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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson Alternative positions in Jewish and Christian ethical writings related to contemporary personal and social questions, for example, sexuality and marriage; debates in medical ethics, including abortion and euthanasia; selected political problems, and the morality of warfare will all be topics in this course.
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3.00 Credits
Kathryn L. Johnson This course will examine the first millennium of Christian experience. It will examine literary and artistic evidence for Christian life in the centuries whose traditions remain influential- and controversial-in many areas, including worship, scriptural interpretation, organization of community authority, disciplines of holiness, relation to secular powers, and modes and boundaries of theological exploration. While concentration will be on Christianity in the Roman Empire and its successors in Europe and Byzantium, students will also consider the growth of Christianity in other areas. Each class session will focus on examination of primary sources. In a one-page response to questions posed for each week, students will prepare to bring to discussion both an appreciative and a critical eye for the formation of the Christian communities they are studying. In addition, each student will choose a topic for extended examination in a paper (about 15 pages) and a presentation (multimedia encouraged).
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3.00 Credits
Christopher Elwood A survey of the history and theology of the Magisterial, Radical, and Catholic Reformation movements of the early sixteenth century, with particular emphasis on the religious ideas and practices of leading reformers such as Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Ignatius Loyola. Reformation ideas will be examined within the context of the experience of these principal figures and that of the public they addressed and by whom they were interpreted, and in relation to the cultural, social, economic, and political changes of the early modern period. Prerequisites: Faith Seeking Understanding and History of Christian Experience I.
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3.00 Credits
Christopher Elwood This course serves as an introduction to the history of Christian theological thinking in the modern period, with a focus on ways Christian doctrine was reformulated in response to the challenges of Enlightenment thought in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Themes to be addressed include attempts to define the nature and province of religion, the development of theories of myth and symbol, debates over the nature of biblical authority, construals of the relation of revelation and history, the quest to define the uniqueness of Christianity, and varying approaches to the relation of Christianity and culture. Prerequisites: Faith Seeking Understanding and History of Christian Experience I.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the major issues and questions that fall under the rubric of philosophy of religion. Topics that will be covered in the seminar include: the concept of God, arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, the nature of religious language and the relationship between science and religion.
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3.00 Credits
Johnny B. Hill This course will review the historical development of Black Theology movement. Through a close reading of early texts of the movement and a review of the social context within which it arose, participants will be invited to a full engagement with this theological tradition. It will be our purpose to identify not only the discrete contours of the movement, but also to identify its place in late twentieth century theological discourse.
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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson This course will review the historical development, and current state, of the African-American Christian movement. Through a close reading of texts of the movement and a review of the social context within which it arose the seminar participants will be invited to a full engagement with this ecclesial and theological tradition. It will be our purpose to identify not only the discrete contours of the movement, but also to identify its place in larger Christian movement in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Johnny B. Hill This course will examine the evolution of regimes of knowledge related to the categories of race and culture during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the role that theological articulations played in that evolution. The working thesis of this course is that an adequate understanding of modernity requires an interpretation that recognizes these regimes of knowledge as constituent pieces of modern rationality.
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3.00 Credits
Scott C. Williamson This course begins with a challenge and a problem. The challenge, posed here by Miach, is to do justice. The problem is the "seeming abstractness, instability, and variety of the ideals of justice." What, then, does "justice?ean, and what are the prospects for "doing justly" in society This course proposes one main goal through its investigation of both philosophical and theological theories of justice, namely, to examine the resources of Christianity for brokering social justice in a broken society.
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3.00 Credits
Ethics Seminar
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