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Course Criteria
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This course offers a critical analysis of the literature and contexts of the biblical Hebrew Prophets in light of biographical data and historical, literary/rhetorical, and oral poetic scholarship of prophecy (by men and women) in Ancient Near Eastern cultures. The course will examine the central concerns of biblical prophets, such as monotheism and social justice. The course will consider as well some historic and contemporary connections with the biblical prophetic traditions.
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A study of Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts and the multicultural and historical settings in which they were composed and to which they were addressed. The gospel documents will be examined with the aid of the tools of modern critical biblical study. The course will also address similar gospels excluded from the canon.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a critical analysis of women figures in biblical texts and contexts, using historical, anthropological, sociological, feminist, literary, and theological methodologies. Students will gain the skills necessary to interpret biblical stories of women in light of the contexts of the times, in ancient Israel and 1st-2nd century Palestine and nearby areas in the New Testament period.
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Traces the historical development of crucial Christian doctrines including the Trinity, the two natures of Christ, and original sin in the early Christian centuries together with the medieval and Reformation development and modification of these doctrines. The contemporary relevance of the Christian tradition is emphasized.
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Examines the theological Renaissance of the 20th century as it was formulated in the thought of such seminal figures as Barth, Bultmann, Brunner, Tillich, the Niebuhrs, and Bonhoeffer, and the impact of these figures on contemporary Christianity.
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1.00 Credits
The course introduces the science and religion debate, giving key historical examples in their social, scientific, and theological contexts. Students will examine theological and religious claims and their interaction with different sciences - physics, biology, and psychology. The place of religion and science in constituting social and personal values for diverse religious traditions shall be addressed.
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1.00 Credits
A critical examination of and struggle with what may be the oldest and most intransigent theological problem, theodicy, the problem of evil in a world created by a good God. How is it possible that a good, all knowing, and all powerful God allows such suffering as disease, natural disasters, hatred, mass murder, and every form of wickedness imagined by human beings? Students will address this central question with such related questions as human free will, natural events, the existence of God, and if God exists, God's possible character.
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1.00 Credits
This is a survey and assessment of current Roman Catholic teachings and practices. Its perspective will be adult, contemporary, and pluralistic. The course is designed for those who have a Catholic background (whether or not they call themselves 'good' Catholics) and for anyone else who wishes to learn something about the Faith because of family relationships, social dynamics, or just personal interest. It will emphasize issues of sex and family ethics, the priesthood, Church authority, and the Church's relationships with other Faiths, contemporary culture, and politics.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a critical study of biblical perspectives, theological positions, ethical reasoning, church traditions, faith commitments, and empirical data that address questions of sexuality and the family. It examines key ethical variables such as human nature, God, the church, love, justice, and empowerment in such major issues of sexuality as eroticism, marriage, partnering, divorce, contraception, reproduction, sexual identity, sexual harassment, health care, and public policy.
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Theological reflection on ethical norms and selected issues in health care. Study of the biblical and theological grounding of human values and attention to secular sources of morality enable students to articulate their own positions. Issues addressed include informed consent, research on human subjects, abortion, genetics, death and suffering, euthanasia and physician-assisted death, HIV/AIDS, and health care delivery and its reform.
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