the history and methods for interpreting the New Testament, especially in light of the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum (1965). Theological themes, historical framework, geographical setting, text criticism, and literary background will be explored.
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The Bible tells the story of the beginnings of the relationship between God and human beings, but it does so by telling many different stories from many different times. This course provides an introduction to the Bible by examining central theological themes that connect these stories, such as creation, covenant, sin, prophecy, and salvation, as well as the historical roots of these stories, such as the Exodus, the Davidic Monarchy, the Exile, and the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. At times, this course will also explore the way other disciplines, such as literature, have richly engaged biblical themes.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the serious option facing modern people: to believe in God or not. It explores a number of questions: What do we mean when we speak of "God"? Can we know if God exists? What is the difference between "the God of the philosophers" and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Is it reasonable to believe in God? How are particular understandings of God connected to understandings of the human person and the human community? How is human action shaped by different convictions about God? Students will study questions and responses given by major philosophers, theologians, and writers and will explore their own questions and responses.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the origin and development of the church; its doctrinal struggles, sacramental practices, and a variety of the contemporary challenges it faces. Particular attention will be given to the theology of the Church (and its ecumenical implications) expressed in the thought of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and by contemporary theologians and Christian churches.
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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 experience relationship with God and with life itself in ways that can seem to transcend ordinary concepts and perceptions. Such religious experience 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 perspectives, 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.
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