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3.00 Credits
Grounded in the Second Vatican Council's "Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religion," the course will introduce the heart of the Buddhist tradition by reflecting on the experience, life and teachings of Siddhartha Gotama, The Buddha. Examining the religious and cultural context within which he lived and taught, the course will explore the insight and wisdom of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Attention will be given to the development of Mahayana Buddhism though a consideration of primary texts from within that tradition. Prerequisite: RST 101. 3 credits. FS
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An exploration of contemporary Christian spirituality as the lived experience of faith - the on-going life-project of person integration and self-transcendence, offering theological, historical, cultural, psychological and interfaith contexts for understanding its manifold expressions. The course will survey select trends and issues in contemporary Catholic spirituality signaled by Vatican Council II such as the postmodern quest for meaning; the impact on personal self-understanding of contemporary psychology and cosmology; the challenge of social and ecological commitment; the variety of contemplative resources available for the development of the inner self; the way of Gospel conversion and sacramentality; and the relevance of the Catholic vocation - its vision, values, and practice virtues - for the life of the self and of the world. Prerequisite: RST 101. 3 credits. FS
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The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) revolutionized the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to the modern world. Within a few short years, a church that had been characterized as clerical, juridical, and triumphal assumed a different, more humble posture characterized by dialogical engagement with contemporary society. The Council renewed the Church's self-understanding and consequently all areas of Catholic theology experienced radical rethinking. The sixteen document of the Council will frame a study of the renewed meaning and practice of Catholicism in a post-conciliar age. The renewal of theological categories such as revelation and Scripture, God, Christ, ecclesiology, and Christian praxis will be examined. Prerequisite: RST 101. 3 credits. FS
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An exploration of the history of Christian ethics - its language, norms, sources - with particular consideration given to Roman Catholic teaching on morality. Contemporary issues such as war, sexuality, poverty, biomedicine and ecology will be examined to determine how a Christian ethical perspective informs a particular response to the questions raised within these areas. Prerequisite: RST 101. 3 credits. FS
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A consideration of Catholic ethical thought, as an expression of Christian ethics in history, regarding movements for peace and social justice in the contemporary world, with a particular focus on the Christian foundations of economic, racial and political movements for justice. Prerequisite: RST 101. 3 credits. FS
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The life and thought of the Christian church from the apostolic period to the present, providing an introduction and orientation to the Christian tradition in its various social, ethnic and period settings. 3 credits. N
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This course will examine the insights, contributions and development of the three major traditions that have largely defined Chinese religious culture: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Emphasis will focus on the study of those primary textual sources (available in English translation) that most effectively illustrate the seminal concepts and subsequent elaborations within each of those traditions and their overall significance to Chinese religious sensibility. 3 credits. N
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A survey of influential voices and movements in Christian spirituality from the origins of the tradition to the early Middle Ages. 3 credits. N
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An exploration of the significance of the universe, the emergence of the earth and the evolution of life as creative, sacred events, considering those aspects of human religious traditions that sustain a comprehensive valuation of the cosmos and the role of human consciousness within its unfolding processes. 3 credits. N
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the sacred wisdom of the great masters of the spiritual life drawn from a variety of traditions, cultures and periods of history. Each semester the spiritual path of one such Great Teacher will be selected as subject for inquiry and experimentation (e.g., Jesus, the Buddha, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Therese of Lixieux, Thomas Merton, Rabbi Heschel, Mother Ann Lee and the American Shakers, Dorothy Day, Thomas Berry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Teresa of Avila, Bede Griffiths, John of the Cross, Rumi, Martin Luther King, Mohammad and Black Elk). 3 credits. N
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