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3.00 Credits
Amy Plantinga Pauw This course examines the church as a community of practice and surveys a variety of contemporary ecclesial perspectives. Prerequisites: Faith Seeking Understanding
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This course attempts to rethink Christian theological doctrines through the perspective of the organic and dynamic (non-sexist) concepts of Whitehead's philosophical system. The relationships between faith and reason are explored. Students focus on the task of providing a Whiteheadian reinterpretation of the biblical approaches to God, Christ, human existence, church, and the kingdom of God. Course work includes readings from process theologians, such as John Cobb, Schubert Ogden, Norman Pittenger, Daniel Williams, Marjorie Suchocki, etc., lectures, and discussions. Prerequisite: Faith Seeking Understanding
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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson; Amy Plantinga Pauw This course introduces students to major themes and figures in feminist and womanist ethics, with particular emphasis on womanist sources. It employs a three-fold approach to ethical situations and issues: 1. historical dialogue, 2. ethical and theological analysis, and 3. critical reflection and action. Prerequisite: Faith Seeking Understanding
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3.00 Credits
Amy Plantinga Pauw Does God still speak to us If so, how This course will examine the role of Scripture, Spirit, and Church in discerning God's revelation and consider what views of revelation should guide inter-religious dialogue. Prerequisite: Faith Seeking Understanding
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3.00 Credits
Kathryn L. Johnson What sets the Fourth Gospel apart from the first three This course will look at the special place occupied by this book in the commentaries on John by major theologians from the third century to the twentieth century. Attention will be given to the inclusion of John within the New Testament canon, to the impact of Johannine readings in Christian worship, to John's texts in selected theological battles, to questions raised by this gospel in the rise of historical-critical schools of New Testament study, and to some current issues in the appropriation of John as a book of the church. Prerequisite: Completion of or enrollment in Scripture II or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Kathryn L. Johnson In this course we will examine uses of life stories in Christian experience. We will read accounts of Christian discipleship, biographical and autobiographical, from a succession of centuries. With attention to particularities of historical situation, we will attend to the use of "lives" to form community, seek individualself-understanding in faith, exclude contrary conceptions of holiness, inspire emulation in vocational choice and action, identify arenas for the pursuit of justice, etc. Attention will be given to the theological perspectives indicated, explicitly or implicitly, in the stories. Students will have opportunity to try their hands at their own writing of brief narratives in pursuit of these aims and to discuss the coherence of these stories with their theological positions.
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3.00 Credits
Christopher Elwood This course explores resources within the Christian theological tradition for interpreting and addressing the challenge of religious diversity. Classic and contemporary contributions to debates about the nature and value of religion, proper ways to conceive of the relations between Christian faith and human religiousness in general, and the place of Christianity in relation to other religious traditions will be examined. Particular attention will be given to the contributions of modern consciousness in the wake of the Enlightenment, Neo-Reformation perspectives on Christian faith and human religion, the ecumenical movement, and liberal and post-liberal responses to religious pluralism. Prerequisites: Faith Seeking Understanding and History of Christian Experience I
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3.00 Credits
Kathryn L. Johnson While modern techniques of historical-critical investigation have richly contributed to our understandings of the Bible, they have sometimes helped also to distance us from ways in which earlier Christians interpreted the text. In this course, students will look with a critically sympathetic eye at a selection of these earlier studies in order to widen our appreciation for the multiplicity of voices in which the Bible has spoken in Christian life. With readings drawn from the second to the early twentieth centuries, and with some attention to Jewish as well as Christian sources, this course will look both at general statements of method and at treatments of specific texts. With each author, students will look at relations between interpretive strategies and wider theological visions, and endeavor to place each reading in the context of its time. Prerequisites: Scripture I and II, and one Basic Exegesis course.
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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson This course introduces some major themes of social ethics and, in so doing, explores resources of the Christian tradition for critical reflection on current social issues. Readings from several major schools of Christian social ethics are interwoven with an attempt to discover and elaborate on possible contributions of Christian faith to a resolution of these issues. Toward this end we consider five, historically important, faith-informed accounts of American society, those of Walter Rauschenbusch (Social Gospel), Reinhold Niebuhr (Christian Realism), John Howard Yoder (Anabaptist, pacifist tradition), James Cone (Liberationist), and Stanley Grenz (Evangelical). Having weighed the respective merits of these positions we turn our attention more directly to the application of Christian social ethics to the issue of economic justice in a global era. Throughout the course, our overarching intent will be to clarify the continuing debate about how best to conceptualize and, then, realize the Christian vision of social justice.
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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson This course is designed to introduce students to the study of moral issues in the fields of medical treatment and research. Students will compare the merits of both a secular approach and a Christian approach to biomedical ethics. Using case studies to unpack the complex issues involved in medical treatment and research, students will discuss the obligations of professional conduct and defend their recommendations for due care. Public policy concerns will also occupy our attention.
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