This course will introduce students to the academic study of religion through an exploration of various methodologies available for a critical, reflective investigation of the study of religion.

REL 20000 Introduction To The Study Of Religion

Introduction To The Study Of Religion

An investigation of the religious content of the Christian Scriptures in light of the historical, social, and intellectual contexts out of which they emerged. Other canons and extra-canonical interpretations of the New Testament will also be investigated.

REL 20100 Interpretation Of The New Testament

Interpretation Of The New Testament

An investigation of the religious content of documents Christians call the "Old Testament" in light of the historical, social, and intellectual contexts out of which they arose. The student will be introduced to problems and methods in their interpretation.

REL 20200 Interpretation Of The Old Testament

Interpretation Of The Old Testament

A critical examination of the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline epistles, the book of Acts, and other first century texts associated with Paul of Tarsus. Students will be introduced to problems and methods in the interpretation of ancient texts.

REL 20300 Theology Of Paul

Theology Of Paul

This course is an introductory survey of the goals and aims of theology in the Christian tradition. Focus is on the content of Christian theology, its methodological presuppositions and principles of development.

REL 20400 Introduction To Christian Theology

Introduction To Christian Theology

(PHIL 33000) A study of the history, teaching, and present institutions of the religions of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. This will include Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, and Zoroastrianism.

REL 23000 Religions Of The East

Religions Of The East

(PHIL 33100) A comparative study of the origins, institutions, and theologies of the three major Western religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

REL 23100 Religions Of The West

Religions Of The West

The course offers students case-based explorations of local and global religious diversity in various cultural contexts. Religious diversity in secular spaces and the significance of religion for shaping community identities will be examined from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students will analyze religious representations and influences in the public sphere by studying examples from different genres and media. Additionally, this course offers students opportunities to improve their religious literacy and gain real-world experience through experiential learning projects.

REL 24000 Engaging Religious Diversity

Engaging Religious Diversity

An exploration of the ways Christians have envisioned the afterlife, including New Testament descriptions. Apocryphal notions, Patristic conceptions, mystical and 19th century descriptions of heaven as sexual union, and 20th century understandings of the afterlife as a "process of education".

REL 25000 A History Of The Christian Afterlife

A History Of The Christian Afterlife

A literary study of selections from the Old and New Testaments as examples of Hebrew and early Christian literature.

REL 26400 The Bible As Literature

The Bible As Literature

This course is a study of the emergence of Judaism and the rise of Christianity out of roots in the history of ancient Israel. This will include noticing the effects of Greek culture, evidence of anti-Semitism and admiration of the Jews, conversion in a setting of religious pluralism, and the development of Jewish and Christian self-definition in this climate.

REL 31700 Ancient Judaism And Early Christianity

Ancient Judaism And Early Christianity

This course will start with observation of the development of early themes in later parts of the Hebrew Bible and proceed to the on-going influence of these themes in Jewish literature outside the Hebrew canon (apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, targums, midrash, Josephus, Philo, and other Hellenistic Jewish authors), as well as in pagan literature of this era and in early Christian literature, particularly the New Testament.

REL 31800 The Bible And Its Early Interpreters

The Bible And Its Early Interpreters

A critical, historical examination of the development of Christian mystical thought, beginning with its earliest intimations in the Hebrew Scriptures, the thought of Plato and Aristotle and continuing through Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Modern periods to the present.

REL 35100 Christian Mysticism

Christian Mysticism

The course explores the historical development of Christian moral theology, from pre-Christian times to the present.  It includes a study of Biblical moral conceptions, patristic, medieval, Enlightenment, modern, and contemporary understandings of Christian ethics. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

REL 45000 Christian Ethics

Christian Ethics

The course examines the historical development of Christological doctrine in the Christian faith from the age of the New Testament to the late 20th/early 21st century, paying special attention to the New Testament and conciliar formulations.

REL 45100 Christology

Christology

An introduction to the nature, tasks, and methods of what Christians have called "systematic theology", historically conceived through an exploration of the writings of figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, Melancthon, John Calvin, Barth, and Paul Tillich. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

REL 45200 Systematic Theology

Systematic Theology

Investigation of a special topic in Religious Studies. The topic will vary from semester to semester.

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