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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 40118
Online: Synchronous
Online
This interdisciplinary course begins exploration of the relations between [Catholic Christian] faith and culture exhibited through works of imagination and intellect drawn from the New Testament through medieval periods. As part of the M.A. program core curriculum, the course focuses on the multifaceted Catholic tradition but includes perspectives from Christians of other denominations and non-Christians selected to show the dialogue between Catholic thought and other cultural views and accomplishments. Primary attention will be given to works of literature, music, and art, with some attention to philosophical and theological works selected especially for their contributions to articulating insights concerning the relationship between faith and culture.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 42655
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
This course provides an investigation into the ways in which Catholicism is inherently social and ecclesial. Its specific focus is on the Christian engagement with the world. The course’s framework will be taken from the analysis of society into three spheres of action (culture, economics and politics) as described in Centesimus annus. We will examine the ways that Revelation, the sacramental life, and the teachings of the Church call Catholics to seek holiness and to witness to their faith in the world. Specific topics will include social and economic justice, politics and public policy, lay and religious apostolates, and marriage and family.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 42652
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
Western Europe in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries was in the throes of radical transformation, arguably one of the most decisive periods of change in European history. This period witnessed the birth pangs of the modern state, the revival of urban life and the early formation of an international market economy. The birth of the first European universities and the recovery of the corpus of Aristotle’s writings revolutionized the study of the liberal arts, theology and law. For the first time in almost a millennium, the lay urban classes became a center of energy and creativity in all spheres of life. Feeding off of the spiritual energy of a century of papal, monastic, and clerical reform, lay piety was in ferment, drawn simultaneously to the Church and to heretical sects like the Cathars. In short, it was a world in need of a saint, who could reveal Christ as its gathering and perfecting Logos and bring the love of Christ to bear upon its creative energy and endeavors. With all this in mind, this course will give us, who find ourselves in the throes of radical transformation as well, a wonderful opportunity to think about Christ and culture and the intersection of time with the timeless.
3 Credits
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09/21: 11/02: |
09/22: 11/03: 12/15: |
Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43286
Face-to-Face 1-25% of time
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall B10
The heart of any culture, as well as its continuity, can be found in its educational tradition, the distillation for the next generation of its highest ideals and most important truths. For the West this began with the Greeks, who set in place, some five centuries before Christ, the main aspects of a tradition that lasted, with significant developments, up until very recent times. This course will trace that tradition, using both primary and secondary source material, and will include: its origins in fifth- century BC Greece; its universalization during the Hellenistic period; its encounter with Christianity in the Patristic era; its Christian instantiation under the Carolingian Empire; the great Medieval educational synthesis and the rise of the University; the development of Renaissance humanism and the Ratio Studiorum of the Jesuits; Newman’s classic expression of the tradition in The Idea of a University; and the great challenge to that tradition and change that has taken place during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course fulfills the Catholic Studies and History area requirement of the CSMA program.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 42654
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
Increased contemporary attention to the theme of “ecology” calls for a serious investigation into the ways in which ecological concerns intersect with Catholic culture and its values. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores the foundations of a Catholic “integral ecology” and investigates the implications of that ecology for a Christian, ecologically-attuned life and witness.
3 Credits