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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will progress in two movements. It first will investigate the historical background of the growth of the gospel tradition. It then will read the Gospels as viable literary texts, making use of the most recent advances in literary critical study of Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts. In this way, the course will focus upon the theological uniqueness of each book, as well as tracing their interrelatedness.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into Western Christianity's understandings of the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ, including New Testament christologies, the controversies of the 4th and 5th century councils, medieval atonement theories, post-Enlightenment problems and reformulations, and contemporary liberation christologies. Students will be encouraged to develop their own christological position as an integral part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
An historical and theological investigation of the Christian community during the first four centuries. Among topics to be considered are the relationship of the early church and classical culture; the formation of the canon of scripture, the episcopacy, and creeds; orthodoxy and heresy; martyrdom, growth, and persecution; the development of doctrine in the Greek and Latin Fathers; monasticism, worship, and art.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the profound challenge both to religious understandings of a meaningful and ordered existence and to theological claims regarding an omnipotent, beneficent deity rendered by the occurrence of evil and the suffering that accompanies it. The course will contextualize particular manifestations of evil and investigate how evil is identified, explained, challenged and interpreted Theology through texts in theology and popular culture, with particular attention to its modern and contemporary manifestations.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into the sources, contexts, methods, and symbols of Christian theology from the perspective of women in the process of human liberation. The roles of women in church and society, the history of the women's movement in North America, and the experiences and theological perspectives offered by feminists of differing racial, ethnic and socio-economic background will be examined. Feminist reflections within other religious traditions may also be considered.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major figures in the history of Latin Christian thought from 400 C.E. to 1500 C.E. with a concentration on theories concerning how we know God and what it means to love both God and neighbor. Emphasis is on the reading of primary sources, both scholastic and monastic, in translation. Course content will require that we consider who God is, who we are in relation to God, Jesus Christ's role in both our knowledge of God and our capacity to love, and the relationship between faith and reason.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some of the spiritual classics written by both the men and women of the Christian faith. Emphasis on reading and study of primary texts, largely medieval, with an eye to any discernible differences between men as spiritual authors and women as spiritual authors. Course will also examine the given perceptions of gender, spirituality and eroticism.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the theological questions involved in sixteenth-century Christian movements of reform and dissent; a review of the historical issues of the late Middle Ages that gave rise to the Protestant Reformation; emphasis on the formative theologies of Martin Luther and John Calvin with attention also on the Radical and Catholic reformations.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of and reflection on the religious vision of Ignatius of Loyola and its embodiment in the life of the Society of Jesus, including a reading of the Spiritual Exercises. An overview of the major movements and influential persons in Jesuit history, a study of Jesuit spirituality and theology, and a consideration of the role of the Jesuits in broader church life.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into the critique and vision brought to theology by the perspective of the poor and oppressed in the 20th century via the paradigm known as liberation and political theology. An extensive examination of the context and methods of Latin American liberation theology followed by an examination of European political theology and African-American liberation theology. Other topics for consideration may include the work of Hispanic, Asian, African, and North American feminist liberation theologians.
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