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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 25516
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
Augustine began writing City of God in 413 AD. His intention was to defend the Catholic church against its pagan critics, who held Christianity responsible for the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410. By the time he had finished, more than a decade later, Augustine’s work had grown into a complex engagement of the entirety of pagan Roman thought and culture through a masterful interweaving of Scripture and the foundational works of pagan Roman culture. This course will consist of a close reading of the whole of City of God, with particular focus on this interweaving of political, historical, philosophical, and theological themes that have made Augustine’s work second only to the Bible in the shaping of Western Christianity.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 25517
Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture
Online
This course is primarily Asynchronous with live Zoom sessions once, every other week - Friday's 6-7pm.
In the first century, Christianity had already encountered and been influenced by philosophy of the ancient world. In the exchange between theology and philosophy, philosophers have provided both challenges to and defenses of Christian claims. Moreover, theology has often taken up philosophical concepts, systems of thought, and technical language. As a result, knowledge of philosophy is necessary in order to understand theology. This course aims to provide a basic understanding of select philosophical schools and concepts that constitute much of the foundation of Catholic theology, especially in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Special attention will be given to the work of Plato, Aristotle, and St. Thomas Aquinas. A guiding question in approaching this course will be, “What ought I know about philosophy in order better to understand my faith?3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 25659
Hyflex: Flexible Learning | Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
Online
The rise and dramatic development of the modern natural sciences have shaped our world in varied and prominent ways. How do these natural sciences fit into Catholic intellectual, spiritual, and cultural life? Just what are the natural sciences, really? How are they related to philosophy and theology? How are they integrated into a "Catholic imaginary”? In this course, we seek to understand and answer these important questions through an exploration of important episodes, topics, and texts from the two-thousand-year history of Christianity and science.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 25518
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
The story of the Church is different in important ways from the stories of any other society or institution. No other human institution has survived, and flourished, for so long and in the face of so many challenges. But the Church is not simply an institution, though it has some institutional characteristics. It is a distinct society that penetrates and engages secular societies, that exists within them without being subordinated to them or absorbed by them.
Indeed, the Church can never be separated from secular societies. It always takes root in the soil of a pre-existing culture and seeks to modify it so that it conforms more closely to the vision of the Gospel. At the same time, it is nourished but also shaped, even distorted, by that culture.
Drawing on the work of Christopher Dawson, Jacques Maritain, and other prominent Catholic thinkers, we will explore what Dawson called a history “beneath the surface” of secular society, as the Church has struggled to live out the Great Commission (Mt 28.19-20). This is a story of heroism and success but also of corruption and failure, of fidelity but also temptation and distraction. We can learn from the strengths and weaknesses and also come to appreciate how we may be prone to both in the future.
The structure of the course will follow the insight that the story of the Church, from its origins in the Apostolic Age to the modern period, can be understood as a series of cycles with a common pattern of creativity, achievement and retreat. Students may expect to complete the course with an awareness and understanding of some the major personalities and events, secular and ecclesial, that have shaped the life of the Church.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 25519
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
This course will let us explore a set of great Catholic fiction from the modern era, and it will also encourage us to examine a wide set of issues—moral, philosophical, and religious—raised by these works. We will work together toward defining, in a way that intellectually satisfies each of us, what a Catholic novel is, and we will give careful attention to the problems, conflicts, and controversies to which the concept has given rise.
3 Credits