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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22382
CoFlex:In Person&Online Sync | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
This interdisciplinary course covers the periods of the Renaissance through the present day and continues the exploration of the relations between faith and culture begun in Catholic Thought and Culture I. We will engage select intellectual currents, political movements, historical developments, and modes of artistic expression as they affect and are affected by the broader Catholic tradition. Upon completion of both Catholic Thought and Culture I and II, students will have some grasp of the fascinating interaction of Gospel and culture marking Catholicism's development, demonstrated skills in the interpretation of literature and other art, and an appreciation for the continuity as well as the changes in Catholic thought and practice across time. Students will also have a broad sense of the contexts of the Catholic tradition, parts of which will then be filled in by other, more specific, courses in the program. NOTE: It is not required (though it is recommended) that students take CSMA 500 prior to taking CSMA 501.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22385
Hyflex: Flexible Learning | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
In the effort to engage and understand the vitality and reality of Catholicism as it has influenced and shaped human thought and culture, we need to understand the common and unifying understanding of reality that is at the heart of Catholicism. This course is about the essential ideas that are so often implicit in the cultural expressions of Catholic life. It is something akin to learning a language in order to understand a culture; in this case, it is the language of doctrine to understand the thinking of the Church and the character of the cultures she informs.
To do this, we will read with some care the Catechism of the Catholic Church. To help us engage and reflect on faith in relation to Catholic thought and culture, we will read simultaneously with the Catechism one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter. The fundamental questions we will address are these: Does the language we learn in studying the Catechism, the language of the Church, help us to see and articulate what is going on in Kristin Lavransdatter? Do the particulars and circumstances of Kristin Lavransdatter help us think more deeply and precisely about the understanding of reality that is at the heart of the Church?
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22902
CoFlex:In Person&Online Sync | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall B10
In some regards the 13th century was a barbarous age, pre-scientific and sometimes superstitious, torn by conflicts and wars. At the same time it was an era of magnificent intellectual and cultural achievement, a time in which cathedrals were built and universities founded. St Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) was a man of his time but his work, like that of many of his contemporaries, transcended his century. Today Thomas is remembered principally for his Summa theologiae, the textbook on theology that he wrote for beginning students and for his numerous careful commentaries on the work of Aristotle, the Greek philosopher. Even so, as important as the Summa is, about a third of Thomas’s extant work consists of commentaries on Scripture. Another major portion of his work, much neglected, consists of efforts to defend the teachings of Catholicism against its critics, both internal and external. The focus of this course will be to explore critical elements of Thomas’s thinking as a theologian in three general areas: systematic theology, biblical commentary, and apologetics.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22383
In Person | Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall B10
In the introduction to his book on the virtues, Romano Guardini writes: “There is one thing that Plato’s philosophy has made clear once and for all; he showed that absolute values exist, that these can be known and, therefore, that there is such a thing as truth. He likewise showed that these values are summed up in the majesty of that which we call “the Good”, which is identical with the divine and that its realization leads man to the perfection of life freedom and beauty.”
Such is the task of education – the formation of our vital powers and strivings, our inner world and outward surroundings. In short, it involves a formation and tuning of conscience within the antiphonal relation between nature and grace: to the Good, True, and Beautiful – the fabric from which nature is woven – and to Christ who wove it and who is our destiny.
To help us reflect upon this task, we will draw upon a range of Guardini’s writings, including Conscience; Freedom, Grace, & Destiny; selections from The World and the Person; The Lord; Learning the Virtues; The Church and the Catholic; and The Spirit of the Liturgy.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22384
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
In this course, we will examine the interrelationships among the novelist, the novelist’s faith, and the audience. What does it mean to be a “Catholic novelist”? At what points are there conflicts between the demands of art and the demands of faith, and how may those conflicts be resolved? We’ll explore these and many related questions as we read the greatest Catholic writers of the modern era, including Dostoevsky, Mauriac, Greene, Waugh, and O’Connor.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 22386
Lecture
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
This course takes an interdisciplinary look at a central figure in Catholicism—Mary, Mother of God. Drawing on philosophy, theology, poetry, music, and the visual arts, the course examines three key moments in Mary’s life as mother: the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Stabat Mater. These culturally and historically diverse depictions of Mary set the stage for an investigation into the meaning of her role, within Catholicism as a whole and within the lives of individual Christians.
3 Credits