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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10205
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 2
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
Through the ages, the relationship between theology and the arts has been mutually enriching, resulting in some of the world's masterpieces of visual art, architecture, music, and literature. The relationship, too, has been strained by iconoclastic movements which express fear that the arts tempt people with idolatry. In this course, students will consider the theological dimensions of the complex relationship between theology and the arts. Emphasis on historical periods, themes, doctrines, intersections, and types of art will vary according to the expertise of the instructors. Prerequisite: one 200-level or 300-level THEO course, one Art History course.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10275
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 3
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
This course either introduces diverse expressions of Christian spirituality or focuses on topics within a distinctly Christian spirituality according to the discretion of the instructor such as Christian styles of worship, Christian understandings of sacramentality (especially Christian marriage), or stages of spiritual formation. Students will consider methodological issues in the academic study of spirituality. Emphasis is placed on a wide reading in the Christian tradition of both primary and secondary literature in order to assist the student in grasping the integral link between the lived faith of Christians and the theological articulation of that faith.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10206
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 3
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
This section is designed to acquaint students with the theology of Christian marriage, understood as covenant relationship and as sacrament, that is, an effective sign of God's love in our world. Primary though not exclusive emphasis will be on the Roman Catholic tradition. Students will also examine contemporary cultural attitudes toward sexuality, marriage, and the family in the light of Christian theology.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10212
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 9
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
This course explores the topic of women and the Old Testament from several different vantage points. In the first place, it will try to reconstruct the status and roles of women during the biblical periods at various points in their ancient Near Eastern context. This reconstruction will involve an examination of the legal and narrative material of the Old Testament and cross-cultural studies on women and family life in non-industrial countries. Secondly, the course investigates the conceptions of gender in the Old Testament, including key texts such as the creation stories, the stories about the ancestors, the stories about family honor, the female characters of the historical books of the Bible, the books named after women (Ruth, Esther, Judith), the texts symbolizing women as evil (e.g., the foreign woman, the adulterous wife, the whore of Babylon). Finally, the course studies the interpretive work of biblical scholars and how they utilize various historical and literary-critical methodologies in order to bring issues of gender, race, and class to bear upon the biblical text.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10231
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 9
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This section involves the student in an intensive reading and discussion of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew scriptures. The course investigates methods of biblical interpretation and the literature and theologies of the Israelite people in their ancient Near Eastern context. In addition, this course explores the Old Testament as a foundational document for the Jewish and Christian traditions (both ancient and modern) in the development of doctrine, in the expressions of worship, and in the articulation of moral principles
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10233
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 7
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
In this course, students will explore approaches to theology that emerge out of diverse cultural contexts. Sections may focus on biblical interpretation, dynamics of church life, mission work, or transnational solidarity through the eyes of the marginalized, or they may focus on efforts to articulate and bear witness to the gospel amid new cultures and historical challenges, according to the instructor’s discretion. Sections may focus on experiences of marginalization and oppression as a source for theological reflection for women (giving rise to feminist/womanist/mujerista theologies, for example), or for people of color or indigenous peoples (giving rise to Latin American, African-American, Minjung, and South African liberation theologies, for example), or for economically exploited classes (also giving rise to liberation theologies). This course will thus provide an opportunity to learn how the global Christian community is gaining fresh insights into the gospel that were missed when the dominant perspective on theology reflected primarily the experience of European men, or to learn how claims by Christians have at various times served both to challenge and to reinforce systems of power and privilege.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10207
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 2
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
In the last half century religious diversity in the West has rapidly increased, bringing people from different religious traditions into daily contact. This has resulted in new conflicts, sometimes in violence, but also in new collaborations and friendships. Drawing on several approaches to interreligious conflict and relations, this course will examine the dynamic encounters that take place between and among people of different religious identities and ask students to reflect on their own role in religiously complex situations. Students will consider this interreligious reality and their role in it against the backdrop of their own individual relationship to spirituality, faith, and theology. To foster interreligious understanding beyond the classroom, students in this course will spend significant time outside the classroom directly engaging religious diversity.
4 Credits
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 10208
Online: Some Synchronous | Topics Lecture 8
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Phil/Theo
OR
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This course will attempt to explore and understand the ways that human beings have engaged the world through embodied practices. From the beginning of time, societies, from small to large, have attempted to regulate human behavior. Often this requires the development of social structures such as religions or governing bodies that provide customs, rituals, and social norms. Today, in the West, religion is often misunderstood as simply the things that a person or a community BELIEVES. However, religions and/or worldviews, are far more than simply a set of beliefs. Religions have provided communities with dietary laws, developed rituals, performed rites-of-passage ceremonies, ways of dress, and practices of restraint and discernment in our actions. This month, we will attend to the way religion(s) and worldviews are embodied, and lived in the world, rather than just statements of belief. Since this is a Comparative course, we will look at how practices across a variety of traditions offer insight, meaning, and order to an often otherwise chaotic experience. Reflecting on how religious and secular practices have shaped society both historically and contemporarily, it is important as far as it brings our attention to the individual and communal practices that each of us participate in every day. Most importantly, this course is meant to be a personal exploration, where students reflect on their own practices (secular and religious) and try on new ones. Students will each set individual goals for themselves that will require them to not simply “intellectualize” about these themes, but instead embody practices that help them grow in physical, spiritual, and relational ways.
4 Credits