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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite to all further courses. This course begins the disciplined reflection on religion in the university. Along with providing the basic vocabulary, method of theology, and key theological concepts, it equips the student with the historical, textual, and comparative methods and skills that are foundational for further study on the university level. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Literary and historical study of the Hebrew Bible, its cultural background, main them, the problems modern throught poses for it, and its permanent significance.
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3.00 Credits
Books of the New Testament; their formation as literary material, message and meaning for the modern world, and transmission via the community.
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3.00 Credits
The history of early Christianity from Jesus Christ to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. The variety of early Christianity, geographical expansion, Gnosticism, emergence in the Roman world, Christian art, Trinitarian and Christological controversies.
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3.00 Credits
The history of medieval Christianity from the early Church origins to the dawn of the Reformation. Topics include: inculturation, missionary activity, the papacy, monasticism, saints and pilgrimage, the penitential system, worship and architecture, feudal society, the crusades, the apostolic poverty movement, friars, the medieval university, mysticism.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the history of Western Christianity since the Reformation, focusing on the themes related to development of doctrine. Interactions of the church with intellectual and cultural challenges will be taken up. Future directions of Catholic Christianity, rooted in the foundation of the Second Vatican Council will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
The history of American Christianity from colonial times to present, Spanish, French English beginnings; Puritanism, the Great Awakenings; Unitarianism, Congregationalism, Methodism; the immigrant churches, Roman Catholic history; Liberalism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Fundamentalism; Black churches, contemporary movements.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to provide an integrative understanding of Jesus Christ as he has been proclaimed throughout Christian History up to the present time and his role in salvation.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims at providing a comprehensive understanding of Christian faith by investigating the historical development and interrelation of its main tenets. Attention will be given to how Christian beliefs arise from, and themselves give distinct shape to, Christian practices in the Church and the world.
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3.00 Credits
Issues in the contemporary church will be examined in relation to their historical antecedents. Renewal and reform in the modern church will be considered in the light of the Second Vatican Council. An explicit theological method will be introduced and practiced.
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